tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15855763679745467932024-03-05T16:54:15.744+00:00I Love My Home"Have in your home only that which you know to be useful or believe to be beautiful"
William Morris
- or better still, have things which are useful AND beautiful and Love your Home even more!kerry at life wranglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10389576735529338791noreply@blogger.comBlogger147125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585576367974546793.post-17229229791033172322019-09-08T19:16:00.002+01:002019-09-08T19:16:55.433+01:00<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; margin: 20px 0px 0px; position: relative;">
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I picked up this chair in a sorry state, broken and battered, unloved and unwanted, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">but so unusual. A corner seat perfect for my hall</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">and here she is in all her new finery,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">mended and refinished and, above all, useful again</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">next up, two very similar chests of drawers, again bought for a snip </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">but I could see lots of potential and no mending needed which is always a bonus</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">so, after many coats of paint, wax, distressing etc. here they are</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">once again, restored and useful - what more could anyone want?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I took a quick mental wander through my home the other day </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">and realised there is virtually nothing that is new, everything was rescued, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">lovingly restored and unique</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I love the fact that I created so much myself, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">exactly as I wanted it. </span><span style="font-size: medium;">What a privilege</span></div>
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kerry at life wranglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10389576735529338791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585576367974546793.post-59371870001737339592017-10-31T08:34:00.004+00:002017-10-31T08:34:57.955+00:00Taking a break<span style="font-size: large;">I've decided to take a break from I Love My Home for a while. There are several other creative areas I want to concentrate on so I won't be posting or selling in the near future. Thank you for reading and following all these years x</span>kerry at life wranglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10389576735529338791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585576367974546793.post-28312101235320165042017-08-15T10:16:00.000+01:002017-08-15T10:16:15.305+01:00Rustic signs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I often see lots of old tools for sale and love the age and wear on them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For a while I've been thinking about a way to use them and so I've been playing around with this idea for rustic signs...</span></div>
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<br />kerry at life wranglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10389576735529338791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585576367974546793.post-35373908804182957372017-06-19T12:43:00.000+01:002017-06-19T12:43:08.410+01:00More treasures!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I've been having a very lucky time lately with my treasure hunting, perhaps it's the good weather we're having that's making people want to clear out the glory hole, but whatever it is, the universe is sending lovely things my way!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">How about this pair of gorgeous red vanity cases? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They're a great size, perfect for storing all your makeup or accessories and the interiors are in really good condition which is always a bonus with cases I find...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you saw last week's post you'll have seen the lovely large green glass bottle I found, it was much admired by, amongst others, Supercrafter from the US. Hi there!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was amazed to pick up its big brother this week, giant sized and so decorative….</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now, this next item may seem a bit of an odd one, two orphan drawers, but these will be the basis of a new project - watch this space!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I also picked up this little chest of drawers to restore, I think it will turn out really well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Finally, I found this lovely large basket. Perfect for the beach or to store your knitting or quilting project</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Met a couple of contacts yesterday who source brocante from France and look what I came home with…</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A gorgeous pair of hand carved sabots, they look child sized but may have been for a very petite woman I suppose...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I know it's easy to be wise after the event, but why didn't I realise quilting and patching would be so addictive?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Of course I can't be lugging around a whole quilt to work on all the time, but there are always scraps of fabric to use up and no piece is too small to be useful. That's why I'm addicted I think, it appeals to my hate of wasting resources and love of creating something out of nothing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So here's a little beauty I just made. About 6 by 4 inches and embellished with a scrap of fabric on which I printed the first line of "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier. The quote is about dreaming because the pillow is filled with lavender which I picked and dried from last years garden. I keep it under my pillow to send me off to sleep...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For the sleep pillows I also mix dried hops into the filling for their soporific effect.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, things have changed yet again, I can hardly keep up!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I Love My Home is still available at Brackley Antique Centre in all its unique, ever-changing, vintage glory but now on an even bigger scale!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We have moved into a new unit (no 82) which is twice the size of our previous home</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Over the winter I've sourced and worked on a whole barn full of wonderful pieces and can't wait to show you more!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you get a chance to visit I Love My Home at Brackley Antique Centre, you'd be so very welcome - and don't forget we are open 362 days a year (so great for a rainy day!), with plenty of parking and a tea room, not forgetting approximately 190 dealers with a huge variety of items for sale.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I know, people in my line of work are usually big on decorating and being festive but, for me, there's too much cynical emphasis on consumerism and spending money to create the 'perfect Christmas'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">However, before I cry "Bah, Humbug!" let me say I can't deny MLH his Christmas tree and this year I bypassed all the dusty crates and bags of decorations in the loft and went for a very simple design...