Porridge for Breakfast, The Ordinary Life of a TTP Survivor

I have wanted to recover our cushions for sometime now but had been put off by my dislike of inserting zips into anything.  Apart from the cost of the zip, (you can buy clothes in some stores for less than the price of a zip) there is a certain skill required, I believe. On Sunday though I found an amazing bargain, an end of roll 6.4 metres for £19.99 in Dunelm Mill and I was persuaded.    And after changing the bed covers I wondered if I could make cushion covers in the same style as pillow cases.   Sometimes there is only one way to find out, so I set about trying the idea!  Here is my way of making cushion covers, others may know a better way :-) 1.  Measure the cushion pad. 2.  Cut a long rectangle of fabric.   The narrow side should measure the width of the cushion plus seam allowance, the longer side should at be least two and a half times the width of the cushion to allow for the overlap. 3.  Hem the 2 narrow e...

I wonder if all mothers come to a time when they feel the need to sort those items that their children, who have left home, leave behind. Up to now, boxes and bags, videos, dvds, posters (oh posters and blue tax!), books, school papers, puzzles, etc etc, have been pretty much left and ignored in a loft room.   This month though I decided that the room really could be put to better use.   Returning grown up children no longer stay over in this room, preferring to use another with a double bed.  So, feeling strong, it was well over time to tackle this mess. I admit I was inspired by the The Great Design Challenge, it motivates me each year to tackle something that should have been tackled before.   But space is still a premium in our house and at this time of year you can't move items to the garden.   In addition we decided that not only long left treasures needed to be moved to a second loft room, but furniture needed to be swapped with that in other...