A few weeks ago I came across a thread on UKscrappers which lead me to this blog
I was so inspired by the projects this lady had recycled by painting that i decided to set to myself.
We have just moved house for 6 months whilst our new house is built and have donated to charity and thrown away loads of stuff.
I had kept a couple of lamps wondering what I may do with them, well here is one newly painted and varnished, this lamp started out as Mahogany but I think it looks a lot better now, I just need to find a nice shade for it but I am going to wait until the new house is ready so that it can fit in with the new colour scheme.
Also this old fashioned blanket box is years old and has been painted once in red to match my little girls bedroom when she was a baby, she had a Winnie the Pooh theme, hence the ‘ABC’ knob that you can see in the picture.
Well again Ive painted it Antique White and I have to say I love how it looks.
I may put it in our play/craft room again in the new house that’s why Ive put the ‘ABC’ knob back on.
However we are building a self contained holiday let next door to our new house so I may put it in there with spare bedding in it and then I will change the knob.
I think they look ok.
As the title says but fortunately not at the same time! First my running I went for the first run of my week two podcasts i am following as mentioned in the thread under this one.
Well I dont know what was wrong with me but my brisk walk inbetween runs did not even feel brisk today.
I managed to run 4 of the 6, 1.5 minutes i had to walk one and nearly completed the last.
So i will have to see how I get on when I do my second run this week.
Now after I had showered and recovered from that i decided to make the monkey masks posted on the ‘Pazzles Craft Room’ website recently for my little girl and her friend.
My little girl is at another party today so I have had five and a half hours on my own.
some of you may know I have moved recently for 6 months whilst my new house is ready and I have not unpacked any of my crafting supplies my precious Pazzles Inspiration is sitting on the floor of my dressing area.
When I came to use it today to make the mask it had some dust on it so I decided to make a dust cover for it whilst I had the time.
So here are the fruits of my labours I am please with the dust cover as I am not a sewer and until recently I had not touched a sewing machine for about 30 years I even sewed the button on the centre of the flower with the machine.
Click on the image to see a bigger view
Megan from Above Rubies Studio has posted my paper flower wreath tutorial on her website that I did some time ago you can find it
It got me thinking this would look great for summer done in fabric flowers, which I think will have to be my next project, watch this space!
But here is one I did a couple of years ago using conkers that my little girl collected in the autumn, so any media could be used.
If these have inspired you send me photos of your projects and I will post them on the blog.