Ella would like to invite you all, to take a little peak at her...

Magical Princess Bedroom

I thought it was about time that I actually showed you pictures of Ella's Bedroom. We redecorated it last year, changing it from a nursery to a little girls room.

Every space is used, even behind the door!

The room is a rather awkward shape which is dominated by our huge fitted wardrobes (you may of read it an earlier post that I bought them when I was pregnant, silly me). Thin and tall... limited light and high ceilings.

I had a fantastic time designing the room, ensuring that every space served a purpose yet was appealing to the eye. I still remember Jeremy's face when I showed him the drawings of what I wanted to do with the room. A look of horror at the grand scale of work I had planned for him... I have the creative vision he has the creative talent.

We even made the corona so that I could drape curtains around her bed.

One of my jobs was to make the curtains and the lamp shade.

After not finding a shelf that was suitable I decided to design this one... I even drew the plans out free hand, Jeremy was impressed by that bit hehe. I'm planning to have another one made for the bathroom too. Plus a little bedside table with a shelf for her favourite books.

I designed the bookshelf (pictured below) to maximise the use of wall space. We needed to create lots of storage for all the special little things we had collected when she was a baby, plus all the new things she was getting... hence perfect space for dolls house and her little books.

The storage boxes are perfect for storing her toys. Push along dog has his pride of place.. he is a perfect seat when siting and playing with said dolls house.

Vintage pram and crib in the background, yet another fantastic find from a car boot.

This was my latest revamp... one wooden cooker + 4 hours with a few tins of F & B (Farrow and Ball) paint = pretty pink cooker, much more desirable. It was even met with a squeal of excitement from Ella :)

We just love playing in her bedroom, which was happening whilst taking the pictures... hence things moving from one space to another.

I adore these pictures, they provided great inspiration for Ella's room. Yet another vintage find with a little help from F & B.

The funny thing is that her room was finished last year, yet I have never got around to taking pictures. It made me realise how fantastic blogging is for encouraging you to capture the moment. I'm planning to show you lots more pictures as we continue to decorate the house. Hopefully the sun will be shinning on those days :)

I hope you enjoyed Ella's little tour, she will be very impressed to see her room on the computer!

Bye for now

xFaye and Ella

P.S. The magical part is how the room always manages to stay rather tidy... plus a fairy sneaks in every night to set up a different activity to play with in the morning :)

Easter + Snow = Fun!

Well not the Easter we were expecting but great fun anyway.

It started with a fantastic Easter egg hunt at Rufford park, where it was rather bleak to say the least, but after a few hours running around with the kids in the new play area then lunch in the Cafe we were all warm and excitedly running around while it was trying to snow (I revert to a child when it snows I'm afraid), with my toe on the mend (make that strapped up), we were sure the icy cold weather would not stop us all from having fun. My great friend Linda is just like me so we all had a fantastic time running around playing tig with the kids... ah the excitement every time it tried to snow :)(only had phone camera and the pictures were rather blurred to say the least).

When we awoke on Sunday, I sleepily thought that it was a sunny day which would equate to my eagerly awaited car boot. But it just wasn't meant to be. When I looked out the window I was strangely rather shocked to see snow on the ground with yet more still falling. By the time we managed to get out (half an hour) the show had turned to rain and any snow that was on the ground was fast disappearing. As Ella has hardly see snow let alone had chance to get out and play with it, we made the most of what we could find... I was amazed at how much we managed to rescue from the car he he, and look we still made our own little snow man. We did however go straight up to my mums house where there is always more snow. Jeremy was rather shocked to see the fields full of snow ready for fun, after a huge snowman... made by Jeremy, a couple of snow Angles from Ella and lots of running around the field we went for a lovely walk. It is amazing how when something is rare you really do appreciate and enjoy it. By tea time there was no evidence that we had had any snow at all (all the pictures were taken on my old camera as the battery had run out on the digital one...typical).

So as a result of our snow crazed expeditions lots of yummy choc was eaten and cuddles on the sofa. Sadly no new treasures were found only memories of a great Easter which I feel were a thousand times better. My aim for this year was to get out more and have more fun, and so far I am doing really well on that front :)

I hope your Easter was just as fun filled!

xFaye

Happy Easter

Hi everyone, just a short post to say hello and thank you for all your lovely messages. I have loads to show you but need to take pictures first.

