We're re-starting the Swap!

Upswap us something for a piece of our house!

We're starting again with a very small item to try and get the momentum happening. This is easy for someone to swap something with as it's not worth much! But an exclusive piece for your place that you will never see anywhere else! These clay bricks cost us about $30 each but they're not worth anything to us because we have a handful left and can't sell them. Considering all and any offers for something to swap for it!

These bricks are great as a coffee table or plant holder. We've shown in the photos how some nice wood can be attached to the top. Our 2 year old stained the wood with a home made stain made from vinegar and rusted steel wool - a totally natural piece of furniture with no nasty chemical smells. This particular one has a big circular hole which can be used as a magazine rack. The brick could also be painted. A real talking piece for your living space!

We started out on this swap journey thinking a bigger item would get things rolling sooner - see the bottom of this other page for more details about the home theatre projector suite. If the upswap gets going with the brick, the projector will go up for sale. If the upswap gets going with the projector suite, we'll see if we can sell the brick as a coffee table / plant stand!

Please get in touch with us ASAP and swap with us for something! Anything! We're getting to the point soon where we will have to accept the conditional bank loan if we want our driveway sealed before winter!

Call or text Amy on 0276 354 901 or connect with us on our facebook page.

Please hurry!

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Pleasant chat with Mike Hosking

I had a nice chat with Mike Hosking on the Breakfast Show this morning. We talked a bit more about the projector system up for grabs and the dramas with the house build and having to move in unfinished. Here's the audio file if you missed it... Thanks Mike we were honoured to feature on your show! If you are interested in our Hidden Projector and Sound System and think you have something to swap for it please get in touch with us: Phone Amy on 0276 354 901 or message us on our facebook page

Hooray! We did the first swap!

A lot has been happening at the McLaren building site, a lot to celebrate. We've moved across our beds to the main house, still cleaning up concrete dust and plaster dust from some of the rooms, still unpacking, still waiting to hear back from our mortgage broker on the results of a bank application, and have got an employment contract confirming I'll start back at work in July (if not before by mutual arrangement). And, we have made our first swap!

It's (not) getting hot in here...

We're very pleased to find amongst the hot and sticky weather we've had over the past few days, inside our little minor dwelling has been comfortably cool. The inside temperature only changes very slowly, despite what's happening outside. I can put our little bubba to bed at night knowing she's not going to wake up cold in the middle of the night, because it will be the same temperature in the morning as it was the night before (or maybe 1 degree less sometimes). That is gold I tell you! Absolute gold! From someone who, up until a week ago had not had a full night's sleep since before the baby was born (July), she's only now starting to sleep through the night. If I now had to deal with hot days and huge temperature drops at night, I'd still be getting up to deal with that. So we're still sleeping in the unfinished minor dwelling. Our quarters are just clay bricks, concrete floors and roof (and we do have insulation in the ceiling). There ...

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