wow it has been sooooooo long, is anyone still in blogland who remembers me hehehehe

what have i been up toooo?????????
what have you all been up too???????
well ive decided to just pay for now, seriously i feel toooo overwhelmed at the moment
and really for a few dollars a month to not worry about, im totally happy with that......

so this year has been extremely busy already but i cant complain because this is what ive wanted
if you dont know already im helping hubbs out where i can with our business www.rollcages.com.au
loads of things happening there and loving the journey with him....

i also have been making a real effort to reconnect with people as the end of last year i had lost touch with some and as most of you are in a similair boat oct | nov | dec {blink and you miss it}

so i'll leave you with some snaps of the past month or so and yay im back {lets hope i can keep up}
christmas time.......

things I've been doing up | making

and just to finish the photo overload, a photo from my girls weekend in a 1963 impala v8 baby oh yeah

enjoy your week lovelies and hope to post again next week
smooch lisa xx

featured in real living + my diy twiceBAKED sign + T4

so so excited to see one of my ledamae blocks in the nov 2011 issue of my favourite magazine real living

my hand painted bird cage..........YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

it makes me feel happy inside seeing it there on the page {i know that sounds funny} but it does

+ here is my new diy sign for my twiceBAKED stall at 'the vintage shed'

what do you think??????????

+ T4
today i'm thankful for my little family, i feel blessed to have them in my life........
what are you thankful for today???????
i haven't done one of my T4's for a while and i truely think we often forget to be thankful for stuff
have a wonderful day
lisa xx

and the winner is!!!!!!!! + another buffet

and the winner is ingrid........HIP HIP HOORAY!!!!!!
i love winning things {not that it happens often} so ingrid if you could please send me an email
with your address that would be great........lisa@ledamae.com.au

my little helper zeke was very cute, i had to take the paper off him, he wanted to keep it {i picked it out like you said mum, so it's mine} hehehe, at least thats what i'm sure was going through his head....

i hope you all had a wonderful weekend, i had the twilight markets at flemington which were fun and i've been busy getting some things ready for my new stall at ' the vintage shed ' my new stall number is E28.........here is another buffet we {hubbs} has done

i loved the look and colour of it so much we decided just to colour the inside, the inside was cream {not nice} so greg painted it black for me........
i am a little tempted to keep it {and put it where??????}

well i've rambled enough enjoy the rest of your day
lisa xx

new business venture : twice baked

twice baked

is all about reusing, recycling and making handmade things out of previously treasured pieces from art to furniture, pillows + accessories anything to add style to your home, your life or simply add a splash of colour somewhere........you can view some of what we have on offer here

anyone who has been following ledamae for a while know's how much i enjoy doing diys and we've been doing it for ourselves see here buffet / trays / shelves / for sometime.....so it's been a natural progession doing things up and have been asked by numeours friends for help/advise so thought lets do some more things and sell them.....below is a set of two drawers we have done up and sold....

and i have to mention my greg is a very handy man to have, he always does an amazing job and does like things a wee bit more perfect than me {i do like imperfect art}.......

so these have been sold and left yesterday see below

queen anne sidetables one was white the other was white with blue underneath.....{loads of sanding}

we did them a satin black {so beautiful} would love to know your thoughts...........

what do you think?????

head over to twice baked and have a noisey and if you like {LIKE} hehehe

i'll do another post through the week to show you what else we have over at twice baked

have a great tuesday evening and thanks for stopping by lisa xx

diy hutch

well we've been a little busy of late doing a few things up......
what do you do when you need more storage in your office/studio??????
go brand new and spend lots of $$$$$ or scroll around ebay????
i say ebay so i went looking on ebay and came across an old hutch most of them were going for about $80-$90

while opp shopping thee other week i found this one at vinnies for $40.00 so bought it and into the car it went......

