Things have been busy around here recently...whats new!   A couple of weeks ago we had quite a lot of snow which made the children happy. Alain managed to leave on a business trip to Kuala Lumpur just before , leaving us to have fun snow ball fighting and making some snow people/animals.   

Marie-Kate opted for a snow pony,  it looked great when she had finished (no photo).

The children are really social at the moment (unlike their parents), even Marie-Kate has invited three friends over today, which is amazing...I forgot how noisy eight year olds could be!  
We have been busy working on the children's bathroom which is still unfinished... A couple of weeks ago we went over to Pantin after successfully bidding on a new super comfy chair with footstool.  Alain loves it, the problem is, finding time to just sit down and relax with all the children around.
If I see him sitting down on it, I take a photo.

Front room(sitting room) before and after

Yet another sporadic post, because I won't have time after (landing to do).

We bought the bookcase off Mr H, it's really good quality and cost a fortune when he bought it in the 70's and we really needed space for books. As you can see the walls are extremely dirty, yet again it took two of us a couple of days just to clean behind the bookcase and the wall on the photo.

This is the other side of the room, with the other chair from the thrift shop which probably won't stay here for long cause Gaby wants it for her bedroom. The table was Mr H's, we bought it, however it takes up too much space and I'm looking for a round table to take its place. The children do artwork here.

This cupboard (Ikea) holds all art equipment and sewing machine et cetera. Voila, now you are up to date with the goings on here, now I have to get on with this.

First floor landing really for a final washing down and scrap before priming.