When I took the Christmas tree down our lounge felt boring and not colourful,I had some left over material so made this flag bunting for our mantle piece.I took this photo and realised that yet again our girls had kindly rearranged things on it :p Still putting it on here cos whose house looks perfect all the time?!
THIS is what it should have looked like lol.
I helped my mum clean out a room the other day and she gave us this old tea trolley.Its like crazy old and I LOVE it!!The sides can be folded down,it has a drawer for all my crap sewing things.And a bonus,aside from me loving it and thinking its gorgeous,the girls use it as a 2nd dining table!No more eating off our once nice footstools.
For most of our marriage I have been telling Steve I want a new bookcase.When we do have the money for a new one I cant get over the guilt of spending that much money on something that lets face it is ,mostly for me.So last week Steve bought home some pallets from work,took them a part and built me this bookcase!Its not perfect and all that but I really REALLY like it!Excuse the books being crammed in,my hubby has said he will make a 2nd bookcase this coming weekend!Im a lucky girl :D
I have really realised that even though most of our furniture is 2nd,3rd and 4th hand lol,I actually really like what we have in our house at the moment.I love that a lot of stuff,no one else has,its unique.AND I have no problem with our girls putting sticky fingers on anything (bonus!).We have been very blessed with what we have,and I am so thankful.Plus I love that even though what we are replacing old furniture with isn't new,we are then able to pass our 'old' furniture onto other people.Paying it forward!
Random post finished
(haha just remembered the new word for 2nd hand furniture, 'upcycling',makes it sound fancier anyway,and makes me laugh)
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