I’m taking a little break this week, so I wanted to share a couple of favourite posts you might have missed. This is from back in February. Today I thought I'd share with you a fun way to display those fabrics you love, but you're not quite sure what to do with, in a simple but fun DIY. These make great wall hangings and only take about 20 minutes max to make! What You'll … [Read more...]
Mini Makeover: Grandma’s International Chocolate Cake
It's the second last Birthday Celebrations theme post and what better way to begin to wrap it up than with cake! My Grandmother makes the best Chocolate Cake (if I do say so myself), and I love it not only because it’s delicious to eat, but because even I can cook it consistently well and I am not the best cook! She calls it the ‘international chocolate cake’ because she once … [Read more...]
Mini Makeover: Make Your Own Cork Coasters
As part of the birthday party-in-a-box that I sent out earlier this month I wanted to make a gift that everyone could keep. My little present to them to say thank you. I put my thinking cap on and decided that coasters would be the perfect 'home' gift from a happy home blog. I first found the idea here, but as I couldn't find many of the materials they used easily and … [Read more...]
Mini Makeover: Make Your Own Birthday Party-in-a-Box
As you've probably guessed by now, it's birthday week on the blog this week! Style for a Happy Home officially turned ONE yesterday! Hooray! To celebrate I decided that I would send out a party-in-a-box to 9 of the people who have really made my first year of SFAHH special. At first it seemed really over the top to make such a fuss, but then I realised that it I really wanted … [Read more...]
Mini Makeover: 3 Fun Quick and Easy Wrapping Ideas
Wrapping gifts is something I love to do. I can go a bit overboard sometimes, but I have learnt the lesson that simple and quick is often best, especially when you have heaps of things to wrap! I know that wrapping can also be really intimidating for some, so today I wanted to share 3 quick and easy wrapping ideas that will make your gifts look great without a whole bunch of … [Read more...]
Mini Makeover: Make Your Own Covered Cork Letters
In last week's mini makeover I showed you how you can make your own cork board letters for your home, but I know that some of us don't really like the cork board finish or would like to use the letters just for decoration, so this week I'm sharing how to make your own covered cork letters that you can decorate in a style that suits your happy home with a bonus way to style … [Read more...]
Mini Makeover: Make Your Own Cork Board Letters
Cork boards are so handy to have around the home and in your office. They are great for keeping the things you need to remember close to hand and great for adding some inspiring messages and notes to. But they can look a little bit dull, so if you want a fun way of making a cork board your own, I think you're going to love this tutorial I have for you today: make your own cork … [Read more...]
Mini Makeover: Make Your Own Plastic Tub Labels
Today is a new month and with it comes a new theme! This month's theme is: Organise My World and I thought it would be fun to kick it off with a simple tutorial to help you feel just that little bit more organised around the home, by making your own plastic tub labels! This seems so simple, but it's something that we often put off because it seems like a lot of work to make the … [Read more...]
Mini Makeover: How to Make Your Own MOO Greeting Cards (Giveaway – CLOSED)
This post is a product review for moo.com* Making your own greeting cards that look professional and fun can make sending snail mail just that little bit more fun. Whenever I want to make anything like this my first stop on the internet is always moo.com. I have been using MOO for my business for nearly 5 years and I love their quality, so when the opportunity came up to … [Read more...]
Mini Makeover: Make Your Own Polka Dot Travel Tin
One of the things I like so much about adventures, both close to home and far away, are the little things we collect along the way. They may not be fancy or expensive. But they do hold a little place in our hearts that remind us of a day or an adventure and allow all the great memories to come flooding back, right when we need them to. I thought it would be fun have somewhere … [Read more...]
Mini Makeover: Make Your Own Map Notebook
Hand writing things might be going out of fashion in some parts but I still find that it's the best way for me to get my ideas out of my head and make sense of them, so I love a good notebook or two. Unfortunately as I'm left handed and a lot of the fancy notebooks use the slippery paper that smudges ink, I end up getting the cheap notebooks with the plain paper and the … [Read more...]
Mini Makeover: Make Your Own Pineapple Style Jars
I'm not really one to follow trends, usually by the time I a) realise that something is a trend and b) decide that I like it, it's already past and no-one is selling it anymore. haha! But pineapples are something that I have loved since I was a little girl. It started around 1992 when my uncle told someone that he liked them and then it seemed to become a family mission to … [Read more...]
Mini Makeover: De-Uglify a Shoe Box for Storage
Shoe boxes make great storage containers. They can hold a whole range of stuff and help our homes feel neater, but there's no doubt it: they aren't pretty! Instead of always popping down to the shops to buy more storage, we can use these boxes we have available, but to make them blend in a little more there's an easy way to de-uglify them: cover them up! What you'll … [Read more...]
Mini Makeover: Make Your Own Glitter Foam Letters
Last year I made some glitter foam letters for my Christmas stop motion video, and had so much fun doing it, I thought I'd show you how you can make your own too! I couldn't find any foam letters in a font that I liked, so this was a great way for me to get what I was looking for and make a glitter mess too! I love a good glitter mess! What you'll need: A Cutting Mat I … [Read more...]