Saturday....

It is a grey miserable day today, no rain & not hot but not cold. Hopefully you have better weather where you are. Lucky me though, has a kid free weekend, when my sister took the girls for the weekend, so they could go & see the Lego Christmas tree & store fronts in Sydney with my niece & nephew. I would love to have gone, but there is no way I could walk around Sydney these days.

As I said the other day, I bought some Porters brand chalk paint in explorer blue & old chuch white, to update some of the mismatch furniture that will be going into my craft room. The advantage with this paint is no sanding or priming. It is that easy. I have started with the table, just an old pine top table win black metal legs. I figured it was the easiest this to replace if I really do a bad job. I was pleasantly surprised just how easy & quick it was. I have completed 2 coats...

First coat, a bit patchy for my liking.

Second coat, a more even finish...

Sorry I forgot to get a before shot. I haven't finished yet, I wasn't able to get the wax the other day & it won't be in store until next week. So between now & then I can decided whether to experiment with some distressing, painted stripes, painting some sort of feature in the middle. I'm not sure. At the moment it is a great expanse of white, but when it's in place, I know my sewing machine etc will break that up. So I'm really undecided. 

Being a kid free weekend, I figured I will take advantage of this, by sorting & wrapping the christmas presents that I have been stashing in my ensuite, away from prying little eyes. I think I am finished all the shopping, but you never know. It's the first year too, that I have bought the girls different things to each other, before they always wanted the same, some things are the same but a lot is different, I just need to make sure it all looks even now. So best I get started.

Talk soon x