Blog envy

We Had some friend around the other night and the topic turned to the craft stores that you get in the States. Places like Hobby Lobby and the Dollar store or even Walmart

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These stores have shelves and shelves of craft/decor supplies that look a little something like this 

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For prices that are hard to beat!

Now I know I shouldn't be comparing but its a little frustrating to know these places exist and to not have access to them . Namibia is far from backwards but variety is not at a premium here which means two things:

1) you usually can't find what you're looking for !!

2) when you can find stuff you want its usually expensive cos one shop has the monopoly in bring things in

SIGH....

when I read about what's available elsewhere its hard not to get a little blog envy

Is it to much to ask to be able to find some amazing fabric like this:

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or have a thrift store that sells furniture for super cheap nearby so I could do projects like this:

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or this

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Or even find something as mundane as curtain clips:

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Apparently they aren't available here... But until they are I will keep on dreaming :)

Printable and idea's resources

In my blogger 'travels' I come across so many fabulous ideas! I haven't given into the appeal of Pinterest yet cos I know I'll get hooked and I really don't have the time for another 'addiction' ;) today I thought I would share some of the wonderful sights I've bookmarked and come back to often:)

One Pretty thing shares ideas from all over the web. They Do daily D.I.Y's as well as topic specific crafts for Holidays or skills (e.g. Knitting/crochet or card making)

Aimee Over at Sprik Space has wonderful printables and patterns that can be adapted for any project you could imagine. She share's many of her graphics for free

like this one

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Hostess with the Mostess is a fantastic party planning resource! They have printables for just about any occasion as well as AMAZING inspiration and photo's that will make you drool. Definitely worth a look!

 

and last but certainly not least I share Printables has got a comprehensive list of anything you might need to print,be it calender's ,labels, home décor, note cards or scrapbook paper.

this is obviously not an exhaustive list but these are sites I use on a regular basis :)

Enjoy

Happy days

With Much excitement I found out that my awesome Blogger Sister, Tiki over at Ribbons Lace and Inspiration gave me a Liebster award!!


So, what is a Liebster Award? The whole idea behind the award is to bring attention to bloggers with 200 followers or less.  The rules are simple. If you are selected,  1. Choose FIVE up and coming blogs to pass this award on to. They must have less than 200 followers 2. Show a big thanks to the blogger who gave you the award by linking back to them. 3. Post the award on your blog. List the bloggers you are giving the award to with links to their sites.

so without further ado the blogs I'll be passing on to are:

1: Sarah at Home, Sweet... who has some great practical projects :)

2:Tamlyn over at Jade and Jasmine for some Wedding inspiration

3: Nabukenya at the Petite Coach for some motivational inspiration

4: Jacky From as the voices speak for her wonderful stories and Fantastic photo's

5:Sarah at Life on Walnut street for wonderful tutorials and ideas

Check them out ! They're awesome!

Bathroom Musings

As I mentioned here we did a bit of home improvement over the December holiday's. We have two Small Bathrooms in our house. One is basically just a toilet, sink and shower which is the "Master bath" and our "guest Bathroom" has a bath , toilet and sink/storage cabinet. As we live in a complex our 'guest Bath is on the inside of the house meaning it has no windows (well there is one but it opens into a service channel). It's dark in there, so dark that if you close the door you can't see your hand in front of your face.
it looks like this

(Excuse the toilet paper , just keeping it real )

Its very Basic. Probably looks the same as it did when the complex was built 17 years ago (with the exception if the shower rail which we added). As its such a small space I thought this was the one room in the house that I can afford to go a little "Themey" with. I'm sure you can see by the little lighthouse statue that the idea is Nautical.

to do this I started with the 'Art'. Our budget for this is N$ 0! when we first moved in I took some frames I had left from varsity, spray painted them black and added some bathroom printables I found online:

You can see them in the top left of the picture. They're not bad but don't really go with the nautical idea I have. So I googled around to find some 'beachy art' and found some lighthouse picture I liked which I softened a bit in photo-scape to give a more watercolour feel.

(sorry for the flash. Like I said the lighting in there is Shocking!

Its an improvement but still not exactly right.I need to redo the frames cos the black paint is starting to crack and its a bit to harsh for my taste in there. I'd Love to Paint some Stripes on the wall but can't decide whether I want to do it on all four walls or just one one. something like this:

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Not 100% sure I can convince the Hubby that it'll look good though. The plan is to get some Navy Blue and Red towels, swap out the horrible shower curtain for another more nautical inspired on (maybe white?), hang up the cute anchor/whale/ship towel hooks I got ( maybe behind the door) , if I can convince hubby paint some stripes, and get some shells/other beachy elements to decorate the space.

here are some of the other small nautical things we collected so far

my Mom got this for us in Swakopmund! Too cute:)

the lighthouse that started it all :)

Any ideas/ feedback would be appreciated!

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