I've been pretty silent since my last post!
Tomorrow I'm hoping to go out and get a good amount of painting done but I have a particularly busy saturday so I'm not sure how much I'll get done!
On the plus side we got lights back in our little stable so I go night time now! We had to stop painting up till now when we lost the light so it'll be nice to be able to keep going till I want to stop!
So tomorrow we're planning on working on a nice kitchen chair that we're turning into a swing chair, a beautiful writing desk we have mostly painted, and a garden table we've been commissioned to do!
So I'll charge up the ould picturamo maker and I'll stick up a few snaps of our works in progress!
Until tomorrow!
Friday, 23 May 2014
Tuesday, 20 May 2014
Our little stable buisness is up and running, now just a first sale and we'll be of!
Hi!
My name is Caoimhe and I have always, always as long as i remember been into arts, crafts, painting and messing around with glitter and covering my house in colour and so it seemed like a natural thing for me to start painting a few bits of furniture I'd bought when I moved into my first house. Soon after people started commenting on my stuff and how much they loved it and I wondered if maybe I could do what I'd seen others all over the internet do. Could I make a little business out of taking unwated, unloved furniture and doing it up?
I still don't know if I can but I know I'm going to try!
I mentioned it to my boyfriend and he was 500 per cent behind me and we started to put some plans into motion.
We scoured the internet for pieces of furniture that were in good condition and that were going cheap and we started to gather a little collection of "stock" as we love to call it as we play business.
Firstly I should tell you a bit about us I suppose!
We live in waterford, Ireland. I am 23 and Paul is 22 and we've been together almost a year now. We live in Waterford city but I'm originally from the country. I grew up on a farm with a father who didn't differentiate between boys and girls and put a screwdriver in my hand as soon as I could hold one without stabbing myself in the eye. I grew up chopping wood, laying floors, building what we didn't buy on the farm and generally learning about being handy with power tools. Paul on the other hand grew up in the city and I'm fairly certain the first time I put a paintbrush in his hand was the first time he'd ever held one!
So we decided to set up shop in a little stable that my dad has out the back of our house and by now we have filled it with bits and bobs of household furniture in varying states of paintedness.
So I suppose before i start showing some of our ware I should introduce us!
We don't normally dress so dapper, we were at a 1920s themed party last weekend!
I assume you can tell which is me and which is Paul!
So we've been at this thing for the last few months, and we just put our first three pieces up in the last two weeks!
And...we opened our Etsy shop! Woop! I'm really optimistic and I hope I'm not being niave but if nothing sells then we'll have some damn nice furniture for our first house!
So the first piece we completed was a little set of nest tables that I picked up from an older lady in Wexford. We painted them with a sky blue paint and I found a lovely wall paper with floral pattern with colours that complimented the tables lovely. We cut and measured the paper and we glued and sealed it. We followed that with 2 coats of varnish, snapped a few (shoddy enough pics) and put them up online!
And Voila!Our first little piece!
The second item we got up was a lovely drop leaf table we picked up in waterford and we sanded down the original finish, which was in excellent condition and we decided on a lovely dove grey colour and also to make the piece a bit unique we decided to paint the crease along the drop leaf part pure white and i have to say I was super pleased with how it turned out!
Our last piece was a project that Paul started himself from start to finish. It started off as an ugly old white mirror and paul spent ages painstakingly painting it. It turned out lovely!He also took the old hinges off and added a wire so that the mirror is now a wall hanging mirror!
And there you get a little snip of our stable there and some of the other projects we have on the go!
So thats all for the moment! I'm hoping to have one or two more up this weekend and I will post them here!
I'm going to use this blog to track our progree, and hopefully our sucess!
If you like what you see pop over to our etsy shop! https://www.etsy.com/ie/listing/189910866/greywhite-drop-leaf-table?
My name is Caoimhe and I have always, always as long as i remember been into arts, crafts, painting and messing around with glitter and covering my house in colour and so it seemed like a natural thing for me to start painting a few bits of furniture I'd bought when I moved into my first house. Soon after people started commenting on my stuff and how much they loved it and I wondered if maybe I could do what I'd seen others all over the internet do. Could I make a little business out of taking unwated, unloved furniture and doing it up?
I still don't know if I can but I know I'm going to try!
I mentioned it to my boyfriend and he was 500 per cent behind me and we started to put some plans into motion.
We scoured the internet for pieces of furniture that were in good condition and that were going cheap and we started to gather a little collection of "stock" as we love to call it as we play business.
Firstly I should tell you a bit about us I suppose!
We live in waterford, Ireland. I am 23 and Paul is 22 and we've been together almost a year now. We live in Waterford city but I'm originally from the country. I grew up on a farm with a father who didn't differentiate between boys and girls and put a screwdriver in my hand as soon as I could hold one without stabbing myself in the eye. I grew up chopping wood, laying floors, building what we didn't buy on the farm and generally learning about being handy with power tools. Paul on the other hand grew up in the city and I'm fairly certain the first time I put a paintbrush in his hand was the first time he'd ever held one!
So we decided to set up shop in a little stable that my dad has out the back of our house and by now we have filled it with bits and bobs of household furniture in varying states of paintedness.
So I suppose before i start showing some of our ware I should introduce us!
We don't normally dress so dapper, we were at a 1920s themed party last weekend!
I assume you can tell which is me and which is Paul!
So we've been at this thing for the last few months, and we just put our first three pieces up in the last two weeks!
And...we opened our Etsy shop! Woop! I'm really optimistic and I hope I'm not being niave but if nothing sells then we'll have some damn nice furniture for our first house!
So the first piece we completed was a little set of nest tables that I picked up from an older lady in Wexford. We painted them with a sky blue paint and I found a lovely wall paper with floral pattern with colours that complimented the tables lovely. We cut and measured the paper and we glued and sealed it. We followed that with 2 coats of varnish, snapped a few (shoddy enough pics) and put them up online!
And Voila!Our first little piece!
The second item we got up was a lovely drop leaf table we picked up in waterford and we sanded down the original finish, which was in excellent condition and we decided on a lovely dove grey colour and also to make the piece a bit unique we decided to paint the crease along the drop leaf part pure white and i have to say I was super pleased with how it turned out!
Our last piece was a project that Paul started himself from start to finish. It started off as an ugly old white mirror and paul spent ages painstakingly painting it. It turned out lovely!He also took the old hinges off and added a wire so that the mirror is now a wall hanging mirror!
And there you get a little snip of our stable there and some of the other projects we have on the go!
So thats all for the moment! I'm hoping to have one or two more up this weekend and I will post them here!
I'm going to use this blog to track our progree, and hopefully our sucess!
If you like what you see pop over to our etsy shop! https://www.etsy.com/ie/listing/189910866/greywhite-drop-leaf-table?
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