The Interior DIYer

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Instagram roundup – February

I’ve taken a little break from my blog these past two weeks. Not that anyone really noticed, but at the moment I’m half way through a few projects and everything is in the awkward middle ‘meh’ stage and not particularly blog worthy at the moment. So I’d rather wait to have something good to write about than blogging for the sake of it. You know what I mean?

Anyways, my point being is when I’m vacant in the blog department, you can be guaranteed to find me in the Instagram department as I’ve almost always got a pointless picture to share. For example, a picture of me holding stuff. I haven’t taken any pictures of my feet for a while now. Maybe I’ll take more pictures of my feet in March? Who knows. It really is that exciting and unpredictable. 
Happy Friday, homies! It’s the freakin’ weekend and I can’t wait to take pictures of my projects so I can get back to proper blogging next week. xx A

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Sneak peek – bolder shelves

Two years ago {I can’t belive it’s been that long!} I wrote about updating the shelves in our living room. They’ve changed a bit here and there over the years, but over the last few weeks I was feeling it was time for a bit more oomph. I had some ideas floating around since before Christmas, so I bit the bullet and started to make the changes this weekend. And like most projects in our home, I wanted to reuse pieces we already had, as well as keep the budget to close to zero as possible.

I’m still adding the final touches, so it’ll be next week before I share all of the deets for simple ways to update your shelves. Keep your eyes peeled! xx A

UPDATE – Shelves are updated, woop! You can check them out in all their glory here. 

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Infinity, and beyond

To start the story that is my new lush infinity scarf, I’ma have to go back a couple of months … In October I made my ultimate Halloween costume – Lydia Deetz’s red wedding dress – entered it into the WM Trimmings Facebook costume competition, and won! All that sewing with all that retina-burning-red was worth it. I won a €50 gift card to spend in WM Trimmings, which I couldn’t wait to spend since I’m in there every couple of weeks anyways. 

With my gift card I wanted to buy some things that I normally wouldn’t. One of the many pieces I picked up was some of Cygnet’s Seriously Chunky plum wool. You can’t tell from these pictures, but there are so many colours to this wool – I can only compare it to a petrol spill. If petrol spills were pretty. Another reason why I went with this colour was because, well, it’s a colour and I wear an awful lot of black. I had my eye on those oversized cowls all you fashionable young people are wearing these days, so I figured why not just knit one? So I did. 

This wool knits up fast and is so soft and lush and more importantly, WARM. I used size 12 needles, cast on 23 stitches and knitted 4 skeins of wool. This thing is HUGE {that’s what she said}. I took it for the ultimate test spin yesterday in some of Ireland’s highest winds, and I was as snug as a bug. No word of a lie. I just wish I had knitted it sooner.