Decorating

Now that there's only a few days to go, I've been thinking about how I'm going to decorate my room at university.

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Fairy lights, bunting, colourful cushions, pretty postcards and paper, old familiar books that I've read hundreds of times and will read again. Basically I want to fill my bland rented student room with as much homely clutter as it can take!

What do you do to make places homely?

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Click on the stars below the pictures for sources. The last three are taken by me.

To Do list

I always have To Do lists on the go, but recently I have been inspired by things on blogs that I want to do in my spare time. So this is a nice, pretty to do list, rather than one filled with chores.

1. Make passionfruit cupcakes

seen on Beach Vintage

 2. Make colourful paper shapes to stick on my walls

Via Color Me Katie

3. Start a summer sketchbook and do more drawing

Picture via here

4. Get a haircut
All the lovely hairstyles on blogs make me want to change my hair. Fringe, no fringe, fringe, no fringe?
Below: Me last summer. My hair is much longer now!

What's on your To Do list?

xxxx

Inspiration: chalkboard paint

My lovely readers, I need your advice,

I know it's quite old now, but I still love the idea of painting a wall or part of a wall with chalkboard paint.

But seeing as I only have one room to decorate (my bedroom), I thought there was probably no way that I could use this idea, as I couldn't think of any place it could work in my bedroom. 

And then I noticed this little door 

 

Obviously I knew this was there, but this is probably the most "nothing" corner of my room because when my door is open, it gets hidden. And that little door has always creeped me out since I was a child as I have never been able to open it and see where it leads to! (It's probably something really boring).

But I'm thinking of painting it with chalkboard paint (we've got some leftover from my little brother's room).

What do you think?

I'm hoping it would make this dull part of my room more interesting.

(sorry about all the clutter! My room seriously needs a tidy!)

Here are some inspirational chalkboard paint ideas to get you in the mood!

Let me know what you think!

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last four pictures:

1, 2, 3, 4

Interior moodboards

Orange and white home office moodboard

I don't know if you saw the post on Decor8 or not, but yesterday Holly mentioned a website called Olioboard , where you can create your own moodboards for interiors, or just look at other peoples.
I'm addicted.

I'm not very good at creating moodboards (there are some seriously beautiful ones on there!) but it's fun playing around with the images anyway. Though you can't always find exactly what you want.
Here are a few that I have created yesterday and today. They don't actually take too long to make and it's very simple! (My moodboards are not made for any reason, just for fun).

Colourful kid's room

Monochrome and green living room

Duck egg blue and red kitchen/ diner

Sorry they're quite small - the images aren't very good quality!

Here is my profile if you want to add me.

If you decide to make any then give me a link because I'd love to see them!

I received two lovely emails today, bringing possible exciting prospects to my little patch of the blogworld so stay tuned! :)

Lots of love xx

Done and dusted

Today I finally finished putting up my exhibition. Yahoo! It took so much longer than I expected to get everything perfect. I now have a whole week off while they mark the work (AH) and then it's the private view next week before the exhibition begins.

My bedroom is an absolute tip at the moment. Covered in art materials. I don't think there's one bit of free floor space. I think I'm most creative in the summer, simply because I have loads of time, no work and so can create things for myself, not to be marked and examined. So I'm planning to make some changes in my bedroom. I totally repainted it last summer but this year I'm just going to re-organise and freshen everything up! I've been looking for inspiration on the internet.

I want to put flowers everywhere. My mum (literally!) dug up some old glass bottles when she was younger and they're beautiful. I want to fill them with flowers from the garden.

This is a similar colour to one of my walls. I love the simple framed picture and garland.

I bought a bunting screenprint from Kitty Clark in February and it's still in its tube. I need to frame it in a simple frame like this!

Now that I can use a sewing machine I hope to be able to make more things in the future, like cushions. Except for the small fact that I don't have a sewing machine. Hmm I need to work on that one.

I've taken down most of the scraps on my walls. They were pretty but I want everything to be simpler and fresher. Do you get that in summer too? That you just need to change everything around and chuck a load of stuff out? 

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sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Flowers and Colour

Hey lovelies! I hope you had a fantastic weekend.

I haven't done an interior post for a while, and as it's so beautiful and hot outside, all these colourful and floral images keep jumping out at me!

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I love the floral thermos in the first picture, all the flowers, the deer antlers, I'm craving cupcakes (our oven is broken!) and that KEEP CALM AND SNAP ON poster is going on my wishlist right now!

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{CLICK ON THE MINI STARS BENEATH EACH PICTURE FOR SOURCES}

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Hey loves.

Just a quick hello as it's my last day tomorrow and I'm so busy with trying to finish everything! I have another week to do stuff at home, but as I don't have printing facilities or a modern sewing machine at home, I'm trying to finish everything at college! Hence I can't do a proper blog post today :(

I went to a haberdashery near Oxford Circus this morning to pick up a few things, and I nipped into the flagship Topshop store to have a look at their new make up range. I came out having spent £40 on clothes and make up. Oh dear. So I'll try and photograph my new finds and post them up here at some point!

On a random note - isn't this kitchen perfection?

Glossy yellow chairs

Black and white diamond floor

White cabinets and walls

Light

Flowers everywhere

That beautiful cupcake print

I love it!

xxx

picture from here

Nursery jealousy

Somehow I've managed to become jealous of this beautiful nursery when I don't even have any kids.

It's my favourite chair, that beautiful bunting cushion, those lovely globes and all that colour that makes me go WOW.

I can't wait to have children (for more than just this reason! Don't worry, I'm not that shallow!) But I do find myself loving things all the time that would only look good in a kid's room.

The pictures are from one of my new favourite blogs: armelle.

Here are some pictures from her studio as well:

Stained aqua concrete floors and butterfly wallpaper? Bliss!

Anyway, I'm off to yoga now! I might do a creative space tonight... I haven't decided yet. Although I've been more creative than ever these last couple of weeks with my final major project, I'm always reluctant to post up my college work. I don't know why! I don't find it as interesting to share as the projects I make up for myself. And all I've done is drawings over the last few weeks. Not so exciting? But we'll see!

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Summery photos

Summer suddenly feels not so far away. It's kind of ridiculous how from March to July, I look forward to summer constantly, and from September to December I look forward to Christmas. It's like I need an aim to keep me going! Does anyone else feel the same?!
I'm off to Spain and France with my family this year, and maybe a smaller holiday with my friends later on. We never really go away at Christmas/ Easter or half terms - it's one holiday a year so it's all the more special!
I'm so excited. I can't wait to go snorkelling in a warm sea, wear summer dresses and short shorts, eat strawberries and cherries and drink Pimms, go on picnics and open my bedroom windows wide to let the sun in. I can't wait until it's light until 9pm and the air smells of other people's barbeques.
These gorgeous photos caught my eye on tumblr and I thought I'd share them with you to make you happy too.

xxxx