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Sneak peek – encrypted cross stitch

Getting back to making stuff with my hands. It’s so good. And I mean that in the least creepiest way possible. Knitting, cooking, sewing, crocheting, and my brain, not too dissimilar to a child on a sugar binge, is scrambling for more. I’ve started the first fleeting moments of a knitting project, I’m 3/4 of the way through a sewing project, and I’m itching to cross stitch this number thanks to inspiration from a new app I downloaded recently. Here’s a cheeky look at what I’ve concocted … 
All I will say is that it’s a bit tongue-in-cheek, it’s for my desk in work, and hopefully it will be taken light-heartedly. I’m planning on getting an oversized, flamboyant frame to overplay its importance.
But for now, happy Friday homies! I hope you have some chillaxing / exciting plans for the weekend ahead. If the weather remains poopy here, looks like I’ll be indoors {queue perfect excuse for Hyacinth and Jessica festival}.
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I’ve got a ‘pot problem

The following fancies I hoarded over the past couple of months from local charity shops all around Dublin. In total, we had enough teapots for our wedding to have two per table, and three at the head table – which is a whopping … 25 teapots altogether. These babies deserve a post of their own …

A tall antique coffee pot {I know, not tea, but fit the theme} which is  now home for our kitchen utensils, along with a wooden tea caddy which I spray painted a deep cherry hue to fit in with our weddings’ colour theme. In the lamest way, I was excited to use this as a center piece as it broke away from the other traditional tea pots, yet was still in theme. Just the variation we needed. Now used {shock-horror} to store husbands tea.
And below, jazzing up the bathroom. I had a massive hydrangea from the wedding in this right up until a couple of days ago. He is in a better place now. 

And one of my favourite teapots – one of my parents’ engagement gifts from way back in the day. This one can be spotted on my blog a couple of times at this stage. An oldie, but a goodie. 
These last two teapots got the job done. Nothing too fancy about them, but I’m thinking of maybe Sharpie-attacking the taller one for an alternative look. Or they may go back to the charity shop from whence they came. 

We had many, many more teapots as our centrepieces for our wedding, but some of them were borrowed from family, so they went home. Some of the charity shop teapots we re-homed to friends and family who fancied them more than I did. All of which you will hopefully get to see from our wedding pictures, which are due to arrive any day now. So exponentially excited. 
I’m saving two very special teapots for a later post. Let’s just say they incorporate hydrangeas and are very close to my heart. So what about you. Do you have any favourite teapots? Are they inherited, or were they cheap as chips? Both are my favourite kind. I hold no prejudice against ‘pot lovers. 
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Project ‘Less 365’

This is a project I heard about from the lovely Laura Howard at the very beginning of this year, and I’ve had a hankering to get on it like a car bonnet.

Project ‘Less 365‘ is where you aim to de-clutter /  rehome / donate to charity at least one item per day for a year. Obv none of us have time to choose an item every day, so it is completely acceptable to do a clear out en masse whenever the mood strikes. What works best for me is keeping a bag in our spare bedroom and when I come across an item we no longer need, I drop said item into bag, and once it’s full, off to the charity shop it goes.

This quote is another thing I can’t get out of my brain since I first read it. So simple, and so overwhelmingly effective. This is something I literally live by. And beautifully sums up the Less 365 project.


I wouldn’t consider myself minimal when it comes to decor in my home, but I’ve realized our apartment has accumulated an unfathomable amount of shite. On the surface our apartment is acceptable, but it’s the cupboards, the wardrobes, the closets, and the under the beds that concern me. It’s these places where I fear becoming a hoarder.

So for months I’ve been saying to myself “must start this project – after the wedding“, and now that it’s been and gone, I’m nerdily excited to start.

What about you, do you have times of the year where you pillage your home? Are you like me and stress about having too much stuff – or am I a complete weirdo? And more importantly, are you up for the Less 365 challenge?