How to re-purpose cans into pencil holders

This is the easiest ever!  Turning old cans into pencil holders. Why didnt I think of this before?  All the cans I have thrown away and never even considered re-using them.
 But now I have found a cute way to re-purpose them.

Simply rinse out your can. Preferably use ones that already have white interior. But it doesn't really matter. After they are thoroughly dry, then paint them with any colour you like.  

I just used sample paint pots from Bunnings.  Two coats are plenty. Let it dry.

Then I used a tiny strip of wallpaper and glued it onto the side.  On the computer I wrote the word Pencils and printed it out, then glued it on top of the wallpaper.
To finish I sparayed the cans with a fixative matt spray (usually used to spray  on painting canvases etc) just so the font wouldn't smudge.

So cute! I love how they turned out!
Have  a great week xx

Vintage Chairs

These chairs were like finding gold for me! I love old chairs. I feel like they have a whole history inside them! Secrets or maybe just fun stories to tell of where they have lived, what they have seen.

Well that's what I like to beleive anyway! ( we all have our weird side!)

We found two of these hiding in the back of the recycle shop for $5!

 As we started to sand them back we could not believe the beautiful wood that was hiding underneath.

 Wow!  I am no wood expert but I think it is teak wood.

I just couldn't bring myself to paint them. So I simply sanded back part of the chair and left the white as random!

I am keeping these ones! They have become my new favourites.

Chair love!

Plain Cane turned into stunning Grey chairs

I have always loved cane. We scored these on our furniture journeys..... And tempting as it was to just paint them white... ...  

 We chose an awesome dark grey.

 We simply spray painted them.  I didn't dare do it on my back patio (my hubby would not be impressed if I got spray paint everywhere). Although I have already left patches of paint all over the back patio from other various projects!!

So we put them over the back fence where we back onto a 'nature strip' (I know not very environmentally friendly of me) and spray painted them. 

WE DID PUT A LARGE DROP SHEET DOWN SO WE DIDN'T SPRAY THE GRASS!! 

Turned the back over to paint underneath.

Spray painting is so easy and so fast! We used 2 cans of spray paint to do these lovely chairs.

But they were done in 10 minutes! Alot faster than normal paint.

 AND.... .......NO PRIMING.

Love the end result!

We made some chevron turquoise cushion covers to match.  The material was from Lincraft.

Here is a bush setting photo! I was trying to make it look authentic, like in the outback or something (Ha!)

Have a great week! And be creative.. its good for the soul xx


Love  Michelle and Fiona

Funky Stool Makeover

We picked this stool up from the recycle store for a massive $2!!

Since Stools are having a moment right now we thought we could funky it up and make it awesome!

First quick sand and then a coat of primer.

 Then Michelle started working her art on the stool!  Don't you just love the chevron?

Michelle used a template and drew it on with pencil  first.  

Total finish! Who wouldn't want to sit on this pretty thing.
As I told the guy who bought it from us - there is alot of love gone into this stool and every time you sit on it you are going to feeeeel the looove! (Ha!)