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handmade harbour hello come in and dip your toes in handmade harbour you ll find me on the harbourside chatting about sewing painting and more recently upcycling furniture make yourself comfortable pages home about tutorials contact business tips sewing patterns shop design team art for licensing friday 17 july 2020 upcycled sideboard hello there this is my recently upcycled sideboard it started out its life with me as a freebie it was dark brown and had a top section too which i thought was overbearing and being brutally honest a little bit ugly so i chopped it down and chucked some paint on the bottom half it was in my living room for a good few years and served several purposes including a toy and craft cupboard for visiting grandchildren it was looking a bit battered so i upcycled it again this time painting the inside as well and adding blue on the drawers i think this will fit nicely into our new home if we ever get to move in this must be the most delayed house move ever we agreed the sale in october 2019 ironically i ve made it look a bit battered again with the sanding back but i do love the slightly worn feel hope i have some house moving news for you very soon take care posted by wendy at 10 00 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels painting projects upcycled furniture upcycled home project upcycled sideboard upcycling monday 13 july 2020 my tiny beach hut hello hope you are safe happy and well we are still waiting for news on our house move the sellers have had a new valuation back so we are hopefully now just waiting for paperwork to be updated to reflect this in the meantime i love beach huts this one is made from some air drying clay i found while clearing out the garage in readiness for our upcoming house move it was in a sealed pack several years old and felt like it might be still usable it was i made this alongside two of my grandchildren while we were still in lockdown nine year old emily ambitiously made a vaporion a pokémon character seen below resting its head on a rolling pin for support three year old jack just appreciated playing with the clay we used my old art studio a garage extension to play in their mum and dad are buying our house so all my stuff had been cleared out both parents are key workers mum is a nurse dad is a heating engineer and while both children qualified for a school place in lockdown jack s pre school was closed we figured i could provide a little mainly outdoor childcare once dad went back to work at the end of june i am furloughed until the end of july my little beach hut kept me occupied while the kids were busy with their own creations and once i had a bit of spare time to myself i started to paint it the blue and white with a little red theme was an obvious one given everything else i have been painting i had been looking for a name for this and decided not to go with the obvious covid lockdown furlough theme like i may do with the little cottage i made dave suggested irie a jamaican patois word meaning good which we heard a lot on our holiday there two years ago we loved it there so this little hut might conjure up a few happy memories for us and our hotel room was a self contained kind of hut a bit bigger than this one so it all feels irie posted by wendy at 10 23 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels air drying clay beach hut craft beach hut decoration beach hut project irie seaside theme monday 6 july 2020 vintage map wall art hello hope you are doing well you may have noticed i have a thing for maps as decoration i love vintage maps although pretty soon won t all paper maps be vintage like this one this map was sold as wrapping paper but it s far too nice to just wrap gifts in i thought about sticking it to canvas or even framing it but i thought a metal map would be great on the wall it could act as a memo board with magnets and we could always stick some of our fridge magnets on it we make a point of buying a fridge magnet from everywhere we visit a tiny inexpensive memento but once we can start travelling again we will soon run out of fridge space i bought the sheet metal from etsy i was a little disappointed as it arrived scratched and very dirty as well as rust stained on the positive side at least it was the right size and i figured everything else was fixable i made a hole in each corner it is quite heavy so i will screw this to the wall i measured then marked the holes and created a dint ready for drilling i cleaned it thoroughly and even sanded it not the best of ideas to sand it on the grass a single blade of grass can make a real mess under a sander then it was really just a matter of gluing the map to the metal i made sure it was straight and used fridge magnets to help me line up the first edge it wasn t quite perfect but it was ok i did work hard to eliminate air bubbles but a few persistent small ones remained and i managed to create a tiny tear in the north pacific below taking off a fridge magnet but i think i can probably cover that up with a magnet i cut holes through the paper to match the holes in the metal finally i painted some more pva on the front of the map to protect it i m really happy with it i love that it has time zones on too the final pva coating brought out what must be rust spots from the metal i thought i had got rid of them but i am ok with that i think they fit in well with the vintage theme an oil