CAR BOOT TREASURE.. AND LITTLE PROJECTS..

HURRAY.. finally after our computers been sick .( lightening apparently zapped our Internet connection)they are well again and I can blog,but more importantly I can pop into my favorite blogs and catch up with what you lovely ladies have been up too.. I missed you all....

In my last blog I told you I was wanting a lighter look in my sitting room .. so I decided to paint my sitting room coffee table, I paused for quite a while with a fully loaded paint brush , thinking I am doing the right thing here... and then went for it .. the weights in back ground are my sons ,not mine , he had left them in dinning room and they were so heavy i couldn't lift them!!! how wimpy is that..
Ta da .. Fergal has that shes gone and done it this time look on his face.. so funny.. or may be thinks hes next for a paint job....
What do you think ?? ,I do have other bits of painted furniture in the room ,when the table was dark it did mark so much, with cup marks ect, this should just get more shabby chic looking with time...
Then I got this at the car boot sale at the week end ,it was black originally (same as letters) and when I saw it I knew instantly what I could do with it, so over the Easter break ,between eating sugar coated mini eggs I painted the frame white,
then using some bits of lovely Cath Kidston wall paper I got as samples when I was in York,I covered the letters spelling family .....
and hey presto !! think I will put it in the bath room .. i am sure there is a couple of spare inches of wall in there!!
Do you like it?

As promised I will show you my little treasures that I found at the three ( I only had three small car boots officer!)car boots I went to over the weekend..
I fell on this adorable little wire haired fox terrier when I spotted him on a stall, my new and passionated desire is to collect these dogs, they are so old fashioned and so very 30,s So I had to have him, He was a Lot more than I usually pay at car boots, not saying how much as D may read this...... He sits so well with my other vintage bits, but will look better with some kennel mates.... don't you think?When I was in Skipton I met two lovely old men ,one human ,and one fox terrier , the little dog was so sweet and jaunty he was wearing a red tartan coat and his name was Bertie,the name so suited him.. so I am calling this one Bertie! Have you noticed when we meet dog walkers out with there doggies we ask their dogs name, because it doesn't seem rude, but we don't ask owners because it does ,so I know lots of people by their dogs name, pearls mum, Timmy's dad , Gertie's mum etc ,
any way my next find was this little vintage tin .. yes another little dog,, 50p.
then I spotted this lovely vintage looking little bear, a Russ bear new , 50p. then I saw the great Victorian tin document box, shabby chic and with a lockable key. I shall keep my secrets in here ,my illicit pictures of Ben Wishaw ,Richard Armitage , my savings towards a real fox terrier ,chocolate , so please don't tell D my little secret .. shh...
This is my last little treasure, brand new and 50p.... so pretty and will sit on my dressing table.
So I feel i did well, the car boots are not in full swing yet,so when they do get going ,watch this space....