On the windowsills

That's a toadstool (mushroom or fungus if you prefer) with a little container into which Penny's plonked some Eucalypt fruits and some fuzzy stuff.





Those in the photos below are worms. Nice and earthy brown, with blue eyes.















Please click here to see house in Perth.

Lots more stuff in the living room and balcony

Not a big deal, this wall, or photo - just snapping lots of pics.

The old oil lamp and inca idol from Perth and Mexican exhibit at Epcot Centre respectively were located to deny Leia's rabbits when free-roaming access to rear of furniture where they chew on AV cables and wires.







The old Panasonic, still in excellent condition after >10 years , is standing its ground against replacement by an LCD tv.

Anyhow, I don't want anything smaller than this (50") and I find that the new wide screens distort images into short and fat ones.

That's a whole menagerie of dragons from UK, US, NZ and Oz.





Half a wall of papertole in frames.

Leia did a couple of miniature Anton Peck's.

The huge one was made from fantasy posters while the long ones (one is partly cut off) were from postcards (of the Oz tropical forests).

If you click to enalrge the pic, you can also see one made from a set of bookmarks.

Three doors to storage under the stairs.





There are 6 animals in this photo (left) - dog, frog, cat, tortoise, elephant and a dinosaur!

Cat bought at a garage sale for $2 in Perth the dog from Covent Garden, London and the dinosaur from a shop in Tanjong Katong Shopping Centre.










This is a view of a part of the balcony which gets the western sun and with the added windows and roof-over , is pretty hot in the daytime.

Loads of stuff in photo, including more of the little dinosaurs.

That dragon urn is being fed with aircon condensate via the red coloured hose. Water for our potted plants.


There are a few critters on the window sill.





A witch and a castle. Not clear. Will add additional photos in future.
























The dinosaurs - 6 in the red ceramic ashtry in a fishbowl, and 2 in a hug.

Kitchen

A 'modernised' country kitchen. We cook with bottled gas as there's no piped gas in our block. It's safer with bottled gas, I think. You'll never have a gas-filled kitchen as there's only so much in the bottle, and if you leave windows opened a bit.

That's one of the five coffee shop tables in the house. And one of the six coffee shop chairs. Got that honey tin (above exhaust hood) from the first train stop on the line from Straun to Queenstown, Tasmania. You could buy it filled or empty.

That cup (on table) with the MND letters is 16 years old.


The peppers poster in the second photo exactly covered the service door to the pipes in the fake column.

How you like the chook on straw behind netting piece? It was a very satisfying morning's work with odds and ends. Bought only the netting. From Bunnings.

Come on in

The downstairs room just off the left side of the entrance 'hall', with 3 huge panel-backed posters of Rosemary (the mouse, of course!)


There's a small papertole (not in photo) of her on the opposite of the room.










That's a country buffet cupboard full of items collected from garage sales and flea market visits.















The living room is beyond those "ping-pahng" or saloon doors (above left) carted all the way 40 years ago from a Wife's uncle's house in Penang.

The next photo (above right) was taken from the living room side of those swing doors. See the little cupboard against wall? Still waiting its distressed paint job from Penny.

Among the stuff sitting on it is a cabbage patch doll bought for $12 at a Perth flea mart.




Here's a close-up shot (left), but it's more fun to click on photo above and zoom in and search.











That's (above right) a longish papertole hanging centrally on the wall. It was made from 4 kids' height measuring posters (they're very narrow pictures).


The shot of an enlarged bit (left) doesn't do the tole justice, as it was one of my better pieces of work.














A wall-full of papertole (left).


The clock's not one of them.

Open sesame!

Front door of uneven panels with a little grass house wind chime from Shirakawago, Japan.



The gate of curly twirls and a few flowers is in metallic pink, yup.














House number is a composition of painted tiles bought in Perth, set in a photo frame sans glass.


That's a rustic shoe polish box at the foot of the closed panel of the door. Got it at a garage sale in Perth.