Internet was down so lots of painting done :)

Thanks to some delightful people pinching the telephone cables, to sell the copper wiring, from the centre of our village, we were left phoneless and minus internet from last Thursday until today, which strangely didn't affect me as much as I thought it would and I got quite abit done....

Quite a few photos coming up, so are you sitting comfortably...:)

I had a dresser given to me by a very dear friend, quite a while ago and painted it a couple of weeks back but had forgotten to show photos....my friends just adore photos
So here is the before which I love ....

but it just wouldn't have fitted the decor in our room so it had to be painted and here it is now....

The bits on it won't be staying but they'll do for now....I added abit of detail to the knobs as they were impossible to remove easily, having had pieces of doweling type wood inserted and glued at the back of each handle.

Then about 18mths ago my children bought me a mirror I saw on Ebay,,,I was in 2 minds about it as it was gold and I'm not a fan but I had it and painted that too when I did the dresser....

I haven't got a before photo though there is one on here somewhere 18 mths ago lol

 

Also I want to share with you all a lovely picture my dear friend Aline sent me.  She was trying out sewing on teabag fabric? new to me but she saw the delightful results another friend had got and wanted to try and this was one of the results which I absolutely adore .....

I gave a canvas a pale green wash and glued her picture onto it and then painted stitching around her picture and also the canvas edge and then hung it where I will always see it as that is where I do all my painting and computing :)

And on my table are the beautiful glasses case and mobile phone cover I bought from another lovely friend Lace Hearts at her Sew Happy shop which can be found on Facebook and Folksy too :) ...I just adore the fabrics she uses, so different from anywhere else.

Now on to more recent painting....

Firstly is the dressing table hand mirror.  I love script and this was my first attempt at it, very faintly behind the rosebuds, will definitely be doing this again.

This will be going into my blogshop soon.

This next mirror was crying out for a nautical scene and I think its quite cute :)

Finally a heart mirror with a row of useful hooks for keys...scented hearts...necklaces etc

These were all fun to do and stopped me from missing the internet too much lol....amazing how much I can get done when I put my mind to it and not the web ha!