Mirror Mirror on the wall...

... who's the prettiest of them all?
Mirror: Have you SEEN me? I am, of course!

Op shop find, lick of paint on a lazy afternoon with Nik, and hey-presto, the perfect mirror for above her bed in her beautiful new apartment. This mirror was the one Nikki has been searching for!

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Wardrobe Door Makeover

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One day in an uncharacteristic bout of fitness enthusiasm I was out on a walk. After an hour of powering along the Brisbane River, I was winding through my neighbourhood on my way home and I passed an old wooden wardrobe door leaning up against a retaining wall on the side of the road.

Of course, I stopped walking and wandered over to inspect this discarded, somewhat useless item that someone had clearly placed there for anyone who wished to take it. The door was just made out of cheap pine and looked like it had been there on the side of the road for awhile. So I decided that I didn't need it, trying to convince self that I didn't want to turn into one of those people who just collect all manner of random useless things and never do anything with them, and I kept on walking.

Not five steps later, I had a brilliant idea, ran back and grabbed the door and carried it half a kilometre home, which garnered a lot of weird looks from people.

I sanded it back, bought some paint and turned it into a whole new amazing blackboard, for just under $30. It currently lives in my lounge room and is always adorned with favourite quotes and song lyrics. I have also been known to use it for birthday wishes for my housemates and friends and particularly exciting countdowns (like Christmas).
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PS Props to whoever can tell me what song the current quote is from. I need song title, artist and album... GO!

Quick moisturiser fix.

I love moisturiser, especially in winter. And I tend to put it on right before going to bed, but consequently my bedside table becomes littered with all manner of hand and body creams, and that just looks ugly and untidy.

I had a brainwave last night to transfer the moisturiser into a cute little jar (I have a stash of empty ones in the cupboard) so that I could leave it on my bedside table always, and not hate how ugly the bottle of Palmers Cocoa Butter looked next to my sweet alarm clock, vintage doileys and pile of penguins. I painted the lid with remnants of a sample pot, tied some string around and viola ... perfection
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Spectacular sample pot results

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When we moved into our house the previous tenants gifted some stuff to us including this outdoor table and matching chairs that were stashed away under the house. The chairs are so horrendously uncomfortably to sit on that I didn't bother doing anything to them. But the table, while a bit smaller than I would have liked, had potential, and you know, it was free!

So I bought a sample pot of British Paints Grey Canvas colour and as you can see the results are pretty much perfect. The whole project, including giving the table a quick sand and hose off before painting only took about 3 hours to complete. And all I purchased was a sample pot of paint. I think it was $7 well spent.

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She said, he said, SUSHI!

Today I had my very first vegetarian only sushi and it was delicious!

I have always been a fan of plain avocado, but the vego selection on the left with sweet salads was a surprisingly tasty treat. And both topped with Japanese mayonnaise were amazing.

Also as I was coveting the tiffany blue sample pot of paint so much yesterday, I went searching around the house for more items to turn tiffany blue. I came up with this little candle holder that was gifted to us by the last tenants/forgotten on top of the bathroom cabinet. It was dirty beech coloured wood and now it is pretty and fresh and looks so cute with a tealight candle inside.

My new favourite sample pot is called 'Green Tiara' and is made by Taubmans. You can find it here and it's T81-6 in the colour swatch.

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A fresh lick of paint.

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I have been coveting tiffany blue for about six months now and had the perfect canvas in mind for it. This quick makeover only took about an hour to complete and cost just $10. I bought the frame at an op shop for $4 and the sample pot of fabulous coloured paint was just $6.

I love sample pots of paint. They're cheap, come in every colour you can imagine and best of all, are a great way to give new life to something. I have countless colours of sample pots, some of which I have never used but bought because I simply HAD to have the colour in my collection.

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PS The final product of my quick, easy makeover is too perfect for words.