(singing).
Hey, guys. Welcome back to my channel and to a spring clean and decorate with me. Today,
I'm sharing with you some things I'm deep cleaning as well as some spring DIYs that I've just made
to decorate my home for the season. We're going to be doing things like deep cleaning my couch,
also deep cleaning the conservatory, including skirting boards and mopping and windows and
everything. I'm also going to show you how I made a really cute spring wreath for our door,
which was so, so easy to make. I'm also going to show you some Easter DIYs that I've done for our
lovely table display. I'm also going to show you how to make trash into terracotta, which
is so simple to do and just really effective. I'm excited to see what you guys think of these DIYs.
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But with all that said, let me start out with the spring wreath. I shared this on Instagram
and I've had so many positive comments about it. It was actually quite reasonable to make and so,
so easy. I bought the little gold hoops on Amazon, as well as the artificial flowers, and I had a
glue gun and I had some ribbon as well. I'll link everything I can down below for you guys if you
did want to recreate it. if I'm honest with you, I probably ordered enough artificial eucalyptus and
flowers to make three of these wreaths, but it's the first time I'd ever done it so I didn't know
how much I would need. But it was so simple to do, I feel like you can't get this wrong either.
First off, I took the gold hoop and then I glued on some of the artificial eucalyptus
to make a bit of a base on the wreath. Then I took the flowers and I just laid them in place
to give myself an idea of what it would look like. Before I got my hot glue gun out, I actually just
placed them where I was thinking. Then once I was happy, I started to glue them in place.
As I say, you can just keep building to this. It really doesn't have to be perfect.
I decided to just do half of the hoop. I saw this on Pinterest, that's where I got
the inspiration from, and it's just really cute, really effective. Then I had some pink ribbon
so I put some at the top to hang from our door. Then I also made a cute little bow,
which I then glued onto the ribbon at the top to just finish it off. That is it, it's that simple.
All that's left to do is hang this on our front door. I'm just so pleased with how it turned out.
It was a fraction of the price that I was looking to pay online. I love doing things like this,
so if you like crafting as well, you might enjoy making your own spring wreath.
Now, next up, I'm going to be spring cleaning or deep cleaning our conservatory. Some of
you guys will know that this room gets quite cold, there I am in the reflection
in the winter, so it's hard to use this that often during the winter, but now that it's warming up,
I think we can maybe move the dining table into here or just use this room more in general during
spring and summer. Now, this room will eventually be our new kitchen. We're actually going to knock
the conservatory down, it's quite old, and replace it with our new kitchen. That's very exciting,
but it's going to be quite a while before that happens. So while we've got it,
I really want to make the most of it. But the windows were very dirty, so I decided
to clean all of the windows. It did take a little while, but I'm just going to go around and clean
them. Then I also need to wash the skirting boards and then I also need to wash the walls a bit,
vacuum and mop and all of that, just give it a good general clean. I'll show you how I do it.
(singing). Yeah, now I've vacuumed. I'm
just going to mop. I'm using my trusty spray mop that I show all of the time and I'm showing again,
but in this, I just fill it up with warm water and then I literally put a cap full of Flash
Floor Cleaner into it as well. Then I can just spray it onto the floor and mop as I go. It's just
so handy and I just love using it. I just wanted to interrupt the song to explain it, even though I
do love that song so I'll put it back up. (singing).
Next up, I'm going to be cleaning the skirting boards in this room.
This is one of my least favorite cleaning jobs and I probably only do it once or twice a year,
but whenever I do do it, it really lifts a room,
makes it just look that bit cleaner. I really notice once I've done it. All I do is put some
warm water into a bowl like that with some washing up liquid and then I go around with a cloth.
Then when I find any scuffs or harder to clean stains, I use my Magic Eraser.
I just pick these up in Poundland. They're so great for so many things,
especially, you know when you get black marks from trainers on the walls or on the skirting boards,
anything like that, it just gets them right off. I don't really know exactly how they work,
but as I'm going around, if I notice any scuffs on the walls, I'm also using it for that because
I might as well while I'm there. But yeah, they just work on so many different things. They're
also actually great for cleaning the rubbers on your white trainers. They get everything off.
But yeah, I'm just going to go around and do all the skirting boards. This is actually a job
that I have now done that throughout the entire house, but I didn't know how many skirting boards
you'd want to see me cleaning so I didn't film all of it, but I did film this room.
Then I was just trying to show you an example of how I cleaned scuffs off the wall with it. Then
there's one of the skirting boards, but this is why you should never hand handhold a camera
while filming a cleaning video because I was just moving as I was doing it. So sorry about that,
but you get the idea, don't you? But now that is pretty much this conservatory all done. It
feels so much cleaner. I feel like it's not really showing up on the before and after because it's a
bright room anyway, but it's much cleaner. Next up, I'm going to show you how I made a
very simple DIY Easter table runner. This so easy to make. Some of you guys will know that
at Christmas, instead of ordering a 10-foot burlap table runner, I actually ordered a
10-meter burlap table runner. I have so much of this material so I thought I would put it to use.
