Love Fridays..... New package..

Today I recieved a post parcel!! Very exciting, as I opened it I told Mr S to hurry and grab the camera before I ripped it open! I won Liesl's giveaway for Blogtoberfest and here it is: It was wrapped in Purple my favourite colour!!! And came with a beautiful card attached!

I read the card and opened the package, it was the georgous Gingerbread Men Pot Holder and the generous Liesl also made me a special Pot Holder to match my kitchen! What a wonderful suprise.......

I love the Gingerbread Men it is very original!

One side of the extra Potholder Liesl made me is a retro black and white..

And the other side is a funky Red!!!

Thanks to the Lovely Liesl at Hoppo Bumpo for going to so much trouble just for me! I wasn't having the best friday so timing of this parcel was perfecto!!!!

I am making Cup cakes tomorrow for my visitors so they will be straight to work tomorrow morning..........

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Kitchen Revamp.....Blogtoberfest Tuesday Day 14...And I won..

If you check out my earlier posts, my kitchen was all cream with green cupboards and drawers. When we bought this house in April the kitchen floor was green carpet squares! When we moved in we pulled up the carpet squares to discover the original Lino which has specs of green, blue and silver in it and dispite the age of the Lino its in great condition!

I started with taking off all the drawers and doors(Curlypops reminded me to number them due to an earlier incident with 20+ plus Full sized doors at another house that I didn't number, long story).

I took the handles off each one, they were chrome with cream painted circles. Mr S wiped the handles with paint stripper and we kept them entirely chrome!

I spent many hours with the electric sander! I painted the doors and drawers first with one coat of grey tinted primer then two coats of Fire Engine Red.

Then I sanded the inside and outside of the cupboards and painted those with two coats of White Gloss. Then Mr S reassembled the doors and drawers and attached the handles. I thought this would take me 2 days but probably took me over a week!

The free standing Cabinet was also featured in an earlier post and was painted Chrome and Fire Engine Red. I needed extra room to display the retro stuff I collect.

My table and chairs were originally my husbands great Grandfathers who passed away earlier this year. The set has an Extendable laminate table, six chairs and a step stool! Under the table it has Pa's name written from where he ordered it back in the sixties. So its a nice heirloom and perfect for a 60s kitchen!

Thanks to Curlypops and Mr S who both encouraged me to go with Fire Engine Red, it has worked out well!

Next plan will be to paint the kitchen walls and make some new curtains..

PLUS to add to my excitement I joined in Hoppo Bumpos giveaway last week to celebrate Blogtoberfest, and I WON!!! I was very excited when I saw the Gingerbread men on the Pot Holder and it was truly love at first sight! I never win anything so it adds to my excitement so the lovely Liesl is sending the Gingerbread men my way! Yipee!!!!