Bumblebriar

A personal journey through the thickets and briars of life

This weeks project: is my Craft Sanctuary, possibly a Sitching Lounge – lovely sounding words aren’t they?  So much better than junk room which is what it looks like today, filled with so many unfinished projects (more like unstarted projects).  

This week I start to put things into motion to make it real as best I can between real jobs and this wish book activity.  I picked up this great table at Goodwill over the weekend for a whopping $10.  I was even willing to pay the $19.99 it was marked but I lucked out and it was 50% off.  It’s a typical farm table, with black legs painted legs and a pine top.  After our 5000 sq ft of hardwood floors we refinished – this is going to be a piece of cake.  I’ve even tried out the lifts for the legs to make it counter height and they fit perfectly!  Love it.  An easy conversion is to use those bed lifts you find at target or anywhere to lift a twin bed and give it some storage height.  They are also the perfect height to lift a small table making it counter height.  I like this solution better so I don’t permanently ugly up some perfectly good legs.  This will let me use the table other places and for other things when I need it, I just have to be sure not to lean or push too hard.

More pictures to come as it progresses.

 

Farmtable

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I must have been a junk collector in my past life.  Someone dumped an empty coffee bean bag in the breakroom at work.  To some it may look like garbage (my husband thought it was), but I thought I saw something.   It took me forever, just because i didn’t have the creative juices flowing, but finally… Voila!

I converted it to a lined tote bag I guess.  I was inspired by a pattern and some interesting bread baskets I saw on alibaba.  Unfortunately the burlap is too loosely woven to stand up on it’s own and I used a bottom weight twill for the liner, it’s weight just pulls down on the burlap more, so it’s a Tote!  I am fond of the chicken embroidery patterns, which I got from  Emblibrary.com

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Embellished some cover buttons with embroidery and made them into ponies for my nieces hair

 

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