Boiled Bacon Beans + House + Award Recipe

Oh boy, am I tired!

A whole week has passed since they keys to our new home were dropped into our anxious first time buyer hands, but what a week it's been.

For starters, we finished painting last night. The final coat was put onto our living room wall, and then we excitedly gathered up the dust sheets to look at our hard work.

Man, it looks good. Maybe it's because we did it all ourselves but it really feels like our own now. The living room is a dusty "malt chocolate" hue, with a vintage walnut fireplace wall and granite fireplace. It's so cosy, the picture doesn't do it justice, but I'll show it later on anyway =]

Doesn't help that all this week I've had an awful toothache. So not only have my meals had to…