BATH

Bubbles and berries. Bloody brilliant. I have a wonderful husband.

BOMB

Apologies for radio silence!! It has been a busy month, and I was quite enjoying just rolling with the holidays! Taking it back a few weeks to the day I purchased a bath bomb. Also feel like I'm taking it back to the 90's. I used to LOVE these from LUSH. Then I saw my friend using one on her instagram, so I HAD to have one. I had had a really crap day at work and this worked wonders!! All I kept thinking was "PLEASE DON'T STAIN MY BATH!" and it didnt!

FOR SALE

So here they are. The final shots of the flat. I chose my favourites to share with you! White, white, white!

 

 

EUCALYPTUS

Sorry for the radio silence. It's been a wonderful whirlwind of a week! I wasn't feeling well at the end of last week, so was garlic-ing myself up!

Then, of course, as you know, we have the flat on the market, so have had a lot of viewings happening!

We also took a few days of work for a staycation, my Mum came to visit and we did some culture too. So I haven't been on the computer for a while...

Here is a small detail of the kitchen. Eucalyptus is one of my favourite smells. We had alot of it at the wedding. The larger board is from h&m home, the smaller board was a gift from a friend in Berlin. Pestle and mortar, again a gift, the bottle was picked up for £1 at a flea market and the slate is left over from the tiling of the walls in the kitchen!

KITCHEN

The kitchen has been emotional. We moved into the property sans kitchen. I love cooking. The kitchen is the heart of a home, and I gravely underestimated my attachment to the kitchen before moving in. Going in blind was probably better, if I had known the TWELVE weeks that lay ahead would be kitchenless, I think I would've thought twice about moving in so soon!

The original kitchen, I can honestly say, I barely set foot in. It was hideous. Grease was dripping from the ceiling, some kind of black treacle lay (along with a flip flop I hear?) under the cooker, which I've since been informed, made a carpenter of twenty years gag and wretch. The cupboards were covered in thick thick layers of grime and grease. There was no salvaging the kitchen, I was glad to hear, so it was all ripped out. The floor proved extremely difficuly to pull up. The owners before us had laid ceramic tiles with out the correct matting first, they'd laid the tiles directly onto hardboard. So once the tiler had smashed through the tiles, he had to take up the hardboard- a 2 day laborious task. He said it was like taking up an entire floor of dried chewing gum. The plywood floor was then laid, ahead of laying the slate!

I genuinely do not have one photo of the "before" state. In retrospect, I really should have taken pictures, so I could share the horror scene... But the picture start from here.

Above: Plywood floor ahead of slate.

SLATE SLATE SLATE!