A WHILE ago I wrote some posts about our IKEA kitchen makeover – the before pics, and progress half way through. It’s taken a while, but I’m finally ready to share the final result! Ok, there are a couple of little bits to finish off, but if I wait for all the tiny things to Read More
Since November I’ve talked A LOT about having an Ikea kitchen makeover, and now the end is finally in sight. We’ve converted our dining room into a kitchen/diner and turned our tiny old kitchen into a utility room. After nearly three months we now have a functioning kitchen with just a few bits to finish Read More
YOU might have noticed that I’ve mentioned having work done on our kitchen once or twice (okay a lot of times) over the past few months. Well in December we did something very exciting and finally signed for our Ikea kitchen! This was on our five-year plan when we bought our home, and as we Read More
WHEN I start a project I can get a bit carried away (ok, obsessed), and the latest thing to take over my life is the new nursery. Stew laughed at me a couple of weeks ago when I said I couldn’t sleep because I was trying to plan the room. I can’t help it. I Read More
When you’re expecting, along with antenatal appointments, scans and childbirth classes on top of your usual work and home routine, you somehow have to fit in an awful lot of baby preparation – and I mean A LOT. Shopping and planning can of course be lots of fun, as long as you don’t leave it Read More
I’VE finally given in. After months of determined “we don’t need a playroom” arguments, we have a playroom. We didn’t really need one, we had a perfectly good toy corner (you know the sort, don’t go near the teetering tower of stuff if you value your life), then Christmas came along and it became impossible to walk Read More
NOT knowing if we were having a boy or girl, decorating a nursery was impossible until Santi was born. I didn’t want to go for a generic theme just for the sake of having the room ready, and the baby would be in with us for the first few months anyway so we waited. We’d painted Read More
IF you’re anything like me, you take way too many photos. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve run out of memory on my phone since Santi was born … The little thing is just too photogenic! This year I decided to take a photo a day (since day two they’ve pretty much Read More
BEFORE you have children, you might naively think becoming a parent won’t change you or your life. Your house will still be so clean and tidy (because you have all that time off work to keep it in order) that guests won’t even be able to tell there’s a baby there. Of course you won’t Read More