Pastel dreams

As many that know me personally probably know, myself and Bicky have been (very slowly) decorating the house. I obviously have very little time awake (har), and my beloved hasn't much free time between work and caring for me, so this process has been suuuper slow -over a couple of years. We have our kitchen complete, and bathroom, hall and sitting room very nearly finished.

For now, here are some pics of our hall and sitting room so far...

I've only recently started using Annie Sloan chalk paint (I know, I know! -Bad artist, and even worse woman!). But totally obsessed with it now -Even Bicky (a male) loves using it... Like, we want to paint everything in it. For those that don't know: goes over wood, brick, etc, -No prep, very little smell/ fumes, brushes wash in water... Just really easy and clean to use.





I painted the TV stand, door and brickwork (which was dark brown before and only required one coat) using the chalk paint, and the hall walls in a combination of chalk and acrylic -Annie Sloan clear wax over the TV stand and door, but not on the

Life is peachy

I went and dids my hair!

...I wanted a light colour for ages but wanted to wait until some grew back after the chemo. I would have loved mint, but I neither have the patience or the willing to bleach my hair that much -Such a colour would require a hella lot of effort and toners. Most platinum blondes will tell you the nuisance of trying to only bleach roots while not over bleaching the already bleached rest of your hair! (well, home dyers like myself anywho!). It's time consuming and awkward to do yourself.

So the only pastel-ish option, if I didn't want to use pure bleach and toners (I.E. products to rid the yellow/ orange tinge of blonde) is peach/ pinky/ orangey... I'm guna say it's variation on peach. To start I used a normal blonde box dye, Nice 'n' Easy brand I think it was, then followed it up by mixing Stargazer's dawn and baby pink.

Couple tips when using Stargazer and

100 days of happiness... Summer's end

To round up my 100 days of happiness (well, kind of 100 days... I stopped counting... Although I do like these wee round-ups, rather than one a day) here's some recent/ recent-ish photos of the people and things that made me happy the last while, as Summer came to an end, and I finally got to go back to college, and back to my life...

100 day of happiness... Day 20: Rainbows

Some stormy weather, crazy colours and rainbows = Pretty sky.