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What started as a wood work business, this is now a page to share some DIY and upcycling goodies.

09/02/2025

✔️Bookshelf project complete 🙂

It has been a long few days of stripping/scraping and sanding to get rid of the old baked on 70s finish.

- I was a tad nervy adding a completely new colour - but I think once we do a little kitchen upgrade soon - which is a fairly neutral white shade - this should pop!! I have had a few months of toying with what colour (the backing was too thin and damaged to try and keep natural) - finally pretty happy with the colour choice.

- I added a few accessories from around the house - and sanded back the "family rules" blackboard to match 🙂

✔️Great to have this one ticked off.. a lot more 70s wood colour through the house to go still tho - next up internal doors😓

06/02/2025

✔️Next house project is an internal bookshelf in our kitchen. I would say it's still the original rimu but has really oranged over time and pretty rough when you look close 😉

✔️1st photo was it this morning and the 2nd is my current inspo.. I did start this morning with absolutely no idea what I wanted the finished project to look like, so it could well change again😉

🤞hopefully by the end of the weekend I can share the finished product 😉!

03/01/2025

✔️New year means again new goals to try and be more creative - this year I really hope to find the time🙂

💥It has started with a bang - I was lucky enough to have 5 days alone to give our bedroom a complete makeover whilst hubby took the girls camping. A project I have been trying to do since we moved in 4 years ago.

✔️painted our bedroom
✔️stripped our whole bedroom suite to a more natural look
✔️stripped our original bed we made over 10 years ago - out of totara to now be more natural.
✔️did another small side table we had in the dining room

🖤but by getting rid of the silver/black and white wall paper and blue walls it then made our bedroom wall look really bare - I had brought these placemats from Kmart a few years back for a potential project..pleased I kept them as it feels like I have a free piece of wall art now 😉

The large kitchen inbuilt bookshelf is next up 😉

(some photos of the weeks projects in comments)

24/11/2024

Gosh it's been a while - but got my craft on today 😉!
Just in case anyone is still following and is wanting a cheap coffee table display for the pending festive season..
I dried orange slices in the oven today, recycled cones I have used for the last few years as Xmas table decorations and added some cinnamon sticks.

11/01/2024

I have finally got the machine out after a good long year.... excitement and outfit building/making has just begun.. Miss 14 has started her first practise for the "top" part of her outfit for the upcoming much anticipated "Taylor" concert!🙂

Still here, but just no time for crafting or DIY.. feels fun to get the machine out tho 😉!!I do have a few things on my list for 2024 if I can find some time!

So stoked with our first effort!

23/11/2022

Things have been a bit quiet around here with any crafting of late.. but thought I would share a few photos of some "making" my mother in law made for us... many many hours of making.

This is the first year we have had these divine "12 days of Christmas" hand embroided felt ornaments. The patience to do this type of project must be immense! .. to make it more special each of her children's family recieved a set.

I have gone back and forth as to how to best hang them to show them off.. this first year they are being hung as a bunting - I have made decals for the pegs numbers tonight - but the bonus with these is I can change the way we hang them each year. (Still undecided if they will stay on the stripes under the stags head.. but for the next week they are here)

Pretty special heirloom to have.

31/10/2022

✔️Quick zhuzh up of our old power metre reading boxes before dinner tonight.

These boxes are right in our main entry way, and were so old and yellowed and have been on the list of "to do's" for a while.. hardest thing was to chose a colour to blend that was going to bend in.

Amazing what a can of spray paint can do... just so satisfying small projects like this!

17/10/2022

✔️I planted my very first vege garden over the weekend.. a little excited being a first timer!!!

My poor husband got a phone call today as I had an idea on how to pretty that garden up 😉 !! Sooo he kindly cut up some wood and tonight my helper and I are now making custom stakes for the new vege garden👩‍🌾

🤞and the waiting game now to see if my flash stakes actually match the veges in a few weeks 😉

16/10/2022

A super quick upcycling tonight whilst watching the netball!! Go the Silver Ferns!!

I have needed some magazine holders/folders for work for awhile but the size I was after, we were struggling to find due to covid hold ups.

Managed to find some old ones on Friday at one of our offices and tonight giving them a super quick pretty up with some left over vinyl I had for work tomorrow 🙂

My desk will look super flash now ;)

02/10/2022

✔️And last weekends "welcome sign" project has found its place tonight in our carport 🙂

🤔Bit of debate over the positioning but we couldn't use the main concrete wall as that is where the girls do their netball passes;)

✔️Really happy with this upcycling with next to no cost as everything was on hand (or found in garden). The before is in the comments if you are seeing the post for the first time 🙂

26/09/2022

Another completely going off track project - whilst doing the top coat on the garden shed today - I didn't even know I needed one of these prior to today😉

I found the very base of an old rotten wine barrel buried in the garden, and decided to try and do something with the rusty old circular ring.

Will hang this at one of our entrance ways 🙂 it's about 60 cm so quite big. Some good ole eucalypt wood we had - which we were going to make into garden tool storage hangers - that might be next weeks job 🙂

Will be against a concrete block wall and all our doors are black so should hopefully pop once we hang it 🙂

Last photo is what I started with :)

25/09/2022

Smaller upcycling job finished today,...

🤔TBH I was painting the garden shed and then got one coat on and completely waylaid by some pots that were calling out for some attention too🙂

✔️I saw the price of planters yesterday while down in Invercargill and true to fashion decided I should just tidy the ones I already have up.

✔️These were painted a few different colours different 😉 but finally happy with a more muted tone. Such a difference and no cost really as had the paint for other projects 🙂

🤷🏻‍♀️I am not a gardener at all - but any tips on what plants I could put in them now greatfully recieved 🤞

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