Calm Your Beans

Still waiting for the Christmas spirit to grab hold of you with its warm fuzzy arms? There’s no better way to become holly jolly for the Christmas period than a little DIY work! I’ve created a playlist to inspire you to a DIY Christmas and getting you and your home looking and feeling Christmassy in [...]

As always, I have timed things absolutely perfectly. In the midsts of the run up to Christmas, the biggest consumer frenzy of the year, I have decided I have had enough of “stuff”. One night, as I was dredging through the depths of the internet, I stumbled upon the concept of “minimalism” – and no, [...]

Coming home to a warm and cosy home on a cold winter’s day is one of life’s simple pleasures. But with energy costs continually rising and serious concerns about global warming, most people are reluctant to have their heating on all the time. If you want to save some cash and be environmentally friendly while [...]

I don’t know about you but if I even get a sniff of that glorious off- white, shabby chic paint something triggers hysteria in my brain. Like a lot of my friends, I have become obsessed with the idea of having a super cute country cottage complete with headboard made from logs (from the woodland [...]

We’re back with our Instagram DIY Favourites, where we showcase our favourite DIY projects found on Instagram. This week we bring Geometric Sweater #bbpBox_263209381104087040 a { text-decoration:none; color:#0084B4; }#bbpBox_263209381104087040 a:hover { text-decoration:underline; } Nouveau DIY sur le blog ✂ le sweat tigre 🐯 http://t.co/nCAPdFxw October 30, 2012 9:23 am via InstagramReplyRetweetFavorite @Elsa_Muse Elsa_Muse Horrorgami #bbpBox_262564549620817920 [...]

Christmas can be a very stressful period for many people. There are gifts to be bought trees to be put up and dinners to be cooked. There must be a way to make it through this most jolly of times without suffering from a minor breakdown, so we have had a hunt around to find [...]

Here at CYB towers, we’re a bunch of lazy so-and-sos. We’re always on the lookout for tips and tricks to make our daily lives easier – and what better place to find them than the wonderful place that is the internet?! Of course, there is always an element of separating the wheat from the chaff, [...]

A broken zip slider can be really annoying; you’ve got a perfectly good item of clothing or whatever and the only thing wrong with it is that the zip slider is broken or has come off and you can’t get it back on. This happened to me recently with one of my favourite jackets; a [...]

If you’re excited about the arrival of Autumn, but can’t wait until 31 October to host a gathering, throw a ‘harvest party’ instead. Celebrate the changing seasons with a get together that honours the tradional notion of harvest season. Here are just a few ideas to get you started: Apple Wreath Source: theblinkblog.com via Krymsen [...]

When we moved into our new place my partner was adament he was putting another sofa into the already over crowded living room. “What if we have guests over?” he pleaded, selflessly thinking about the bums of the many many (none) guests we have round to our matchbox sized flat in Edinburgh every day of [...]