What we did this weekend – DIY Art. As easy as abc

This week me & Lilly made an alphabet wall art. Lilly is loving her abc’s at the moment and I’d searched the internet for some cool posters / wall art ideas to buy and frame but nothing quite grabbed us. So we got creative and made our very own abc alphabet wall art. This is [...]

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DIY Contemporary Wall Art

Made by a 3 year old who knows what she likes. Inspired by this piece below as seen in Heals a few weekends back priced at £160 by Ellsworth Kelly. Ellsworth Kelly was one of the major practitioners of abstract art in the USA after World War II. As early as the 1950s he developed [...]

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Bringing Summer to the mill

Things are always so much prettier when it’s sunny. When it’s rainy & dull, going into the old mill (where our studio is based) can very gloomy. It’s not the prettiest of spaces when it’s gloomy and we feel a spruce up is needed. Our studio room itself is lovely and colourful. But the corridor [...]

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Light Up Your Mood

Love these light switch stickers by  Henrietta Swift      

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Rennovating the mill – Part Two

See Part 1 of our New Studio renovation here. We had initially planned to quickly tile the office area with hot pink vinyl floor tiles but after lifting the existing carpet tiles, parts of the floor ripped up which had to be filled before any tiling work could start. But…. underneath revealed wood! Real wood, [...]

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Rennovating our studio – Part One

It’s been a few weeks since we got the keys for our new studio at Woodend Mill Artist Studio’s in Mossley. Since then we’ve worked every spare hour cleaning, lifting flooring, working on electrics and getting very messy making this blank mill space ‘our space’. Whilst keeping a fully booked and very busy MWL running. We had spent [...]

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How To Create A Signature For Emails With Your Company Logo or Images

There just hasn’t been the time to learn how to set a fancy signature up for Made With Love. But I’m pleased to say that it’s easy peasy. Saturday nights in on your own can prove very productive if not a little lonely! Instructions from Web Developers Notes on how to set an email signature [...]

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Pantone Rainbow Project

The other day I saw a rainbow. It was beautiful. It’s end seemed to stop at my Lilly flower’s nursery. She is my treasure. Check out this man made Pantone Rainbow found over on Christopher Bevan’s blog. What patience… but what a result…

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DIY Woodland Children’s Bedroom

I’ve been planning to DIY on my little girl’s bedroom since Christmas but things have been taking far longer than I’d like (boo!) due to a very busy business (yey!) and a happy little girl who gets to see her Mummy every day (weee!) leaving little time for much else. A little background: I wanted [...]

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Children’s Woodland Bedroom Ideas

I love painting & interior design and am currently brainstorming for the re-design of my one and a bit year old Daughters bedroom. Lilly’s never really had a ‘nice’ bedroom & now that she spends more time in her room, I wanted to re-design her room with lovely bright colours that will be visually stimulating [...]

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