BUSY PAINTING STUFF!!~~~

Hi ladies...

I have been busy (in between looking after dad)...painting some STUFF today..

I bought 3 x vintage singer sewing machine drawers...very dusty & kind of boring..

RE PAINTED white...sanded back.....rough shabby chic goodies?? (going to be used displaying stuff in an event upcoming...)..~~~

& i had a galvanised iron bookcase thingey...??

applied an undercoat....(primer for galvanised iron).. ....(water based..)!!!

AND just given one coat of top paint...semi gloss..(also water based)!!!

& am just going to use this as a SHABBY chippy item....re display purposes for the fair i am doing in August...

Stay tuned & i shall show you a DEMO of what will transpire with this very fragile bookcase??

so HAD a bit of FUN painting BITS & BOBS today...~~~~~~~

xx andrea

WOW! LOOK WHAT ARRIVED TODAY...A LITTLE LIKE CHRISTMAS!!!~~~

Hi ladies...

Well it has been a little bit like "CHRISTMAS" time this afternoon...

UNWRAPPING LOTS of PRESSIES!!

Okay...my eldest son went to Japan for 2 weeks a few weeks ago during his uni holidays...& having visited him whilst studying in Japan some 18 months ago..

I had an AGENDA of goodies for him to buy for ME!! & my MUM...

So these parcels arrived today...

Lots of CATH KIDSTON STUFF!!! which I LOOOVE~~~~~~~~

a wonderful heavy duty FRENCHY noteboard holder...~~~~~~~

GORGEOUS "MARY QUANT" goodies for my 88 yo mum...SHE WILL JUST LOVE LOVE THE BERET!!~~~

& THE GORGEOUS JAPANESE HOME/CLOTHING magazines...

THESE are just SUPER!!! (shown a few photos from their pages)...

plus he has sent a great shirt for my dad and his brother..

so this arvo has been a little like unwrapping WONDERFUL xmas pressies !!!

& I think we ALL LOVE THAT!~~~~~~especially in JUNE!!~~~~~~

speak soon...xx andrea

ps..sorry some of the photos are a tad blurry...MMM!! another technical thing I have to deal with!!~~~~~~~~~~

FRIDAY'S VINTAGE FINDS~~~~~~~~

Hello ladies...

Well dad is home after his knee operation & I am more than busy looking after him.

This operation was much tougher than the last knee (as more wear on this knee)..so he is a tad behind with his progress...

Has lost heaps of weight/body tone & colour...SO i am pampering him NON STOP!!

as such I have cancelled all tennis lessons etc & only "zip" around the street to get groceries whilst he lies still on the couch with SOOTY!! (under STRICT instructions NOT to move until I get back home)....as our house has lots of stairs which would be pretty treacherous for him to navigate solo...even with his walker...

BUT having NOT listed anything on ebay for ages & not been junk market hunting I had a tad WITHDRAWAL this morning..

Having positioned DAD on the couch with his nice view of Melbourne...sooty at his side...a cuppa tea..the newspaper.....I quickly zipped up the road to a great little op shop & found the following...(per photos)...

from religious padded images (not that I am religious BUT I love the colours)...

wonderful bevilled edge glass framed image..

cute hand embroidered cushions..

photos show the story....love them ALL ...especially the set of 6 x BIRD placemats...

ps...also included photos of the LATEST GORGEOUS book i purchased..

"TABLE STYLE"... gorgeous!!!

have a great weekend...

xx andrea

MY SATURDAY DELIGHTS..!! BRINGING A SMILE TO MY FACE..

Hello ladies....just a little post to share with you about what is making my SATURDAY bringing a smile to my face..

With winter in australia just a few days away now...the wonderful JONQUILS are just starting to hit the market...

SOO of course i had to buy some bunches and place them in my left over (washed!!) tin cans..tied with some string...

(hey..re my last post..more scales have been added!!)..~~ soo they are sitting with some of these scales...!!

PLUS with this season my favourite ALL time fruit is in abundance right now...MANDARINS...!!! (& i eat the skin as well!!! well some pieces..NOT all)...

AND I purchased my brand new TENNIS runners which have been on order for a few months now...as my old ones have worn out..

CHECK out the sexy MAROON colour??? what do ya think??...

whilst down the street a friend reminded me they match my glasses!!!

(a skirt matching is apparently on the horizon to come into the sports store)..~~

AND I have kind of gone a bit TIN BIRD psycho..?? a few posts ago i showed my new laptop/ebay/table blogging arrangement with some tin birds hanging from my centre piece..

Well i found a few NEW tin birds & a butterfly tucked away in my "ebay" room...so they have been added to this little tree branch...(which is now leaning far way to the right with the extra weight!)...

HEY!! leaning to THE RIGHT!!! nudge nudge wink wink!! re the election...~~~~just realised what I kind of said...??? shall leave it there!!!

AND in my bathroom I had a blank space left when removing a picture etc...SOO I went to KIMS shop (the white artichoke) the other day & bought two lovely cream tin birds...& i have hung them up on the vacant hook with differing blue ribbon that i have..

AND last but NOT least...lovely little photo of my gorgeous SOOTY (my 11yo toy poodle for bloggers who have no idea what I am talking about)..

ps...my dad is still in hospital re his new knee op...hopefully coming home to MOIS this wednesday..?? going well...but has lost weight & colour again...which i guess is associated with lying in a hospital bed...hardly able to move for 3 weeks...(would HATE to think what I would look like???)~~~~~

xx andrea

LOVING VINTAGE KITCHEN SCALES??~~~~

Hello ladies...

quick little post featuring a little collection of MY VINTAGE kitchen scales..

They are a FANTASTIC goodie...available at quite a cheap price on ebay and Oztion..

Great grouped together...

I have a couple in my bathroom with some soaps in their dish..

I have shown some which I have in my kitchen...

I am continually ADDING to this collection!!!

xx andrea