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

new shelves.....fun fun

here are my new {little shelves} they look fantastic on the walls and better than i thought, i painted them last week and had to put them up straight away.....you know what it's like when you have a little nook and you don't want a large piece of art???? well these are perfect, i'm really big on adding different dimensions eg......not all canvas, not all frames etc....mixing it up

i love texture and artworks that pop, i also did a black one....

happy tuesday to you all, i feel like i'm back.......

do you ever feel in limbo when you get back from holidays???? it's taken me almost 3 weeks to get back into the swing of things again......to all you mother's out there with the holidays coming to an end and kids going back to school, i hope for smooth transitions big smooch 

lisa xx

madeit : doily

my madeit posts seem to be becoming about all the things i'm a fanatic about, i love love love ceramics and will do a post soonish of all my ceremics around the house......
look what i stubbled across today on madeit, this beautiful porcelain clay piece.......not to mention it has a doily imprint which i love, see other doily art here.......
this beautiful piece is from and 0 design on madeit check out all the other wonderful pieces they make.....
hope everyone is having a creative tuesday thanks for stopping by...
lisa xox