Lots of projects that need starting

I have a few projects sitting around at the moment that need finishing or actually starting! The last couple of weeks seem to have gone by in a blur, and with the typical British weather the hubs has not been able to go outside and sand anything for me. Here are the projects sitting around at the moment.

I've got two of these chairs waiting to be painted, one is destined for my eldest sons room to use with his desk and he's informed me he wants it painting red. They're a bit rickety and they need a good sand but for £2 for the pair I considered them a bargain.

I saw this sewing box in the local hospice shop originally priced at £10 and as much as I liked it I couldn't justify spending that much on something that I haven't really got space for. Later in the week it was still sitting in the shop and had been reduced to £2! Well for that price I snapped it up, no idea where I'm going to put it but I'm looking forward to painting it. (I'm sure I'll squeeze it in somewhere)

It was quite grubby inside but the fabric is quite pretty and I managed to salvage a few scraps(after a good soak in some vanish)  to use in other craft projects. It had a split in one of the legs but the hubs has glued it now it's just waiting to be sanded.

I showed these on an earlier post, well I've painted one so far and told the hubs where I want to put them in the living room (he's not too keen) but I have no idea what to display on them, any ideas?

I bought this cabinet quite a while ago, again it was a bargain at just a couple of pounds, but it has so many layers of gloss both inside and out. It's going to need a chemical stripper on it and that seems such a daunting task that it's been stashed away under the bed.

Again this is something that I have no idea where I'm going to put it when it's completed. Are you starting to see a theme here with things I buy? lol

One item that I have bought recently and have painted  (Yay!!) is this mantle clock.

I forgot to take a picture before the hubs pulled it apart for me to paint. I used a tester pot of emulsion to paint it then I was going to varnish it but that didn't go to plan. The emulsion went on awful, I think because there is so much detail in it. So I decided to sand it down and start again but as I was sanding it back I really liked the distressed look. Once I'd finished sanding it to reach the desired effect I waxed it and ta da!

I quite like the shabby chic look of it now, what do you think?

Well that's the round up of all my 'to paint' projects, there's a few sewing projects on top of this lot (I need more hours in the day!)

And just to say a hello and thank you to my new followers.

My finished dresser!!

Well in my last post I showed you a peek of the dresser I bought off ebay, well it's been completely made over, mainly by my wonderful hubs. He worked extremely hard, he took it apart, sanded it, stained, waxed and painted it and now it looks like a completely different dresser. Just a warning that this post is going to be full of pictures (some may think it's sad how excited I am over this dresser but I really do love it!)

Here's a reminder what it looked like before

And here is a pic (ok a few pics of it after)

And here's lots of pics showing the reasons why I'm so excited about having this dresser, it's a place to display all my knick-knacks!!

If you managed to make your way through all the pictures thanks for sharing in my excitement xx

A new quilt and other knick-knacks

I have been looking for a handmade quilt for the bed for a while now but they seem to be few and far between, I would love to be able to make one but they are far beyond my basic sewing skills. Well last week I found one in our local hospice charity shop.

I'm not the only one who loves it though!

I also picked up a couple of sheets, not sure if there's any age to them (I don't really know a lot about vintage sheets) but I really liked the patterns and they'll eventually be cut up and made into one of the many ideas floating round in my head.

The purchase I'm most excited about recently is my dresser, yes I have finally found one! After buying all my knick-knacks and never having anywhere to put them I can now have them all out on display. But not quite yet, at the moment the dresser is in several pieces being sanded, stained and painted to within an inch of it's life.

Here'e a before shot and hopefully next week I can show you it finished.

After finding out I'd bought a dresser my mum went digging in the back of her wardrobe of pulled out.....

                                   
                                                                 Not one Sylvac bunny



                                                                   But two Sylvac bunnies!!

She asked me if I wanted them to put in my dresser, as you can guess my answer was a big fat YES. 
Aren't they cute? 

Yesterday I also picked up a little tea set. Now I was originally only going to collect local china made in Stoke on Trent. I liked the idea of having some local history in my home and researching about all the little pot banks that were once around my area. But the one I picked up yesterday is Royal Tara from Ireland, it was too pretty not to have.

I'll do another post later and show you some more pictures of the other pieces, I'd love to find out some more about it too.


Just wanted to say hi and thank you to those who have chose to follow my blog. xx