Lucky me

Take a look - am I just lucky or what? A fabulous woman from our village, heard that I was looking for some old embroideries.... and she never forgot. So today I received those on the above photo.... and before that, I have received those below, from time to tome :)

I feel lucky to know her... because I am NOT good at finding these treasures myself.

So now I only have to decide on a project or two :) For a long time I have wanted a laptop bag with embroidery on the front. And I also have an old legrest/stool, that I have been thinking about recovering ... including a part of an embroidery. And finally an old square stool (puf) made out of leather I would do the same way, BUT now Nanna have claimed it to be hers... So I guess I will have to find another project !

But first my stool / legrest. And since it has to fit with the colors of my livingroom, lime green, sea blue, a dash of red and orange etc.... I really can't decide on one embroidery to use :) The one with the woman in the kitchen is way to dark a shade of green....

The two kids, waking hand in hand is pretty nice too... but that one I think will end up on a bag.... but the ships could be good for a bag too :) Hmmm what to do?

First of all, I have to take them out of the frames and give them a gentle wash... as shey really smells of gross cigars and old cellars!! But that could be tomorrows project! Together with putting up a shelf or two... and some lamps.

 NOW the vacation is over !!! ;)

Finished lamp project

Lamps are done!!! :) The weather today was great for painting outside... no wind and a great temperature. 

Oh and did they turn out great or what??! I love that color! Which the observant reader already knows ;)

No matter what, I can't wait to hang them on the wall. I just need two click-switches to put on the wires, so that I am able to turn the light on and off, like the original lamps. The old switches are broken.... or at least one of them was... the other one was a new one, but in a dark gray color, NOT good !!

But I guess I'll find two new ones tomorrow. And then I'll have to find some light bulbs that fits, without beeing visible.

The procedure for this is very simple. Take the lamps apart, cover with painters tape (see previous post) and find a good spot with no wind, to paint your lamps. I choose my parents garage, to do it... with no wind at all, and just in case it would start to rain.  And remember, to move your car more than a few feet away, when painting with spray paint!!! Just sayin!!!  (my father knew this, so it's not my fault that his old ugly car now has a nice shade of lime green!! ) ;)

But all in all I guess the project turned out great :) And now I am looking for two more of these lamps, for Nanna. She wishes for a navy blue set for her room.

Ready to paint

Finally I am ready to paint my old lamps. They are now disassembled. I have closed all holes with painters tape and filled the lamps with paper. Paint is ready. And then I discover, that I have no more sandpaper!!

But okay, then I have an excuse to go see my parents for a cup of coffee.... I know they have lots of sandpaper. And then I can go home and paint my retro lamps.

And it's about time, I would say... the lamps have been hiding in a box for about 2 years now... but hey Rome wasn't build in just one day right?

And today I did test if the green wires were able to fit in the holes inside the lamp... and they do!! :) So it will be great, I just know it!!

Lamp project

Finally I found the green paint :) At a company in the neightbour city. So now I can paint my flea market find... and mount it with my lime green wires, IF they fit in the holes, that is.

But at least I will try to do it. The color alone, will help a great deal on the look of these, almost antique, lamps. I feel like a kid again, as I had these lamps in my childhood bedroom. By the way, that lamp gave me an electric shock, because I just had to test if it really would do that, if I put my finger in the socket with the power on. It DID!!!!

I was deffinately one of those kids, you shouldn't tell NOT to touch this or that because it will be kind of dangerous. Because you could be pretty sure, that I would try it sooner or later. It probably would have been better never to tell me what to be aware of... because then I would probably never have had the idea to try it out ;)