Greetings lovely friends & readers
Gosh here it is the 11th already ... over a week gone by so fast !
When we extended the deck around 3/4's of our house we hung a large swinging door at one end so that we could access the cavity underneath at any time.
It's a good place to store old garden pots, bamboo stakes & other garden-related paraphernalia. I crawled under there last week as I wanted a pot for a maidenhair fern. It's not pleasant under there - its dark & full of cobwebs but I did find some hidden junk treasure.
This chipped ceramic pot was the perfect size for my fern so I gave it 2 coats of Chalk Paint in the colour Grey Mist. Before it dried I picked any black cat hairs out of it 😉
I finished it off with this Re-design transfer & a couple of coats of clear wax.
Now we have the birds, the bees & the butterflies 😊
Once we finish with fires for the year I give the firebox a good clean out & fill with pinecones. I polish the hearth & surrounding bricks & I like to sit my plants along the hearth for the summer months.
Also under the house I found these two rusty old watering cans. I hauled them out as I had a plan for one of them.
I painted it with some leftover black chalk paint that had nearly gone hard, but which I added water to. Then I used up some of the Iron Orchid transfers that I had left over from when when I upcycled the vintage Saws
I sprayed it with 2 coats of matt finish polyacrylic to protect it.
I planned to sit it outside on the deck by my Mangle & the saws.
I had thought about planting it with some black mondo grass however when I posted a photo & mentioned this on Instagram the majority of people said Leave it as it is. What do you think dear blog readers ... plant or leave as is ??
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| The kitchen smelt a delicious mix of Sweet Lime & Mandarin & also Christmas Tree fragrance |
We had atrocious weather last week with strong winds & rain so I spent a pleasant morning in my kitchen making up some candles into vintage containers & using up the last of my Soy Wax. I plan to give most of these as Christmas Gifts.
I came across this box full of vintage Tala cookie cutters in the back of a cupboard. I thought about donating them but then decided to make up some play dough for Sid to play with . . . .
. . . . which he very much enjoyed & the cookie cutters were a big hit !
Thank You so very much for your visits & for stopping by here today dear friends,
With much love & friendship to you all,
Julie & the furry ones x0x0x
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