Its been a while ...

Hello my friends ... heck i've been away a while, i didn't realise!! ive been feeling a bit out of sorts the past couple of weeks, house repairs that need doing, the weather, this and that .. you know the things... i have also have been naughty with money and had quite a few days of getting a treat to take to work, a chocolate bar here and there..which means unnecessarily spending and my waistline expanding more!!

Drat, anyhow i've put a stop to that again and feel a bit more on track now...i have been keeping on top of the savings however and have managed to save  £600 since January which i am really happy about, i've had some ebay sales too, so it all helps.

Firstly sorry again for picture quality, I had to blog from my phone today as the laptop was having a paddy, maybe the weather? not sure.. and i've lost the camera while we have been decorating..woops.. its a foggy morning today in Lancashire, and cold brrrr...glad i got all the washing done the last couple of days..

So our very large hallway was in desperate need of redecorating, it had a chip paper on the top half and a blown vinyl on the bottom, the paper was coming away at the top half and after taking a look and removing the paper it was in a terrible state, its took me two days to remove one wall, the worst wall at the top of the stairs...blimey... i was wondering why i had started?? i redecorated my sons bedroom painted the walls grey and put a feature wallpaper window side and at the opposite of the room behind his bed... he chose his wallpaper and all in all we spent £145.98 on a complete makeover ...

Wallpaper £14.00

Grey Paint £15.00

Light Shade £3.99

Carpet £27.00

New Bed £49.99

Fablon £10.00

Blind £16.00

New Sheets £10.00

We had Filler and was given wood paint :)

= £145.98

London Scene Wallpaper

 DS is 11 years old and wanted a more grown up room that was black and grey, we couldn't afford new furniture so i covered his beech coloured wardrobe and drawers with a black gloss fablon, and my gosh it looked fab!! hahah DS thought we had bought new at first, we did buy a new bed as his old one was old and it was a mid sleeper so getting a proper bed was great, especially for my back when changing sheets, my days of climbing cabin beds are over!! our terraced house has two small ish bedrooms and so it needed planning thoroughly... eventually we got it looking right and he is thrilled with it, so this prompted the hallway makeover as the new bedroom made the hall look even more shabby!!!  and not in a trendy way haha...

Just look at the state of this wall, all these gouges were covered in a green felt like stuff its took some blinking scraping off, i still haven't quite finished, the whole wall needs filling now too. Due to how bad this wall has been we have decided to just magnolia the other walls as the paper looks ok, we are thinking of putting a feature paper on this wall to jazz it all up a bit...phew... cant wait to get it done now its getting to me as the bathroom is next then the spare room, when we had all that bad rain we had a leak in the spare room and that needs papering and painting too..my parents are visiting at the end of march so it has to be done...hells teeth..i need a break lol..

I think the other walls look ok ? .. clean and fresh at least, we had some crown magnolia emulsion left so i have used that, although i think we will need another tin, but so far not spent on anything for the hall, we will need just one roll of paper for the feature wall and our local B&M'S have wallpaper for £5 a roll so its not looking to bad..the struggle will be to find something we both like and that has brown/cream patten on as our carpet is brown!!!

Fingers crossed :)

And to finish off ......

Hmm look who is in Mummys bed ?? Mr Deeds... im cold mummy its all foggy and nasty out today so i sneaked in your comfy bed haha .. got to love him ..

Sorry for a long boring post my friends ... back soon ... 

AFM XX