Funny Finds.

Just a quick post with the rest of the rearranged furniture pictures and a couple of quirky shopping finds!

Above is the finished look to the tree trunk table. I made a curtain from some fabric that Jasmine uses to make her vintage bags from. We have a whole bolt of this fabric which we bought at one of our local vintage and pre loved shops, a bargain that could not be passed by. We usually only buy small amounts of vintage fabric so that the bags that are made are much more unique. Check out Jasmines handmade vintage bags at Shambags

A close up of the fabric.

The next job was to move the pine chest of drawers that was in the dining room. I had planned on trying to find a small dresser/hutch to go in this area of our bedroom (thanks for the idea romantic homes magazine) but as I am trying to cut down on buying more furniture for our house ( will be buying furniture to restore and sell though ) I decided the pine drawers may look OK there.

Before!

Please excuse the state of the top , not looking at all at it's prettiest. The cross stitch picture that is placed above these drawers was only there to replace the huge mirror that now hangs over the tree trunk table in the hallway. It looked so bare without the mirror.

After!

Cross stitch picture back where it belongs and now the pine drawers have a new home and I have more storage space for clothes. The dark wood drawers were so shallow that the only thing they really stored were boxes of jewellery and cosmetics, nearly all of the stuff from those drawers fits in the top three drawers so loads of extra storage.

The oak mirror seems to fit rather well with the drawers considering they are different woods. The mirror was a steal at only 2 pounds from a local charity shop.

Again re-purposing items, an old glass sugar bowl displays jewellery and a 1950's lipstick stand and vintage linen finish the look.

Now for my quirky find!

Found this at one of our local charity shops today. Had gone in looking for furniture to restore but this was all I came away with. Knew immediately what I was going to use it for!! Not a plant pot!!

Don't worry it was well cleaned before she drank out of it, not that that would  have bothered her as this is the dog that has no problems with drinking stagnant water out of the bucket in the garden!  Had been looking for a bigger water bowl for Bonnie for a while but was not willing to pay ridiculous money for one from the pet store. Had thought that maybe an old vintage crock pot or saucepan would be good but then I saw this. Job done!

 My next funny find were these apples.

Now as you know our youngest daughter is called Ariane. Named after the space rocket ( Mr J was working in the space industry at the time of Arianes birth) not the apple, although she is the apple of my eye.

God bless you all. xx