Second Hand Rose

Last year I found a sad looking cabinet someone had put out for the rubbish and decided to re-vamp it. It was warped and made of horrible fake wood veneer, all the shelves were missing and the glass had been broken on one side.

Here is the finished article after much sanding and priming and painting and sawing and stitching and staple gunning. Wish I had bothered to take some 'before' and 'after' pics but you will just have to take my word for it that it looks much better now.

Mobile for Beeba Baby

Here is the beautiful bird mobile pattern from Spool if you would like to have a go. Balancing the birdies was the hard part but it is well worth the effort. I used red embroidery thread to sew the birds on to the branches and several strands of fishing wire to attach the branches together. I found out a bit too late that it helps if you fill the birds up with a little rice too.

The Chef

Finally I got round to making the matching oven gloves...