Crochet rug......complete!!!

Good Morning!! How are we this week? Feeling like a bit of show and tell? Hope so because I have finally finished....as in... f.i.n.i.s.h.e.d....my crochet rug. Woo hoo!!!

                                                                                 

I think I started this back in January? Sometime around then anyway...most of it has been done in the evenings...a square here...a few more there...and I have to say I enjoyed every single little stitch....loved making it and loooove how it has turned out.....

                                                                                 

It's certainly not perfect but I think that's the beauty of homemade isn't it? Everything is individual and lovingly made....that's my excuse anyway!!

                                                                                   

Now what to whip up next......

                                                                                   

If you're looking for me anytime soon you shall find me....here....

                                                                               

Happy Thursday folks......

Enjoy!!!

                                          Janelle  xx                                                                           

Weekly Round Up in Black and White.....

Well Good Morning there! It's a dark, rainy kind of Friday here, haven't had one of those for awhile...goodness, I may even need a coat later...gasp!!!
Anyway...how's your week been? Treated you nicely I hope. I've been running a little slow due to sinus infection and the likes...not nice...but I shall soldier on...in the blogging spirit of things......

                                                                                 

So it seems my love for all things black and white is not waning....projects, paint and home furnishings all seem to be turning up black or white lately....
Example A...bunting I whipped up for my son this week...then promptly hung in his sister's room as it looked so much nicer in there....

                                                                                 

Example B....this little table that used to live in our living room...I originally found this at a garage sale, yucky orange timber and wobbly leg and all, and bought it thinking I could slap some paint on it and pop it out on the deck for the kids to draw on or for me to pop my cuppas on...suffice to say it never made it out there...it proved to be so handy to have in the lounge room but since I've painted up the new/old coffee table recently we were kind of running out of room in here! In the meantime little Miss 6 has been harping on about "needing" a desk in her room (for ALL those grade 1 homework assignments I'm presuming....) but I haven't been able to hunt down the right one soooooo....yep, we decided to drag the little white table into her room for now. Then....I had a spur of the moment thought last Sunday to slap a coat of chalkboard paint on the top so she could have a little fun with it.....

                                                                                 

Example C......that on-going crochet project. Technically not black but grey is close enough right? I am getting really close to finishing this and at just the perfect time too I'm thinking with the weather and nights getting cooler this is sure to be a winner.....

                                                                               

Example D..... My favourite sign in the house...this has yet to be hung on a wall so it just seems to have a life of it's own and can pop up anywhere in the house...I like it here at the moment. And the sisal rope I bought this week to perform a little facelift on that lamp base with...wish me luck with that one!!!

                                                                                   

And lastly...my very very very favourite vase at the moment...which I don't know if it is even a vase but that's what I'm using it for anyway...the black is actually chalkboard paint which I think is genius...though I haven't wanted to draw/write anything on it yet because it looks so clean and black and lovely as is!!

                                                                               

Okay...there we have it...black..white...grey...loving it all at the moment.....well, for this week anyway....

                                                                               

Have a fab weekend folks....

See you next week......



                                                                                      Janelle  xx                                                                      

Black is the New White.......

Hello there! Flying through today with another quick DIY makeover...seems I cannot be stopped these days...well, until the next obsession takes over anyway....
So, here we have the all important BEFORE pic.......

                                                                             

Remember this ooooold shabby chair? The one that nobody is allowed to sit on? For fear they will hurt themselves or indeed break the old shabby chair? Hhmmm...well one day recently it hit me, she needed a new look. A makeover. A facelift. And then I slowly turned away from the mirror and had a good hard look at the chair. Ha-dee-ha-ha. On a serious note this old chair was starting to irritate me...a little too shabby-chic-ish for my liking so....out came the paint. The b.la.c.k. paint. Ooooohhhhh......

                                                                                       

Whatcha think??

                                                                                   

                                                                                                                                                                    I actually love it!! Much cleaner with still enough shabby to fit in around here and the shiny black seems to show up the pretty pattern on the back too which is a nice little bonus...

                                                                               

Not bad for a couple of cans of spray paint and an hour or so of work.....

