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Welcome to my blog

I created this space to fill with my creative pursuits and interests.

If you’re equally interested in scrapbooking, drawing, painting, shopping, all things beauty, books, podcasts, polka dots, pizza and maine coon cats… well, this is the place for you.

May I say, what a smashing blouse you have on

nelly and clem
ikea hack - diy craft room desk
Feb 17

Feb 17 ikea hack - diy craft room desk

nelly + clem
diy, ikea hack, craft room, misc, desk

One thing that I’ve been promising and hinting about for a little while has been my craft room makeover. It’s been plodding along slowly and if you follow my Instagram you’ll have noticed a few weeks ago I purchased some hairpin legs to create a desk for my room…

love day - a collection of sweet treats
Feb 10

Feb 10 love day - a collection of sweet treats

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gift, guide, shopping, misc, valentines, love

I’m not here to talk about the weather (even though in England that’s all we bang on about), I’m here to talk about L-O-V-E, specifically Valentine’s Day which is slamming down hard on Thursday 14th February…

slogan this - a collection of bright and bold jumpers
Feb 3

Feb 3 slogan this - a collection of bright and bold jumpers

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gift, guide, shopping, clothing, misc

What a joke. We had hardly had any snow at home. Don’t get me wrong, it’s been icy and a pretty chilly, but nothing in comparison to what the papers were predicting in my area *insert eye roll*

sunny scrap - an autumnal stroll for coffee turned scrap
Jan 27

Jan 27 sunny scrap - an autumnal stroll for coffee turned scrap

nelly + clem
scrap, craft, scrapbooking

I starting compiling this 12x12 waaaaaay back in early December and it’s taken me frankly ages to blog about it… my bad. I took the photos on a gorgeously sunny morning in October…

smile time - a collection of happy homewares
Jan 21

Jan 21 smile time - a collection of happy homewares

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smile, shopping, homeware, misc, gift, guide

It’s at times like these that I need to find some fun or else I slip into a Princess Bride-esque Pit of Despair. As I’m sofa bound, I’ve decided to find that fun in the form of shopping for homewares online - haha…

podcast blast - an intro to podcast listening
Jan 13

Jan 13 podcast blast - an intro to podcast listening

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podcast, recommendation, truecrime, misc

My husband tried for years to get me into podcasts to no avail (I feel pretty bad about my resistance now) and it took a friend at work to recommend My Dad Wrote a Porno, to open me up to the frankly massive world of podcasts…

winter fixes - beauty buys to help save face
Jan 6

Jan 6 winter fixes - beauty buys to help save face

nelly + clem
gift, guide, shopping, beauty, winter, misc

Last week was cold… the first proper few days of cold we’ve had for a little while, and I wasn’t prepared. That coldness coupled with my office being super chilly meant that by Friday my entire face had peeled off…

let's do it - new year's resolutions in scrap
Dec 30

Dec 30 let's do it - new year's resolutions in scrap

nelly + clem
scrap, craft, scrapbooking

With all of my 2019 plans bubbling around in my brain I decided to present these happy thoughts using the medium of scrap and embellishments…

plan ahead - a collection of planners for 2019
Dec 9

Dec 9 plan ahead - a collection of planners for 2019

nelly + clem
gift, guide, shopping, planner

To plan all of my plans and get myself in an organisational zone of achievement (OZA) and quit faffing about I’m going to need a planner…

journal time - an intro to my travelers journal
Nov 26

Nov 26 journal time - an intro to my travelers journal

nelly + clem
scrap, craft, scrapbooking, TN

Being on Instagram and Pinterest I’ve seen a lot of people posting about their travelers journals and travelers notebooks or TNs…

gettin' festive - a christmas gift guide for picky peeps
Nov 17

Nov 17 gettin' festive - a christmas gift guide for picky peeps

nelly + clem
christmas, gift, guide, shopping

Well, even though its Saturday 17th November, I am exceptionally late to the Christmas party - apparently its Christmas Eve and no-one told me. What I mean by this little sarcastic comment is this…

super scrap - a massive 9x9 photo and embellishment scrap
Nov 11

Nov 11 super scrap - a massive 9x9 photo and embellishment scrap

nelly + clem
scrap, craft, scrapbooking

If you follow my Instagram feed @nellyandclem you may have noticed the bare-bones of this 12x12 which appeared on the 22nd October…

spooky scrap - my first halloween themed scrap
Nov 4

Nov 4 spooky scrap - my first halloween themed scrap

nelly + clem
scrap, craft, scrapbooking

I’ve had some gloriously ghoulish photos which I have wanted to do something with for quite some time. They were taken a few years ago now…

cushion pushin' - ohh deer cushion competition 2018
Oct 21

Oct 21 cushion pushin' - ohh deer cushion competition 2018

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design, competition, cushion, ohhdeer, drawing, misc

Something else I have been fooling around with is an entry to a competition on one of my favourite websites - Ohh Deer…

scrap attack - maggie holmes carousel pink and turquoise scrap
Oct 15

Oct 15 scrap attack - maggie holmes carousel pink and turquoise scrap

nelly + clem
scrap, craft, scrapbooking

On Friday I had a little online shopping splurge at Hobbycraft (oops) and purchased a rather gorgeous paper pad by the marvellously talented Maggie Holmes…

it starts... my very first blog post
Oct 9

Oct 9 it starts... my very first blog post

nelly + clem
beginning, start, misc

Remember that? “It starts” used to be said by Timon at the very beginning of The Lion King video game. We had it on the Sega Mega Drive when I was growing up…

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Faffing around with a new black and white 12x12 project... it’s been awhile so I’m getting my mojo back one stamp at a time 😁
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Working from home today with this fuzzy berk following me around, chewing on my cables a generally making a nuisance of herself... bless 😸
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New blog post up all about how I created this Ikea hack hairpin leg desk for my craft room 🤩 If you want to see my ‘how to guide’ feel free to visit my blog at www.nellyandclem.com/home/ikeahackdiy 💗
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