I love wall stickers, my favourite ones are word phrases, check out this one newly installed in my kitchen. If you like this sort of thing then I have a treat for you, you can get 10% off your order. All you have to do is click here choose your wall sticker, then give the very lovely and super efficient people at deluxe wall stickers a call on 0121 3733047 mention the Karen Barclay blog and place your order (please do not place it on ebay the offer only stands if you ring them) They are open monday-friday 8.30am to 4.30pm. Do you remember my other wall sticker? Our new baby! I feel a cake coming on or a scrummy loaf of sour dough bread!
A Method of cleaning.
Have a great long weekend.
Christchurch Dorset
Choosing a paint.
When you decorate do you find choosing a paint colour and a make of paint hard work? For years now I have only used certain paints, I prefer the ones that use natural ingredients such as chalk, lime putty and china clay, this normally is associated with using high quality pigments and resins which gives greater depth and purity to the paint.
Summer arrived in my garden whilst I was away!
Finishing touches to the conservatory.
This years Chelsea in Bloom shop fronts.
The conservatory is back to green.
Chelsea in Bloom
Green, Blue what do you think?
Spooky and a bit of a rant.
The pictures have a home.
Do you remember my blog some time ago about some cards I had collected, well they have finally found their new home. First of all I showed you the old cloakroom then I showed you it about a third finished and now here it is completely finished. I struggled taking pictures in such a small room and am not entirely happy with the finished pictures, however you can't start something and not finish it so here it is.
Farewell Winchester
I blame the rain!
This was how my day started, at work by 6.30am finish by 12.30, then gardening was on the agenda. I am so far behind with gardening due to the rain. Yesterday, as you can see from my previous blog, was like summer so to be hurled straight back into a damp dull day is not funny, still nothing you can
Summer was here briefly today!
What to dress a cloakroom window with?
Take two H&M Linen table runners and sew curtain tape to the long length of one for the valence, screw a batten of wood above the window and pin the table runner with no curtain tape on it to the batten, then pin the valance over the top of that, tie back the curtain with a slate heart and some string. Add a few of your favourite things to the windowsill and there its all dressed. EASY!
Lovely use of corrugated metal sheets.
Did I mention?
Did I mention that it has to get worse before it gets better? The continuous story of the cloakroom.