When I first opened up Pigeon Point Project: Writing on the walls… in my RSS reader my response was “wow”. Then I started to think about which wall of our house I could put up a chalk board for the kids to use?

Check out the article to see what photos of I am talking about, but they have made one wall into a massive chalk board for their kid to use. Of course if you believe the article then the kid did it…

Unfortunately I came to the conclusion that I don’t have an interior wall to use for as a chalk board for the kids, but the idea is still pretty cool.

Although this is a little off topic from the usual stuff I write about on this blog I thought that it would be interesting for quite a few people that I know read this site and might be interested in some free baby stuff.

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To be honest I can’t remember how I found this site, but it’s a fun one to browse around and check out the archives. The writer lives in Ontario Canada and somehow manages to get out most weekends and then blog about cottage life, food, fun and of course, his weekend.

Here are a few posts that I have enjoyed reading:

• Keys to Having a Good BBQ Party – Something that I hope we can do once we finally get our deck up.
• Buying a Canoe – I would love to have a canoe

I did a search tonight for Australia Renovation Blogs and was quite disappointed that I couldn’t find many that were actually being written by home renovators. Most of the sites that I found were from companies that did renovations, or from professional web-sites.

I had a look over at www.houseblogs.net and managed to find a few in Australia, and those led me then to a few others. So tonight I subscribed to six new sites in my RSS reader. I’m really curious to see what sorts of experiences these guys are having with their renovation and building projects.

Here is a list of the sites:
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