I went on a short holibob!

Yup siree I did! My oldest daughter in the UK gave birth to my first grandson - So I jumped on a plane and went to stay for a while (when I say while I mean week).

I'm not a 'cooey over babies' kind of person but the little fella is pretty darn cute - and so good as well!!!

All my friends wanted tons of updates as to what I got up to over there - but seriously all I was doing was staying with my daughter and her family - so aside from cuddle baby, watching tv and doing some family shopping - that really is it :)

I got back last week to go right back into painting a house interior, which ended up looking fab - it's so nice to see people going away from the greys / browns (which I love by the way) and this one was a relly neat lemony wheat colour! Brightened it up no end. 18 ft vaulted entrance ways certainly have a way of making their mark on your old bones though ;)

Today we have a fabulous winter storm here in central Alberta - so with road warnings left right and centre I had to take a snow day - aside from it wasn't really - because With me also doing furniture (you know - the whole point of the blog!) it means that I get to catch up on some commissions :)

Todays one (which isn't finished yet but I thought I should post piccies cos I've been a bit lapse) was for the same people that bought the very first nautical dresser.

So here's the before (yup I really did take a before!)

It's actually pretty big and I totally was going to keep this, but it fit the bill for what my customer wanted, they also advised on what images they wanted painting onto it too

So here's where we are today

There's still something or other to paint in the little cream drawer above the ship, but my inspiration has ran out for the evening! I also decided not to paint the treasure map across the whole top of the dresser - mainly because if you have furniture with pictures on - it seems a shame to cover them with, well, stuff. So If the sides are left plain at least they can put -um- dresser stuff on it without covering it too much.

Looking at it now I might do a paint effect just to tie in with the map so it isn't so plain on the sides though.

Yup that's what i'll do - but not today, because I'm pooched ;)