                                                                               

What next I wonder.....

Stay tuned.....

and happy!!


                                                                                       Janelle xx

A White Table......

Hey there Tuesday!! Let's kick the week off with a little DIY shall we? I have been in a complete DIY frenzy these last couple of weeks...anything standing still for too long is more than likely to get ripped apart, a paint brush slapped over it, and reshuffled about the house somewhere. Family members excluded...for now...

                                                                                       

So...one of my little make-over subjects has been this snazzy little coffee table which I picked out of the back of a second hand shop for the princely sum of $15. She wasn't exactly looking her best when I found her but oh...the potential!!

                                                                               

I immediately loved the size and height of her and the look of the slats underneath...not to mention how practical they would be to shove magazines, craft, the odd John Deere tractor and toy sheep etc......

                                                                                 

                                                                                 

I really didn't like the wheels that she was sporting but I DID love the whole concept of having a coffee table on wheels as we can just move it around the living room and out of the way if we need to. I wanted kind of chunky sized wheels and spied these in a bargain shop last week...I think they work nicely. We (as in Mr WF) decided to chop off the legs by a few inches to lower the whole thing which I think gives a nicer look and balance to it all......Nice one Mr WF!!

                                                                               

                                                     

                                                                                       

It is the perfect size for our living room and when we want it out of the way it fits nicely in between the two sofas as a side table....

                                                                                 

I just love this old girl....can you tell?!? She is not expensive (Ha! That is for sure!!) and is certainly nothing flash with quite a few bangs and bruises to her but I really couldn't be happier....

                                                                               

                                                                               

Although I do believe we could now maybe do with a brighter coloured rug popped in there amongst all that white and a few new updated cushions.....hhmmmm.....onto that one.....

                                                                                     

                                                                                 

Ok...I'm off to find something else to fix up.....

Have a great day won't you?! I'd love to hear of any DIY projects happening out there too!!

Enjoy.....

                                                                                Janelle  xx

                                                                                 

                                                                               

Friday Flowers......

Morning!!

A few Friday Flowers  for you today to pretty up the start of your weekend.....

                                                                         

I'm not normally a purple-y kind of girl but these were appealing to me this morn....so pretty yes?!

                                                                                 

So I hope you all have a fab weekend...it's a long one for us this week...woo hoo!! We don't have much planned either which, after a busy week, is something we are all looking forward to! I have a little paint project I'd love to get started...and finished...a few rooms to spring clean, even though it's Autumn....and I definitely need to squeeze in a bit of time for this sort of thing.....

                                                                               

Whatever you're up to make it good ok!!

                                                                               

Stay Happy.....


                                                                  Janelle  xx                                                                              

Pantry Love.......

Hey there! So how was your weekend?? Restful? Relaxing? Hope so! We were a little busy around here, me in particular on Sunday when I finally decided to take the bull by the horns, or rather the garbage bag by the handle, and do a much needed well over due clean out of our pantry. Phew.....it's hardwork!! So once I'd actually cleared out about 4 bursting at the seams garbage bags worth of old out of date food, medicines and completely random "stuff" I actually started to enjoy...ok, at least stop the swearing.....the process of packing things away neatly and with some form of order....

                                                                                   

Enter the labels....loving the labels!!! Labeling anything that moves at the moment...I think this may be my favourite though.....

                                                                                 

Am way too excited about plastic containers right now too...a smallish sized bottle? Whack it neatly in the container. Stray pack of herbs? Yep...into the container it goes. And look how pretty my cupcake papers are looking...in their container....

                                                                                     

Everything is looking so clean...and neat...and labelled!!! Love it...look at them all sitting up so straight in a row....geez...hope nobody actually wants to get anything out to use. They may mess all that up.....

                                                                               

So, have I inspired you to go and take a peek in your pantry? Does it need a little clean up? Or, as in my sad case, an entire overhaul?!? My goodness it was worth it though...I mean look how happy I am.....

                                                                                     

And apparently I wear side ponies now??

I'm off to gaze at my tidy pantry bed now....

Have a fab week folks......


                                                                   Janelle  xx