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Home Office Inspiration
TweetLiving in a rental can sometimes be challenging. Your space is not always “your own” meaning painting, drilling, renovation work is not always possible. To me, this has been frustrating. I swear these landlords do the minimum to these units purposefully. Our current challenges are: Lack of packing space, most definitely in our kitchen as well as the kids rooms. Dull white walls Not the most glamorous kitchen counter tops Since launching Love Made Me I’ve definitely found the need to have official office space / work space. At present I do design work either in my bedroom or my make shift office in our garage. This has worked until…
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STOP Pinning START doing
Tweet Let me start out in saying that I’m OBSESSED with Pinterest! There, now that that’s out of the way let me get to the point. Its good to have a hobby, actually GREAT and as a Mom we very rarely find time to schedule some us time and focus on our little crafty projects (if that’s your hobby) or gym or whatever it is. So we turn to Pinterest and pin away happily and have these wonderful visions and ideas in our minds of all the lovely things we’d like to make and do. Some on our own, some involving the kids, others for our home. And as the…
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Fathers Day crafts
TweetSo Father’s Day is around the corner, 21 June to be exact and I thought I’d do something a little different this year. Yes we have bought a traditional gift for Carl but its always nice receiving something handmade from your kids, well it is to me. Its easy to buy something for Dad from the kids, but why not get them involved this year and make something special for Dad. Here’s a quick round up on easy to do ideas for the kiddies to get their hands dirty this Fathers Day, thanks to Pinterest’s inspirational boards. Enjoy! Let me know if you’re baking or making anything special for the…
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Organisation 101 : The Command File
TweetOne thing that has always interested me is the way the American people majorly the Woman run their households, they have what they call “Command Centres”. Now anyone who knows me, knows that I thrive off lists and charts and to do’s and filing. Yes, I know as odd as it may be, this is where I find my happy place. I’m an Admin person at heart. Organizing and planning, scheduling and filing. However I don’t seem to find enough hours in my day to do this in our home. In my head I have this perfect vision of how the “Thomas Command Centre” would look but in reality I have all…
