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Hello! 👋 its been a loong time since i last posted!! Heres a bit of an update on our garden progess.. before *when we first bought the house.. during *when it was all cleared ..and after *our current progress. 🤩 I will post more pics of the finished decked area once ive got the garden furniture out! Super proud of this space now. Its all ready for some summer bbqs 🌞🕶

The fireplace is complete! 🤩🔥 Its been rebuilt, repointed and the hearth has been created with beautiful marble tiles. There's still some touching up to do and we need to have the log burner properly installed and then it'll be all ready for cosy winter nights 🍁❄️

When the fireplace hasn't been fixed up yet and the log burner isn't in .. but candles are just as cosy 🥰🔥

The weather is starting to change.. but the views are still beautiful 😍🌾

Colder nights are on their way. ❄️ . Time to dig out the knitted jumpers, candles and cosy blankets 🥰 . I've loved every minute of summer. - I've loved seeing the garden flourish and completing the back yard with AstroTurf .. we've ticked off so many jobs and also had time to enjoy the house... but now I'm ready to install the log burner in the snug and have cosy, relaxing nights by the fire. . Is it too early to think about Christmas 🎄☃️🤔

Still a work in progress.. but we're getting there 🤩

Loving my garden this year. 😍🌷 . Back in the January lockdown I planted over 100 bulbs with Esmae to keep us busy.. we worked so hard tidying up the garden and planting lots of things in the hopes that it would all grow - and it sure has!!! . We have a tonne of pumpkins growing 😱🎃 , cabbages, rosemary, chives, thyme, oregano, parsley, lemon thyme and raspberries... As well as looooooads of stunning flowers 😍😍😍 . I'm super proud of the garden and I love looking out at all of the bees enjoying the garden too 🐝🐞🦋

It's been a loooong time since I last posted but we've done so much over the last couple of months! . - it's been exciting and exhausting.. but it's all in preparation for our long awaited house party/birthday celebration on the 26th to finally enjoy the two years of blood, sweat, tears and hard work that has gone into this house. . I will show you the latest updates around the house over the next week. ..but for today, here's a glimpse of our new stair carpet which has made the house feel so homely 🥰

Happy Sunday 😍

Time to do some more weeding I think 😬🌺🌤️

Sunny rooms and more cup love 😍

Good morning 🌻 . I hope your day is filled with lots of happiness 💕

Puppy spam! Only 3 weeks tomorrow until we bring Narla home 😍😍

Pretty walls 😍⭐

There's something very beautiful about Manx stone 😍 . ..I can't wait to get round to working on this room so that we can clean up the fireplace and install the log burner. - bring on cosy nights by the fire 😍😍

Bedroom love 😍

Elliot put up the new fence last night which looks great - and Narla ready!! .. and my flowers are all growing and looking beaut. I'm really pleased with the garden at the minute 😍😍

He has amazed me again.... . Since moving in to the cottage and realising we couldn't actually fit in a dining table with chairs either side as there was no space to get past we decided that storage benches would be the perfect remedy. . - it may have taken 8 months to get them built but we're so chuffed. . ..they aren't finished yet as we're still waiting on the seat pad foam to arrive which will then need covering ..but we're so happy to be able to all get round a table together! . Huge thanks to my hubby @elliotbiggs94 💕 .. without him none of my visions would be brought to life. (I attempted to help with the benches and failed miserably. I'm better at manning the workforce than being a part of it 😬😂)

*Impatiently* waiting for our little princess Narla to arrive 😍 only 6 weeks to go 😭.. she is going to be so spolit 😬😂

In just 6 weeks we'll be welcoming our beautiful fur baby Narla to our family. 🐾😍 . She is the addition that we've been longing for and we all cannot wait. 🥰 . Be prepared for lots of puppy spam!!!! 🐕🐶

Clean kitchen, clean mind 😄

I am totally obsessed. These Lilies are literally stunning 😱😍🌸

A beautiful gift I received this weekend just for doing my job 😍 I love being an event decorator and bringing people's visions to life. 💮🌺🌸

