For a while now Craig and I haven't been enjoying making wall stickers for a living. I still love designing but manually making each and every wall sticker order by hand in our tiny office was starting to take its toll. The busier we got the more unhappy we where going to work as it was so cramped and cluttered with hardly any space to move let alone make cut weed tape and pack orders. So with that being said...we decided with a heavy heart to close Vunk.co.uk and stop selling Wall stickers.

Even though we both know this decision is the right thing to do for us both, it's still a risk closing something that's made us a living for years now. but it's a risk we are willing to take because quality of life is more important and working all hours of the day and weekends was really starting to get us down. I can now concentrate on what I love most...illustrating and graphic design for my website sjillustration.bigcartel.com

So....as you can see...I have a whole new office space and set up. We no longer need a 4ft x 6ft table in a 6ft x 8ft room to make wall stickers on so we whipped out the jigsaw and starting creating a new desk . We both wanted a fresh modern and inspiring work space to keep us motivated and happy whilst we work. I painted the new desk white and we rearranged the room so it's much more spacious and easier to work in.

I also painted the office white so that any colour would be added by cool quirky accessories. I immediately printed some artwork off of Pinterest and created a mini gallery style display above my computer.

Being my own boss how could I not have a GIRL BOSS print on my wall. I love unusual art so the raccoon painting by   is so beautiful to look at and I think it fits in really well with the mix of colours I've chosen as well as a few monochrome prints.

Of course I wasn't going to not have a few up to date photos of Craig & I and our beautiful boy Scottie Cat. I've used a cactus wire photo holder from Primark to hold these pictures.

And lastly but certainly not least...you all know how much I LOVE creating things and craft in general. We will be getting some small succulent plants soon but for the time being I've made these origami cacti which I've placed in brown shredded paper inside of empty coffee cans. I'm really pleased with how these turned out as they were my first origami cacti and I they were super easy and quick to make.

If you've not already checked out my website sjillustration.bigcartel.com then I hope you like it and also my full range of art prints is still available on my eBay Store here.

I haven't felt the urge to want to change our bedroom theme for years now but recently with all the changes around the house and having the redecorating  bug, I finally want to mix it up a bit. Well a lot! 

From Paris boudoir to Unicorn heaven with this new fun and colourful range from Primark Home. I've already bought the new I Donut Care Bedding but we still have to paint the walls white and perhaps wallpaper the feature wall with white brick effect paper! 

I'll still keep all of our Paris bedding and Paris lamps in storage for when we want a change but we will have to remove the Paris Eiffel tower wall Sticker unfortunately as that's the wall we want the wallpaper on.

I can't wait to swap our lamps for cloud and star lamps (pictures below) and I quite fancy making some paper pom garlands for behind the bed like the picture in the colours in on the bedding. 

I've wanted to get a new garden patio set for a while now as we have had ours for almost 7 years! It had rusted loads as we've never covered it in the garden and it was starting to look really scruffy. Patio sets can vary in price from few hundred pounds down to around £60 for  a cheaper set or you can think about respraying your old set. Our seats hadn't worn at all,so we decided to try and respray the rusty metal frame as we love a good DIY, especially garden DIY when the weathers nice!

WARNING!! This post is extremely picture heavy ...

As you can see from the pictures above, our garden set was so rusty and in need of some TLC. We started this DIY project by taking all the chairs and table apart so that we could work with the metal frame without the seat material getting ruined.

Once the set was all in pieces, we then took a pack of sandpaper ,some protective gloves and our dust masks and started to sand the rust down on the metals frame. We didn't have to do this step necessarily but there where a few rough and bubbly patches of rust which we didn't want to show through the spray paint.

Hammerite where very kind and sent us a voucher for 4 cans of their smooth Direct To Rust Metal Spray Paint* in which ever colour we wanted. Their range has a total of 8 shades, Black, White, Green, Blue, Red, Yellow, Gold and silver. Which each come in either hammered or smooth finish. We chose the smooth finish and in the silver shade as we thought that would look best with the black seat material. 

These photos where taken after one coat on each side of the patio set. The coverage of the Hammerite spray is fantastic and we where shocked at how well it covered the rust in only one coat. The cans say to apply 3-4 coats for best coverage but we only did 2 coats on each side to complete the whole process. 

As you can see the rust has been completely covered and as Hammerite is Primer, colour and top coat all in the one can, there's no need to buy anymore primers etc. I'm so pleased with how the Hammerite has re finished out patio set and I couldn't be more shocked at only using 2 coats each side!!

We put the chairs and table back together and put the black seat material back onto the chairs also and we couldn't get over how amazing the set looks! After months of complaining about it looking rubbish in the garden all rusty and having to crop it out of my Instagram photos, I can now finally sit proud on my patio set thanks to Hammerites Direct to Rust Spray!

Then finished results of the Hammerite Direct to rust spray* is so amazing and the patio set looks brand new! Everyone who has seen it so far is shocked at the finish and I can't recommend Hammerite enough! The can vary in price, ours where from B&Q which I think cost around £12 a can but you can find them much cheaper in Wilkos and Halfords. 

Again, I am so happy with the finished resprayed patio set and recommend it to anyone who would like to spruce up any old metal items in the garden! Its so easy to use and dries so quickly! All we have left to finish on the set is the screws as they are still a tad rusty from where they were removed to take the set apart, so we will touch those up with the spray soon. 

Our next DIY project is a Garden Pallet Corner Sofa! I've seen these all over Pinterest and need to make our own ASAP! Let the hunt for pallets commence :) 

What do you think if our new refinished garden patio set? Let me know if you have any garden DIY projects planned for this summer, I'd love to hear about them in the comments?

Thanks for reading!

*This post contains products sent for review. All opinions are my own and 100% honest.

 The third topic for the 2014 Blogger Challenge was kind of a hard topic for me as it was called 'Once Upon A Time' , and had to be about a book you've read. I'm a really bad book reader and Id love to say I read loads of book but I dont and never really have. I read so many blogs/news/showbiz posts everyday but I rarely pick up a book and read it...with that said I have recently been loving the book my friend Emily bought me for Christmas which is this nail art book by Donne & Ginny Geer called Nail Candy...