So here it is, pictures of every room in the house. I’m specifically calling it a house tour, not a home tour because when these pics were taken it wasn’t a home, just a house.

But now it is a home and we’ve made a good start on the bathroom already! More pics of that to come.

Swoon at the black tiles in the kitchen! Such large spacious rooms (especially for our money)! Nice sized garden; perfect for vegetable growing, barbeques, chickens? But that wallpaper in the bathroom?? YUCK! Great to sell the house, but not to live with, and that’s why we started there first.

The day that I received the email from our solicitor to say they had received the keys to our new house I also received the ideal present through my letter box.

Nothing could be better suited to my mindset at the time.

I’ve been planning things in my head ever since we saw the house but now that we were days away from getting the keys I started to put some of those thoughts down.

And now, I have several rooms to do this for. Planning and browsing and researching and buying. I’m in interior design heaven right now. I think I just did a little wee from the excitment. Over share?

I’ve been renting now for 8 years, before that I lived with my parents. Not once have I been able to paint, decorate or even afford to buy what I wanted for a room. We now have a blank canvas and HELL, I’M GONNA GO CRAZY!

Here are all the rooms we have to play with. So. Many. Rooms.

The plan is to start with the bathroom, then I think the kitchen, hallway, stairs and landing, convert the store room to a proper utility room, lounge/diner and the bedrooms last.

I am so eager. I just need to take my time and get it right. I certainly won’t be getting into debt, as much as that dining table and chairs tempts me.

You’ve just bought a house. You go to pick up the keys. The house is officially yours. What else is there to be done?!

Earlier this year my boyfriend, Andy and I decided to start considering buying a house. We wanted to get advice on how much we could get from a mortgage company and then consider our options sensibly, but as soon as I mentioned the words “mortgage broker” to my mum she got extremely excited and started emailing links to rightmove, a hole which we fell right into! The house we’ve settled on was actually only the second house we saw. We were conscious of that fact though and made sure that we visited plenty more, but none of which could compare.

The process has been somewhat lengthy in my opinion, especially considering we are first time buyers with nothing to sell and the house was empty. But really it has come at the right time; we wouldn’t have been ready a month ago and we needed to give a whole paying months notice on our rental flat.

So finally this week came the end of the process, the light at the end of the tunnel! Firstly I got an email from the letting agent…

Of course I dumbed down my excitement and replied with professionalism, something to the tune of YAY!!!1! WAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!111!!!!1!!!!

Then yesterday I got the email we’ve been waiting for from the solicitor to confirm completion of the house sale.

Again, more WOOOOHOOOOOOOOOing, and a bit of *does a little dance*.

So off I popped, on my lunch break, down to the estate agent’s to pick up the keys. Our keys. The keys to our own bricks and mortor. A place to call our own. Home sweet home.

Apparently, we have bought a prison…

How many keys can one house need?! So now I am Jailer Fowler, tasked with finding out what each of these keys is for and where the hell you get one of those huge prison guard key rings from! Perhaps most of them are for our secret dungeon where we can keep prisoners? Or for the turret where we keep a princess trapped forever until her prince comes to rescue her? And the dragon we use to keep the princess quiet.

But it’s true, we now own a house and damn, I am excited! Moving, decorating, fixing, BUYING STUFF, that’s all to come and I can’t wait.

o yeah, I created this weeks ago and it’s sat on my desktop since then. I’m finally getting round to posting it!

This little type adventure is born from a combination of things that happened to me around Christmas: Read more

ver the Christmas break I spent most of my time revamping my site, and when I say that I mean I spent most of my time playing with Brownstone.

I discovered Brownstone when the second edition of 8faces popped through my door featuring an interview with Ale Paul of Sudtipos. Sudtipos publish some of the amazing fonts I’ve been drooling over for a long time including; Semilla and Monroe. I am now also considering extending my overdraft just so I can purchase Piel Script, Affair, Lady Rene and the rest! Using such a quality font is a breeze – no kerning required and a MASSIVE choice of alternates.

So dotted around the site you’ll find little bits of Brownstone. I found it to perfectly encapsulate the feel I wanted for the site; cute, friendly and feminine. Hope you enjoy the new design!

etting into the spirit of the season this week I’d like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

To create this weeks type adventure I used some of the techniques I learned in a VecTips tutorial but mainly I was inspired by Jessica Hische’s Snowflake ornaments. I spent a lot of time playing with different combinations to create the background pattern, it is so addictive!

The colours are from this palette at Colour Lovers, the script font is HL Netco 1BK and the sans serif is Nevis.

I hope you have a fantastic festive period!

his week I’ve found two excellent resources which I’m sure will remain in my bookmarks toolbar for A LONG TIME.

Firstly, Lost and Taken which offers free high resolution textures. I’m completely in love with the Goodbye Summer set which makes me long for summer again, I’m sick of cold windy winter! Read more

ow! Two posts in one week, I think this might be some kind of record for me.

I’ve been doodling and came up with this little sketch with one of my favourite phrases. I then went into illustrator and traced a photo of an arm, drew the heart and added the shirt detail along with the text using the pen tool.

After adding a little bit of grunge texture in Photoshop this was completed faster than I’ve ever completed a design! I guess once you have in mind what you want to acheive then it really doesn’t take long.

his week I discovered Matilde from Type Depot. Such a beautiful, whimsical font. Perfect for a design blog, for scrapbooking or for a craft business logo.

One of the reasons I’ve fallen in love with this font is because it comes with some beautiful frames, flourishes, ornaments and patterns. I’ve used one of these frames to create the shape of the ice cream cone and a pattern for the background and ice cream cone detail.

I love fonts that come with extra ornaments so you can create borders or flourishes that match the text perfectly. My two favourites at the moment are Hoefler Text and Snowflake.