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(especially the fur babies who are intrigued by all the little 'birds' they can just pick off the tree!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I took this photo on a trip to my favourite National Trust property Snowshill Manor near Broadway in Gloucestershire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The C16th house was bought by Charles Wade just after the first world war. He saw the property advertised in Country Life while he was at the front and promised himself that, if he survived, he would buy it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But he never intended it to be his home, in fact he converted a tiny building in the grounds, the Priest's House, to live in. It's said to be haunted by a monk and a young woman who was forced to marry in one of the upstairs rooms in 1604.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wade kept the beautiful country manor simply as a repository for his amazing collection of STUFF.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I can't describe it any better than that because the variety is staggering: Samurai armour (26 suits), a collection of scrimshaw, toys, musical instruments, Oriental carving and furniture, bicycles, looms…the list goes on and on. He was an inveterate collector and almost every item came from large houses in the UK at a time when many old family properties were selling treasures because they were struggling with death duties and the lack of labour after the war (very Downton Abbey).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thank goodness he saved so many wonderful things for us to enjoy now. You can see why it's a place I enjoy so much, It speaks to my wish to save and care for old things and enjoy them today and in the future. His motto was "let nothing perish" and so his quote below is my Thought for the Day:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I Love My Home has settled in to its new home at Brackley Antique Cellar. The first couple of weeks have been really good for sales and I've already had to restock so I'm a happy little camper!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The staff are all lovely and so helpful, I worried that moving from a lovely intimate place to a much larger one might mean it was a bit clinical but not at all. Of course, it may have helped that I took a large box of chocolate biscuits for them when I went in this weekend!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Even these don't really do it justice as it's impossible to capture the whole building and there are other areas which are separate from the main one, it just goes on and on...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I think my favourites were firstly this lovely vintage double desk and bench, can you imagine the kids doing their homework at this while you cook dinner? and secondly, the gorgeous vintage Imperial typewriter. Don't they look great together?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I showed this to the lovely Alison from Stylish Shutters of Tring who's helping me with some new window treatments at home, and we were off down memory lane with our experiences of manual typewriters, telex machines etc, God I feel old!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Well, <span style="color: #990000;">I Love My Home</span> has grown even larger and has had to look for a new home - meaning more space and even more fabulous unique items.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Yesterday we moved into Brackley Antique Cellar in the beautiful and historic Northamptonshire town of Brackley.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The Antique Cellar has 30,000 square feet of space with over 180 dealers, it is VAST and if you can't find something to buy there, then you haven't looked properly!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">As if this wasn't enough, in 2013 it was voted 'Homes and Antiques' magazine's Best Antique Centre in Great Britain and is frequently featured on TV in programmes such as Antiques Road Trip.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Come and visit <span style="color: #990000;">I Love My Home</span> at Unit 88</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Search for Brackley Antique Cellar online and you'll see lots more information including reviews and how to get there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've always loved the phrase 'cuter than a little red wagon' and today I found something that truly is 'cuter……' etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This morning we picked up these odds and ends for a few pounds. We didn't know what we were going to do with them but fell in love with the sweet little wheels and metal handle...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">MLH (My Lovely Husband) put them together with an old wooden box we have been using to store logs by the fire in the Winter...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You know how it is, you've got books, DVDs etc etc stowed all over the house, you can't get at any of them and you end up not using them. This is my magic storage solution.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">here's the magic bit, it takes almost no floor space but all my books DVDs and so on have disappeared inside with no trouble. Some are stacked two deep, but even so I couldn't believe how much stuff this little cupboard swallowed up!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh my word, quilting is addictive. I can't stop collecting vintage fabric with a view to making more and more quilts and throws.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">here's my latest, I love working in pale colours and this random selection of fabrics with a floral theme spoke to me, I used a lot of the fabrics on the reverse side to give a soft, faded look</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I like to add a 'Homemade' label to each piece I make to remind me that I am not in pursuit of perfection, just pleasure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You know the story, a young innocent girl (use your imagination here) picks up a square of fabric and thinks 'what harm can it do? I can stop whenever I like'. The next thing you know there are quilts everywhere. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now, I've always collected quilts, they're all over my day bed, on my sofas and bursting out of my cabinet</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">but I never thought I'd make my own until I started looking for a project to keep myself busy in the Winter. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just to clarify for any horrified 'proper' quilters out there:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I don't enjoy following the rules so I love starting something and then making it up as I go along. I think it's very liberating creatively to have no idea what you're doing so you aren't scared to try anything and see if it works - maybe there's a life lesson here? The Zen of Quilting? So, this is just my own take on quilt making ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The first creation was a large checkerboard of toile and striped fabric with sashimi style embroidery around the outer squares.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was meant to protect a chair from the fur babies but they just climb underneath it to sleep!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The next was a mix of pale scraps from my stash, </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I loved using up pieces I'd kept for 'just the right thing'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Next was a lilac and white theme inspired by some embroidered lavender fabric I found…</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And finally (who am I kidding?) last week I picked up some vintage french fabric swatches (in the centre of this quilt) and used a mixture of white embroidered and cutwork linen and matching squares to frame them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What next? well I've got plenty of fabric in the stash just waiting for the 'right' project and I can't stop collecting so I'm sure there will be more to come!