At the moment my wood scrap heap is getting too big, so I needed to thin it out. Barn quilts are a great project to make to use up your scraps. I had an old round table that I was given and thought it would be good to try a round barn quilt table. I had to add this picture of my new puppies posing for the camera, they are just too cute.
This week’s post is the next challenge for our international blogger’s Club (IBC). More about IBC at the end of this post. Our challenge this month is to create a project using broken china. I live in a small country town in the middle of Woop Woop with access to only two charity shops in which to hunt for china items. Unfortunately, all the china they had in store was a little pricy for me to smash up for a project. So as a last resort I had to dig around in my cupboards at home. I had this old teapot which I thought would look great as a teapot birdhouse with a feeder.
I usually have no trouble maintaining my garden but this border has been a pain in the butt for years. With all the rain we have been having here in Australia my flower beds have been overrun with weeds and grass. Every year this flower bed gets stripped of grass and weeds and every year it all comes back. So this year I wanted to create a low maintenance flower bed using bicycle tyres and logs to make planters.
It is time again for this months international blogger Challenge (IBC). This months topic is “beads galore”, our challenge is to create a project using beads in any way we wish. I chose to make a beaded wall hanging. This should have been a simple challenge but everything that could go wrong did. More about IBC at the bottom of this post.
I was cleaning out my kitchen cupboards the other day and came across this old teapot. It was purchased about 20 years ago at a car boot sale for £1 when I lived in the UK. Why I bought it I have no idea because I never drink tea. I hated the idea of throwing it away so I thought I would upcycle it into a steampunk-themed teapot.
Recently, I tried a new technique called Shou Sugi Ban (Japanese wood-burning) and I have to admit I am totally addicted to the look. My Idea for this project was to combine Shou sugi ban and a barn quilt. This unique wall hanging will look great on any wall and can be coloured to suit your home decor.
I was at my Sisters house one day when I spotted a piece of wood under her carport. It was in pretty bad shape but it looked so interesting I want to see if I could make something out of it. My first thought was a wooden sign but we all do that with a nice piece of wood. I wanted something different. I decided on a wooden suncatcher, I had this idea in my head to drill holes in the wood and fill them with coloured epoxy resin.