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What do you think of this chair? I love it! When I was young my grandparents had a pair of these and I remember my granddad used to sit on it and read the paper in the morning sun. Now these Parker style chairs are worth a lot of money, and look great when recovered in modern fabric.
On the weekend we had a wedding to go to in Wollongong. And what should we see where we parked the car? A pair of these style chairs out on the kerb for garbage day! They needed recovering and probably a bit of work, but really what are the chances of finding a matching pair.
This conversation follows:
Me: “wow Dan look at those chairs.. We should take them”
Dan: “I don’t know.. where would we put them.. we have no space”
Me: “but we’re driving Kate’s truck. There’s plenty of space in the back. It was obviously meant to be. We can put them in the garage until we have space for them..”
Dan: ” Someone might see us”
Me: “they wouldn’t put it there if they wanted it. Please…”.
Dan: “I don’t think so”
And so with that conversation is over, as can’t exactly grab them myself in heels. Now I am kicking myself. This revamped pair featured in the July issue of Home Beautiful at Southwood Home is $2750 for the pair.
Darn husband!!!
Rachel
Ps to read about previous street furniture adventures see here
photo uploaded by ronnie44052 via flickr
Hey there, today was a massive day of sewing. Dan had a day off today so he looked after Hamish while I sewed.. and sewed.. and sewed. I hope to post some pictures tomorrow afternoon.
The kite pic is in honour of the Kite Festival that we went to at Wanda beach yesterday. It was a stunning day, and Cadel and Hamish were in awe of the kites.
Rachel
This weekend was massive! We had a small party for Hamish’s birthday, and though only family was coming I still managed to get myself completely stressed with the preparations.
Despite all my stressing it was a lovely party, the food was great, and I think the cake looked very pretty. I also made the bunting (in the background) for the party and I am thrilled with how it turned out.
We also had houseguests (Daniel’s parents), and to top it all off Hamish wasn’t himself (I found out on Monday that he has an ear infection, which explains his poor sleep of late). Cadel really enjoyed having his grandparents stay which was lovely because unfortunately they live so far away we don’t really see them all that much. The boys posed together for this shot
Dan and I also got to go to our favourite cafe for a rare childfree brekky, while the kids stayed with their grandparents. I must say, it was lovely to only have to feed myself for a change! How was your weekend?
Rachel
Well this last weekend was lovely. Saturday was a long day of sewing, and on Sunday we went to the markets here and ate spinach and fetta Gozleme for lunch.
I have nearly finished the surprise, its at the editing stage now.
I pieced some blocks for my new couch quilt. I am using a honey bun of Wonderland by MoMo. I did take some pictures but the light wasn’t good enough. So I’ll try again tomorrow.
I finished some softies including Henrietta the pink Hippo
Henrietta will go into my online stores tomorrow morning.
I was also busy opening a Made It store on the weekend for Australian customers. It currently has a couple of Owls in it including this one
Anyhow thats enough shameless self promotion for now.
Rachel
Today we went for a very nice picnic at Federal Park on the water at Annandale. The boys had a lovely time and we dropped Annie off at the Playground there for The Toy Society. Hopefully she will find a nice home.
She is from the Black Apple Pattern.
Rachel
Hey folks,
We had a pretty quiet weekend spent catching up on housework and with family. I was fortunate enough to go to Finders Keepers without my children on Friday night… Bliss.
I met Amy, and admired her fabulous softies. She gave me some stickers which Cadel loved when I got home… ”ippo another ippo” he kept saying. And I showed great restraint only purchasing two things; a lovely scarf and fabric panel from Aunty Cookie.
Not sure what I’ll make out of the fabric panel. I am thinking about cushions but I want to make slipcovers for the couch first, and that is hardly top of my sewing list. YIKES
Anyhoo hope you all are having a lovely Monday, I am off to make a roast chook for tea.
Rachel
On weekends Dan loves to cook scones, and at the moment this recipe is a favourite especially with Cadel.
Ingredients
3 cups plain flour
6 teaspoons baking powder
pinch salt
50 grams butter
3/4 cup chopped dates
1 tablespoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 1/4 cup milk
extra milk, cinnamon, and sugar
Recipe
Sift flour, baking powder, sugar, cinnamon, and salt together. Add dates. Squish butter with knife or hands until it is broken into very small pieces. Mix milk in quickly to a soft dough . Lightly knead.
Dust tray with flour press dough onto tray and mark into even scone sized pieces (usually about 12). Brush with extra butter and dust tops of scones with a mixture of cinnamon and sugar.
Bake for 10 minutes at 220 degrees.
These are great served warm with fresh coffee.
Enjoy
What did you do this weekend?
For the first time in what feels like forever we went out for breakfast. Pre kids we went out every weekend for brekky, but this slowed down after we had Cadel and halted once we had Hamish. The thought of trying to keep the boys happy in a busy cafe while having an enjoyable breakfast just seemed unfathomable.
Anyhoo our local cafe Big Brekky recently changed hands. The food has always been brilliant but frankly the service ranged between slow and just plain rude. We tolerated it pre kids and often joked about it, but since having kids a 3 hour breakfast ordeal is no longer funny.
The new owners now have a 7am opening time on Saturdays which suits us because we usually wake at 6 anyway. The food was as brilliant as always, the coffee was prompt, and they had a very large selection of toys. Cadel was in seventh heaven with such a large collection of Thomas trains to play with. It was such a great experience, that I can’t wait to go again.
We also observed Earth Hour, and hung out with my sister this afternoon while Dan and her boyfriend went to the pub to watch the Formula One.