based sealant on the metal would have avoided this i am looking forward to putting this up in our new home posted by wendy at 08 30 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels map crafts map decor metal map wall art old maps project pva vintage map wall art wednesday 1 july 2020 vintage linen basket upcycled hello and welcome to my latest upcycling project this linen basket laundry basket was a constant in our bathroom when i was growing up in the sixties and seventies i remember mum proudly mentioning that it was a lloyd loom a wedding present in 1953 fast forward several decades and this linen basket made its way into my garage after mum had to move into a nursing home three years ago she is 93 now my sister was ready to throw it away because the inside always smelled of dirty laundry think sweaty socks ugh it still smelled even after a few years in my garage i don t think the inside had been painted since it was made however a jolly good wash followed by a few coats of paint has helped matters immensely i don t want to use it for dirty laundry as i suspect it just hasn t got enough ventilation hence the constant unpleasant odour but i figured it could be useful for storage and i really love that it has such strong memories for me i researched vintage lloyd loom and i think it is more likely that it was made by a company called sirrom who copied the lloyd loom style like lloyd loom furniture it s definitely made from woven twisted brown paper you may be able to see this in the picture below where the paint had flaked off but lloyd loom furniture included a steel rod as well as twisted paper and this linen basket is definitely not attractive to magnets despite being made of woven paper it is surprisingly hard wearing this has been in a bathroom since 1954 apart from the three years in my garage and i remember dad standing on it to change a lightbulb in the picture below you can see the remnants of a stay chain on the upper left this had broken and subsequently been painted in many decades ago and i did eventually manage to prise it off with pliers the wood underneath the hinges had split so i filled that in ready for new ones the old ones had seen better days i decided some foam and fabric would make this into a nice occasional seat i had some of both left over from my ottoman project i cut the foam to size and measured up some fabric to go over the top and under the edges i m no upholsterer but this was a fairly simple project i eased the fabric in places and folded it in others before stapling it into place like i was always taught in dressmaking classes at school i also cut away some of the bulk of the fabric at the corners i also used scissors to push into the corners and create a neater edge i glued the raw edges in place with pva before gluing a contrasting piece of fabric in place also using pva then completed it with some ribbon edging i love this vintage ads fabric i bought it in about 1978 not having any clue what i was going to do with it i ve used some on various projects over the years including this sewing kit the fabric possibly says a lot about the 1970s as well as previous years it s mainly a mixture of old adverts for smoking accoutrements and alcohol paired with baby s prams maybe it s now a statement on social history i hadn t thought about it that way before now i put the new shiny brass hinges on to fix the lid in place disappointed b q didn t have silver chrome ones in stock what is going on a pandemic i also needed a new stay hinge to make sure the lid didn t flop back when it was opened i decided to go for a fabric hinge because the previous chain hinge had damaged the wooden frame by getting caught in it plus fabric was the cheapest and most environmentally friendly option so the fabric was measured cut folded ironed daubed in pva glue and hung out to dry on a typically great british summer s grey day a tiny tip if you are going to do this too cut an inch longer than needed and don t glue the top inch that way you won t glue the pegs or washing line up too and there it is complete with stay hinge stapled in place this method makes for a surprisingly strong stay hinge and is so easy to do i could have left it here but i thought one more small detail would complete this project a little piece of fabric at the front to act as both a focal point and a kind of handle to lift the lid once again i decided to go for the option of use only what i have already got a scrap of fabric measured cut folded lined and ironed with a little wooden heart painted red with a vintage button sewn in place plus a scrap of embroidery thread a little time and easily stapled to the lid the heart and button match the ones on my ottoman i figure we can store blankets cushions or throws in here maybe even by the back door for the garden i love bringing new life to something that s old unwanted or unloved this linen basket was possibly all three but although it s still old i feel it will be loved and wanted for quite some time now posted by wendy at 09 28 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels laundry basket linen basket lloyd loom sirrom upcycling furniture vintage older posts home subscribe to posts atom search this blog facebook group pinterest visit wendy massey s profile on pinterest followers popular posts last 30 days fabrics and craft supplies giveaway oh wow i m getting so excited by all these 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