New Zealand album

                        

A few scenes here from the wonderful Coramandel Peninsular on the North Island.  The whole country is spectacular, it's hard to pick a favourite part. All highly recommended!!!!!!

Home made photo Album

This album is made by sticking 3 or 4 pages of the T,V. times together, paiting with emulsion paint and I varnished the outer cover as well. I tore the edge of the paper instead of cutting it...well that's the way I like it. The beauty is I can add as many pages as  like.   The name AO TE AROA is the Maori name for New Zealand, so called because when the Polynesians first sighted the land, they said it looks like a 'Long white cloud' which translates to Ao Te Aroa.

A pretty little chest for a child

I bought this in a charity shop, painted white (badly) and I thought 'this is just right for a little girl'. Well, the first time I took it to the sale...it SOLD! Brilliant. Wish I could find more like this one.

It has only taken mne about an hour to put 2 photos on!!! As usual Sue Allan at the other end of the phone telling me what to do. HELP....I find it all SO complicated.

Large dining room chair

This is the chair I found thrown away on the Kings road. it took a lot of work to get it like this. Hope some one buys it before christmas!!!!

Bavarian pine shelf

This is one of my favourite pieces of furniture. I brought it back form Bavaria because our son was throwing

it out!!!! It fits in very well with our other old pieces of pine. It should be called my 'Memory Shelf'. On the top are my African pieces, nothing of much value, a bit of drift wood from the Limpopo river, a little warthog made from mud,a  hand carved African couple.It's all abit of a mish mash but I like it.

WOYWW

I went to the Kings road with my daughter, looking for rugs. On the way to the shop we passed an old pub with a pile of rubbish outside...a magnet to me.  The pile was full of old furniture andIi wished we'd had a bigger car but all we had was a tiny Toyata Yaris. Anyway with a lot of difficulty we managed to get two large dining room chairs, VERY heavy, so not pine...but quite plain and ugly.
 This is the first one, now cleaned up, painted and decorated and varnished and ready for the sale on saturday. So, fingers crossed it will sell.

   The horse shoes take a lot of cleaning up and hardly worth it really as there is not much room to decorate. people seem to like them though.