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Get on with it Challenge with Ronseal

Recently, Ronseal set us a ‘Get on with it Challenge’ to encourage us to get the job done before the summer comes! I am so glad that I did it last weekend as we have put it off for almost two years now as the fence panels were looking rather dilapidated!

ronseal the weekend project

Disney Princess Wall Mural from 1Wall

Ms C is a massive fan of Disney Princesses and owns a huge range of princess costumes and Disney figurines. Having seven Disney Princesses on her wall and being able to sleep next to them would definitely make for one very happy little princess!

Nuffnang partnering with British homeware brand 1Wall offered us an exclusive product review. The founders of 1Wall was bored with plain traditional wallpaper and they decided to set about creating original and elegant wallpaper murals to help you style any room of your home. They are based in Blackpool. The company has had amazing growth and now holds numerous product licences, including those for Where’s Wally, Moto GP, One Direction, DreamWorks and Manchester United. Thanks to them for this fantastic chance to review it.

Disney Princess Wall Mural review

DIY Magnetic Chalkboard

Last year, I was sent an oak mirror but unfortunately the mirror part was broken, so I had saved the frame for any future use. Last week, BOSCH had sent me the IXO screwdriver to do a creative post. I decided to turn the oak mirror frame into a children’s DIY magnetic chalkboard.

DIY Magnetic chalkboard

Tuesday Tutorials Week 25

A huge welcome to Week 25 of the Tuesday Tutorials Pintorials Pin Party! It is going to be a busy week for us as both my children have finished school for the summer holiday! Six weeks of having them at home! Hopefully, we can share some of our crafts with you soon.

This week I am featuring three different ways of painting.

3 different way of painting Tuesday Tutorials

Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh – Galt Toys

Last week, Galt Toys were looking to work with bloggers with young painters/artists aged between 5 and 12 years old to recreate Starry Night by Van Gogh.  We were delighted to get chosen to blog about this fantastic artwork!

Earlier this year, Galt asked famous contemporary artist Ed Chapman to recreate Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe portrait using Galt arts and crafts materials.  The result was stunning.  Now they launched its very own ‘Mini Masterpiece’ series – 6 templates from famous works of art that little ones can print and decorate themselves, to create their very own mini masterpieces!

Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh

Five tips of creating more light into our house

Have you thought of how to make use of your existing furniture or perhaps getting a new glass door fitted to get more sunlight into your house? It is always difficult if your house is not facing the right direction of the sun!
Buying the right house is not easy and there are often compromises, especially around the aspect of the property but you could swap around your furniture, get better lighting or change to a glass door to get more lighting in.
We bought our new build house 5 years ago off plan. It sounds a little crazy but yes, we had bought it blindly. Our living room rarely gets bright light shine into the room. So we bought a beautiful flower floor lamp to go with our room. The floor lamp was placed in the darkest corner of the room and we use it on those typical dull rainy days to illuminate that part of the room.
The dining room is also another dark room. It used to be get a lot more light but this is the room that backed out to the garden and we’ve since had a conservatory built so the dining room gets a lot less light now. So hopefully, we can replace our existing door to bi-folding doors to allow more light into the room. Besides light, having bi-folding doors also creates more open living space and will make the room more accessible and appear larger.

Home Improvement Unsung Hero Competition

This is a competition entry for Home Improvement Hero by MoneySupermarket.
I am not really a hero but more like an unsung mummy. I did most of the house redecoration like painting, wallpapering and fixing lights. Last week, I was trying to replace my bathroom light bulb and unfortunately I dropped the light cover and smashed it on the floor. While I was trying to catch the cover, I slipped and fell down the ladder. It was quite a bad fall that I cut my finger, grazed my arm and bruised the right side of my leg. We have now had to replace the light and so it has set back our financial. I wanted to spend more on a nice photo for my husbands office but now we have to make do with what we have left.

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Welcome to ET Speaks From Home. My name is Eileen, mother of two children aged 13 and 11 with visual impairment. We've been online since 2012 and continue to grow. I love to cook, craft, DIY, write about Chinese Culture and YouTube reviews.
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