MAKING!

Good evening my dears,I have a few days off work,it's been lovely pottering about sewing and painting.I went skip dipping in the rain the other day and got a wooden table,a large mirror and two heavy terracotta plant pots!! I painted the table in Annie Sloan old white and the mirror too.The table went to La Boheme this

afternoon along with some sewing bits and bobs.I think I will keep the pots as they look rather good outside my kitchen door! I made some cushions for my garden bench, that I have put in my kitchen, as I think it will get used more there! It just needs  painting but that will have to wait until after my annual jaunt to Lanzorote, we leave next Thursday for 2 weeks hooray!! I have a pile of books to read,but I will miss my little sewing room,even though I'm not very good at sewing yet but I SHALL persevere!! I made Lavender bags, a la Sarah Moore, hopefully they will sell and give me confidence in my abilities!! I just need to slow down and not rush things eager to see the finished result and therefore not as neat as they could be!!! I did put zips in two of the cushions and though a bit wonky not too horrendous for my 1st go I thought!! Also purchased a gorgeous embroidered tablecloth,butterflies and flowers,a bit pricey at £8 from a charity shop,so will have to keep it for myself as I couldn't sell for a profit! Well I'll say ttfn and catch up with all of you after my hols!

PAINTING AND PLANTS!

Good evening,have you all been rained on?At least it's good for the plants!Mine are doing well in their tin baths...............

Also here's a picture of my newly painted lamp,which I'm keeping for myself!Also the tea trolly tha

t will be going to LA BOHEME,painted in Dulux Cream Tea,quite appropriate I thought!

SHOPPING,WASHING,SEWING,PAINTING!!

Good Evening my dears,I hope you've all had a good Saturday.I get one off in three from work so they are precious for shopping!Hubby took me over to Matlock and I had a BRILLIANT day browsing all the antique and charity shops.Here comes the Generation Game conveyor belt bit,I got curtains to cut up to make cushions,a darling pink teapot £2!!a couple of bobbins of orange cotton,2 cushions,and a very pretty lampshade.Then I found a FAB!! Aladdins cave vintage shop,with some really good prices,hubby waited in the car while I went in I think he was almost shopped out!! I got a lamp cum table for £32! I'd seen a similar one earlier for £98!!! a shabby tea trolley that was standing outside in the rain!£5,then my heart was beating VERY fast as I sorted through a box of 10pence china!!! I felt quite sure that the dear old lady behind the counter would easily find some smelling salts ,should I faint with delight, as the shop had everything else,yes even a kichen sink!! Anyway I got 6 pretty cups from one box and managed to find some matching saucers in another!I also got what I thought were a couple of single duvet covers that I thought I could make into some cushions,and they turned out to be a pair of sheets! when I got them home,only one pillow case though but, I had the jolly marvellous idea of cutting an old white pillowcase in half and did the same with the single pillowcase sewed them together and I was  puffed up like a pigeon (no Dove,I don't like pigeons!)with pride at the fact I had created 2 pillowcases from  one!Anyway that's rather a lot of words now here are the pictures................ P.s Got the pictures in a bit of a muddle,first one is my new duvet cover from BHS with china cakestands,teapots and cake etc,2nd one is some Lavender bags that I made,forgot to mention the scales I got for £15! with imperial AND metric weights,so my dears there are still bargains to be had if you are lucky!I am painting the lamp Laura Ashley duck egg blue I will post a picture when it is finished! Hope I didn't bore you to death with all my ramblings!! PPS,the last picture is showing a little dried flower picture that I bought from Charlotte from A Cottage In Totteridge blog.

SEW BUSY!

Good evening my dears,hope you've been enjoying the beautiful sunshine! I am happily ensconsed(?) in my little sewing room and have been pottering about doing little bits and pieces, a cushion from an old shirt,a lace edged gingham picnic cloth with napkins and oddly enough a little owl!! My sewing skill number is 6 (Aged 6!!!!!)Here we are,you can titter but not guffaw please! Thankyou kindly. Also made the Gemma Nemer fabric brooch from her pattern in Mollie Makes..............

READY TO SEW!

Good evening,I've had a Brilliant day,I am off work until Monday so I have lots of time to do stuff.I'm reorganising some rooms in my house and the little bedroom is now a sewing room.I was thrilled to bits when I had an idea to make an old wardrobe into a sewing table!!All you thrifty folk out there will be most impressed I'm sure!!I also painted my pine dresser in Annie Sloan old white,it's drying as I type so cannot wait to see it in the daylight tomorrow!!

NEW ROOMS TO BE CREATED!

Good evening,please excuse any wonky writing as I'm listening to Open All Hours as I type, hee hee dddoes mmmake me ggggigggle!! ANYWAY,my youngest daughter has just flown the nest, on her own, and I have my house back( free from all her furniture that came  with her after her relationship broke down over a year ago)Now I can turn my little bedroom into a sewing room hurrah!! and I am reorganising other rooms in the house at the same time so it's all go at the moment!!.............1st picture my Easter table,followed by homemade Easter cake,my grass in a tin, as recommended by Mrs Custard and the little bedroom as it looks now.I can't wait until it's all done,I have a few days off work next week so that's when it will be transformed!I would really like a proper sewing table but I shall have to make do with what I have so we'll see!

GROW WILD!

It's a beautiful sunny day and my day off.I got my Countryfile Grow Wild seeds so I think I'll pop out and plant them in my( new to me) old tin bath.