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DIY - Creating a Vintage Mirror Wall

DIY
I've had a bit of a thing for vintage, frame-less mirrors for a while now. Pinterest probably started it off and a few years back, in our old house, we started to collect them from boot-sales {one cost me just £2!!} and antique/junk shops local to us. There are new copies of older mirrors appearing in shops which look pretty good if you...

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Makeover - Turning a chest of drawers into a bathroom sink unit.

bathroom
One of the most requested blog posts I get asked to write is about our sink unit. It's something we discovered with our old bathroom {remember it, post here?} when we bought an oak style console table from eBay that we then converted into a double sink unit for a fraction of the price you'd pay for a purpose built sink unit and...

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Travel - The Ile de Re, France {part 2}

TravelTuesday
The second part of our trip to dreamy Ile de Re in France {part 1 here with all the travel details}. p.s. now that all the travel blogging's over for a bit, I'll be starting the house posts again next! ...

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Travel - The Ile de Re, France {part 1}

TravelTuesday
Oh, the Ile de Re. Where do I begin? Last week Ben and I had the dreamiest five nights away. Last summer, I'd seen photos of gorgeous French seaside towns filled with old shutters and hollyhocks with beautiful beaches. It looked so pretty and just up our street so I started researching it, deciding that we'd have to visit for ourselves. Fast forward...

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Bonjour! {back properly soon..}

Musings
Bonjour! If you've followed my photos on Instagram you'll have seen that we've just got back from a little trip to France. ...

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Travel - Hawaii

TravelTuesday
Part 2 of the Cali/Hawaii travelogue. From San Diego we flew to Maui. It's the perfect tropical add on to the West coast of America although it's still a 5 hour flight across the ocean. You're basically in the middle of the sea - practically Australia -, almost as far west you can go before you cross the international date line. We'd been...

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Travel - La Jolla, California

California
We got back from California and Hawaii last weekend. My family, Ben and I love America so decided to go on another road-trip {remember this one?} in California. Ben and I stayed in La Jolla on a work trip last February {see this post} and loved the area so much - I declared I wanted to live there - that we decided to...

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Happy Weekend #27

Musings
Hello to the weekend! Shamefully the last time I wrote one of these Friday posts was on week #11, the day that we exchanged on the house. It's now #27!! I've got out of the routine of writing these weekend updates and posting regular photos, with all the chaos of the house renovations and with some travel thrown in, Friday's haven't really felt...

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Happy 2 Years to us ♥

Wedding
Can somebody please tell me where the last two years have gone to? Time really does fly when you're having fun. Yesterday we celebrated {albeit a bit jet lagged} our second wedding anniversary and I'm shocked at just how long ago it feels already. Last year on our first anniversary I shared my favourite parts of our wedding day here, and talked about...

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