All New Shabby Chic Thread!

Kandipandi

Buttons are great! My DH remembers playing with them at his Nan's house when he was small, and each time I have them out on the table my youngest - who is now 10 always goes for them and has a good old rummage, it makes me smile
When I was in Mum's sewing box a couple of weeks ago I spotted some buttons that she had cut off a coat I used to have when I was about 15 and so many memories flooded back just by seeing these buttons it was quite a suprise.

hermum

Pooky wrote: »

Thanks for all the kind comments on my bathroom bunting......had a tinkering day today and came up with this .....well, every good bathroom needs a beach hut door stop doesn't it?

DH thought I was ever so slightly mad making bunting for it too but it had to be done.

Your bathroom looks really great & love the doorstop as well. Wish I could stop reading & get doing.
Maybe after another drinking

Bibbitybob

Your bathroom looks lovely pooky

I've just been to collect my sofa, we managed it in one car journey so pleasantly surprised. It's much pinker than in the photos but it looks like it will be quite easy to recover. I love the idea of a dark linen with the frame painted cream and distressed. I was planning to leave the frame as is, but it's quite bumped so it needs a new finish. Guess I'd better get my brushes out - will be a project to keep me out of mischief until I move I guess!

And even better than that...as we were bringing it in OH indicated that I might be allowed it in the new house instead of his ghastly corner sofa

laurel7172

Not very Cath Kidston, I suppose, but I've a weakness for 50's and 60's homeware, and this is the item that (very loosely) reminded me of Homemaker.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemVersion&item=220612824626&view=all&tid=0

We broke our oval pasta bake-type dish a few weeks ago. And now I've won this one, which I like very, very much.

Bibbitybob

hermum wrote: »

Maybe after another drinking

Sounds like you don't need another drinking :D

I, on the other hand, do

cheerfulness4

I love buttons too for all the memories that they bring.
My mum had a lovely biscuit tin button box for years with flowers on. As a little girl I was always getting them out and playing with them.

She gave me the button tin when I was in my early 40's and sadly we had a house fire and the tin was lost in the debris the restoration team cleared up afterwards.

I've now started my own tin again and save all and everything but I'd love to have had the ones from mums old coats in the 50's/60's and my childhoods ones.

shirlgirl2004

Just won this on ebay (massive bargain as OH has already collected and it is fab condition) so now I'm looking for some chairs to SC. I saw these and wondered if in this style of chair you can get the back panel out to recover it. These chairs are too far away from me so it wouldn't be those chairs but I wondered if someone knew how they are put together.

Frenchgirl

Shirl WOW what a bargain. I love the table and when I seen the price I loved it even more LOL. Looking forward to seeing what you do with it. Good luck with the chair hunting. x

LJM

shirlgirl2004 wrote: »

Just won this on ebay (massive bargain as OH has already collected and it is fab condition) so now I'm looking for some chairs to SC. I saw these and wondered if in this style of chair you can get the back panel out to recover it. These chairs are too far away from me so it wouldn't be those chairs but I wondered if someone knew how they are put together.

thats amazing you definately got a great bargain there

MrsMoo2U

Amazing find Shirl. What a bargain.