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10 Reasons To Redecorate Your Home

When was the last time you looked around your home and decided it was time for a change? There are many people out there that go years between redecorating their homes, and if that’s you, you’re not alone. Your home is your castle and you should decorate according to your mood and personality. There are statistics out there that show that homeowners redecorate in every five years or so, so if you’re coming up to that time and you’re getting tired of the colours and patterns you have on the walls, you’re not alone.

10 Reasons To Redecorate Your Home

How To Give Your Home A Modern Look

Nowadays, there are a whole lot of different ways to decorate and style your home. We live in a time where everyone has a different taste in furniture and design. Some people opt for more minimalist lifestyles, while others go for a maximalist look. But regardless of your taste, everyone wants their home to look and feel as stylish as possible, and giving your home a modern touch can be a great way of accomplishing this. So here are three types for giving your home a modern look.

How To Give Your Home A Modern Look

12 Outstanding Ways to Make Your Home Cozier this Festive Season

Are you looking for ways to make your home more welcoming this festive season?

The festive season is a period of commemoration and joy, but it can also be stressful. It’s easy to get engulfed with all the preparations that need to be done before guests arrive. But don’t worry. There are some great tips on how you can decorate your entrance, add soft textures and textiles, keep your seating arrangement accessible, pick an attractive color, accentuate the fireplace, create an outdoor hangout spot, and so much more.

12 Outstanding Ways to Make Your Home Cozier this Festive Season

Paint By Numbers By Winnie’s Picks Review

Would you love to paint a masterpiece like an expert? Then you have to check out Winnie’s Picks Paint by Numbers kits. They have a great range of kits, from landscapes to flowers, and from the animal kingdom to being able to custom kit with your own photo! How great is that!

winnie's picks paint by numbers review and giveaway

Easy Upgrades that Add Value to Your Home

Day to day, few of us consider the value of our house. When we’re on the lookout for a new property, the cost is one of the first things that we consider. Aside from the very lucky few, we’ve got a budget to stick to after all, and there’s no point in wasting time, and getting excited about houses that you could never afford to buy. But, once you are in and settled, you don’t think about how the changes that you are making are affecting the value of your home. You don’t believe that this is something that you need to consider if you’ve got no intention of selling anytime soon.

Easy Upgrades that Add Value to Your Home

Make A Good First Impression With Your Hallway

The hallway is often the first room guests see when entering your home and yet most homeowners spend little time decorating it. Here are just several tricks for making your hallway stand out, helping you to create a good first impression.

Make A Good First Impression With Your Hallway

How to Maintain Your Decking

How to maintain your decking? Maintaining your decking annual is important to not only keep it looking appealing, but to also help to increase its lifespan. Ever since we had the decking installed five years ago at the end of our garden, it has become one of my annual summer projects!

how to maintain decking after

Baker Ross Father Day Gifts

Thanks to Baker Ross, we often receive great craft kits from them and this month, we have received a range of Father’s Day themed kits and summer themed craft kits.  We were provided wooden keyrings, wooden toolbox desk tidy kits, papier Mache farm animal pack, wood clay, giant bamboo leaves, lotus heads, powder paint fluorescent colours and scoubidou strings.

baker ross naturals crafts

Frozen Fairy Lights, Jewellery Box & Shaker Maker Review

This summer, we have not only been keeping ourselves busy on our feet, we have also had fun doing crafts together. We have received this range of Frozen theme crafts from Flair. They are: the fairy lights, jewellery box and shaker maker.

Frozen Cool Create Range Review

Pottery at Crackpotz Ceramic Café

A few weeks ago, we went along with the Aiming High group hosted by the Staffordshire County Council to a pottery painting class at the Crackpotz Ceramic Café. This was my children’s first time painting pottery and they were both very excited.

It was not far from our home and it didn’t take us long to reach there but having lived here for a while, I had not been to this small village in the countryside before. It was delightfully peaceful too!

After we arrived, both children were asked to choose the ceramic pottery they would like to decorate. Ms C went for cat while Mr K went for shark. Next they started painting it.

Pottery at Crackpotz Ceramic Café

Tuesday Tutorials 2015 Week 21

A huge welcome to Week 21  of the Tuesday Tutorials Pintorials Pin Party! This week sadly Kate from Craft on Sea will not be joining us to host this brilliant linky. So for now, it’s just us three bloggers, that is me, The Boy and Me and Hodge Podge Craft. This week I am featuring painting again.

tuesday tutorials week 21

Tuesday Tutorials 2015 Week 20

A huge welcome to Week 20 of the Tuesday Tutorials Pintorials Pin Party! This week I am featuring three different ways of painting. My daughter loves painting so much that sometimes I really run out of ideas! Thanks to the three lovely bloggers for sharing their own creations.

tuesday tutorials week 20

Spring / Summer Crafts

Crafts are always a great way to entertain a bunch of children especially during a party. We often find that whenever we have friends and their children over, our home quickly becomes a madhouse especially with our children as ringleaders. So by giving them something to do like group activities, it helps to ease the noise and mess in the house.

Baker Ross have recently sent me their new summer crafts collections which include the Sealife decoration Sewing Kits, Monster Scratch Art Magnets, Mermaid Weaving Bookmark Kits, Ceramic Gnomes, Coloured Sequins and many more.

Each kit is well packed and they are also great for party bags. They are very well priced and great value. The kits are easy to follow and make. They are always of good quality and come with full instructions.

Last week, we had a birthday party. The children started playing with the action figures and created a battlefield in the kitchen.  To clear them off, I gave each child a craft kit to do with their parents. They were all very pleased doing it.

The monster scratch art magnets were a big hit. They all love to scratch and made funny designs on their monsters.

mermaid book marker craft

Fish Mobile

This is a very easy craft that we made during the Easter holiday break. Both of my children love fishes and so we decided to make this fish mobile to hang it in our conservatory. We spent at least 20 minutes to colour all the fishes and took me around 10 minutes to thread them into this simple yet beautiful fish mobile.

fish mobile

Happy New Year 2015

I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a smashing New Year filled with lots of delightful surprises. May you all have an amazing New Year.

Last week, we have been spending family time at home doing a lot of arts and crafts. I hope this New Year I will be able to bring you more Chinese craft ideas and baking too!

Happy New Year 2015 Painting Poster

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