How to make a house a home

We are on day 20 of married life. I have spent the afternoon and evening building my version of home. All of the little bits and pieces that have made this flat feel messy, now have definite homes. On the walls!

Collecting elephants is one of the things I do and you can't really miss that if you spend 2 mins in my house. I have another love that has been fed by receiving gifts due to getting married. Art. Now I have a very beautiful mishmash of stylised words and pictures and bunting that have turned my blank walls of two years into a dynamic space. My very light blue wall has hand made contrasting bunting to bring out the blue. I have a gold frame with the word Skudder (new surname) to contrast the white wall next to it and several other things to help me feel at home. 

Having Ray as a permanent fixture in the house is not a bad thing yet. He does do the tidying. He helped with putting the new bedroom furniture together and then squeezed it all along one wall! (No pictures sorry, you can use your imaginations or pop in!)

Our wedding was brilliant and we've only heard good things about it from other people. We were so pleased that we could spend the day with everyone! Looking forward to the first year of married life. Since day 13 I have been 'an old married' strange thing that... I feel like I have been one for much longer.