Home Owner: Master Bedroom

So I have been very absent from drawing and my blog for the past few months. This is due to the fact I am now a HOME OWNER!! My boyfriend and I had been saving since Jan 2014 and in May 2015 we had an offer accepted on our little home, 6 months later and the keys were ours!

Although the house ticked all of our boxes we went in feet first and gutted every single room out. I'm talking new kitchen, new bathroom, new carpet, new windows, plastered ceilings, new flooring - the lot.

Slowly but surely it's really coming together and near enough every room is complete. I am proud to blog...our master bedroom.

Before: This was always my favourite room of the house (best of a bad bunch mind). I loved the windows and the light, the exposed floorboards and gloss fitted wardrobes. Straight away we knew we wanted all the ceilings plastered from artex to smooth, a new colour scheme and some TLC. Looking at the bed, the wall to the right was painted a lemon colour and there was only one plug socket in the room.

Plastered ceilings and choosing colour

Pebble Shore by Dulux

We white washed the floor with watered down emulsion paint, painted the skirting, radiator, window sills and doors and my dad put in 3 new sockets for us.

Our bedroom taking shape while we waited to put the shelf up and the fitted shutters. The surveyor from Hillary's blinds recommended blinds in a box for temporary blinds, I cannot recommend these enough! The stayed up for a good 10 weeks, shut out all light and were easy to use, but did rip the paint off in the living room :( not the end of the world! 3 blinds for £24 and you could cut them to the shape you needed as per pic below.

Shelf: LACK from IKEA, Lamp from Habitat

Copper bedside table: Made.com

Bedding: The White Company

Throw: IKEA

Grey and wooden bedside table: Tesco

Sheepskin rug: IKEA

Copper bin: notonthehighstreet.com

3/5 of C O N F E T T I CROWD - Snoochie Shy

And here is number 3 from the Confetti Crowd - the gorgeous Cheyenne aka Snoochie Shy.

I had a real hard time deciding what photo to draw from as Shy is so photogenic! I can't deny, I very much enjoyed looking at every single outfit post, selfie and DJ pap shot especially when she offsets her amazing pink mane with an equally amazing pink ensemble.

Hopefully my collage does her justice. Now to draw the two other little stunners!

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I B I Z A

Ibiza is one of my most favourite places in the world...granted I haven't yet been everywhere, but I know I will always want to come back here year after year. The Ibiza blues has lasted me well into autumn and I'm just about ready to reflect on my time there.

I stayed in the most amazing, sassiest hotel EVER Tropicana Ibiza Suites, I couldn't recommend it enough! It's pink, flamingo-ey, very art deco and made my hangovers an actual pleasure. The staff were incredible, so lovely and genuinely interested in what we were up to. The location is right by the hippy market in Playa Den Bossa and a stones throw from Bora Bora beach, Ushuaia, Space and all of the bars.

The music as ever was phenomenal, Bon Sinclar at Pacha and Deorro at House of Madness, Amnesia were my highlights. DC10 was also another fave, witnessing Jamie Jones 'Paradise', partying until the early morning. Dinner and drinks at the sultry Blue Marlin was also a first but not a last! Ahhh I could go on - every day and night was amazing!

You can literally be yourself, wear what you truly want to and eat maxibon's all day every day! Here are some of my fav pics and outfits from Ibiza 2015...hopefully see you next year!

Instax

Amazing Pool

Funky fresh room

Flamingo pink

Sunglasses - ASOS, Earrings - H&M

Dress - Missguided, Shoes - ASOS

Dress - Missguided, Earrings - H&M

Hardwell @ Ushuaia

Dress -ASOS

BBHMM

Co ord - Pretty Little Thing

Bikini - TRIANGL

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2/5 of C O N F E T T I CROWD - Lulutrixabelle

So here is no.2 out of the 5 sass pots that make up Confetti Crowd, the beaut that is Lucy Rance aka Lulutrixabelle.

Before I decide on which photo to recreate, I practically stalk through all of the girls Instagram's and blogs (not that I need an excuse, I do this anyways). This photo of Lucy really got my collage brain going as I love the neon colour in her hair and her luscious Lime Crime blue lips.

I think I'll make another collage of Lucy as I didn't realise but another talented illustrator has already made a replica of this pic, but just goes to show how inspiring she is!

3 more of the darlings to draw next...

Lucy's selfie taken from her Instagram

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DI$COUNT UNIVER$E

I can't remember what I saw that threw me towards Discount's website, I must have seen it flash up on Instagram or it could have been when Katy Perry wore the pastel blue sequinned pussy cat co-ord to some event...either way I am SO glad I did.

I knew which pieces I lusted over but I had to whittle them down to 2 items to align with my already tight budget, so these are the ones I went for. Considering they are created and shipped from Australia, they were in my wardrobe literally within a week. The quality is outstanding and the dense sequins are packed in tight, heavily. I wore these dresses jammed in the middle of Ibiza's music lovers in some of the biggest and wildest clubs, with minimal sequin loss!

So indeed, where better to wear them than...IBIZA! One of my favourite places in the world! I'm going to need to create a post based on my 10 days there this summer, as I need to plaster my pics of this amazing hotel EVERYWHERE! But for now, my lovely, lovely DI$COUNT UNIVER$E pieces.

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1/5 of C O N F E T T I CROWD - Helibells

For a while now I've been trying very hard to find some inspiration to start drawing again. Some times I feel like I have so many ideas in my head that I can never commit to one without wishing I'd started the other if that makes sense...?

Anyways, like probably almost EVERYONE, I've been following the girls who make up the sassy Spice Girl-esque blogger band 'Confetti Crowd' for a good few years now on every inch of social media, and they never fail to inspire or ignite the creative in me; whether it's with what I wear or a little doodle here and there. Thus being said, I have now committed myself to illustrating some portraits of the girls, trying to bring a little bit of their individual style out in each one, hopefully fuelling a creative project for myself in the background.

So, here is Helena a.k.a the beautiful HELIBELLS - how could you not be inspired by her???

Heli's ASOS shoot, featured on her blog

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