Adios England!

So this may be my last post for a while as we're finally ready and packed to fly to Spain! Our shiny new apartment awaits us and I'm looking forward to getting unpacked and settled in. I love the idea of making it home as soon as possible and getting to know and love it. I'm a little nervous about the teaching, but I always am at first when I'm finding my feet.

In other news, I am soon to be featured on the lovely blog anonymous was a woman, in the "my favourite photo" weekly feature. So keep a look out for me!

I hope to get back into the swing of blogging and commenting again soon, but for now, adios!

Decorating Fever

I have decorating fever. Yes, I am planning a few months ahead. But I am very excited to decorate our new place. I keep thinking of new, cute ideas.

So I have been searching for inspiration. I love this picture:



And it would fit better in a smaller place. But is it too girly? I must not forget it's Michael's bedroom too...






This was a cool craft to make your own headboard. You cut the shape you want out of cardboard, to make a template. Then choose some pretty wallpaper. Use the template to cut it. Then stick it on your wall! Hmm I wonder if our landlord would notice a new addition to our wall... Maybe if it looks really nice, he wouldn't mind?





This was also wallpaper on the wall. I love the mismatched hooks for displaying your jewellery.




I love this wall sticker.

It reminds me of this:






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Next stop... Spain

It's the end of an era. We've officially moved out of our apartment and London, and aside from a brief stay in Chelmsford, we'll be graduating and looking for work for the summer. But the next big thing ahead of us, is Spain. Yep, the return to Puente Genil.

Only this time, there will be no reason to leave, as we always knew we had to before. We also already have an apartment provisionally reserved over the summer for us, and my thoughts and dreams are full of ideas to make it pretty and home-like. Michael and I have been together for four and a half years, and during that time, we've lived in Aberystwyth, London, Birmingham, Puente Genil, Northampton and London again. So we are extremely happy and excited to live somewhere for more than a year together! We've wanted a more permanent base for a while now, and all the cleaning and packing and leaving our apartment yesterday only cemented this further. So, provided everything goes well with the jobs and we are wanted there, we'd ideally like to stay in Spain for a while now.

Which means that this will be our Pueblo:

With little cobbled, winding streets  

And enigmatic, old buildings peeking around corners

I've already started daydreaming about decorating ideas, and have ordered this to take with us: 

(the following images thanks to Google)

Yes, I know it's French, but I've always wanted a copy of this print! 

And I also would really really love this: 

And since we're talking about dream apartments, none would be complete without one of these:

But I might be getting a bit carried away now...