Category Archives: LIFESTYLE

Paint it yourself – Cardboard letters

So after I painted my Mexican inspired candy skulls, (which proved to be quite a hit among my crowd)  I had Jordan’s mum asking me if I can do anything similar with the letters she recently purchased via Nononthehighstreet. She had her’s and his initials(J & A)and she wasn’t sure what to do with them except displaying them somewhere in the house for everybody to see.

You can really find these letters anywhere, these for example are from here:  and are a tad cheaper…

Working on them:

I used the same deluxe paint for wood that I bought  in Homebase a few months before to paint my tired & plain wood kitchen chair and later on my skulls.

And here they are like a finished product:

If you do have time and a bit of £££ you can make this as a really nice present for birthdays, newborns or just yourself,

X Ines

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Our Garden

We have been doing a lot of work on our garden recently. We completely re designed the area, got rid of the old overgrown hedge and made a new decking area. It is a still work in process and I don’t think you should half fast things.

So, it will probably take another few years for all my plants to grow to the size I want them to and no, not everything will get finish this summer. But this is what it looks like now.

I used Instagram to take these pictures and as you can see the right had corner is still looking very poor and bold.

So I planted some lovely perennials there that I got from Greenfingers.

These were on the offer.

I planted them last November and they are just coming out now. I will keep you posted on the progress.

X Ines

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Union Jack Duvet by Jack Wills

 

Credit: Jack Wills

Jack Wills is so fabulously British. I spotted this Union Jack duvet ages ago but my bedroom design was all in cream and natural wood colors. It just didn’t go with anything. This of course was changed as soon as we moved in to our new pad. I went for grey walls & bedding with touches of dark plum velvet curtains and cushions. Inspiration : old french boudoir/ a few retro touches. But more about my bedroom some other time. So a new duvet was purchased.

here it is:

 

x Ines

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Cool Prints

I love Notonthehighstreet web shop. I have been a fan for a while and have bought like a zillions things from them. I particulary like these personalised prints made by Rosie Robins. I have made one for my husbands birthday and it is proudly hangged in our lounge. Rosie was lovely when I emailed her and ask if I can customize her print a tiny bit. I made my writing a bit more personal and rimed it into a little poem of Jordan’s favorite stuff.

Here is Jordan’s print hanged in the middle of our feature wall above our green bench:

 

X Ines

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