It was hot!!!

Hi All
no minis to show you today, yesterday was hot, yes hot, so my son, his friend and myself, worked on the garden, well they worked I supervised. It was the fist day we could get out and start tidying it up, I have an area where we sit under the Wisteria, next week I am having it gravelled, so it needs clearing up and getting ready. We have nearly got it cleared, son finishing it today.

I have an tatty plastic table outside, it really looked like it was ready for the rubbish tip, but I found in my stash, 4 cans of beige spray, got them cheap some time ago, I always knew I would use them, so I am spraying the table, and I am going on to do the chairs as well, I never like to throw anything away, love to recycle.

Going out today to my mums, we usually go shopping, I visit the local junk shops to look for goodies, and the sun is out again today, its going to be HOT!!

We may be having summer

Hi All
I may be speaking to soon, but it is rumoured that we may be getting hot this week,  will let you know if it happens, although today has been warm and the sun has been shinning, we will see!!
I do hope they are right about the sun as I am having my patio area redone next week and there is a lot of clearing to do before they can start, I shall be helping with this but only as an adviser and official tea lady.

I had a fairly quiet weekend, I had a lot more pain, so I spent my weekend resting, feeling a bit easier today, I have not progressed as much as I wanted to with my little chicken coop, I have had to change it to a duck coop, when I looked again at the little figures they are ducks not chickens!!! need to go to spec savers.

I done more painting and got the window frames fixed in the coop, I then had a go at dressing the ducks, how frustrating was that, after a few hours I managed to get a dress on the mother duck, need a lie down before I start on the rest of the family,
Only a few photos today,

window frames in situ

mummy duck

back of the dress, tiny bow

new project

Hi All
First I must say a big thank you to my new followers, I hope you enjoy my ramblings and projects, please feel free to comment I love comments, and talking about comments, thank you all for the lovely comments you have made about my shabby chic shop, they mad me feel very good and I am glad you liked what I had done. I am now going to put the shop up for sale, half of me does not want to sell it, But I have to do not have the room for all my projects.

So on to my new project, sometime ago I picked up from the kiddies shop a set of tiny chickens, they were so cute, I thought one day I would make a use of them, and that day has come.

This time I am making the chicken coop from scratch. I found a small cardboard box, and used this as my base. I sketched a drawing of the design I wanted.
I then started on the box, I shaped it and cut out the windows and doors, I lined it with mount board, using tape I put it together, I papered the ceiling and started to paper the walls, I need to finish this today.

I am using corrugated card for the roof and outside walls, I painted the roof and have left that to dry, then I covered the box in the card and then painted it, that was left to dry,

I will be working on it again today, I need now to design the inside, I think I will be having a half flooring the ceiling to have as a bedding area, will have to work on that to see if I can make it work.
anyway have a look.





 shaping of the box

this will become the roof

I found this window, fitted to box

box covered with cardboard and inside decorating beginning

the family

Muppet my puppy in her bed, in the work room

Freebie, she loves the camera

slow day today

Hi All
had a good day today, I went to my local dolls house club, lots of nattering and laughter, not much work done,
I have had a few ideas about my next project, keeping it to myself for a while, need to sort out what is the best way to do it, one clue they cluck!! that's all you are getting for now.

I did do something, I redone a bed that I had hanging around, I repainted it, distressed it, added some paper to the bed ends and a padded head board. I then made some covers and cushions, have a look. This is going in my for sale page.

It is finished

Hi all
yes its finished, and I got the bicycle and pram done as well, not sure what happened but I was on a roll, so without further ado, here it is
The grand opening/

And here is the after. The bicycle and the pram.

The parasol I made from using a toy plastic umbrella and painted it pink and added lace.

A reminder of what they looked like before, do you think they look better.

Tomorrow I am going to the dolls house club, I also need to start to think what I will be doing next!!

nearly finished

Hi All
must just talk about the weather, I know I keep talking about it, but yesterday we had sunshine, rail, hail and thunderstorms, how weird is that, can't wait to see what happens today.

I finished the other side of the roof, I cut up lolly sticks, put them on the roof, and then painted them, when it was dry, I dry brushed other colours over the roof and added some moss, it looks alright.

today I can attach the front, a few finishing touches and I am nearly finished.
I found a bicycle and a pram that I am going to use to stand outside the shop, they both need work on them. And this time I did remember to take before photos, have a look

I would use this method again, its cheaper and easier

before

we have lights

Hi All
Busy today, I finally got the lights in and they work, they are the hardest things to do,
It looks pretty impressive even if I say so myself.
anyway have a look for yourself