Business is hectic as usual oh and I have dislocated my little toe... not a nice thing, toes just shouldn't bend that way. I will spare you the details but will just add... an adult chasing kids around a soft play land is never a good thing especially when you cant wear your shoes, equating to yet more rest and time from the gym :(

Hope you will all have a lovely Easter break... we have lots of fun planned. Fingers crossed that the weather is lovely and I'm keeping my fingers double crossed that our local car boot will be starting up again this weekend.

xFaye

Well what can I say, two posts in one month is not good. I had started the year so well and really enjoyed blogging regularly but with one thing and another this month has just flown by. Here is a little run down of where my time has gone.

• Work, joining http://www.notonthehighstreet/ has taken up most of my time, oh and the lovely new addition of a mountain of stock that then needs to be photographed with my swish new SLR camera, wow it is amazing to use, hence me taking hundreds of photos compared to my usual few. I love photography, a passion I discovered when I started up the website. But this did then equate to three times the amount of editing. Then all that needs to be added to the website etc... a job I have yet to get round to finishing. Oh and there is even more stock arriving which will need to go through the long process. Fingers crossed for some lovely sunshine but at the moment that doesn't look very likely (rain and dull grey clouds here).

• Having fun. It was my birthday the other week so a great excuse for meals out with friends and family. Not to mention fun days out with Ella at half term.

• Gardening, not much but enough to keep me happy, lots of prep for the year ahead. We will be planting our seeds tomorrow ( Ella and me that is), we have decided that we are going to grow our own veg and salad things this summer. Only a small amount of space but that wont stop us. Vine tomatoes, lettuce, peppers, carrots, spring onions oh and Ella's favourite runner beans.

• Being ill, oh how I hate it, especially when I have a huge to do list.

• Making lots of things for orders through the website.

• A house that never stays tidy no matter how much I try.

• The gym... the one place I can completely switch off and relax mentally. I gain so many benefits from going so was rather down when my back was playing up. Fingers crossed it has been ok recently.

When you write it down like that there really isn't very much, but boy do they all take time up.

Ella is asking for a drink... for the tenth time that is, so I really better get off and sort one out. Bye for now...

xFaye

Happy

Valentine's

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Look what my gorgeous man made for me... heart shaped toast and a yummy hot chocolate. Plus my favourite chocolates and flowers.. thank you Jeremy it's these little things you do that make me love you so much x x x

Sadly we are all ill at our house with a terrible cold, typical when the house is filled with lots of new stock and a huge to do list for the business, as always things never go to plan but at least we can all snuggle up on the sofa, relax and eat some delicious chocolates :)

x x x With love to you all x x x

xFaye

Ouch!!!

I'm currently suffering from a bad back... I think I may of pulled a band of muscles in my lower back on Wednesday and unfortunately it just isn't doing very well. One positive outcome of this is that we have now been and bought a lovely new mattress (our current one is seriously bad and we have been on about getting one for ages). So fingers crossed I will be back to normal and feeling fit again by my next post.

xFaye

Yeah the sun was shinning

We knew it was going to be a lovely day as soon as we woke up, and other than feeling a little cold we all had a lovely time.

One of the fun things at Rufford park is the forge you have to go through to get to one of the entrances.... Well when we saw the ROAD CLOSED sign we were not put off and went around the long way. Normally when we go to Rufford park with our friends, one of the fun things to do in summer is to drive through the forge and splash the water as high as possible.. much to the delight of the children watching, its like a family attraction. Well that day the road was well and truly out of action and oh oh boy was I glad we went the long way around. It was completely flooded see pictures below, needles to say no one was waiting to be splashed but we did have a giggle when some one drove at full speed to go through the forge as usual, only to then notice the road was now a river... well they soon decided to stop as we all looked on in horror.

The river in the distance is where the road should be.





Ella loved feeding the ducks and felt very sorry for the swans, ducks and geese that were further around the lake, so next time we will take a full bread loaf and remember to keep some for them.





After a yummy lunch we walked back through the woods... going on a bear hunt, Ella completely loved this and was convinced we would find one. Jeremy just didn't know what I was on about but we had a great laugh, needles to say we didn't find one. (see this link if you are unsure of the book..http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_w_h_?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=going+on+a+bear+hunt )

We also found lots of signs of spring plus plenty of wildlife who have been enjoying the treats left by visitors.

I have never seen a squirrel so big, he knows where the best spot to feed is.

I have nearly finished my little project so will include pictures on the next post (mental note... order bag handles). Thank you again for all your help on the fabric front I have even more projects in mind. And now that the frantic Christmas rush is over I have some free time to make some of the things planned.



xFaye