Shabby Chic pressie to myself...

I wanted a nice shabby chic looking, floral chair for my sewing room and rather than spend a fortune on one, I decided to make one as a gift for myself, for all my hard work over the last year!!

 

 

 

I took one of our old Bentwood chairs that had some water damage on it and was in desperate need of a revamp... I covered it in napkin decoupage.

 Then I coated it in several layers of matt varnish...

 

I got the napkins from Tescos, although I think they look quite Kidstonesque!

Anyway, this is my homemade Christmas pressie from me, to me.

A chair for my sewing room :-)

What do you think of it?

Sunflowers

Helping out a freind in his florists the other day and wanted to share these beautiful, vibrant sunflowers with you... even with the rain pouring down outside, you look at these and you are immediately transported to a sunny day!

Hollow Love Letters!

I bought a load of these "words" made from recycled tin/aluminium. They are hollow, but the sentiments are rock solid!!!

I decoupaged the "love one" in scraps of paper cut from letters/post scripts etc (and Mr H will probably get one for Valentines day - as I want to keep one!
The "Dream" one I painted with Laura Ashley Delphinium Blue and then decoupaged in Cath Kidston Paper - and as always if you can't live without them or want one for a valentine gift they are available in my Folksy shop (just click the folksy link at the top of my blog to go there!).

French, Vintage and Gorgeous!

French, vintage, and gorgousness(!) - all things I love and all combined in some beautiful old Parisian Fashion Magazines from the 1930's, that i recently took possession of - soooooo elegant. No one does it quite like the French do.

I used some of the advertisements from the back pages to cover a pocket notebook - it's now in my Folksy shop if you cant live without it! http://www.folksy.com/shops/AnnieFloribunda

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Inspired by a day in the garden - I decoupaged some small plain notebooks and made them into Gardeners pocket books. I used vintage seed packs on the top one and garden twine on the other. If you cant live without them, visit my Folksy shop where they are for sale.