State Lovin'

I'm a real sucker for crafts, especially the ones you see all over Pinterest.

A few days ago, I pinned a gorgeous photo from Home is where my heart is.

I fell in love with the colours and the idea - what a great way to show off our 

new found love for Arizona and Nevada! I decided to change the method slightly.

Instead of using mod podge and glitter on card, I bought glitter craft card from Hobbycraft. It made the whole process way easier, and less messy! 

I bought two small mint heart frames, took off the backing and just kept the glass in them. I cut out the state silhouettes and used them as stencils to cut out the same shapes from the glitter card. I used Sticky Dots to stick them to the glass, and then the glue gun to stick on little pink heart buttons (also from Hobbycraft) where the capital cities are. 

I think they came out pretty cute really! 

Let me know if you guys make any!

Saira 

xo

Tiny Spaces

Like most newly-wed couples, the topic of babies has been a daily conversation piece.

My ovaries are aching at the sight of little cuties and I can't wait much longer to start our family!  

As I mentioned a couple posts ago, we've been getting loads done on the house! 

The smallest spare room has undergone some giant changes and we're now looking to decorate with the idea that it can be used as a future nursery in mind. 

I'm so indecisive with themes and ideas. My favourite colours are mint and peach,

but I'm currently loving this yellow and grey theme!

I think because me and hubs have a thing for 'you are my sunshine', 

it would be a great theme to do the nursery in. Not only that, a great baby shower 

theme, too!

(All images here can be found on Pinterest - if I have used yours, please let me know and I will add credit!)

 

 

What I really love is that you can accessorise with pastel blue or pink as well, 

depending on the gender, but grey and yellow is very gender neutral and could be

decorated before we knew.

Since the dawn of Pinterest, I've been crazy in love with this nursery tree. 

My wonderful friend Joanna over at Running on Sunshine did something similar for

her daughter's nursery and I have always kept it at the back of my mind.

I love wall stickers, if you hadn't guessed! 

I also want a quote for the room. Let me know what you like!

I'm torn between 'you are my sunshine' and 

'the best things in life aren't things'.

We haven't booked to have blinds installed in that room yet, and 

I'm kind of putting it off in case we pick a theme and I can find some cute curtains.

I love chevron patterns, my new washing basket is grey chevrons, with elephants inside. 

I'm thinking if we go for grey, I may get matching curtains and use it for the nursery :)

Pinterest is full of amazing ideas! Here are a few more I love...

I bet by the time we pop out a little one, it'll be completely different!

We'll see. 

xo

Home Sweet Home

Hey guys :)

So the house is really coming on now! We've made some real progress and it's starting to feel like it's our house now. Just before Christmas, after we came back from our holiday/wedding, we decided that with Hubs still being in a lot of pain, that it would better for us to get a decorator in to speed things up. 

So we started with the smallest spare bedroom!

Here's how it looked before.

We were lucky to be given spare carpet left over from my parents hallway. There was only enough for this room so we snapped it up and had it fitted. 

The next day I decided to paint the walls so we could move into that room for a change of scenery. 

We picked a light blue to best cover the beige. 

 We moved into this room so that we could use the spare room we were in for storage whilst we decorate the master bedroom. This room will eventually be the nursery when we have a baby, but for now we call it hubs' Man Cave. When he can't sleep, it's a great room for him to be able to go to and watch a movie and not wake me up.

Once we were in that room and had the larger spare room for storage space, we had the master bedroom cleared out, pulled the carpet up and cleaned out all the cupboards.

Lets just remind ourselves of what it looked like.

We'd had the outer wall plastered when we moved in due to damp, so there were no skirting boards. We had to have our builder put new ones on, then I painted them, and then the walls.  

The carpet went in a few weeks later and suddenly we were seeing progress :) 

We moved our furniture in and were almost there.

In a few weeks we have a lovely set of blinds being fitted, and then I have some gorgeous nautical map wallpaper to recover the wardrobe doors with! It's such a cosy room. I've been buying bed sets to make sure we always match!

Being in the master bedroom meant that we could set the small room back up as a spare bedroom (man cave, remember ;)) but we started noticing really bad damp. We had to have two extra drainage pipes installed outside and the entire room re-plastered (including the ceiling) to get rid of the damp. We had the bathroom done at the same time.

We're just waiting for the plaster to dry before we decorate. 

Here are some themes we love!

 As I mentioned, we also had the bathroom done.

 Again, this was before.

 We started with installing a new bathroom suite.

The walls were plastered. 

I then undercoated twice.

And then painted the walls in Apple White. 

Its quite a bluey white, which will look great when we've ordered the tiles to go with it!

We have a new radiator towel rail to be installed and the shower curtain is going up later

today. That only leaves the fun part....decor!

The living room was almost finished for a long time, but those blasted skirting boards needed attaching. Well, they finally are! The only thing to do now is replace the fireplace and surround.

I'll be sure to update again soon when the extra bits are done!

We're now saving up for a new kitchen but it's a big job - we need to knock the existing

kitchen into the dining room and have EVERYTHING done - floors, walls, tiles,  luckily we have appliances so we won't need them. 

Stay tuned!

xo