Stacey Solomon reveals she has accidentally given herself a black eye with latest DIY endeavour

Crafting and DIY enthusiast Stacey Solomon has revealed that her latest project has resulted in her accidentally giving herself a black eye.

The Loose Women panellist, 34, and her family have recently taken in two ducklings at their home known as Pickle Cottage in Essex.

She had already fashioned a play pen for them, but decided to take it one step further and build a coop.

Taking to Instagram on Tuesday however, she explained that enthusiasm had led to her receiving a nasty cut to her left eye.

Sharing a clip on Instagram Stories, the mum-of-five told her 5.9m followers: “I thought ‘If I don't put it up right this second I won't put it up until the weekend’. And any normal person would say ‘It's fine put it up at the weekend, they're not going to be in that coop for another six weeks’ but my toxic trait is if there's something in front of me I have to do it immediately.

“So I persisted to build a duck coop in literally dusk, dusk lighting and I got to the roof, got to the triangle bit on the roof and dropped it on my eye [laughs].

“Ugh why am I like this? So that'll be fun at the shoot tomorrow. It will probably be worse tomorrow. It's always worse the day after the day after.”

The affliction didn’t ruin her delight at how it had all come together in the end however, adding: “But it was worth it. I'll show the coop it looks really good.

“I've still got to do the base and dig out the pond but it is really cool and I'm very excited.”