Seeing Stars

I shared here the wonderful news that I am going to be a Granny in December!!

My Daughter has embraced pregnancy and is one who glows and looks so healthy & beautiful.

I am so proud of my youngling & know she is going to be an instinctive, responsive Mama.

Here she is at the start of her pregnancy - 

just settling into the little cottage she has bought with her partner.

& last week when we went out to lunch!

Wow, look at that little bump - 30 weeks gone so fast :-)

Wearing her Mexican Bola Necklace, which makes soothing tinkly sounds for her 

Baba to hear and recognise when born!

We painted his bedroom last week - Here's a sneak peak!

 'A' loved some star patterned wallpaper, at £18.00 a roll - lots to spend money on at the moment and I felt we could do better ourselves as we are both creative.......

We painted three walls & the ceiling white and one wall a soft grey.

Then using car sponges we cut out freehand drawn star shapes.

We then printed these onto the wall in red, dark grey and a gorgeous denim blue (which I am now wondering where I can paint in my own house!)

I love how the stars have patterns within them from the holes in the sponge

 and other areas are darker. It's a tiny room perfect for a little one :-)

 Apologies for the picture quality but we didn't finish till very late!!

We had such fun - who needs £18.00 a roll wallpaper?

What do you think? I will share more, soft furnishing's, furniture, lighting etc. as we add to this Baba's room.

As ever thank you so much for your comment's and dropping by!
XX

Crafty Makes

I do like to be creative, always have, for me this blog, the writing 

and the curation of photos allows me to do that. 

On Sunday I had some spare time, so decided to make a simple gift for some special people.

I have made these before in a larger format, they are easy to make but can take a while to do.

You could make it easier with ready painted frames.

To start I have an old Atlas of The World (good old Reader's Digest!), 

a foam heart, some thick coloured card and a box picture frame.

The Range

I painted the frames with some lovely gold paint I had lurking.

I then draw around the country (using the heart) that means something to the person I am making for - in this case Portugal and the United Arab Emirates.

 I found in the Atlas a Cairngorm Mountains heart forgotten about, but know someone who would like this - so I need to go and buy another frame!!

Next I mount them on the card using crafting spray glue :-) 

place a dozen heavy books on top for 24 hours to dry and hold in position!

Et Voila - 

A simple gift for a beautiful couple!

Whilst the paint brushes were out I decided to give a quick coat of 

varnish to a typography I had bought.

These have been a popular home accessory for a while and until now I hadn't succumbed -

 but this one sang to me and shall be hung in the bathroom (hence the varnish).

I will show it properly hung in its new home ;-)

LOVE productive weekends!

How about you?

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