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Create an Antique Basket with a Thrift Store Find in this EASY Jamie Lundstrom DIY Project
A Project from Jamie Lundstrom’s book: French Vintage Décor To create this “antique basket” look, you may already have an old cane basket laying…
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Home Decor on a Budget – Op Shop or Thrift Store Finds
It is possible to do home decor on a budget! It’s actually super easy to create beautiful home decor on a budget, and lately…
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It’s Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas Crafts!
Christmas Crafts, Op Shopping and Up-cycling Anyone else enjoy getting their DIY Christmas Crafts done early? I’ve had a few smaller projects going on…
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Five (5) Makeover Ideas to Change the Look of Your Home this Spring
Spring is Well Underway Down Under Well, Spring is most certainly here in Australia, and here in Queensland, we’re experiencing sunny days and beautiful…
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What Treasures Have You Found While Painting Antique Furniture?
Antique Finds It’s always fun when you find hidden treasures in vintage or antique furniture when you go to clean them up and paint…
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Miss Mustard Seed’s Milk Paint and a Silky Oak Dresser in a Time Lapse Video
A Solid Silky Oak Australian Antique Dresser This silky oak dresser came to me via a lady on the Gold Coast who wanted to…
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Welcome these Beautiful Year Round Wreaths to your home this Spring!
Preserved Boxwood Wreaths are in Australia and you can get them HERE! I am so excited to announce that we have teamed up with…
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Visiting Paris – Sacré-Cœur and the Eiffel Tower
Our 25th Anniversary Surprise Vacation – Part 5 Included in this post: Eiffel Tower, Sacré-Coeur Basilica, Notré Dame, and Arc du Triomph! Continuing our…
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Milk Painted Rattan Back Chairs
Miss Mustard Seed’s Milk Paint colour – Mora I don’t even remember where I picked up these rattan back chairs along my furniture collecting…
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Who Knew there was Furniture at The Louvre?
More of our Anniversary Surprise European Getaway Visiting the Louvre Our second day in Paris, France and we decided to venture out early on…
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I'm a furniture painter & restorer from Brisbane, Australia, who loves to up-cycle and repurpose old neglected pieces and bring them back to life again. Are you a thrifty DIYer or home renovator? Keen to make transformations in your own home? Let me inspire you and help you in your DIY Furniture Painting journey with educational tutorials, tips and furniture makeovers. You’ll be surprised what could be hiding in your house gathering dust, that could be given a completely new lease of life! As a mother of four young adults, and wife to a busy self-employed audio/video guy, life can be crazy at times, so painting furniture is a bit like therapy for me! What about you? Join me as we learn together. There are such a variety of ways of making old things become new again!