Love our utility/boot room, it's such a useful, practical room for doing all of the washing and keeping the shoes and coats tidy and out of sight... Bring on the skirting boards, then this room is complete 😂🙏✅

📸 snapped from my dressing table mirror 😍

I have just had three new leaves pop out over the last few days!!! 🤩 Total plant excitement at the minute 😂🌿

Our new scaffolding plank dining room table made by my hubby - @elliotbiggs94 at the weekend. 😍 We still plan on getting rid of our chairs and building some built in storage benches either side of the table .. but that's a task for another weekend 😆

Happy Sunday! I hope everyone has enjoyed getting back to normality on the island - everywhere has been buzzing all weekend. It's been awesome seeing everyone out and about again and places busy! .. long may it stay! 😄

Happy Friday! It's nearly the weekend! Woohooo... Here's a little snippet of the coolest dino room going 😁🦖🦕🪴

Good morning, happy hump day! . We are half way through the first week of no restrictions and I'm so ready for the weekend and a drink 🥂😂

First day back to 'normality' and I am literally exhausted. 😴😴 . I've shopped till I dropped, got a load of bargains for the kids and hubby and treated myself to some new slippers. . It's not even 7pm and I'm soo ready for my bed... Is it the weekend yet 🙈😂

Kids are in bed all ready for the first day back at school tomorrow... I'm enjoying a nice soak in the bath before the stressful mornings start again 🙈😂

Happy Saturday! I hope everyone has a great weekend catching up with loved ones now that we can see people indoors ...Only a couple of days left until schools are back and all restrictions are lifted! 🤩 I'm so excited for the return of normality 💕

New rug 🤩 @bandq_uk

I finally feel happy with the downstairs toilet, a small but funky room 😆🙊

Our plinth lights looking super cool 😆 ** We still need to put all of the skirting boards on downstairs 😬

Love having new flooring down - everywhere feels lovely and clean now and I looove being able to mop my floors 😂

A little food for thought today... . Its really easy to get sucked into thinking that everyone else's lives are perfect as you scroll through social media ... But behind every picture are real people, real homes and real families just trying to navigate their way through life and learning as they go. . If you do one thing different today .. be true to yourself. Make mistakes and learn from them. Don't strive for perfection, strive to be the best version of YOU.

Face behind the account 👋😄 . Swipe to see yesterdays job that I ticked off.... my new wallpaper in the downstairs toilet! 😁

Swipe to see the before pic 😱😱😱 . This has been my latest job which I'm really proud of.. I still need to paint the wood at the top but its 1000 times better already!! . The back of the house has been the dumping area since we moved in - it's the door that we use on a daily basis out to the driveway so it was always somewhere I rushed past to try and ignore the mess. Now it is clean and tidy looking and a safe area for the kids. . Another job ✅😊

New light 😍 - we've had the new flooring down for a week now and its truly amazing. I've had the excitement of buying an awesome mop that spins itself dry 😱 and we even treated ourselves to a shark cordless vacuum!! . We're constantly ticking off jobs around the house. Elliot managed to put on the plinths in the kitchen last night .. tick ✅ . I've even painted the outside of the house and the fence in the back garden. Its brightened and cleaned it up soo much. Another job ticked off 😁✅ . Skirting boards left and carpet on the staircase and we're pretty much finished all of the major jobs 😱😱🤩

When the kitchen is tidy, I can relax ☕🫖☺️

It's always tea time 🫖☕🕛🤪

Hello sunshine ... Where have you gone today 😭 . We haven't managed to perfect the outside of the house yet .. it's still very much a building site! - but I've planted my plants in the back garden and placed a load of pots along the front so I look forward to all of the beautiful flowers 😍🌼🌺🌸

Breakfast bar love .. and a messy kitchen 🤪🥴

Crazy plant lady has crazy plant children 😍🪴🌿

House plant love 🥰🌿🪴

Just another one of my house plants 🤭

New doormat to go with the new floor 😁🤩

What a beautiful time of year 😍🌷🌼

Eye spy a finished floor 🤩 ..and boy does it feel good to no longer be walking around on concrete!! .. the hubby worked hard all weekend and it's really paid off ❤️

