All New Shabby Chic Thread!

jcr16

hart my mum had a sewing box like that on legs for years and years. i loved it. it was always fully of treasures. no idea what happened to it tho. i could do with one like that for all my bits. i need some organisation. at the mo it is all crammed in on of those big plastic bendy bucket type. as i got so much now and i didn't have anything spare to put it in apart from that.

laurel7172

When I was younger, the articles in the style magazines that really caught my eye were always the ones where somebody had made over a six bedroom house for about 25p using Great Aunt Maud's curtains and something salvaged from a skip. Mostly, I think, because I envied the confidence and flair it took.

So I've always had a slightly faux-boho romantic view of skip diving. But I never did it until last week, when I stopped the car (before I could change my mind and chicken out) and asked a man for some old, mortar-covered bricks he was throwing away.

But I've stood in the garden this evening, cleaning the bricks and humming away to myself, feeling really good. Nice, weathered bricks, free, carbon footprint the extra fuel to carry them two miles home.

This is possibly the only place I know where people won't think I'm completely insane...

alys_fowler

my nan has a lovely boxed sewing basket come table on legs you lift the top and the sewing area is inside so you can use the top as a base to work on, i think my uncle made it a long time ago for her he is a carpenter, may ask if he could make me one

alys_fowler

laurel7172 i dont think you are insane in fact i love this kind of thing makes you feel good inside

Twinkles08

laurel,I love recyling things particularly if it is free,so no I totally agree with you!
I have just brought a folding out sewing box for a fiver,which I plan to paint cream in dimity and then line in laura ashley fabric exactly like Icandream in the last shabby chic thread.Can't remember which page it's on but I love it so much I've even tracked down the same gorgeous fabric!She did such a good job.

ps gorgeous bedroom princess,really lush,plus love the bargains recently ie the sofa and the table

EssexGirl

I've still got my Mum's sewing table. Not sure if that's what it was originally made for as it's a bit short, but it has all of her knitting needles and sewing stuff and the all important button tin that meant so much to me as kid.
Mum passed on 8 years ago and I'm still finding useful bits in that sewing table. Only yesterday DS came home with a list of bits he needed for school tomorrow and elastic was on the list. None in my sewing box, but Mum's one came up trumps again.


This is one of the 2 chairs I bought yesterday for the princely sum of £7 for both. I'm hoping it shabbies up well. One for practice and one for best lol.

Twinkles08

gorgeous chair!I actually really like the deep red cushion.Great find!

betony

Just ordered free fabric samples from Discount Materials - even though my sewing is limited to buttons, and even then only if they're REALLY easy ones! What am I doing? Think I've been brainwashed with reading this thread...

Suppose I can do other things with them though. Can anyone please tell me how big the samples are likely to be?

Edited to add - aaggghhh! just discovered another site where you can download free printable images, eg for scrap-booking. It's called scrapbookscrapbook. My OH alreafdy thinks I'm dotty

danemi1

phew finally read this thread up to date - |I have sat this evening and taken a large wooden photo frame to pieces - painted in gesso and then stripped the ck wallpaper into bits and glued them on all over - mainly overlapping and trailed tiny bits of green paint over too - let it dry and then I first of all tried to water down upva glue to varnish and when that didnt go very well - added a layer of matt varnish - it is sat drying and I am quite chuffed, Hope it still looks good in the morning - how many coats of varnish does it need??? Have also today made a surfboard - well ok its made from a very large table box - daughter missed her school trip today as she has shingles but is hoping to be back for her school play soon which is about holidays and her prop or imaginary prop if she couldnt find one was to be a surf board hence the trip to focus for large box - then home to lay the ironing board on top of it draw around - do two and stick together with something in the middlle to strengthen - its had two coats of paint and is sat drying at the moment - so hopefully can decorate that tomorrow evening - phew rather a busy day - love viewing everyones work - thanks for sharing

hart44

cherisong wrote: »

Can you start to come CS shopping with me? Never mind a personal shopper for clothes I could do with one of you :rotfl: The box sounds just like the one that I missed because of umming and ahhing in the shop the other week. ::(
On a high note, whilst not strictly shabby chic (but very environmentally friendly) I just managed to win a fridge freezer on ebay for £52 and when I went to pick it up I was thrilled -it is like new, the lady I bought it from was so sweet too. I am even more thrilled because somebody on this thread somewhere mentioned buying off ebay via quidco so I am now tracking £2.24 cashback which is great because my budget was £50 for a fridge as that was all I could afford. Wow, things are looking up.

Well done on your fridge/freezer
I love poking around in CS's, I just stand and look at the rails or shelves and i see something I can make with what ever I see :rotfl:
I dont see a blouse or a sheet I see bags or something I can paint. I have 4 picture frames waiting to be shabbied but I did miss a red gingham duvet cover :mad: I picked up a nice gingham cushion cover and when paying for it the lady asked if I was the lady who brought the duvet cover they had in 2 days before, I was gutted to have missed that one, I just thought of all the hearts I could have made with it .
I have always had a nack of seeing the potential in things but I want the time to do it all :rotfl:

Essexgirl, I love your chairs and what a great bargain price, I look forward to seeing them done

Laurel, a lot of the best things come out of skips I just wish there were more around here :rotfl: