I have, at last (!) completed our cosy cottage bathroom renovations. It has taken me the best part of a year and has cost me practically nothing. We bought a special mould repellant paint, which was expensive (around £100 I think) but apart from that, I only spent £20 on some sage green table runners,…
Category: Home making
Homemade Oven Gloves…the Higgledy-Piggledy Method
Sooo...last week I got the bright idea to make some homemade oven gloves from some vintage Laura Ashley fabric I bought at the beginning of mine and Gary's marriage. You know you're getting old when vintage means sometime in your life time! Anyway, I had some fabric which I had sewn and used before. It…
Spring Inspiration Mood Board
I was playing about on Canva the other day, trying to make some fun printable designs for my spring inspiration mood board. I've not created an inspiration wall for years. The last time, if I remember correctly, was a prayer board. A couple of years ago, I prayed for twelve families or individual people every…
Candle-Making at Home For Beginners
Gary and the children were out at a barn dance, which Gary was playing in a band for. The absence of Gary as a dance partner, my innate introversion and the fact that the house was sitting quiet, cosy and most importantly empty, gave me the impetus to turn down the barn dance for a…
Home Made Fire Lighters
One of my favourite things about autumn and winter is using our log burner in the living room. There is honestly nothing more cosy than watching a film, snuggled under patchwork quilts, with the fire crackling and flickering specks of reds and oranges around the room. Last winter, we seemed to use a lot of…
Prolonging the Life of Cut Flowers
There is one thing I enjoy more than freshly cut roses, and that is freshly dried roses. To be honest, I love everything about roses, from their buds to their flowers to the rose hips they leave behind. Last week I spent a very happy afternoon drying some roses and their petals, decorating our home…
The Littlest Room in the House
I thought I'd post some photos of the upstairs loo in all its finished glory! There are still odd bits which would be nice to have - such as a charcoal bath mat instead of the white loo mat, but we'll get that next January when we cycle back to this room. Apart from that…
Home Making Goals – Five in Five
I feel I need to apologise for all my posts in the coming week. They will likely be boring for most of you to read. I want to write some goals down for the forthcoming term. I have in the past always written my schooling goals down but no others. This term I want to…
Home Making – Soap Nuts
Over the past year I have tried out many different recipes for home-made laundry soap. We have very hard water and to be honest I wasn't that impressed with any of them. At least I wasn't until this summer. I had come across soap nuts during one of my forays into the world-wide web and…
Home Making – Part of our New Curriculum
Home Making has always been a bit of a fluid process with us here at angelicscalliwags. I'm clueless, so it took me no time at all to pass on my extensive home making know-how. I began when the older ones were three. By three and a half they knew all I knew. I am naff,…