a hawaiian-themed chair

I'm back with another sneak peek at my boys' new room. I'd had these timber director's chairs for years and years and they were in a pretty bad way. They were originally a dark timber but I painted this one white (very very bodgy job) about a year ago and then did nothing with it. Until now.

I got this fabric while we were in Hawaii last month. Mum and I walked 45 minutes in the scorching heat to find this place. But gee it was worth the effort.

I used the existing chair and back panels as templates.

And out came my 1930's sewing machine. A hand-me-down from my nan's sister-in-law (!) and it's a little beauty.

Here's the finished product.

Since the fabric I used was quite thin I just placed it over the top of the original seat panel - I don't want anybody falling through it.

Pics of the finished room will be coming soon.

Merry Christmas!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

It's christmas eve eve. Such a great time of year.

The kids are so excited about Santa and neither of them has swayed from the presents they asked him to bring them over a month ago.

For Liam it's a rocket, a Honda and a Mack truck. For Brayden, a doggy and a copter (helicopter). I'm pretty sure Santa will have these covered, with a few thousand more surprises thrown in.

They both helped me decorate the christmas tree (which means most of the decorations are on the bottom half of the tree) and we've been making decorations that I plan to keep and add to our box of special ornaments for many years to come. 

Liam is continually singing christmas carols. My favourite is...

Rudolph the red nose reindeer

had a very shiny nose

and if you ever saw it

you would maybe say hello.

The santa questions are coming thick and fast. Where does Santa park his reindeer?

How does he get in to the houses that don't have chimneys? Do all the Santa's know I want a rocket? It's unreal.

The best thing of all!.... that naughty and nice list. It's the best! I've never seen these two behaving so extra well. I love you Santa Claus. Ho Ho Ho.

Cowabunga dude, it's a surfboard shelf

 This is one of two very neglected surfboards I bought on ebay. The two of them only set me back $26 so I knew that if this idea didn't turn out it was only Greg's complaining about cluttering the garage that I would have a hard time dealing with.

I saw the idea on the internet somewhere - I can't for the life of me remember where, I just did a google search - and knew no ordinary shelf would do for my boys' room. 



So, I of course roped Greg in to helping me. He just doesn't have enough to do around the house already!

He hacked in to the best of the two boards with the power saw and did such a fantastically straight cut I was well impressed. I was also very excited because I immediately knew this was going to work. We expected to have to find a way to seal the foam and fibreglass along the cuts, but he sliced it right along the timber in the centre. PERFECT I tell ya!

Then we ripped one of the fins off the end of the second board and filed it down, cleaned it up and spray painted it black before attaching it to the bottom of the newly sliced board.

It's held up with a couple of $1.48 brackets from Big W and looks very

groooooooovy.

I love the way it turned out.