Caravan Diaries

It has happened, it is here. 

We have been blessed with a beauteous lady-love, our two-berth Ranger Caravan!! 

I have been there, you fellow bargain hunters, 'watching' caravans on a well known auction site, at the top of your limit and that's for a leaky holey incomplete van that you need to drive to the wilds for..then it sky-rockets in price and away with your dreams. Sorry if this is currently you, hold on fellow nostalgees as it has just happened for us.
Upset over the creative nimbleness in my fingers- with no retail outlet to pursue. Imminently with second child, and experienced in how it feels in the tail-end of hurricanes at our favoured Land's End in a tent, we longed to re-live our happy caravanning youths and buy our own.

THUS I will blog the #HOMEontheroadIMPROVEMENT journey of our £30 van, 'gifted' by sympathethic festival caravanning neighbors. Ones who understand the drive to caravan in leaner but very happy times .

Today: Seeking Inspiration

Retail in Awning area

Beauteous Exteriors

Retail look

Shelter

Paint ideas

..Make yourself better about the size of YOUR task

Seating

Door Ideas, nice

Retro roots

OLDer school

Formica dining memories x

Kitchens

Outside-in 

Kitchens

Seating

I will search for specific inspiration project-by-project, such as painting the exterior, to ply or not to ply (I like ply) and how to have an uber cool but light-weight kitchenalia look. So excited. Bare with.

Maybe not

Record Time

New from xxxMADExxx shop 

'Record Time' recycled vinyl by your nostalgia evoking artists. 

A ticking talking-point for your home, shop now

Venus by Bananarama   £10

Sweet Dreams by Eurythmics   £10

Work by Technotronic feat. Reggie   £9

#slightlysingedfingers

Thrifty Missus

I have been enjoying the opportunity to re-browse a special book on my shelf- Granny Chic by Dottie Angel (Tif Fussell) and Ted&Agnes (Rachelle Blondel)

This was a necessary pleasure (good phrase I shall re-use...as in "it was a necessary pleasure to eat some of my son's Easter egg whilst he napped"..I feel guilty even writing that..doesn't mean it didn't happen). Necesseity in this case was mostly budget-driven; I haven't found a rug I like in the shops far-and-wide, for a reasonable price and with enough 'quirk'. Inside these pages is a fun idea that uses your cupboard staples. Patterned hessian I bought 'for later'. and the rest of a tin of varnish from our Pre-loved purchases gave me a fun arvo back and forth from the potting-shed to 'lacquer' the fabric on the washing-line. Blanket-stitch during Madagascar2 with the wee man et voila

Road-tested by our 2 year old, the verdict was: laid upon with blanket and cushions we cuddled and counted the windows above. Success.