Welcome to our very first blog page and thank you for taking the time to read this!

I originally started painting furniture (and walls, or anything else that I could change with paint and colour) when I was pregnant with my baby girl. I knew how I wanted her nursery to look but couldn’t find anything that fit my vision as I wanted her room to look fresh and very pretty. At this time the only furniture that I could find and afford was orange pine, which was certainly not what I had planned!! Eventually, I worked out that I could get raw pine pieces and paint them myself, which was what I did and her nursery looked just gorgeous in the end – just what I had planned.  

A few years later, I found myself a single mother with two children to support on my own.  Of course, funds were very limited, but there was no reason that we couldn’t still have a beautiful eclectic home, so we would pick up pieces at garage sales, op shops, off the side of the road (the kids became very good at squishing themselves over to fit in some piece that I had found) or pieces that people didn’t want any more and were giving away.  I would paint these at night and on weekends when I had finished work for the day or week, and this actually became my therapy. These years were such happy ones as the three of us really enjoy each others company and it was amazing to. See them grow and become young adults (who are also very thrifty).

Eventually, I met an amazing man through family, who is now my husband Kirk.  Once I met Kirk, my life changed again in so many ways, absolutely for the better.  Although I still look for old, unloved furniture pieces, Kirk now repairs and repurposes them with me, which allows me to be more creative and come up with new ideas, which he works out how, and then implements for me.

Now, I think that I am one of the luckiest people alive as I now had the opportunity to resign from my corporate position and paint full time – a dream come true for me, as I would much rather be out getting dusty and dirty but bringing old pieces back to life, than be in an office all day.