Monday, November 18, 2013

Take one old pine tray…….

Do you have something at home that you are dying to get stuck into with some paint to update it a little?? I have been looking at this old orange coloured pine tray for a while with the idea of stencilling numbers onto it but it has taken me about 6 months to complete!! Last weekend was really hot so I cranked up the air conditioner and worked away until it was finished. I am really pleased with it now but I’m trying to decide if I will sand it a little and shabby it up. Not sure yet…
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I have an old pine hall table which I am thinking of giving a similar makeover. Maybe I will paint French script letters on that instead. I just hope it doesn’t take another six months to get that finished!!
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Monday, November 4, 2013

Traditional Christmas colours

Yesterday I had an exhausting but most enjoyable day. Mr FH was busy working on the farm so I went to my sisters gift shop to do some more Christmas decorating. The nursery, gift shop and coffee shop is closed on Sundays (we did have a few customers come and have a look around in amongst the mayhem!!) so I find it much easier to decorate on those days. I don’t need to keep walkways clear and breakables out of the way all the time….much easier!! Also we don’t need to stop to serve people at the counter either. It was quite a family catch up day too.
My Sister and her husband were both there catching up after a busy week, my other sister who bakes the most delicious cakes for the cafe was there busy baking too!!  I think she made 24 beautiful cakes and tarts ready for the week!!! She is so clever. My Mum also called by to see just what we were all doing and made she we just didn’t chat all day!! Such a nice time.
At the gift shop my sister has a little square area which has always been used to display mats, gardening bits and bobs and also displays of seeds and bulbs. This year we decided to take everything out and transform it into a Christmas display. We are so thrilled with how it worked out. She had an old mantel in the shed so we painted that white and sprayed some ply with chalk paint to use for the fire area. After her husband had mounted this on the wall I set to work. This display is in more traditional colours of red, white and a touch of green. Much different to last week’s display which you can see here. Our gorgeous white and blue Christmas wonderland has nearly all been sold so I’m now planning how I will change that out next week.
I wanted to practice some different fonts on a chalkboard so thought the best way to do that was to make a board for the giftshop. You will see it in the corner. All in all, the display turned out really nice even thought I was very tired when I got home.
Here is the start of the days work…….and also the start of the chalkboard – not pretty, either of them!!
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I just love Christmas time in the shops!! I am very lucky because Mr FH is one of the very few males who also enjoys everything about Christmas!
 
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Spooky spooky night

As the rest of the world (or so it seems) gears up for Halloween it seems Australia is just catching on to this fun time. As a child we never ever celebrated Halloween but these days the number of kids out trick or treating is increasing greatly. My daughter who lives in the city is surprised by the number of little visitors she has knocking on the door.
I needed to make a quick display at school just to tide me over for a few weeks so I decided to set up a quick little table to display our spooky books. I explained to the students some of the things I knew about Halloween and also some I had googled. I even had one students ask if I was saying ‘Chicken Treat” or trick or treat!!  Chicken Treat is our nearest fast food outlet…some 70 kms away, mind you!  I had picked up the piece of fabric last year when everything for Halloween was out on sale so that was my starting point. I quickly printed off a few signs and pumpkins grabbed a piece of net (only had white, so that had to do!) then gathered up as many books as I could and I was done. I just love this fabric – how cool would this be for a tablecloth??  At the last minute I remembered my gorgeous black spider I had made out of paper plates and wool for a previous display so he came out to join in!   The kids loved the colours and the fact that spooky books can also be fun!!
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