Living room redecoration: Part 1

When we first moved into our house, we decorated everything in a bit of a rush. We didn't have loads of money to spare on decorating and we had to do every room in one go as we had knocked the house back to bare brick, and started completely again from scratch. We moved walls and swapped rooms around and took rooms out. It was a big job.

Now that I know a bit more about decorating, and I have more of an idea about what looks good and seen things that I like home-decor wise, I was unhappy with some of the rooms in the house. Mainly the living room and the kitchen. The living room was so plain and boring. We had some nice wallpaper on the chimney breast wall but the walls were plain and neutral and we didn't have any photos or personal bits up around the room or on the walls or anything. So, we decided to redecorate and start with the living room.

Here are the before pictures of our living room redecoration:

Edinburgh

During December, I had some weekends booked off work which I'd put in months before. So Adam asked me if I'd like to go for a visit to Edinburgh. Of course I said yes! We'd been to Edinburgh once before but it was a bit of a flying visit. I loved it, and had an amazing time. We drove up, and booked a hotel which ended up being absolutely lovely and having the perfect location.

It was nice to get away and have some time just the two of us. We kept it very low key and in fact we were back in our hotel room after a lovely meal out at about 9pm and asleep for about 10pm. We didn't wake up until 9am the next morning, it was absolutely glorious, especially as I could probably count the nights of unbroken sleep since we got Roxy on one hand.

We went around on a sight seeing bus and saw all the sites, and walked down a massive long street from the castle with loads of shops on. There was a big market there, complete with ice skating rink. We bought a couple of decorations for the tree, and it was lovely.

Edinburgh I'll be seeing you again!

Cousins

Sunday Morning Walks

Sunday morning walks have started becoming a bit of a ritual for our little family. I have to say, I've been really enjoying them too. I always hate the idea of going for a walk but when I go for one I really enjoy it. We've been walking around Worsbrough Res mostly, but have been up to Langsett a couple of times. I took my phone with me and snapped a few photos when we were there last Sunday. It's really beautiful.













I'm looking forward to our walk next Sunday!

101 things to do before I die

Emma's version:

1. Get married
2. Have a baby
3. Adopt a child
4. Get to a healthy BMI
5. Be a size 12
6. Live abroad for an extended period
7. Work for myself full time
8. Get a degree
9. Visit NYC and; eat a Levain cookie, get hot chocolate with marshmallow at City Bakery, go to Shake Shack
10. Climb Kilimanjaro
11. Go on a food tour roadtrip of USA with Beth
12. Have Jonas Peterson or another amazing photographer take photos of Adam and I
13. Visit all 7 continents
14. Go on safari
15. Skydive
16. Cage dive with great white sharks
17. Start a YouTube channel and have 1000 followers
18. Snorkel at Lady Elliott Island again
19. Take Mum on a dream holiday
20. Live in a city again
21. Be an Auntie
22. Visit friends overseas
23. Wear a bikini
24. Own a Luis Vuitton weekend bag
25. Go abroad on a business trip
26. See killer whales/orcas in the wild
27. Try almond milk
28. Go skinny dipping
29. Get a masters degree
30. Win an award (I don’t necessarily mind what in!)
31. Write a book
32. Travel to China
33. Do artisan baking course
34. Have market stall selling artisan baking
35. Go to Washington, Conneticut to see the town that inspired Gilmore Girls
36. Learn graphic design
37. Set up and run an etsy shop
38. Be good at crochet
39. Be good at knitting
40. Visit Big Sur, stop in a very fancy hotel with private hot tub on own private terrace
41. Go back to Australia
42. Make cheese
43. Go on a massive clothes shopping spree once I reach a size 12
44. Go to Tokyo Disneyland
45. Take children on an amazing holiday
46. Have a tattoo
47. Touch a tiger
48. Take my children to a big festival
49. See the Lion King in a theatre
50. See Rocky Horror Picture Show in a theatre
51. Donate my eggs if possible
52. Visit Iceland
53. Travel in Japan
54. Drive a monster truck
55. Go to Glastonbury for Dad
56. Knit a cardigan
57. Jump off a waterfall
58. Visit 50 countries
59. Visit Washington DC
60. See inside a volcano
61. Have a photo I took printed
62. Have something I wrote printed
63. Own my home outright
64. Own a second home outright
65. Watch the salmon run in a peak year
66. Go storm chasing and see a tornado
67. Stay in a Four Seasons hotel
68. Go in a hot air balloon
69. See the Aurora Borealis
70. Go to Coachella
71. See the following animals in the wild; gorilla, lion, tiger, elephant, orangutan
72. Swim with dolphins
73. Walk coast to coast from England
74. Conquer my fear of spiders
75. Go zip lining
76. Go skinny dipping
77. Be able to do the following yoga poses: dancer, wheel, crow, scorpion
78. Swim in Devil's Pool at Victoria Falls.
79. Brew my own beer/wine - that tastes nice!
80. Go to Loch Ness
81. Visit the door to Hell
82. Climb the stairs to Heaven
83. Get acupuncture
84. Go to Plitvice Lakes National Park
85. Go to the Great Blue Hole
86. Stand in the centre of Stonehenge
87. Be in Mexico for Dia de los Muertos
88. Go on a sunset lava cruise in Hawaii
89. Go to Lake Hillier
90. Learn to spin a car into a parking space
91. Go to Maho Beach
92. Go to Mass Games in North Korea
93. Learn to speak Spanish
94. Visit 100 countries and join TCC
95. Have cooking lessons in: Mexico, Thailand, India, Japan
96. Visit a bioluminescent bay in Puerto Rico
97. Take trapeze lessons
98. Hand feed flamingos on flamingo beach, Renaissance Island, Aruba
99. See a wild polar bear
100. Lunch in December at Petersham Nurseries
101. Go on holiday on my own

Goals completed: 5/95

...to be continued...

Izzy

I love this furry little face so much.

Life Lately

Watching Breaking Dawn Part 1 // Playing Disney Trivial Pursuit
Roxy watching Marley & Me // Izzy
Cuddling her foot // Making herself comfy in our bed
Lucy and dogs // Her favourite toy