My Passion

My Passion, other than my family, is finding an old piece of furniture and making it my own. The more "well loved" the better. There are little pieces of my heart and soul in every room of our house.
I know i get this trait from my mum. When i was little my room was full of unique things she had hand made and i loved every bit of it. I kept it all in excellent but well loved condition until it was time to get my older stuff.
I find while i'm working on these projects, I also give myself a little time while i'm on autopilot to think. Really think about the big stuff. Where I'm going, What I want, although today my head was a broken record thinking about one thing over and over. Anyway, this latest project of mine, i'm pretty sure is the biggest and most testing one ever...I have always loved the Kura Bed from Ikea for my Son. Everytime we go through there he climbs up into it with no regard to the perpex guard covering the ladder. We are always on a pretty tight budget and i could never justify the amount for what it was, really? Its pretty...well...ugly. So I started looking on eBay. Found one, bought it and much to my disappointment, when i got it home realised the panels were water damaged and there were gouges, deep scratches and dents all over the timber. After a little planning, some new MDF, heaps of sprays cans (I wouldn't recommend for this project) Months later. I finally finished it, tonight. It was totally worth it.
My little boy crawled into bed and told me,"I love my new bed Mummy" and gave me a huge smile...He calls it his Transformers Bed because it is Optimus Prime colours, God love him...again, totally worth it.