Tuesday, 28 April 2015
Ladies Pride
Never one to shy away from a bright colour or a bold pattern this amazing lurex maxi dress in the action cancer shop popped out from the rail immediately and caught my eye (sorry I'm just imagining that literally and ouch!) I'm making up for my rather dull youth that was spent wearing grey and blue my sister's nickname for me was cloud. Ten pounds for such a beautiful dress is a total bargain in my opinion and with a friends wedding happening in May I justified it coming home! Miss Jones was on hand to make the dress a little more me, the flared sleeves went and the maxi became a mini, miss Jones did a great job considering she's been out of action for so long. The fabric is lurex and has a lovely subtle sparkle and the pattern well it's just wow and after the alteration I have enough fabric left to make something else, my sister suggested a clutch bag to match. Watch this space!
Saturday, 25 April 2015
Curtain's up
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Finally after about two years of thinking about putting these curtains up I have done it! To be honest I'm not sure what took me so long all I had to do was buy some rings for the pole and do a quick alternation of the length. It's probably because I worked hanging curtains for 13 years and I just needed a break!! These amazing 1970s curtains were a pair rescued from Flo's house, they'd never even been out of the packet! The pink and the pattern are a perfect mix to my miss match room of retro floral patterns.
Sunday, 19 April 2015
"Love is the flower you've got to let grow" John Lennon
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Do you ever think of someone you haven't seen in a while and next thing you see them, or think of something and next thing you know it happens? It happens to me all the time! On a recent mooch around the charity shops I thought I'd like to find one of those patterned glass jugs and low and behold the first charity shop I went into and there it was on the shelf! A perfect pattern of red and yellow flowers! I bought a bunch of flowers almost identical to the pattern to brighten up our living room.
Wednesday, 15 April 2015
Magic mushrooms
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April and May are full of friends and family birthdays and I've been busy making cards for the big days. I can share a card I made for my sister because it was her birthday last week, my inspiration came from the magic retro mushrooms I've been seeing everywhere on mugs, pots and even glasses!
Thursday, 9 April 2015
How not to wallpaper
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This paper also comes in an orange and grey colour way, too much for our living room? I'm tempted now I've got the wallpapering bug!
Long time since the last blog post I know! I've been meaning to post this one for ages but I keep getting side tracked! Blame Instagram! Woops! Way back in February pancake day to be precise I invited my sisters around for pancakes. I finish work at half three and instead of going home and prepping my mixture and fillings I decide it might be the right time to wallpaper our loo. Picture this.... A cold February afternoon and I get changed into my leopard print housecoat and slippers, strip everything out of the loo to clean. You could barely swing a mouse let alone a cat in our loo, so wall papering the space was never going to be easy anyway, but under time pressure and wearing a housecoat and I was asking for trouble. Now I've never wallpaped a whole wall before and things were going well until the final strip went up and it was 20" to short!!!! Cue panic and sweats and then the doorbell rang! I managed to patch up the last bit with a off cut but the pancakes were a disaster! Will I ever learn!! Love our new loo though this wallpaper is fabulous, it's made in Sweden and is a remake of a 1974 design!
Have a brilliant weekend xx
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