10 Yummy Soup Recipes

We've been having cold and rainy weather all week. The only thing that can make me feel better in this kind of weather is...SOUP! I just love it! I gathered some of my favorite soup recipes to share with you today. Enjoy!

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I know what we're having for dinner :-)

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Drab to fab: Glass bottles

Welcome back!

Today I'll share a super easy Glass Bottle Revamp.

 I had these ordinary, boring old glass bottles on hand. I have TONS of them. I can't throw away anything made of glass. I WILL have a use for all the glass bottles in the world someday :-) . Like these...

 I decided to give them a splash of paint to match other elements in our home. I used my new favorite color - Duck Egg Blue from Annie Sloan ChalkPaint. Have I mentioned my love for this product??!! 

And this is the fabulous end result:

Huge difference, hey?

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Inspiration: Neutral living

As I've mentioned, we just moved into our very first home. So there is LOTS happening around here... I've been having trouble with our living room that started out like this...

Haha, no just kidding! That was the day we moved in.

Our style is more light, airy and shabby chic than modern. We like light colors (think beige, white, greige, I know =  boring). Anything BUT the colors in the photo (how did we end up with all this stuff NOT in our taste...?). Anyway, so I'm trying to DIY the current furniture so that it fits with our idea of a cosy living area.

Today I want to share a little inspiration. The way I WANT our living room to look like. Enjoy!

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Do you think I can achieve this style? Stay tuned for improvements along the way.

Happy dreaming!

 

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New beginnings

Welcome to my first blog post!! I'm so excited to share my journey with you.

We recently moved into our very first home, what an exciting time it has been (excuse photos of unpacked boxes....)! It's small, BUT it's OURS and we LOVE it!

Our kitchen is rather smallish and I'm used to a bit more space, so I got the husband to get some quotes for build-in cupboards around our refrigerator - guy quoted us R 15 000!!! Whaaat? (That's like $1500) for one narrow cupboard...! So as we unpacked our furniture (it was in storage for more than 6 months) we rediscovered (how can one forget ones own possessions?!) a cupboard we bought for R300 (roughly $30). It's sturdy, but so not pretty.

I was desperately waiting for Annie Sloan Chalk Paint™ to arrive in South Africa and it would have been PERFECT on this cupboard, but it would only arrive the next week and I could not wait (read: too lazy to sand and prime)... Sooo, I DIY'ed it. Recipes for DIY chalk paint are all over the place, but here's what I used...

I dissolved the Plaster of Paris in a few tablespoons of water and just give it a good stir and your'e good to go. I know a few other recipes uses Latex paint, well I used Acrylic and as I really had nothing to compare it with, I thought it worked just fine...

I painted four coats (the grain was quite prominent) and it looked fabulous!!! I bought some new hardware and I'm totally in love with my new 'pantry'.

To end things off today, here is a photo of our unfinished kitchen with my 'new' cupboard.

Please comment if you have tips/ideas for DIY chalk paint.

Hope I'll see you soon!

 

 

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