Saturday Morning Crafting

The kids had been begging me to do some painting for the past few days, but we have just had too much on. But this morning we had some quiet time and I broke out the kids watercolours.

 They loved it! And we need to do it more often!

And I can't wait to hang these up on the wall. They will add some much needed colour to this house.

Do you paint with your kids?

Bedside table re-vamp

I just found this post in my draft folder! It was all done and just needed an after photo! So yes, the watermarks are different on the before and after photo's but this project was done while we were still in QLD and before the blog renaming...


B and I have been together since we left school. I bought my first house at 18 and we pieced together that house with furniture from my childhood bedroom and bits and pieces my family and friends gave us.

B came with the clothes on his back and hardly anything else. Our couch was one he picked up for $45 from the Blue Nurses Garage sale that happens in town once a week. We steam cleaned it within an inch of its life and then had to sit on blanket after blanket just so it had some padding.

When we moved into this house that we built in 2006 we needed to actually buy some grown up furniture. But one of the items that you wouldn't class as grown up furniture that actually joined us on our move was this bedside table.

This little three draw thing is probably about 40 years old. I am pretty sure it was my mothers and then it was mine as a child. It was white back then, I painted it yellow myself when I was in my early teens. It has been Cadens bedside table for the past few years, but the yellow paint it really starting to show its age.

I asked him what colour he would like me to paint it and straight away he said red. So red it is.

We (I of course mean me!) set about stripping the aged yellow paint off and getting it ready for it's brand new look.

Then we smoothed it out with some sandpaper and prep it to be re-painted in Caden's colour choice.

Yes, it doesn't have any handles yet. It did, I left them outside to dry and Angus, our black Labrador ate them... Next time we are near a hardware store that doesn't charge the earth I will grab some.

My Creative Space

Over the last few weeks I have had snippets of time where I snuck away to do something crafty. I had a swap to sew for so that is always a good motivation to get in and make something. I decided on  mug rug since I had never made one before... I can usually do mitered corners with my eyes closed, well almost with my eyes closed. But do you think I could get the bloody corners right? NO! After three mug rugs I admitted defeat and went with the cheats binding version! So annoyed.
Anyhow here is what I sent my swap partner.

And I have also been wanting to try my hand at some subway type art. I know I am late to the Subway art bandwagon. But I do still love it and a few weeks back I was saying how our wall are so boring and started pinning some wall art for inspiration. So anyway last weekend we headed off to Bunnings and Lincraft so I could stock up on some craft supplies some of my ideas happen.

I wanted to go a cheapish route so that if I stuffed them up I wouldn't cry too much so I bought a sheet of MDF for $10 and we cut it in half. I didn't waste any time and started the undercoat at my first opportunity.

After numerous coats of base coat and top coat I finally started thinking about what to put on them.

Here is what I decided on for one of them:

And now I have done one coat on the words.

It is nowhere near perfect and the first thing B will say to be is that they words aren't straight! I'll be telling him I meant for it to look like that, when really, it started off straight but with two kids helping things went a bit skewed...

I will probably need two more coats on the words before I sand and then seal it. I am also thinking about putting some love birds in the bottom corners, not sure yet though.

And stay tuned for the other sign. I will hopefully be able to show it to you soon.

Have you done anything crafty lately?

What do you think of subway art? Love it or Hate it?

I am linking up with Our Creative Spaces today. Pop on over and soak in all the crafty goodness!