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After all the stresses of putting our home on the market, the constant cleaning and strangers wandering around our living room, I decided we needed a break!</div>
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We found a great deal for a weekend away at The Pig In The Wall in Southampton, complete with half a spa day at Lime Wood and lunch at Angela Hartnets! </div>
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The interior is well thought out and finished to the highest standard, you can tell somebody really put a lot of thought into every aspect of the hotel.<br />
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It has to be my most favourite up-cycled vintage piece ever!</div>
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I just wanted to share with you a few pics of my living room.</div>
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The walls are painted in <a class="g-profile" href="https://plus.google.com/118219815910903706153" target="_blank">+Farrow & Ball</a> Blackened which is a lovely pale white/grey with a hint of blue, Ive found it's the perfect backdrop for my favourite colour combinations - mint, blue and a touch of pink.</div>
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I love to style my home with handmade and vintage pieces.</div>
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The lamp shown above was given to me by a friend to have and up-cycle, I know, I have the best friends! I painted its black base in white and made a new shade for the frame using <a class="g-profile" href="https://plus.google.com/117981297818275592334" target="_blank">+Kate Forman</a> Amy fabric which I love!</div>
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The old mirror belonged to my hubby and was a bit drab and brown so I did a tester pot make-over (my favourite kind of make-overs) and painted it in Farrow and Ball mizzle which is one of my go to paints from the range, I flipping love it!</div>
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The wall sconces came from a flea market and were a bargain! I think they only set me back £13.00</div>
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As a flower grower, my most favourite way to add colour to the home has to be with beautiful home grown blooms, check out my dahlia! It's called Avignon and is the size of a dinner plate!</div>
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My vintage bureau was given to me by my parents and the lamp by my brother, both have been painted in mizzle, I added a bit more colour with a spotty <a class="g-profile" href="https://plus.google.com/112987692285972036222" target="_blank">+Laura Ashley</a> jug and a small pink jug that sits on a stack of vintage books of varying shades of blue.</div>
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My little zinc tray was a christmas pressie last year from my hubby.</div>
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And finally, I painted this old plant stand in white and just popped a little pot of violas on top to brighten up this corner. I love how simple the effect is.</div>
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Now I should never of bought the silk pleated one as it's a size 8 (more like a 6) and I'm a size 10 (a generous size 10.... Ok sometimes a 12, what can I say... I love pasta and wine!). But it was just oh so beautiful and I love it! For about two years i've been thinking I'll maybe loose weight and fit in it... But have since decided that that probably isn't going to happen now, but I'm desperate to wear this skirt to some festive parties THIS YEAR.</div>
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So today I decided to make it fit!</div>
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I very tediously unpicked the cream skirt from its elastic waist band (man I love elastic), and then chopped about 8" off the top of the pleated one as I'm so short (5ft).</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #3d596d; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 24px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnZ3eAl70UxLUqccIymbEJZCUUx7luBK4S7wUHMhQKj43zlU-LqmeCBPA3duOb8Bb1IcMzOqZNP6hBKT_sK2GHg6UoS0wZPE_auaCQX55tibJmF8SzwtF6muomfFn8Xs1MZff8ystYVwBv/s640/blogger-image-2090377603.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnZ3eAl70UxLUqccIymbEJZCUUx7luBK4S7wUHMhQKj43zlU-LqmeCBPA3duOb8Bb1IcMzOqZNP6hBKT_sK2GHg6UoS0wZPE_auaCQX55tibJmF8SzwtF6muomfFn8Xs1MZff8ystYVwBv/s640/blogger-image-2090377603.jpg"></a></div><br></div>
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Then very slowly and I mean slow! All those pleats = headache! I machine stitched the band to the new waist of my skirt, pulling the elastic as much as I could whilst tucking all the pleats in.</div>
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It fits! I'm well chuffed.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #3d596d; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 24px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCffr9GawG4vt3wSPAG33ZE-ZCaOVTDbM2IBER9h9xhHOqgHo4j5DVlqBUNzv0Yuf5ZrXoG42ev8ifREkM8rOzV7J19JcxVu2ANSaH7Pz6Wr_qaS8ZiWsPQSuVBmDMkjTKNfRlJMPRBh3Y/s640/blogger-image-2070749999.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCffr9GawG4vt3wSPAG33ZE-ZCaOVTDbM2IBER9h9xhHOqgHo4j5DVlqBUNzv0Yuf5ZrXoG42ev8ifREkM8rOzV7J19JcxVu2ANSaH7Pz6Wr_qaS8ZiWsPQSuVBmDMkjTKNfRlJMPRBh3Y/s640/blogger-image-2070749999.jpg"></a></div><br></div>
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I think both skirts set me back about £6.00 each, and the material of the cream one won't go to waste although I'm not sure what I will make with it yet.</div>
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Well who knew... perfect ripped jeans! And I mean perfect. Plus a bargain at only £18.00!</div>
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My eldest and most demanding teen actually swooned 'Oh my god mum they are brilliant! Can I pinch them?'</div>
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Her: so!</div>
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Now that is what I call approval!</div>
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So I thought I'd start my first post with a little bit about me... </div>
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I don't like to do selfies.... I'm so going to have to get over that one!</div>
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I've started this little blog & IG to share my experience of shopping, dressing and how i can fit in looking half decent whilst having a messy job (I'm a flower grower), walking the dog and looking after my family.</div>
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I'm 38 now and have just started to care about how I look when I leave the house for the first time in a long time. I was 23 when I last gave a monkeys about fashion, and I was pregnant, had my own business to run and house to keep. When my first darling girl came along I stopped thinking about how I looked, don't get me wrong I haven't been a slob for the past however many years although I didn't brush my hair much.</div>
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I have the capsule wardrobe thing going on, not because it's trendy, just because I don't like shopping and I just enjoy living in jeans.</div>
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So I've emptied my wardrobe of moth eaten clothes from the 90s, ok maybe not the 90s but close. I was going to share a picture but it's just too darn right embarrassing.</div>
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I'm looking forward to keeping you posted with how I get on. At the minute I'm sitting in my mini outside Topshop, I will pluck up the courage to go in in a bit, honest.</div>
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