Welcome to the 2017 Ornament Exchange & Blog Hop! This year, there are 47 amazing bloggers participating in the exchange. The rules of the challenge were simple: be partnered with a fellow blogger, create a handmade ornament for $15 or under, create a tutorial, and ship the ornament off to a new home! Meet the… Read More
You know how much I love pallets and stencils, so it was simply a matter of time before I fused the two together and created a beautiful art piece. I was keen to get my hands on a mandala stencil for a while and when Stencil Warehouse kindly sent me one of their rose ceiling stencils* I… Read More
Today’s post almost didn’t happen.. Why? As with most of my more ambitious, “jumping in the deep end” and “no idea what I am doing” projects, I am never entirely sure whether my vision will come to life or my project will turn into a disaster.. Thankfully, this time it sort of worked!! After weeks… Read More
By now you have probably read my post on the amazing day my husband and I had at the Handmade Fair. I thought it would be great to also show you on a separate post the things I purchased at the Handmade Fair!! It was honestly heaven on earth for anyone who enjoys crafts and… Read More
I am so excited to share this post with you as I not only have an amazing furniture transformation in store for you but also a fabulous GIVEAWAY!!!!! How fantastic is that?? As you know I am a brand blogger for the Old Fashioned Milk Paint Company (check out my other posts below), so I get to… Read More
I always try to come up with projects that are easy to make. Sometimes I simply buy something and hope the inspiration will come to me.. As I was shopping in our DIY store and getting some things for our living room decoration, I saw this gorgeous spray paint in bright copper! I just thought I… Read More
September is here and so is our monthly DIY Blog Challenge!! This month’s theme is “FALL/AUTUMN”! We all had to come up with an idea to incorporate the theme. You can catch up with the previous months posts here. I love making frames and DIY art. For this month’s challenge I decided to create a… Read More
Hi everyone, today I will be sharing a fun little project I did a few months ago. We did our bathroom makeover and as we encountered a few mishaps, we ended up spending a little more than we anticipated, so I tried to save where I could and ended up creating this fun little abstract… Read More
I have been admiring people making wood carvings and shapes using a scroll saw for such a long time. I knew I really really really wanted to give it a go myself.. So when I had the opportunity to collaborate with FFX * I jumped at a chance and finally got my hands on a… Read More
I have been spending ages thinking about colour schemes, accessories, wallpapers and decor for our living room. As always it all comes together slowly and I improvise and add things that I (we) like as we go along. I work a little backwards sometimes and don’t always have a clear picture of what I want… Read More
Hi everyone and welcome to our AUGUST edition of DIY BLOG CHALLENGE!!! Each month a group of DIY bloggers come up with a theme and do a project based on this theme. Remember my July’s project where our theme was “Summer Festival”. This month we are continuing with the summer inspired projects and our theme is “FLOWER… Read More
Can you believe it has been a whole year since we bought our first house?! The official date we purchased the house was 20th July but we did not get the keys or moved in until 30th July simply because we had not returned from our holiday.. Now it has been a year it is… Read More
I hope you enjoyed the Part One of the Bathroom Makeover projects, you can catch up with it here, in case you missed it . Thankfully all the dramas are behind us and I can today reveal our stunning bathroom. It has been a long journey (down to many issues), but we got there in… Read More
Today I am sharing with you another fun furniture makeover using the Old Fashioned Milk Company Products* (OFMP). Last month I showed you the sideboard I painted using OFMP in Pitch Black, OFMP in Snow White. If you missed it, you can see the sideboard makeover here. Today’s makeover will be using the exact same colours,… Read More
I am part of a group of DIY and craft bloggers and each month we come up with a theme and do a project based on this theme. I didn’t take part in June’s challenge which was Father’s Day, but you can see the May challenge here – Thrift Store Upcycle . This month we all… Read More
Hi everyone, today I will be sharing with you an easy DIY on how to create some tie backs for curtains the easy way! I am not very good at sewing, but I do like to make a few sewing projects. As you know my craft room was done on a budget, I made a… Read More