This is so easy, all you need is some stencils and some Easter-colored paints. I got the paint
from Wilkinson's and I just printed out a little picture of a bunny and then cut it out myself to
make a stencil, rolled it over with some paint, I'm using a nice soft pink for Easter. Then all
you do is, with a hot glue gun, you just stick on a little fluffy bunny tail. It's so effective.
I also printed out some Easter egg pictures as well and carefully cut it out. How cute is that?
Oh my gosh. Oh yeah, I should say, I put the tail on with the tiniest bit of glue from my glue gun
and they really did stay on. So yeah, it's that simple. It's just so sweet. Obviously,
you could just do a bunny, but I decided to do Easter eggs as well with a nice yellow
for Easter. This took like five, 10 minutes to make. It was just so simple.
Then I thought I would dress it up with some daffodils. I've got my little bunnies there from
Poundland, so they were super cheap. Then these are actually my candle holders from Christmas,
and then I've put just some more daffodils and a few of the artificial flowers as well. Obviously,
we can't host this Easter, but this will still be so nice for just our family to enjoy. Yeah,
I just love it, so simple and just so effective. Next up, I'm going to be deep cleaning our couch.
It is so in need of a good clean. We've had this couch for 10 years, I actually
gave birth to Jackson on this couch, but also, during lockdown, some of our rules went out the
window. The kids have been eating on it, there's a few grease stains, there's crumbs everywhere
and it just needs a good wash. The good thing about this couch is you can zip all of the
cushions off and put it into the machine, so it's really handy. I do this every so often, or if the
kids spill something or if I spill a coffee or anything, it doesn't matter. You can just take
the material off and stick it into the wash. As I said, we've had this couch forever,
but as I keep saying, there's no point in getting a new one just yet, because we will
be doing a big renovation soon and we don't know exactly what style we want to go for yet,
but we'll probably be getting a new couch when we do all of the work. But during the build,
there's going to be lots of dust and there's going to be loads of mess. It does the job, so we might
as well just stick with it. See, I was going to zip everything off. There's my son, Caleb,
jumping on the cushions. Then I'm going to put them into the washing machine. I couldn't actually
get them all into one wash because they are such big cushions, so I ended up doing it in two washes
and then drying them overnight and then putting them back on the couch the next day.
But for washing them, I'm just going to be using a tablet that I would normally use.
I'm also definitely going to be using some fabric softer. This is a new one, I actually worked with
them on Instagram, but it's very concentrated. It smells really good, so I'm putting that
in. Then I'm also going to use some of my Unstoppables. I feel like they just make things
smell so nice. For the couch, that will make a big difference. I'm just going to stick all of that
in on two washes and then let it dry overnight and then put the couch back together. Luckily,
we have another couch in our front room. For that night we just ended up using the other room so it
all worked out. But now that all the cushions are off, I'm going to give it a good vacuum.
(singing). I meant to get a nice clip at the end with the
couch looking beautiful, but I completely forgot. I'm so sorry, but it's so much cleaner now.
But now I'm going to show you how to make trash into terracotta. This is such a cool hack.
All you need is some glass, some primer, some paints and some paint brushes,
and then a little bit of baking powder, and that is literally it. What I'm doing first is I'm
just priming my glass. This could be a drinking bottle, this could be an old vase that you don't
use anymore. It could literally be anything, a cup. Then all you do is take some paint, again,
I got this from Wilkinson's. I'm putting it into a little bowl and then you just add a big tablespoon
of baking powder. I probably added a bit too much just then, but it's really weird. It kind of makes
it a bit fluffy and textured. Then you go ahead and paint that onto your primed glass. I didn't
even have to wait long for the prime to dry. Just give it a good paint, and then when it dries
it looks like terracotta. It's the coolest effect. Then you can use it as a little vase for flowers
or anything really. I've also seen people making bigger vases like this, and then with a black
paint, just painting on a very simple design, like maybe a little face or maybe some trees. It just
looks really cool. Honestly, some of the things I've seen look like they're from anthropology
and you pay loads of money for it, but in fact, you've just made it out of something you probably
didn't want any more anyway. But hopefully you can see how the paint is like a little bit thicker.
It almost goes a bit fluffy, like when you add baking powder to pancake mix.
But yeah, that is pretty much it. When it's all dry it's so effective and it's all matte finished.
That's everything that I wanted to show you guys today. I hope you really enjoyed it.
Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you on my next one. Bye, guys.