me being me i'm just a little bit impatient i sanded a little of it and thought {NA} it will be ok so went ahead and primed it, that evening hubbs came out to help me do the next coat of primer and he scratch the paint to see how well it stuck, what happened?????
that's right it scapped off, so we had to sand it back {i did a little bit, my wonderful hubbs did most}
so we finally got it sanded then primed and hubbs did the final paint last night

it looks so much better and yay for some storage space, i've covered the inside of the doors with a pink and white snake skin wrapping paper i got for $1.00, i will get around to painting the shelves pink
and i covered inside the draw as well

and i figure one day in a bigger house who knows might end up in the kitchen or the garage for
gregs tools hehehehe, sleep tight everyone and have a fab friday lisa xx

silver trays + thanks "j"

the very lovely janette from "my sweet prints" mentioned me in her post yesterday {thanks "j"}
about a silver tray i sent her and how you can paint them see here, after seeing her post i thought i hadn't shared any of my ones, i started a little collection {but really how many do you need?????} hehehe

i do have three throughout the house at the moment, first one above is my white one i painted for $5.00 {trash n treasure} with jug/sugar/teaspoons/T2

this round tray i picked up for .50c {trash n treasure} and has pepper/pink flake salt {from the murray river}/measuring cups/vase

and my third tray i got for $2.50 {salvos} with candle/vase/tealight/photo of my beautiful niece georgia

do you have any silver trays at home and what do you have on them??????

i love seeing, hearing how others decorate etc.......

so thanks again "j" finally got around to sharing mine now, took these photos about 10min ago, ps loved your lampshade makeover if you want to know how to do it check it out here 

also {just a little by the way} janette was my first ever follower OH!!!!

have a great wednesday

lisa xx

diy buffet

i have been searching for a buffet to use as a tv unit for quite sometime, and all the ones i loved and watched would all go for about $580 or higher, my budget was $200 i thought if i was going to spend around $600 then i may as well go brand new.........just over a week ago i found this buy now for $150 it didn't look solid timber and for that price no it was only veneer but it was the shape i wanted and i loved the mustard glass {of course} so we thought lets paint it, it took us 4 days all up maybe 2hrs.......this isn't a good photo i took it from my ebay account {forgot to take some before shots}

so we painted it black {shock i know as i love everything white, but when you have big black speakers that are a wee bit of an isore but they are hubbs the options are go black} and i love it, the shelves we wrapped in left over wallpaper

the two end drawers are covered in wallpaper also but the middle one i thought i'd do it a little different and used some left over flocked paper

this photo below is the ikea cabinet we had been using for the past 5 years, which will be going in zeke's room..........don't the speakers look a wee bit funny????

from this

to this..............the finished result I LOVE IT and all up it cost me $200 including paint, and with loads of storage for remotes {don't like them lying around} dvd's, cd's.........what do you think?????

diy duvet or {should i say doona}

well we have finally bought zeke his first bed, we decided to go with the daybed from ikea, so we had the storage underneath as well as a double bed with slats {it pulls out into a double} so when we have visitors their not subject to the floor.........

i've had fabric waiting so i could make him a duvet cover {doona hehehe}  i thought i'd do it slightly different on each side just to mix it up a bit.......i like the top photo best, now i just need some fun pillows, what do you think???????........i hope your all having a great day the sun here is shining then some hail and now it's shining again {i love melbourne weather}

ps only two more days till the end of the GIVEAWAY thanks for everyones support......now i'm off to the shed to get ready for the markets this sunday have a wonderful day everyone
lisa xox 

i have a dining table

look what i got just last night my very own dining table.....wow i have never owned my own dining table, we have been using a tressle table from bunnings for the past 7 years and before that, we were using my parents while they were overseas.....

i was on ebay the other night looking for old vintage bikes and thought i'd have a scroll through the dining table, i saw this and it was perfect, i won it from a very lovely lady for $65.00......we are going to strip it and paint

it white, even though i don't mind it this colour {which surprises me} i do love the legs on it.....

my only dilemma is that my louie ghost's don't quite fit underneath, thank goodness i have a handy man who is gonna fix this problem.....

anyway i wanted to share my exciting new purchase, makes me feel like a grown up hehehe......what do you think???? and any advise on a good paint, i have primer already?????

lisa xox