The British Homemaker - One day at a time

I haven't done any kind of tutorial for such a long time so when I saw something on Pinterest that I fell in love with I knew it was time. Fabric from Nortex Mill Any ideas yet? Ok, here's a clue! I'll be showing a full tutorial when I've made it. Debs

Working on some projects a couple of weeks ago I wanted something for the head of Charley’s bed…but with little income and lots of ideas I came up with something that he now loves! From this: With just a can of blue spray paint it became this: Added 3 hooks down the side, a couple of certificates and one happy little boy loves his new bed head! Cost: £0

A couple of weeks ago I decided to try out an idea I had for Charley’s room. I was so fed up of hearing his groans when a lego kit got knocked by his friend or stepped on by me him when he’d spent hours and hours building it. Lego is his life. So off I went to armour up with the required bits. *Note! I have since replaced that narrow shelf with a proper sized one…and he’s since filled that very shelf with over 12 constructions!* I decided on a pine effect curtain pole {painted in glow in the dark paint which looks rather cool at night} the baton is added support but also as I chose a longer length I was able to add some hooks for his other bits {it’s now filled with key rings, ds cases and other stuff} The S hooks and flexi tubs are ideal for not only his odd bits of lego but for his teddies and other stuff {he’s since added 3 more tubs since this pic, how slack am I to not photo it?!!} Simple white medium sized hooks are effective enough, nothing ...

Kirsten loves animal print, specifically leopard print. She has it on everything from cups, phone cases, bedding, t-shirts, uggies and a whole lot more so it was no real surprise when I asked her to begin designing out her bedroom that this was the theme. As the house is just a few months old we need to wait a year before we can actually decorate {the foundations are settling and that nearly always means cracks that will need to be repaired} so she came up with the idea for a stencilled print border, I went in search of something but not really sure of what and guess what? I found the perfect tutorial that Kirsten I will easily be able to do. I am totally not an artistic person with this sorta thing! So, as it’s such a great and simple instruction I figured it’s only fair to name and share the method. If you click on either of the photos you can go right to the full tutorial. The nice thing with this project is you only need...

I’m linking up to Just Drink a Coke who is hosting a fun link up willing us to share our beautiful mess. Fell on a good day for me because up until 7pm’ish I’ve been child free for 24 hours and as the house was already blitzed, the only mess is my dining table with my sewing stuff and 1/2 of Kirsten’s room that I haven’t got to yet {and not sure I want to!} so here is my input: Just for good measure, here is Charleys too: However, if we are talking beautiful mess, this is not to be confused: The other half of Kirsten’s room. A temporary dumping space…but wait till it’s been transformed into the shabby chic-cafe-beautification-salon-kinda-space!! Debs

I was without children for a good 24 hours and got crackin’ on the 8 month long slow process of Kirsten’s bedroom makeover. Initially it was planned out to be in baby blue and mocha and cream. So between my mom and I we made all kinds of goodness from a new headboard to a heart shaped name banner, from painting the walls to buying new bedding, only for the princess to change her mind. Now ordinarily I’d say ‘tough’ and carry on, but I am mostly glad because that mocha really didn’t go well in the room with the way the light went and I just couldn’t pull it together. So out came the blues and creams up to my room, off went the mocha and back came the magnolia walls! So bit by bit my former room of black, red and white slowly got transferred to Kirsten’s space only now it looks so much better. It’s not done yet but by jove I swear its going to finish me off! So far this is where I am at: The blinds took a little improvising. I wanted buttons not flowers but given that I was only ...