Bower birding

One of the advantages of waiting for my kids at their gymnastics club is the sneaky visits I pay to the building next door.  St Vincents du Paul is my guilty pleasure on a Tuesday afternoon and on more than one occasion I have come out the owner of some new treasure. 

My latest purchase was a couple of weeks ago when I found these cane side tables hiding up the back.  At $8 each they were definitely coming home with me.

I decided not to play it safe and paint them my usual shade of white, instead I stood at the paint bar at Bunnings and chose the colour that appealed to me the most regardless of whether it matched anything at all...

I came out with a gorgeous shade called Lagoon Teal and after hesitating for a while I bit the bullet and started painting.  I figured I could always go back to white if hideousness reined.

Here's how the first one has turned out and I must say I am rather pleased with the result.  I am trying to be more adventurous with colour and this small pop of teal is working for me.

Now the big question is should I paint the other one the same colour or something different - what about bright yellow??

Bower Birding - Help!

One of the things Surfer Boy and I have in common is our love of treasure hunting - by this I mean scouring op. shops, bric-a-brac. and hard rubbish, not the stuff pirates bury.

The last time we were down at the beach house it was hard rubbish day and for most of the weekend we were astonishingly restrained.  It was not until we had walked past this little beauty a number of times that we looked at each other and nodded - we couldn't resist.  It is times like these that I love the fact that S.Boy drives a Ute. 

Home it came and now for the life of us we can't decide what to do with it.  The top 2/3 are mesh and the top opens up a little like a rabbit hutch.  If you have any suggestions as to what we can do with it / how we can use it I'd love to hear them, please!

Bower Birding

Surfer Boy has been driving me mad for ten years with his need to throw things away every time he has a day off.  Now that we are getting ready to renovate and extend he has become almost manic in his desire to 'cleanse' the house of ' unnecessary items.  The problem is that his idea of unnecessary and mine do not quite match therefore there is usually lots of me saying stuff like - 'for god's sake, just leave my stuff alone', and 'can you just go back to work before i get violent!'

On Saturday Surfer Boy had the house to himself while I was at work which is always a dangerous idea - so when I arrived home I visibly paled when he said..'you know how we need to cleanse..? well I want to show you something'

Shit! I knew it - I bet half my treasures are now in the skip!!

He and Moondoggie led me outside and I braced myself for what was to come.

It turns out that Mr 'Lets Chuck Everything In The Hard Rubbish' had discovered some hard rubbish himself and had made Moondoggie help him lug home one 12 foot wooden ladder and a step ladder from the neighbours up the road!!  He had the good grace to look very sheepish as he displayed his finds and I was so relieved I would have been happy if 10 new ladders had appeared.
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I'm thinking I might suspend the 12ft ladder above my kitchen island to hang pots and stuff from and this little one is so sweet I think it can live wherever it likes.  Maybe I can use it in the window at CHALK until we have our new home.