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Merry Christmas everyone! I'm writing this from bed after a wonderful Christmas day. It was a day filled with presents, food, and lots of love - exactly how Christmas days should be. Here are some sneak peeks into my day, all of which are courtesy of my iPhone due to lack of camera here. I might do a post on my main presents and share them with you in the most not-bragging-but-they're-really-nice-and-I'm-super-chuffed-with-them way possible, if I fancy it, and get around to it. Sorry for lack of posts, life is kind of horribly crazy at the moment but the craziness is slowly but surely coming to an end in the near future so hopefully peace and happiness will return in the New Year. My Christmas day has for sure been a big step in the right direction.

Much love x

I'm unashamedly a bit of a property nerd in the sense that I get overly excited at anything to do with property selling, renovating, and particularly interior design.

Sit me down in front of Homes Under the Hammer, 60 Minute Makeover, or Escape to the Country and I'm happy as larry. But most of all, my not-so-guilty pleasure is flicking through home magazines, especially 25 Beautiful Homes, and cutting out my favourite looks and sticking them into what I've made my 'Home' inspiration scrapbook. The plan is to keep this book until I own my own house and can truly bring to life the looks I've cut out and kept, but for now it serves as good dreaming material and I thought I'd let you have a sneek peek into it...

Just to make it even more nerdy, I categorise it into rooms and areas, such as kitchen, bedroom, living room, and so on. I even have baby room and conservatory...the geekiness is real...

As you can see above, I even add little notes alongside some of the images.

Like I said, 25 Beautiful Homes is my all-time favourite magazine to use for this - it's literally house porn.

As I mentioned in a previous post, I've recently moved and so it's been a dream for me being able to decorate exactly how I want. There may or may not be a bedroom tour post coming up in the near future so see if you can spot any inspiration or overall themes and tastes that I've nabbed from my scrapbook.

The other day when I was milling around the house I suddenly remembered a long time ago being inspired by HRH Collection's hanging pictures that I'd seen in the background of one of her YouTube videos. They were a mix of designer paper bags and designer dust covers that had been framed and I loved the look of it. I realised I had a Mulberry bag lying around that would work perfectly and so I headed into town, grabbed some supplies and immediately got to work.

The simple supplies you'll need are as follows:

- Scissors

- A hammer

- Picture hanging nails

- A suitably sized photo frame

- Your designer bag of choice

- Optional - Ribbon to hang the picture on if you can't hang it by the frame alone. Luckily I had some Mulberry ribbon that matched the bag - even better.

It really couldn't be any simpler.

I cut the bag in half, and then cut the half I wanted to use down to the size of the frame I'd bought, popped it into place in the frame and then tied the ribbon around one of the clips on the back of the frame. Next, I chose the location on the wall that I wanted it to hang from (which I would later change about 3 times and leave multiple holes in the wall), hammered in a picture nail and hung it.

As you can see in the picture above, I got over excited and wanted to make more so I found a note that had come with my Mulberry clutch which I thought would look beautiful framed, and so did that as well. I think it turned out rather lovely.

It's a really simple way to add a bit of unique designer chic to your rooms, and it couldn't be any simpler to do.

Like I said, I've seen it done with dust covers also, but you'll probably get a better effect with the bags due to the sturdiness of them and the cleaner effect they give.

So, if you have any old designer paper bags lying around, definitely give it a go. It literally takes around 5 minutes, if that and it's really satisfying to make something so pretty and luxurious-looking yourself, for only a couple of pounds!

I've recently moved into a new flat and I will be buying some new furniture to kit out my bedroom with soon. I'm going for a white-based theme and Ikea has been my port of call for that, with it's simply gorgeous yet affordable pieces. Here are some of the items that I'll be picking up - as you can see I'm absolutely in love with the Brusali series!

1. Hemnes Bedside Table. 2. Brusali Bed Frame. 3. Brusali Chest of 3 Drawers. 4. Brusali Chest of 4 Drawers 5. Malm Dressing Table. 6. Micke Desk. 7. Brusali Wardrobe.

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