New colourways in stock!

It's been a little while coming, but finally we have added a few new colourways to our Leaves and Moose design fabrics.  Both designs have been reprinted onto a lovely soft natural cotton/linen blend basecloth.

We have added the top left and top right colours to our range, which are called Dove Grey and Ocean Mist respectively.  This design is also still available in Rust, Chalk, Slate and Black.

Our popular Moose fabric has been reprinted in 2 new colourways.  The first is Desert Red, which as the name implies, is a very earthy natural shade of red, and much more subdued than the original fire engine red of our previous print, which is now available in very limited stock.

The other new Moose colourway we have been dying to print since the design was completed is Dove Grey.  A personal favourite of ours, which is lovely on it's own or will easily coordinate with other colours in the home.

Now we've just got to find a spare 5 minutes to get some cushions and beanbags made up and listed in our online shop!

My Creative Space......'Footstool Makeover'

Apart from all the chaos here today associated with last minute preparations for Finders Keepers on the weekend, we've squeezed in  a few minutes to do a makeover of a footstool that we bought a few weeks ago at a garage sale up the road for $2.

Before Photo

She has great character don't you think?  She just looks a little tired and grubby and needs a little bit of loving.  I started, with the aid of my little helper, by stripping back her covers and removing all the old rusty staples.  I loved the brightly coloured threads I found underneath.

Makeover Process

 

Next I gave her legs a light rub with some steel wool to get them nice and smooth and to remove a few little rub marks she had accumulated.  With a light rub of furniture oil here legs were gleaming.  We chose our brand new 'Leaves' fabric in slate to recover her with, using the old cover as a pattern, and stretched and stapled the fabric on the base. 

 

After Photo

And voila!  With less than an hours worth of effort, we turned our $2 footstool into this modernised little beauty.  What do you think?

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