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I can't resist chair makeovers, I'm always especially excited when I see something like this Edwardian chair. It had all the potential and beautiful 'bones', even though the upholstery on top was nasty the webbing etc underneath was in great condition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So I painted it in Autentico 'Bath Stone' and sealed it with their sealer and refinished the seat et voila! A chair fit for a chateau boudoir ......</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">here she is from another angle showing her lovely curves</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I offer no reason or excuse for sharing this because it doesn't need one! It's just beautiful and how we all feel sometimes when we need a little peace</span></div>
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree</h1>
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And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee;
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping
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Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm a big fan of these lovely Louis style chairs and you might remember that I refurb'd one last year. Well, it didn't stay around for long - in fact, it sold within an hour of being placed in the shop! I'd love to do more because they're so popular but getting hold of them is not easy. However….I was lucky enough to find another and here's it's story...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You can see it was covered in my 'favourite' orange varnish - don't get me started on WHY people would want to use this stuff - and some rather nasty old velour so all of that had to come off...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and after a LOT of scraped knuckles and broken nails, I managed to get all the original studs and staples out and finished the chair in Old White ASCP and some clear wax.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It sold very quickly, as soon as it went into my space at Afterglow of Olney…</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And this one has just gone into the shop. It's a lovely example with lots of history as it belonged to a Masonic Institute of Learning. I found some old documents detailing this and left them inside for the new owners to see…</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I love being able to re-use old objects in a new way - otherwise some of them would just be lost forever as their original purpose may no longer exist - I started taking a few snaps around the house and look what I found...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This old chiffonier back no longer had its base but looks wonderful above my French day bed (many a happy hour spent lapsing in and out of consciousness here!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I bought this old chicken carrier from the lovely Corinne at Douce Campagne, but not having any chickens to carry I use it for holding my favourite magazines by my favourite reading chair...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I can't resist a crate or two - or three, and love the extra storage they provide - here they're storing my ongoing handicraft projects...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I think this is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of things I've reused around the house: the French chest as a coffee table, the washstand as a TV stand etc etc, but I love being able to give new life to old things. After all, that's the ethos of I Love My Home and it inspires me to keep searching out more lovely old things x</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A while ago I acquired some lovely old vintage sacks, full of history but in a condition that showed their age. One of them was dated 1944 and carried the legend "when empty return immediately". Well, whether it was returned or not it has now fallen into my hands and I wanted to turn it into some thing useful. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As I've said the condition wasn't great so I needed to find a use that suited them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So many of us now have wood burners and need to carry logs from the outside store to the living room. Often the logs are dirty and can leave resin on your clothes. Not to mention that they are heavy and easily dropped on your foot!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And so, ta da! I present the 'vintage sack log carrying bag' (catchy name isn't it!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My glamourous assistant is seen here demonstrating that it will hold a good number of logs from the store to the stove...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And above is a close up shot showing the writing (it also has a corn merchant's name on the reverse)...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I put it together using strong jute string and a bodkin needle and hot glued all the loose ends to try and make it as strong as possible. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It's quite large and, although you could use it as a toy, I think it would look beautiful filled with plants ....</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So out came the sledgehammer and our super carpenter got to work reconfiguring just about everything... And here's the finished article...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We've tried to give it a really warm, rustic look in keeping with the fact that it's an old dairy and cattle barn and already has exposed brickwork and original beams....</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">You might remember from an earlier post that we brought in the lovely Penny and Ian to change the colour of all the beams in the house and we've now put this limed oak flooring all through the house too. In the far end of this photo you can see the dining table we made from an old door and the refinished bench.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The following photos show a few of the finishing touches...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Got to have a comfy seat for my coffee!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I made this spice box years ago and still find it really useful. Also the cutlery is now always close to hand in this zinc container...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This old dresser base has been with me for many years and occasionally gets repainted. We have large mirrors all over the house as I love the spacious effects they give...and in the reflection you can see some old French bottle crates we use for storing wine...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I love this vintage window turned into a mirror which sits over the range cooker and bounces light from the skylight back into the room...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">My kitchen makeover is so close I can almost taste it - appropriate for a kitchen don't you think! I'm so looking forward to the fun part of adding the decorative details that I spent a happy afternoon making this notice board ......</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I used scraps of fabric I like and some fabric I printed, along with some ribbons to hold papers and cards. I added some push pins in red and white and some miniature clothes pegs too.</span></div>
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