Since moving to this house with its established garden I wait for this beautiful Weigela to flower and my goodness it never disappoints me. It only stays around for a short while so I make the very most of its beautiful blooms.
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I miss my flowers
27 Apr 2011
One of the things I miss most around my home is all the flowers I used to buy when we were "living the dream" . After the bubble burst one of the first things I had to give up was the extravagance of buying flowers. I was spending about £50 a month on them, obviously when times are tough this was first to go, along with trips to the hairdresser, new clothes etc.
Since moving to this house with its established garden I wait for this beautiful Weigela to flower and my goodness it never disappoints me. It only stays around for a short while so I make the very most of its beautiful blooms.
Since moving to this house with its established garden I wait for this beautiful Weigela to flower and my goodness it never disappoints me. It only stays around for a short while so I make the very most of its beautiful blooms.
The Twins room
13 Apr 2011
It's taken a while, but the twins finally have a room to be proud of. It combines my love of light and bright but is also still boyish enough to please them. As this house only had three bedroom, we decided to give the twins the biggest room. We knew as they grew they would inevitably need the extra room to have a sense of their own space.
These pictures show their room the day we moved in.
When I look at the above photo's I wonder how on earth we coped. Every room was full to bursting with our stuff, we had six month old twins and a 10 yr old who sulked and hated the house not understanding why we had left our previous large, beautiful home for this filthy house !
This is how their room looks now :
The view through through the twins bedroom door into their room. The blue cupboard is the white one you see in the first photograph.
On the wall where the fireplace was my husband built floor to ceiling storage shelves
My husband also made the wooden letters spelling out the twins names
The twins "reading Corner" bookcase made by daddy and cushions an absolute steal from Primark. Blinds and chairs from IKEA
New white bunk beds from Ebay, wonderful luxury childrens red and white gingham bedding generously given to me by my sponsor Mel who owns babou and a makeover for an old chest of drawers, along with a fantastic vinyl sticker clock from the wonderful Etsy seller chocovenyl complete the look.
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