My husband Mark amazes me.  We have wanted a harvest table for a while now, so he found some old pine and built one!  We just got it in the house today.  The pine is 3 inches thick, and what makes this table special is that the legs are made from pillars off of the front of his late grandmothers house.  We had used the pillars at our previous house in our landscaping, but when we sold the house that was one of the things that we were taking with us!  We love the table and the special meaning it has for us.

Pillars in the garden at our other house.

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I’m still playing with what I want my blog to look like , so if you see changes to my Blog it’s just me trying to find the right look!

The house we moved to is on 2 acres and it came with a shed.  Now it wasn’t “oh good there is a shed”, we didn’t know whether to tear it down or burn it.  But Mark saw the potential in it and just had to fix it up right away.  His words were, “I can’t look at that thing all winter long”.  So we moved in March and by July, even though we still had renovating to do in the house, we were renovating the shed as well.  See for yourself the before and afters….

We have beautiful sunsets in the backyard, but that shed!!

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I love creating “colourful” out of something drab.  Nothing is better than brightening up your space with beautiful colour.  Here is my latest before and after…

It was a sad little dresser…found on Kijiji

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