• Family Life - moving

    Should You Move the Family Home in Winter?

    November 28, 2024 - By 

    Relocating your family home is a stressful time for all, whatever the season, yet Winter is typically the time most people avoid moving. This is for several reasons, not least of which being the looming prospect of holidays and the New Year. And yet, it can also provide some unique opportunities for you and your family. In this article, we’ll help you decide if you should consider moving during the Winter. Decide If You Really Need To Move The first step is to decide if you really do need to move. What are your reasons for uprooting your safe haven…

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    Would you sell your home online?

    January 10, 2016 - By 

    I can’t believe we’ve been in our present home for a good couple of years now. I think the start of a New Year has made us finally sit down and talk about home improvements. This year we will be concentrating on the downstairs and I can’t wait to choose some colour schemes and get painting. I’m sure I can’t be the only person who found selling and buying property more stressful than getting married or having babies! Unfortunately it’s always going to be expensive and time consuming. As well as buying property there are all the associated fees including…

  • moving - shopping - vintage

    Trying to resist buying more furniture!

    December 9, 2013 - By 

    We’re a bit spoilt for shops selling furniture where we live. Our new house is bigger than the old one so when we moved we needed more furniture. Sitting in my lounge and writing this, almost everything I can see is new, and we definitely didn’t budget for it all in our moving costs! We shopped around, and looked online too, and found everything we needed. It should out last us too, unless wooden furniture goes horribly out of fashion! Anyway, as all the large pieces of furniture have been bought and paid for, I’ve started to buy smaller pieces….…

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    Removeable wall stickers from Bloobry

    December 5, 2013 - By 

    As you know we moved house 8 months ago and we’re in the process of decorating every room. We’ve already finished the little man’s room, next up will be his sister’s. It was already pink so just needs a freshen up and some vintage pieces of furniture need stripping and repainting. We were offered some decorative wall stickers from Bloobry to try and looking through their designs I knew right away which ones would be perfect for Little Sis. She just loves pink so how could I resist a sheet of 52 butterflies, in seven different sizes, ranging from 2cm…

  • London - moving

    White walls

    July 5, 2013 - By 

    One of the only things we haven’t yet unpacked is our pictures. Our walls are pretty bare but we both think it’s so important to get right that we’re not in a hurry. I’m the first to admit I’m not very artistic. I didn’t enjoy my Art lessons at school, in fact, I actively tried to get out of them each week by having Cello lessons! Luckily for me I’ve improved since then and my husband has a really good eye too. Our new house is lovely and light but also bigger so we’re looking at investing in some new…

  • crafts - Day Zero - driving - Etsy - moving - weight

    My Day Zero challenge is over

    June 16, 2013 - By 

    I’m actually quite pleased to say that the Day Zero challenge I started on the 19 September 2010 has finished. It seems a long time ago but my 1001 days are over. I haven’t quite completed my list but it’s 87% finished, which is good enough. Time to start something new for me. This year has been busy with the house move and adjusting to our new life in suburbia. At the beginning of the year I said I wanted to slow down on the blogging front. It’s taken over my life and not in a good way. I appreciate…

  • homestyle - interiors - moving - vintage

    A little room for improvement

    June 2, 2013 - By 

    I love a challenge and was excited to be asked to take part in the latest one from MoneySupermarket.com, to improve a room of my choice within my home. As you all know we only moved into our new house last month so it was pretty difficult to decide which room to improve. I settled on Little Sis’s room as she moved into her own bedroom when we moved house. Considering she had shared with us from the day she was born, the transition to her own room went completely unnoticed by her. I miss her little sniffles and snores…

  • Dunelm Mill Blogger - housekeeping - moving

    It’s time for a Spring clean!

    May 19, 2013 - By 

    As part of my role as a Dunelm Mill blogger I’m occasionally asked to review some of their lovely products for the home. They recently contacted me about reviewing one of their latest products, the Click ’n’ Clean cleaning system. The Click ’n’ Clean is a revolutionary new cleaning system where you select your handle which you can mix and match with a cleaning head depending on your cleaning needs. Not only is it the time of year to give your house a Spring clean but, as you know, we’ve recently moved house so our house needs a complete clean.…

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    Keeping the mess in

    May 2, 2013 - By 

    So far we’ve only discovered one problem with our lovely new house. The previous occupants took all the blinds with them when they moved. They were perfectly entitled to do this but it has left us feeling a little ‘exposed’ to our neighbours, especially in the evenings. Today we ventured to the local high street. We did some shopping (top of the toddlers list was ‘bubbles’) and stopped for a cup of tea in the strangest coffee shop-inside-a-department-store you’ll ever see inside the M25. I was allowed a very quick look around a charity shop which was curtailed by the…