Scroll down to my previous blog post and you wil see the colour predicted to be HOT for 2012. Very dark.
There is also a link to a wonderful online catalogue from a company called Serena & Lily.

 
Another inspirational image from them.

 


 
My dream bedroom had been very pale and linen-y before I saw this.

The colour on the wall – I mean WOW!- is close to a Dulux colour call MELON BABY, which even I would have hesitated to use……but now I am tempted. Especially with the gloss white.

 
Think about some bold splash of colour in your home this year.

 

See you in the store.

 
Well, I don’t blame eBay, so much as some greedy nameless bidders who made me realise I am still an eBay newbie.

 
But I am learning QUICKLY !

 
This is it…..

how lovely is this table. I know, wonderful right?

Just the right amount of things done to it, and not done to it. The peeling paint, the stipped back top.

I had the place picked out for it in the store. I could picture the stylish merchandising I could do on top of it.

 
I placed a bid last week, just to get my hand in the game. Then I set my phone alarm for 15 minutes before the end of bidding last night. My limit…..$450.

 
At 8.10pm last night, mine was the highest bid at $320, so I thought, maybe I’ll get a bargain here…..bidding would end at 8.15pm.

 
At 8.13pm I was out bid at $400, so I bid again to my limit. AND THEN IT HAPPENED.

 
In the last 50 seconds, bidding went from $450 to $950 and I watched while two bidders took that table our of my hands and up to $1,195.

 
It was amazing and heart breaking all at the same time.

 
Well…I have a bid on another table. Not nearly as wonderful. But, its probably best to get back on the horse.

 
I am off to watch a video on Youtube about how to bid on eBay.

 

See you in the store.

I have always wanted to restore an old wardrobe, and turn it into a kitchen cupboard.For displaying in the shop window.

At Pomona just after Christmas I found an old wardrobe at a very good price, and got stuck into it.

Step 1. was to strip back all the paint. It was cream, and I could have painted over it, but the result would not have been as good.

Step 2 was sand and two coats of white paint. Some done at home and some done at work. Hooray for paint rollers I say. So much better than a brush.

Then finally, three months later, the wardrobe made it debute in the shop window.

Come in and have a look.

See you in the store.

This beautiful Christmas Day table came from Anna Spiro in Brisbane.

An image that did not make it into the lastest Ivy & Piper mini Christmas mag.

 
I love it. I have had ever Christmas of my life in Queensland. Here in Noosa, at my Mums in Bardon, at my old house in Camp Hill and all of them were green and lush, just like this.

With pretty tables of one sort or another, because that was a tradition my Mum passed on. A well set table.

Also from the same mini mag, from the team at D.I.G in James Street Brisbane.

NOW, about both of these tables…….linen tablecloths OR painters dropsheets???

See you in the store.