We have some flooring at last woohoooo. 🎉🎉

I finished digging over the garden. Lots and lots of bulbs were planted so we enjoyed a windy garden picnic yesterday! 😁 . Exciting news!! Our flooring arrived yesterday and we had a very late night laying it. It's going to take us all weekend to complete it so look out for progress pics 😱🤩

The amazing garden find 😱 . Whilst doing something in the back garden a couple of months ago I randomly came across this amazing crystal just hidden in the long grass and was gobsmacked. After bringing it in and cleaning it up it now sits proudly in our kitchen 😍 . Unfortunately whilst digging in the garden I haven't come across any more treasures - but I'm pretty fond of this one 🤩

*Not a beautiful tidy pic today but, I'm on a gardening mission!!..It took me hours yesterday to get the garden cleared and then dig up (literally hundreds) of bluebells .. ready to plant around 300 bulbs of a variety of summer flowers. ..I can't wait to see what the garden looks like in a few months time 😍 ..There's still a load left to do yet to get it finished! . Whilst we're in lockdown we needed a little project and I've had my 6 year old being my little helper... I do the digging and she's planting the new bulbs! 💕 😁🦋🧑‍🌾🌷🌼🌺🌹

My happy place is my home 🥰 .. we've done bits and bobs around the house during this lockdown which has been great .. the biggest job that I can't wait to tick off is getting our flooring down downstairs 😁😁😁 ✅

Our big girl turns 6 today 😱 where has the time gone!? . It's another lockdown birthday for her today 😣 but we're going to have an awesome day anyway! 😁🥰

A Dino mad little boys room 🦖🦕 🥰

I caught a glimpse of a tidy kitchen yesterday 😱 it seems a rarity during lockdown. There's usually a pile of kids plates, bottles, cups and Cheerios scattered around the worktops 🤦🏽‍♀️ . Our flooring should be arriving soon 🤞🤞 I'm so excited. We will then be able to properly finish off skirting boards, plinths etc. Woohoo!!

Pink gin and tonic has become my nightly ritual during lockdown 🍹🙈😂

Buzzy bees 🐝

Plant love 🌿

I hope lockdown 3.0 is going well for everyone. We're keeping busy each day and enjoying some family time whilst daddy isn't working. . We've just managed to order all of our downstairs flooring which should be with us next week!! 😱 - Elliot is going to fit it himself whilst he has time off. I'm soo excited to have proper flooring down instead of concrete and rugs 🙈 . My house plant collection is still growing. 😂 I have this lovely Spanish moss hanging in the bathroom soaking up the moisture. 🌿

Jasmine 🌿 the most beautiful smelling plant - currently growing on our bedroom windowsill so we can enjoy the stunning smell when we wake up 😍 . * i also have a jasmine growing on the lounge windowsill which is much bigger and currently more fragrant. I may have a plant addiction 😬🙈 send help.

Im so pleased that we managed to have a lovely weekend at the beach. - lockdown 3.0 here we go 😩

After a busy couple of weeks with a lot going on im finally starting to feel a bit calmer. Kids are back at school tomorrow (hopefully 🤞) and work is resuming on the house. First job - putting the snug window in! 🤩

Say cheeeeese!

Happy Sunday all, cheers 🥂 .. A nice soak in the bath to finish off the week. 🛀🏼🧖‍♀️ . #norubberduckyinhere 😂

Oh, nothing much to see here.. just another really cool house plant to add to my growing collection! 🤩🙈🌿

The shops opened back up today so what did i do... run to @tkmaxxuk for some new cushions 🙈🤦🏻‍♀️😂 . Im still not 100% happy with my cushions or throw but its getting there. . ...oh the important things in life 😌😏

Today marks the last day of our 'circuit break lockdown' on the Isle of Man. . I am so excited for life to return to normal tomorrow. We are incredibly lucky to be in the position we are in - kids returning to school tomorrow, shops opening back up and able to see our family and friends again. . I am currently embracing a nice chilled evening - kids in bed early ready for the mad school rush in the morning and life returning back to my busy normal. ...I welcome it with open arms. 💕