May 12, 2021 | Paint Techniques, Teaching
I just wanted to say a super brief thank you to all of you, in your hundreds who have taken the time to email me your support and kind wishes following my decision to step back from the Painted Love Academy for the time being to focus on my family. I have loved...
Dec 10, 2020 | Crafting, Home Decor
For those of you who followed me through the first lockdown in the UK you will have seen me renovate the front of my Edwardian house from the windows and fascia, to the flag and flag pole and finally paint this fabulous green door in a bespoke colour that I had mixed...
Dec 4, 2020 | Crafting, Decorative
I’m really excited to be able to share my second project in my recent brand collaboration for Dunelm with you. It’s absolutely brilliant when a creative collaboration is so perfectly aligned with one’s own interests, passions and beliefs. And that’s what happens when...
Nov 23, 2020 | Art on Furniture, Teaching
Once again I am proud to be involved with this initiative, (previously called White Monday). It’s the Monday before Black Friday when we encourage Circular Alternatives. I launched my Painted Love Academy in 2018 in the hope of reducing my footprint by flying...
Nov 21, 2020 | Colour Palette, Paint Techniques
I just wanted to share this event with you. Happening next Friday 27th November over on my Instagram feed at 9am for me in the UK and 7.30pm over in Australia, I will be talking to someone I admire so much in the furniture painting and home decor world. I do hope you...
May 6, 2020 | Colour Palette, Home Decor
One of the positives about lockdown has been the opportunity to get on with jobs at home including the very real and pressing need to get my home studio up and running so that I can stay at home and not risk the drive to The Loft in Caistor during lockdown. Me and Mr...
Apr 13, 2020 | Colour Palette
I am absolutely thrilled to introduce you to Nicky Cash, founder and designer at Done Up North, the very first guest tutor to ‘take me on’ with her Masking Tape Masterclass just launched in my Painted Love Academy. For those of you who don’t know...
Mar 22, 2020 | Colour Palette
As the world is in Coronvirus crisis this Mothering Sunday with millions of mums across the world spending it alone, including mine, I want spread a bit of ‘Painted Love’. I want to share some spirit-lifting inspiration with what can be achieved by...
Mar 4, 2020 | Colour Palette, Home Decor
Where the magic happens – walls, woodwork using paint and floor using vinyl tiles all transformed to a softer palette. I have always been impatient when it comes to home decor and luckily for me, Mr M is the same, so he is more than happy to help with the prep...
Mar 4, 2020 | Colour Palette
Creating a cosy hearth for a breakfast dining room in my Edwardian home So if you’ve arrived here from my Dining Room Makeover blog then you’ll have already seen the BEFORE photos below of the orange brick and terracotta tiled hearth that we...
Mar 3, 2020 | Colour Palette, Home Decor
If you’ve followed me for a while you’ll know that at the end of last year, after a long and difficult search for a new ‘old’ house, me and Mr M finally found a wonderful Edwardian house not far from us. In fact, it really found us. It...
