Some time away.

Hello strangers!.

 I know I've been useless on the blogging front and I am sure you are all dying to know how the house is. Well....Its the same!.

 Nothing has changed since we last spoke. My husband and I decided to take 10 days away from renovating as we felt totally drained and were starting to loose interest. So instead we have been spending time with the children, doing housework and we even had a very rare night out together on Saturday. I even got a bit drunk. Crazy, I know.

 But thanks to a little time away we are feeling millions better and have a new zest for the renovation. Here's a little taster of what I have been inspired by the past few days. Can you guess what will be going on this weekend?. :))))))

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I finally feel excited about this again.

Lauren x

Out of the dark.

WOW!!!

 Today I came across the most AMAZING website. Actually not even amazing, quite literally a vintage loves dream. Selling the most beautiful revamped, restored and re loved furniture. Bold, bright colours. Tastefully done. I WANT TO BUY IT ALL!.


 Out of the dark.
 Not only is this company selling beautiful furniture, It is a charity!. Let me tell you more. Here is a little blurb I have taken from the website.

Out of the Dark is a social enterprise project run by the Street Dreams charity, that provides sustainable furniture and gives young people in Buckinghamshire practical skills.

The Out of the Dark project takes donated second-hand furniture and crafts, and revamps them with the help of young people before selling them at Bouf.

Co-founder of Street Dreams, Jade Blades, said: "This project is an ideal opportunity for disadvantaged young people to get motivation for further training and employment."

Street Dreams work with disengaged and disadvantaged young people to help them live positive lives and contribute to their family and community. They believe that giving them opportunities to gain practical skills as well as experience in business and project management is a great way to help them achieve this.
Please be assured that 100% of any profit revenues raised from such sales, go directly towards the provision of offering training, support and experience to enable unemployed young people to gain the qualifications, skills and confidence needed to play an active part in our community.

For more information please visit our website: http://www.outofthedark.org.uk/

 What a wonderful, inspiring charity. Providing encouragement, practical skills and then all revenue goes back into helping the young people involved. Quite simply outstanding.

 Here are some of my favourite pieces. I think I might need to buy them all!.

Amazing right?.

Lauren x

A little sunshine goes a long way.

Feeling a little spring inspired today, took a drive to the village to see the house and its progress. It felt so amazing. The sun shining, I could hear the most beautiful birdsong. The house was incredibly bright and just had the most amazing feel. It may look a little lacklustre in its exterior appearance but inside it already feels like home.
 The boys room is almost finished, Poppy's room has been plastered and electrics done. And the plastering is now being done in the bathroom.

 I'm already imagining the spring/summer and I just want it here now as I know once Spring arrives we will be in our new home. Been reading my grandads gardening book see here and lots of interior magazines. Imagining the garden parties, lazy summer evenings, bunting and pimms, vintage sandals, long walks, beachy hair. I can almost feel the sun on my skin!.

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Ahhhhh I can feel those January blues fading already.

 Lauren x



Dig For Victory!

 I pretty much daydream about our house day in, day out. It is NEVER from my thoughts. As you all know I am obsessed with it!. I can already imagine what its going to look like and how we will sit in the garden in the summer, drinking pimms amongst the herb garden and sunflowers. Which has lead me to this post. THE GARDEN!.

 Possibly the only part of the house I haven't scrap booked about.  But that doesn't mean I have forgotten it. I really want to try and incorporate 1940's values and ideas into our family home life, see my larder of love post  see here so of course I want a little vegetable patch and herb garden. Dig for victory!.

  I'm no gardening expert but I so want to have a go at my own veg. I think there is nothing better than popping out to the garden picking some of your home grown produce and then eating it!. DELICIOUS!.

 I'm going to be honest here, I have pretty much no experience. BUT, my beloved late grandpa and my wonderful nan had serious Green fingers. I can remember playing in their beautiful, perfectly manicured garden. Filled with the most stunning colours and smells!. I used to call it the fairy garden, it really was quite magical. A little oasis amidst the concrete.

 When my grandpa passed away I was lucky enough to have been given some of his things. Among them was this book. I feel like this is his way of saying, 'Go for it!' It really is a nostalgic, interesting read and packed full to the brim with everything you would need to know. Whether it be a vegetable patch, keeping chickens, flowers, garden pests right through to bee keeping!. I think it was first published in 1947 and this defiantly looks like a 1940's style book to me..Swoon!.

My grandpa's book.

 As I was flicking through the book I found a page my grandpa must have bookmarked. Madly enough it was the diary of the year-which vegetables were in season, how to grow/look after. All the information one might need to grow their own!. Set in monthly pages January right through to December.
 At this point I had a little cry. This book mark was so meant for me!.

 So with my best land girl attitude and my grandpas book I am set to have a garden to make him, and my nan, proud. Tonight I am all set with a cup of green tea, a long soak in the tub armed with the book. Hoping to soak up some of unknown territory that is 'Pratical gardening and food production, in pictures'.

If anyone has any tips, advice please get in touch, I need all the help I can get!.

Lauren x