Making do and mend: the kitchen gets a make over at last!!

I am exhausted! We have spent the past three days painting and repairing our kitchen. In an ideal world we would replace it, and we are saving towards that. However, until we have the funds we will make do and mend. It all looks much fresher and cleaner.

I have been buying a few nick knacks over the past six months to create a colour scheme of green and pink and it is starting to come together. I bought a few more inexpensive bits on eBay this morning and I can’t wait to get them in place.

I couldn’t afford a blind for my huge window but I don’t really need one. I got some pretty bunting instead!

We had to wait until we were between language students to do it but now I hope we get offered another soon to go towards my savings.

A make do and mend inspiration

I am currently listening to the marvellous blogger Ilona from Life After Money on the Jeremy Vine show, hosted today by Vanessa Feltz. She is an inspiration, thrift personified, and certainly a fan of a make do and mend approach. She shows that you can have a good and happy life on very little money by being resourceful and creative with the funds she has. What more could any of us need?