An update for this post - things are looking much greener at the moment and you can see the progress being made on the roads and earthworks. You can see Port Philip Bay in the background and it you were to follow that around to the left you’d hit Melbourne.
The Featherbrook website has been updated to say that Stages 1 & 2 have received their titles and can start building. We also got a letter today saying that our stage should be ready to settle in August! Yay, it’s getting close now!
From what (little) I remember, it was an awesome night. Thanks to everyone who went to the effort of dressing up. There are 80+ images after the link in which you all look awesomely amazing.
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Stages 1 & 2 are looking very near completed (to my un-trained eye). All the roads are down, gutters & driveways installed and even the street signs are erected. Titles for those stages *MUST* be close now, which means stage 3 can’t be far behind!
The road ends abruptly about 4 meters into each end of Earth Street (yes, confirmed, STREET - not Way or Place) and we’re still lacking driveways and the like…
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I don’t! I’ve just never used it, or cliked on those “digg this” links or had an account. Same goes for del.icio.us and their ilk.
So, in a last ditch effort to not get left behind (is it too late?) I’m learning by doing. I’ve made myself a digg acount and I’ve added one of those buttons to the site. Chances are it’ll prove itself useless for the purpose of this site (a family/friends orientated blog) but at least I’ll *know* from now on.
Playing with facebook and it’s options for advertisers has made me realise that although I’ve (ab)used the internet since, well.. it’s inception, there is a lot out there I’ve never bothered to try and understand or take part in. And like that car mechanic in the run down garage in the quite ally, who’s business is slowing since he can’t seem to work out these damn-fangled-fuel-injection-thingo’s it’s time I brushed up on the trends.
… I still refuse to make a MySpace account though. I guess I’ll always be old school like that.
Scanned some of the colour samples we’ve chosen - then didn’t come out very well at all, and I’m sure they’ll look different on everyones monitor, but here goes. The last image is a display home and our inspiration (modified slightly).
About the only thing we’re (almost) certain on is the bricks we’ll build with. But what colour gutters, down pipes and window frames go with it? What about garage door? Driveway? Oh god, it’s all too much. Here is our train of though so far - by no means an accurate “rendition”, its a dodgy photoshop job (I could get a job retouching women for Cleo!) but you’ll get the idea. Like it? Hate it? Should the garage door be fire-truck-red? I think I’ll change the RAV4 to something less… crap.
We’ve also decided on several internal colours and finishes. I’ll attempt to scan some of those tomorrow.
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We're are keeping a scrapbook (blog-style) of the photos and thoughts we collect while planning our wedding and building our first home.
It's our way of preserving a time capsule of this busy time. It's public so interested friends and family can occasionally stop by for an update.
- Brendan & Leah
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