G'day all, hope you all had a good weekend and thanks for letting me know what you all get up to on those days that are not meant to be about skivvying.

Well I did get a few of the things done that I wanted to do just for me and hooray I did get started on the shed/summer house makeover and boy it is coming on so well.  Of course I've painted it white but it's gonna take me a few more afternoons to get it finished…

So I decided some of the me-time would be a little Beach Cottage vignette-ing (and I love that not-a-word word).  I waited til there was no-one here and had a little play.  After having been inspired in blogland last week by numerous sources but mostly Cindy's I wanted to use what I had to create a new look for a table that sits in the corner of the breakfast room, I challenged myself to see how I could make this area feel different by just jigging stuff around.

  It's a funny little corner that you walk past, you know those right?  It had lately become a dumping ground for the laptop & its charger, the hot glue gun and two lamps without bulbs.  I cleared that off, shopped the Beach Cottage for a few bits and bobs and fiddled…

I came up with a few different looks, let me know what you think and which one you like best…and take yourself over to Susan's for more gals who like to makeover…

G'day ladies

You know when you have something that kinda, in the back of your mind, you know isn't right, you know you don't really like?  Well I had that with this old chair that I made a slipcover for in Amy Butler fabric.  I went through an Amy Butler phase and not that I don't like her stuff now or that it did not tie in quite nicely with all the white or add a welcome a pop of colour, but more really that I think bright colours and furniture and me, don't quite go together.  Ya probably not surprised to hear that. 

Anyway I have had a few extremely successful thrifting trips lately, I lurve it when that happens and I am gathering vintage china like crazy for my little business plan hatching.  On one of these trips I came across a vintage white Bates bedspread.  I love these old beauties, and I have quite a collection of old white bedspreads now, but not a Bates.  It was definitely on the Beach Cottage Most Wanted List and I definitely snatched it to myself when I found it and did that oh-so-wonderful thrifters dance. 

It was a bit grubby but I was fairly sure a good soak, a coupla washes and a long dry in the sun would get anything out and I was right.  I soaked it twice in one of those scary chemical-laden laundry brightener-uppers and hey presto it was Persil-bright. 

Today as I scooted past that chair and the grim little corner it was in, I suddenly wondered why don't I just throw something over it to cover the Amy Butler orangeness?  The Bates!  Yes of course!  So I spent a couple of minutes, no more, tucking and folding…

I'd seen in a magazine the layering of old mirrors up against a wall, but always thought that the mirrors I had weren't really large enough to do that but I had these two lying around from another move around in the breakfast room and so I just propped them up beside the chair. 

What do you think of my magic metamorphosis moment (find more amazing makeovers over at Susan's).  I sat with my afternoon tea and a new magazine and felt quite chuffed with myself.  Small things, small minds and and all that…