Key of the door....

Just a quick post about a Key plaque I've just painted.....

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I painted the background Grey as it really is my favourite colour at the moment and then added a family of white chickens

I sanded the edges to give it a ''Shabby'' look :)

and screwed in 4 hooks to hold the keys and VOILA!!!

This is for sale on my Blogshop and Facebook business page

Stamping, painting and a fabulous, in my opinion, carrier bag :)

I have always wanted to try stamping so, eventually, I bought some on Ebay along with a rubber roller and I was ready to start. 

I have only completed the one item, a mirror, at present but enjoyed doing it so much that I'm doing a letter rack tonight.

So for some honest feedback please, as I know not all like my taste lol, but I would really appreciate it.

I absolutely adore script in any form whether it be soft furnishings, wallpaper or home accessories. 

I knew script was going to feature somewhere, this was my 2nd attempt as the first looked very muddy and had too many differing stamps making it look a mess so I painted over the lot except the face.

I love love love using these stamps they are so quick and you can create so mant looks and styles..

And the finished result.....



Now for a fabulous Carrier bag....

Today my husband went to buy me some Annie Sloan paint as I have heard nothing but good about this paint. When he handed it over it was in a lovely carrier made out of Indian newspapers. 

It was brilliant.

Isn't it fabulous, I think its an amazing idea for anyone who does alot of craft fairs etc...just use any ols newspapers, making sure of course page 3 isn't taking pride of place on the front ;)





A little bit of decoupage...

Well we've had a downpour so I'm keeping one eye on my washing to see if its getting dry.

I had a ''Summer Swap'' to this July/August and I was quite looking forward to doing it but when I had actually finished the painting and small bit of decoupage it looked a tad scruffy rather than the aged look I was going for :(

I forgot to photograph the small bits of fabric and the gorgeous red polkadot birdy hook but will get those from the recipient off our forum lol...they infact were the only things that looked remotely summery as the fabrics were white, one with tiny red hearts on and the other with tiny strawberries on,

thinking about it even the birdy hook could pass as a Christmassy item.

Sheesh think I'll leave these swaps to those that do it sooooo much better lol.  

Well here is the 1st item I did. 

It was a blank pencil pot which I painted grey and stuck a different rose design on both sides, stained and sanded back.

The next item was a matching coaster....

....which I gave the same treatment. I thought the recipient could put the pencil pot on her workstation and the coaster too for her mug of tea lol......

 ........then I had a go with some blank wooden cubes, which were abit hit and miss but I did enjoy doing them.

I think I thought they could pass as summery as the pencil pot and coaster had Laceys favourite flower on and the cubes has beach belles and roses on, anyway she said she liked them so thats all that matters and I enjoyed doing them...have now got alot of new stamps I've bought so am going to try them out this evening so watch this space for my attempts :) 



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!

Pinterest

Hi everyone tis a wet and dank day in leicestershire but am ignoring it as I am toasty warm inside doing a bit of painting and online screen shopping.
It was whilst I was shopping that I wondered if all of you had heard of Pinterest it is really great, especially for me who has zilch short term memory lol.
Here is the link for their FB page as you need an invite to join or you can message me and I will gladly oblige...

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Studiofourseven/102369399854981?sk=wall#!/pinterest?sk=info


Now What is PINTEREST???????

Basically it's a social pinboard...You can have as many pinboards as you wish, follow as many people as you wish and pin and repin as often as you wish...what are you pinning and repinning??/ PHOTOGRAPHS

I use it to visually save anything I see that I like and pin it to the relevant board I have made ..it is all so very simple, whether it be a dress...room setting....poster...shoes...recipes..or you can make a pinboard for each of the people you have to buy presents for and as you see ideas pin them on their board and you have them for later reference...I think its brillant.
You can pin absolutely any photo you see online and it will always give you the original source of the photo even if you repin it off someone elses board.

I hope I am explaining this properly...though I guess not but do give it a try ...I love it...
Do let me know how you get on...''HAPPY PINNING''

Latest makeovers and a sketch

Good grief its been about 7 months since I last blogged....I'm not sure what happened, I suppose life just got in the way lol. 

So lets start with some makeover photographs which always go down well...First is a very small footstool that had definitely seen better days and was found at the back of the shed looking, for want of a better word, 'minging' 

I had some free sample size pieces of fabric from various companies so had a sort through and after a sand and paint job recovered it also added some braiding and am really pleased with the result

The next stool was a small tapestry round one.  I have never been a fan of tapestry but didn't want to remove it so just added another layer of fabric and again some braiding all this was done very amaturishly and should not be inspected close up LOL 

 

Then I decided to have a go at covering some blank mdf coasters that I have had in the cupboard for ages, quite a few of them actually but chose only to attempt 4.

I painted them cream then cut 4 circles out of a sheet of craft paper I had free in a magazine years ago showing various forms of calligraphy and fonts glued them on and roughly part stained with cold tea and varnished and I love them!!

Then onto a coffee table I won on Ebay for £4.99.

I sanded it, undercoated it, topcoated it in a bluey grey and then added a wash of dark grey which I wiped most off but it stayed in the grooves of the design.

Looking at it now personally I think it is too blue so will go over it in a pale grey and again a wash of a darker grey.

Ok I've done enough painting so now fancied some drawing and had a comission from a work colleague to do 3 drawings of his nephew as a present for his sister.

In the top right view he is wearing his favourite ear muffs and hasn't had a funny haircut LOL

I'll try not to leave it so long before I post and will get back to reading all your blogs as I really have missed that side of blogging xxxx