Browsing Archive: March, 2011

Growing Finds

Posted by Ietsies on Tuesday, March 29, 2011, In : Furniture 


And my furniture stash is growing …. Our garage has been transformed into a glorified pawn shop!  Hubby’s car has been evicted and if the stash carries on growing like this, soon my car too will be out on the pavement! 

 

What to do with all this furniture …. Do I have a plan?  Mmmmmh Maybe, Maybe not….

 

Just LOVING the adventure!



















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Travelling clouds

Posted by Ietsies on Tuesday, March 29, 2011, In : Happiness is... 

Today's cloud pic, taken wile driving in the Northwest Province.

 I did not photoshop this pic.  Effect owing to movement of the car and the reflection in the window.






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And my Dremel colletion grows!

Posted by Ietsies on Friday, March 25, 2011, In : Happiness is... 

Whooooyeeeeeah!  Got my Dremel glue gun!

Never thought that glue could make me so happy! (well apart from that one time in grade 5 .... no need to elaborate)



My Dremel collection is coming along nicely!

And here are a few of my other Hobby-X finds.








Have a cool weekend tjommas!
Ps:  Off to another Plattelandse Pawn Shop this weekend.





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Gran' Design

Posted by Ietsies on Friday, March 25, 2011, In : Furniture 

Just look how cool my Ouma's (Grandma) old kitchen cupboard looks now!







Mis jou ouma!


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Thursday's Cloud

Posted by Ietsies on Thursday, March 17, 2011, In : Happiness is... 

Today's Clous pic




All the rain and thunder storms of late have blessed me with some awesome head in the clouds moments.




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Weekend flings

Posted by Ietsies on Monday, March 14, 2011, In : Furniture 

Monday already?

 Do your watch also loose time over weekends? 

It is the most peculiar thing, the one moment it is Friday afternoon, and the weekend is courting you with its sweet whispers and promises of all the nice things that the two of you will get up to.  You blink, look at your watch and it is 9 pm Sunday … leaving you with a distinct feeling of betrayal. Where did the weekend go? 

And you realise, the weekend definitely was not as into you as you were into it,...


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A bit of an update

Posted by Ietsies on Thursday, March 10, 2011, In : Happiness is... 

I cannot believe that it has been almost a month since my last entry. 

Phew the last three weeks were a bit of a blur, the days all seemed to flow into each other making it difficult to tell whether it is Monday or Friday.  Now that “normality” and some sort of a routine is about to kick in again I find myself in the middle of all sorts of strat planning and future-decision-making… These are interesting times indeed.

Just wanted to share a few projects and ideas with you:



Scarf and brooch...

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About Me


ietsies Just love being creative, be it writing, tinkering in the studio, cooking or playing fairy-godmother to old run-down stuff. I firmly believe that upcycling is the way of the future, there are already too many "things" on earth so rather repurpose something old and give it a beautiful creative new lease of life. It it's broken ... upcycle it! Stick it to the mass manufacturers and support handmade product.