onsdag 19. august 2009

How to make campinglife enjoyable

Earlier this summer I spent one week in Sweeden in a tent. A fabulous week, actually, but I spent almost a week at home preparing for the big event.

One morning I woke up with a bright idea. Somewhere in the shed in the backyard I knew I had an old campingtable and I reasoned it must be very rusty and ready for an extreme makeover. Overwhelmed by a rare urge to redecorate this table I got out of bed and begun searching for it, bought varnish and some decoupage remedies.

After I had sprayed on the purpurcolored varnish I cut out the flowers with my Quickutz tool I glued them on with decoupageglue and finally sprayed the whole thing with blank varnish it was finished. A very easy and uncomplicated redecoration, but quite time-demanding. I think I have 6 layers of varnish alltogether.

Unfortunately I forgot to take any before pictures, but here are some photos of the result:
Nice, isn't it?

1 kommentar:

Dreamgirl sa...

Hei!
Jeg var så sikker på at jeg hadde lagt inn en kommentar her... hmmm... rart!

Men her er jeg altså, selv om jeg nå burde ligge å sove med tanke på morgendagen.

Litt imponert over svart trompetsopp - aner ikke engang hvordan den ser ut. Her må jeg nok få litt undervisning. Jeg har noen kjenninger som jeg holder meg til:
kantarell, rosa piggsopp, fåresopp, steinsopp og matrisker. De kan jeg så da håper jeg at vi ikke alle blir forgiftet!

Tur i skogen på lørdag resulterte i et par kilo med kantareller og endel tyttebær. Deilig!

Sees imorgen fru Nelia!