If something is offered to Steve for free, he'll be there so quick, he'll nearly have your hand off! He also likes rummaging in skips and is always on the look-out for other peoples' cast-offs. Sometimes, he'll come home with a real find, other times, he'll turn up with something and he can just tell by my face that it's not even getting through the front door!
The stool above fell into the latter category: I don't think I ever even asked where it came from. I just thought it was vile (apologies to anyone reading who possesses one the same!)
'I thought you could paint it and re-cover it', he said (he's not one to give in easily!)
And eventually I did: we needed a step stool for Herbie to reach the sink - so I rose to the challenge!
First I removed the hideous olive-coloured velvet and the piece of thick foam underneath...
then painted the frame using our bathroom floor paint...
then using a remnant of cheerful oilcloth...
...pulled it taut and fixed it underneath using a staplegun...
Ta-da! What do you think? Definite improvement, I reckon!
I never showed you our bathroom before - I wish I had some 'before' photos, then you could see how bad it was! The walls were yellow, floor and huge cupboards with louvre doors stained black!!! And tiles that had been painted white, so that the horrid pattern underneath showed through!
Now it's much brighter!! See the light pull above?
It's a little pebble with natural hole we found on a holiday in Wales!
No frilly toilet-roll holders in our house!
And the wall-mounted taps stop any arguments about who has the tap-end!
The shower-pull!
Bathroom cabinet, made by Steve himself and decorated with one of my lavender fish!
And here is the stool in situ! Note it is already functioning as a table for his lordship's chosen reading material!!
Hope you're all having a good week!
Do you remember these from last year? 
Designed to hang from your Christmas tree...
Although if you speak to them nicely, they might stand up for you!
Penguins and spotty robins available in my Folksy shop.
The stool above fell into the latter category: I don't think I ever even asked where it came from. I just thought it was vile (apologies to anyone reading who possesses one the same!)
then using a remnant of cheerful oilcloth...
...pulled it taut and fixed it underneath using a staplegun...
Ta-da! What do you think? Definite improvement, I reckon!
Now it's much brighter!! See the light pull above?
It's a little pebble with natural hole we found on a holiday in Wales!
No frilly toilet-roll holders in our house!
And the wall-mounted taps stop any arguments about who has the tap-end!
The shower-pull!
Bathroom cabinet, made by Steve himself and decorated with one of my lavender fish!
And here is the stool in situ! Note it is already functioning as a table for his lordship's chosen reading material!!
But you know, I looked at that bit shaped a bit like a 'A' and I turned it around in my hands a little.... and then it came to me! It would make a perfect beach hut roof! And the other tiny bit, painted the same colours could be the door! So today I set to work - and this is what I came up with...
A little wooden hut, with it's own mooring!
I couldn't put any other number on it, could I?!
The strip of metal on the boat is actually an old emery board that I picked up someplace..
Hello folks, hope you've all had a fine weekend! I must welcome any new followers, suddenly I have 200 - I'm touched, really!
If anyone has any old brushes with wooden handles, please let me know: I can always find a use for them!
Available in my Folksy shop now!
So much detail!
So many shades of green!
And even whilst I was putting the finishing touches to it, I was still finding flowers that I'd missed somehow!
Here is a real close-up, so you can see how many hundreds of bits of magazine it takes to create the finished product!
....curtain tie-backs!
...still stuffed with lavender...
...in a number of different colour tickings...
.... to give your home a nautical feel...
... plus they give off a lovely whiff!
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