Knitted cupcakes and flowers

Today in the village we held our yearly Garden Club Flower show.

The weather was not great, a very cold start with lots of rain, also our voting day, but lots of visitors came and had a look at the Spring Flower displays.

I booked a table for some of my shabby chic recycled pieces and also craft items.

My knitted cup cakes were a good talking point,one lady asked me if the real cupcake was inside,so the look on her face when I told her that inside was only stuffing was slightly interesting!

Knitted cupcakes

 Of course we had a little cafe with lots of homemade baking and hot drinks and this was a great place to catch up with some of my friends and people from the village.

Little decoupaged tins

 Later in the day the rain cleared and that was good for packing up.
The end of a nice day in Mapua.

Decoupage and transfers

The Garden flower show

Decoupage, transfers and shabby chic

Very popular techniques are the decoupage and transfers onto furniture in the Shabby chic course.

 Gilded decoupaged box.

 Lovely finishes with wrapping paper and napkins.

Black and white napkin glued onto box

Distressed shabby chic chair and new fabric

Distressed cabinet with lace fabric

Two furniture pieces once brown wood finish, now in light colours and  the chair upholstered with new fabric.
These pieces are a few examples of the Shabby chic course just finished.

Shabby Chic Course Finished work

Again the results of the Shabby Chic course at Waimea College are fantastic.

I love all the creativity and I am inspired every time by the finished work.

Each course is different, I teach the same techniques, but the outcomes are always so unique.

All the pieces in the photographs were items found in recycle or op shops and are now beautiful restored with care, patience and love.

Piano Stool distressed and covered with French fabric.

Transfer image from the "Graphics Fairy" website onto a trolley with a background crackle.

Transfer image onto a wooden distressed clock, the numbers are just gilded.

Beautiful distressed tray with a rose transfer image.

Decoupaged fairy inside a frosted vase

A copper vase gilded

A old wooden tray decoupaged and antiqued, love it!

This rose is not painted on, but done with the transfer technique using wrapping paper.

The next course starts in August at Waimea College,Richmond, Nelson.
I also travel to teach workshops in Shabby Chic, for more information, email me.

Decoupage projects from the Shabby Chic course.

 The photographs are finished decoupaged pieces from the Shabby Chic class held at Waimea College.
The top photographs is a tray decoupaged with old music paper and finished with roses cut out of wrapping paper.
The face is a reversed image from a photocopy, interesting the black and white image has a green tint to it now.
The last photograph is a decoupaged tray with cut out teacups again out of wrapping paper.