If you've been reading this blog or following me on Instagram for a while now, you may know how I have a little thing with up-cycling things {whether it's crates as side tables or mounted on the wall, galvanised tubs for flowers, scaffold boards as shelves, tables and jewellery hooks or little jam jars or old marmalade jars for flower posies}, I hate seeing good things go to waste when they could be reused in a new, unique way. I also have a love for scented candles - Diptyque in particular. So, when I finish burning a candle, it seems a shame not to use the glass jar for other things. Hence some inspiration for their reuse. First up is a little how to guide and using them as bathroom storage jars. And later this afternoon, for flowers.

Following on from last week's beachcombing post, a short guide on framing sea coral today for a bathroom or anywhere in your house.

Welcome to the Makeover Monday series. After living in London for a couple of years, we decided to move back out to a village in Hertfordshire where we both grew up and where all of our family and friends are based. London was fun for a while but we craved more space, a garden and fresh air. It was also a bonus that the further outside of London you go the more you get for your money. We got a three bedroom house with a garden in our favourite village for less than the price of our one bedroom teeny tiny Maida Vale flat. We were thrilled to secure a victorian terrace after a scary time of submitting a sealed bid the day before we were going on holiday for two weeks. But in October 2012 we got the keys!! The house needed a fair bit of work. It was all perfectly habitable but we set about it as our project and loved gathering inspiration from Pinterest and magazines and then finding bits of furniture or our bath on ebay, driving half way around the country to pick up our bargain finds and doing them up for our new home. Ben did 90% of the work on the house, an incredible transformation. We got featured in Ideal Home magazine this June, which I will post about soon. But first up is the bathroom transformation -