Life Rocks!

Yippee!

My team at Sorted! Event Management won the pitch this week to be the event manager for Fashion Expo 2012. This is great news. So good in fact I had to buy a new lipstick to celebrate. Nars Fire Down Below is my favourite red lippie, so it was an absolute necessity, really. The pitch meant that I worked all hours through the week, so I was scared my alias as Open for Inspection Girl would have to be forgotten for the week. No way, Jose! I got a tweet from my techno-savvy friends at Di Jones Real Estate reminding me about new listings to go and see and so I was back on track again!

The fashion expo client has their office in a beautiful sandstone building at The Rocks. In between meetings with my fashionista sistas, I escaped for a reinvigorating 30 minutes looking at a house I could live in in an eye-blink.

80 Windmill Street, Millers Point is more than a house. It is a lifestyle. If Josh, Alex and I lived there we could have weekend picnics under the Sydney Harbour Bridge, walk through heritage streets to cute cafes all with the convenience of living slap bang in the centre of Sydney. Whisper quiet, the house is amazing; modern and bright with dazzling harbour and bridge views from the upper level. Living there would be like being on holiday all year around. It would be great for any of our visiting relatives; All the great things to do so close by would mean that I would hardly ever see them! I could work from home too, seeing as the home has four very nice bedrooms.

Andrew Stewart from Di Jones Real Estate said a very friendly "hello" when I teetered in on my uber-cool bondage stilettos (I was trying to look the part for my fashionista clients – and it hurt). He is such a history buff. Windmill Street used to have a windmill on it and the site at 80 Windmill Street was home to The Whaler's Arms pub in the early 1800's. After the pub moved, the site was a boarding house and a grocery store, before falling into disrepair and being knocked down in the early 1900's by The National Trust.

The beautiful modern house at 80 Windmill Street that now exists is surrounded by heritage listed buildings from the 1850's, and blends gently with them.  A sign saying that The Whaler's Arms once occupied the site is all that remains of the colourful history of the early days of Australia's European settlement. How amazing to be a part of such a historical area of Sydney. I got real goose bumps being in the home and felt a real sense of history. Anyway, after my whimsical trip back into history, I felt refreshed. In fact, I felt so renewed I teetered back into my meeting and...won...the...pitch. My Open for Inspection Girl lifestyle gives me a real treat each week – and these inspections and my dreams of living in these homes are more therapeutic than any new lipstick!

Next week: To Kensington or not to Kensington – that is the question (or so Josh and I are asking ourselves)....