Painting and crafting

I’m not lost in Spain somewhere! We came home at the end of October, and whilst the weather had been good here for most of the month (our housesitter got to enjoy the pool for most of her time here), it changed as soon as we got home. I hate November with a vengeance, so after ploughing through the holiday laundry and emptying the Moho, I decided to get stuck into something that I would enjoy so as not to get the winter blues. So I headed down to the basement guest room and painted the wardrobe the same as I’d done the chest of drawers next to it a couple of years ago. 

Obviously it hasn’t taken me all of this time 😄 but there’s a lot to do with two coats of paint, two coats of clear wax, dark wax in the nooks and crannies, and buffing in between.  I then decided to paint the inside of the doors and do something interesting for when you open the doors. So that meant most of those coats again! 

Here’s a reminder of what they originally looked like. I hate wooden drawer knobs like that!

Ok, time for the reveal……

Here’s what I did with the interior (and ignore all the stuff in there, I have to find space for Moho things during winter). This isn’t an interiors blog, so I don’t have to ‘stage’ perfectly. 😁😁😁

It’s Annie Sloan’s ‘Meadow Flowers’ stencil, which fits this space perfectly. I’ve been waiting to use it on something for a while now!

Then I came across decoupaged baubles, coincidentally in two different places at about the same time, Pinterest and a blog I follow. We have some old red baubles which I never use, as red is not a colour I like as a Xmas decoration - it’s all blue and gold here to go with my decor. So I was interested to have a bash, though it’s taken longer than I thought as painting then decoupaging on brittle round things is jolly hard - I have to do half or a third then wait for it to dry before carrying on.

I am now running out of time before my brother comes on Monday, as I’m having a week full of medical/dental appointments, plus we went out birding on Tues afternoon (Black-shouldered Kites! I’ll tell you about them after Christmas). I need to finish cleaning the guest room and then get the decs up. Then baking next week! Anyhow, this year we bought a real tree for a change, so I’m looking forward to seeing these baubles on the tree along with the other ones. I’ll post a photo when the tree is done.

Here’s the baubles just needing a final coat of glossy varnish:

I’ll get back to butterflies and birds from our travels this year during the new year, and catch up with your posts too. When I’m not in the mood for blogging, I tend to forget about looking at other peoples’ blogs too. Receiving them in my inbox is an easier way to follow them, to be honest.