Ways with Words......

During the last few weeks the weather has not been conducive for much outside activity....so my roving eye has been scanning the house, ever searching for a way to personalise our space-always on the tighest of budgets!

One of the easiest ways to add some interest to your home is by "tarting" with art-of course, art is in the eye of the beholder!

Now, as much as I would love a Van Gogh in the entry.... the pockets are not likely to be deep enough in this lifetime..plus I like personal touches.

Ergo-enter my trusty Toshiba laptop and home printer.

 

 

I printed out a piece of prose I wrote last week, whacked it in a cheap frame and put it up in our entry. I'm contemplating pasting the printout onto an old piece of timber and distressing it.. or getting a better frame.

 

The beauty is that because it is so cheap it matters not if I make a right royal cockup of it! I can just print out another one!

 

This little print joins a couple of other pieces around the house.....

 

 

Above our bed is a fragment of His Lordship's favourite song...

 



And in our living room I have hung this:

 

Our family is at the point where this particular piece is very pertinent!

 

What other cheap decorating ideas have you got?