Busy Bee in the New Year

Well what a start to the new year, I've been very productive so far...long may it continue.

With the OH out of the house on a course it was time to tackle the uninspiring brown spare bedroom. This is what it looked like before...

 The first coat going on...eeek heck good job he wasn't around to see the state of it at first...

But after two coats and three evenings of hard work it was finished!

Well almost, just had to hide the ugly printer...

and embroider some birdies...

...to make a garland!

And then make a random postcard...not quite sure why - but it looks good on the bookshelf.

On a roll I moved on to the dining room to take the curtains up (they had only been waiting for two months). Turned out it was an easy job after all, I didn't even have to take them down..

Not bad for a first attempt - plus I had some matching fabric left over. 

I'm eventually going to make a table runner with the rest of it, but I have used a tiny bit for some flowers on a storage hanging thingy to hide the boiler cupboard and store all the post in...

So that was January, very busy. And February seems to be following the same pattern.

For Christmas the OH bought me a voucher for a furniture painting workshop that we heard about when buying the numbered chest of drawers at the local antique shop. So off I went to play with all the Annie Sloan colours and armed with a very orange pine chair to be transformed.

After learning different techniques in the morning and having a play with all the colours it was time to tackle the pinetastic chair...

Although you dont have to prepare the surface before you apply the paint I did sand it down a bit so when I began the distressing part the orange varnish didn't come through.

After two coats of French Linen paint, a coat of wax, some distressing, another coat of wax and a new seat pad it was ready to go back in the spare room.

Amazing, and all in one afternoon! Which is why I attacked another chair this morning with a different colour, Old White - well the chairs and paint were free......

..and this time I could use the electric sander I got for Christmas too...

...and the spare curtain that was in the attic, which I used to re-cover the manky seat...

Ta Da!!!!

Now where can I put the other two chairs?????