Random Home Snapshots

Lola's Nursery ...in our dressing room!

Amazing what you can fit into a tiny space.

Black and white basket - Ikea
Swallow mobile - Flensted
Grey Star blanket - Zara home kids
Love picture - Made by Girl
Shh! Owl picture - me!
Panda print &
You are so loved card - Jessica Gonacha

Lounge Pictures

These prints were a present from Nick at Christmas...finally got around to putting them up somewhere. Though he tried to get this one for me which i LOVE but it was sold out at the time. Maybe i could sneak another one on the wall?!

My wallpaper has arrived but due to the lack of my papering skills it's going to be another month before someone can put it up for me!

I'm taking in my cushion from the old leather chair to be be reupholstered this week. The end is in sight. This room WILL be done...er...soon.

Quick Kids Bedroom Update

So Kitty has a big bed. Seb has Kitty's bed...the cot is waiting for the bambino!

 This is how it looked before.

 Heart and star duvet cover from the new children's bedding range at John Lewis 'Little Home'.   Star quilts from Zara Kids. I love how you can use both sides. Either pink and white stars or white with pink stars. Seb has the same in the perfect turquoise to match the wall!

I'm thinking i might be over the wall stickers?

By the way...Do you realise how difficult it is to get your hands on a decent cot bed/junior bed duvet cover?
It's hard ...unless you like Disney characters or baby style trains etc... Everything is in single or cot size. That's why Seb has ended up with plain white, but i kinda like it anyway.

Lounge accessories

 

It's starting to come together.

Black table project : Before and after and in between!

 

Before...

Though in truth i should never have let my husband loose on this first. He sprayed it with yucky sticky black spray that ran and we ended up having to sand it all back again and start from scratch. It still has a few sticky bumps that were too hard to sand off. Never again. Though in the future if it gets scratched up too quick a little sand back didn't look as bad as i thought.

It's got a little something about it huh?

A few improvements

A little flurry of DIY around here. Surprising as this is definitely not Mr C's forte! A tidied entrance hiding school bits, gloves and hats and bike stuff, a TV on the wall in the kitchen ready for our new lounging area when the sofa comes and a blind up in place. Feels good.

 

Not sure on the cushions...on the lookout for something else and tempted to paint this back wall too. Hmm decisions!

 

Chalkboard/letter holder up...its been waiting nearly a year! We store shoes in the basket.

And we bid, won and collected this table all on Sunday morning from ebay for a steal. I'm hoping to stain or paint it for our soon to be lounging area. The kids just like crawling under it!

The Playhouse

Well i mentioned a little while back i was going to get the kidlets a playhouse...

 Dodgy photos taken in 10 secs before it rained! Painted by my fair hand. And 4, yes 4 pairs of curtains made by me. Second sewing project EVER. Yes i know, genius!

Pink stitching for Kitty. She wanted pink curtains. Please ignore the imperfections! Still genius right?! Fabric from Ikea.

BEFORE!

It's great to be featured!

Just scrolling through some blogs and i saw House of Turquoise had featured my children's room in a recent post along with some other amazing reader's turquoise rooms. Thanks Erin.

Go take a look. xx

Kit &and Seb's room (above) and another room i love that's featured (right).

Children's bedroom is finished!

AFTER!

It is always hard trying to create a joint room for two different sexes that is feminine enough for a 3 year old girly girl and a 1 year old boisterous boy, and still give the room some time for them to grow into it, but this just seems to work. It was awkward trying to mix two rooms of furniture into one as they were different but until they are both in matching single beds it can be more of an eclectic look! Well there's always room for improvement but this is it right now!

Love this blanket Kitty had as a baby from Mamas and Papas

And how cute are the lion bookends?!

This colour combination is enough to make me smile.

Mr Stripy rabbit was bought in Canada when i was pregnant with Kitty so it has such a pride of place in their room with the Creative Thursday prints.

The blind is Ikea Fabler fabric.
My friend Karen made them up for me. It totally makes the room for me.

The photos are in painted Ikea frames. The 'Amazing' name prints are by Kal Barteski

Love my new Belle and Boo Print.
The Belle and Boo postcards i picked up in Paperchase for a steal!

I painted the old mirror yellow and the Ikea chair pink but nearly everything else we already had.

The BEFORE shot!

This was taken before we moved in when it was a spare bedroom.