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#701 Home is not a place but a feeling..


Picking out a new house can be exciting and terrifying at the same time, especially when you also might be choosing a new location to live. So how do you choose? What if the house has problems you can't afford to fix? What’s the tiebreaker if you love two places equally?
The first and only way to begin the decision-making process is to grab your calculator. A dream home becomes a nightmare the moment you can't afford it. “As you calculate, look beyond the listing price,” Look at what the repayments will be when and if the interest rates go up say (3x, 4x even). Can you afford it..
When looking for a place to live, you need to as my mother used to say, take off those rose coloured glasses. Look at the heating, cooling of the house, for eg: A house with vaulted ceiling costs more to heat than one with a low ceiling. A house with a pool means paying to maintain it, or spending your weekends scrub scrub, scrub. All these extra factors can add up.

So what is it that makes a home a home.. It is a feeling. This is where the rose coloured glasses definitely come off. It is a sensation of peace on a cozy rainy Sunday, imagining yourself tucked up on my favourite chair watching the rain drip down the glass window, the feeling of relief when you pull into the driveway after a long trip; a quiet kiss on the head of a baby asleep in my lap; the warmth of my partner’s arms as we soak up the sun outside, the dog sitting in his favourite place.

Home has been many places for me over the years, but its comforts are defined by simple, blissful moments like these...

So what are you waiting for, come take a walk to our destinations for today: -

Destinations:- Shiny Shabby, Little Branch, On9

Nutmeg. Vintage French Chair Brown - (New) @ Shiny Shabby;
Nutmeg. Paper Bag_Group Gift - (New) @ Shiny Shabby;
DJ  / SF Porch Welcome Sign - white - (New) @ Shiny Shabby;
Nutmeg. Not too shabby flats, Nude
[ keke ] nirvana chair white . grey - (New) @ Shiny Shabby;
[ keke ] nirvana simple table . wood - (New) @ Shiny Shabby;
[ keke ] nivana card . flower of life - (New) @ Shiny Shabby;
[ keke ] nirvana incense bowl . white - (New) @ Shiny Shabby;
[ keke ] paperbag herb - coriander 1
Little Branch - LB_EucalyptusTree {Animated}*4Seasons @ On9;
.peaches. Vintage Desk - Tea Cup

{vespertine} - rosemary garden fence - right unit / white

#457 This dry land has some sunshine with GizzA Creations

Feeling very patriotic about my country Australia, I have to write about some places that have received rain for the first time in over seven years. Friends called me a few days ago excited that the rains had arrived. Could you imagine seven years without rain!!?  Pretty hard to imagine. Their young children were terrified at what was coming down and hitting them on the face. To us it is common, every so many days it hits our roofs, our cars, our face as we walk. It is wet and annoying but needed. It is known as rain water. The children were so terrified, they screamed all the way to their parents thinking that the heavens were indeed falling on them. I know that is hard to believe but there are places in Australia that have not seen rain for some time.

In 2010, South East of Australia was in the grip of “the big dry” or what was called the “millennium drought” - billed as the worst drought since European settlement. Dams across the Murray-Darling Basin were down to only 25% of capacity. Then the floods came, followed by yet more floods. In some areas the dams are now almost 100% full. The first time in 8 years. Several thousands of gigalitres have been released. Government has spent billions of dollars trying to prepare Australia for the next dry, but the complexity of droughts means we have little hope of being ready. If you can imagine, Entire floodplain forests died along the rivers of the Murray-Darling Basin; for many of them, the drought was just the final straw.  The dry not only affects farmers but our livestock, our wildlife and from the recent droughts, some species of animals have disappeared. Whilst Australia they say is a great place to live, it also has it underlying problems and that is the millennium droughts that affect us.

Wearing the beautiful new outfit from GizzA Creations called the Meimei Dress which comes in many different sizes and colours, the awesome hair from Iconic, the gorgeous shoes from Essenz and the exciting new pose, all of these can be found at our destination for today: -


Destination: - On9


Dress: - GizzA - Meimei Dress [Plants] (New) @ On9
Hair: - ICONIC- Vaska Hair Enhanced (New) @ On9
Bracelet: - [BB] Fresh Water Pearls/Gold & Diamond Bracelet - White (New) @ On9
Necklace: - Cae :: Balance :: Necklace (New) @ Fameshed
Shoes: - Essenz - Munich (Cream) Maitreya (New) @ On9
Chair: - Junk. slouchy chair. adult. leather (New) @ TMD
Bike: - *DJ - Mesh Bicycle Rack & Table (New) @ On9
Jug: - Apple Fall Daffodils Jug
Paper: - Apple Fall Crumpled Newspaper
Shed: - 03 - 8f8 - primavera in Toscana Shed (RARE) - Old Arcade Gacha item
Grass: - Skye Wild Grass Type 1 dry

Pose: - Amitie - Fresh 01 @ On9