Only a day late. Pictures of my latest furniture finds

 Cute child size church pews

 Set of 4 spindle backs.

 Leadlight kitchen cabinet

 Retro

 Cane

 Original kitchen table and chairs.

Most of this furniture will be going over to the Garden Centre at East Brisbane today.
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Snelling ~alicious ~ Should I Keep ?

So surprisingly I have kept my promise to you and here is the chair Kristen got yesterday....I heart him (the chair, and Kristen too I guess...I mean he did get this chair, ha) soooo much!

The chair was designed by Douglas B. Snelling and manufactured by Functional Products at their factory in St Peters, Sydney in the 1950's. The design is based on American and Scandinavian models which Douglas Snelling saw while working in the USA

I want to keep it !!! Should I ? Kristen says we have too many chairs no one sits on and I am too FAT to sit on it and I would break it for sure, and we don't need more chairs no one sits on...Aargh!!!

I do see his point...it may seem harsh but the man does speak the truth !!

Perhaps I could see it as my "Diet chair" and when I eventually am slim, sexy and svelte (cough, splatter, laugh) I could take a picture of myself to celebrate in this chair ha....What do you think ?

It will need a good clean...very grubby, normally these chairs are in poor condition when you get them and need a lot of work. This one is in surprisingly good condition and once given a good clean will come up a treat I know. BUT I won't ever hear the end of it if it breaks...decisions, decisions.

A Weight of Work Benches

  Kristen came home with three different work benches yesterday to add to the one we already had in our driveway. And as you may have seen in our last post we had just taken a workbench, we got a couple of days ago, over to the WAC. Believe it or not we even have another work bench under the house that I can't picture as it is packed away. It will be, should be a subject of a blog post by itself as it is such a cracker, if I do say so myself. (It came from a science lab of the University of Queensland back in the 1930's)

But all these work benches got me to thinking that there should be a name for a multiple number of work benches.

Just as you have a "murder of crows" or a "brace of pistols" or a "gaggle of geese" I thought perhaps a "whack of work benches" a "worry of  work benches"  or a "wide of work benches" would suit. But after moving this many work benches this week I decided a "weight of work Benches" would be most apt.

This one is my favourite.  

New Furniture Arrivals at the Garden Centre and the WAC

A few of the new arrivals at The Cottage Garden Nursery includes this wonderful old trolley above. It's timber is all weather worn. I think it would look great as what I call "Garden Art", as part of a feature or on a verandah with a plant in the middle or hanging from the cross bar.

 We also took over this glorious English Oak Extension table.

 Note the lovely details underneath and on its legs.

 Such a warm colour, you just want to stroke it.

 We also took over this beachy looking day bed or couch, perfect for a Queensland lifestyle.

 I forgot to show you this old work bench I fixed up and took over recently. It is behind the long pew in the foreground.

 It has a fab old clamp on one side.

 I painted the base of the work bench white and left the top the nice old rustic timber.

 At the WAC we took over this beachy coffee table above. The drawers are handy for hiding remotes or for keeping games or kids pencils and paper for example.

 This Art Deco sideboard has also had a beachy revamp.

 It really shows up the nice feature on the glass centre door.

Small book shelf. Handy size for a bedroom or hall etc.

 Wassily chair, so groovy.

 Pair of mid century timber arm chairs. They have their original covers which are in very good order for age.

I think I am just going to get this post done in enough time to watch the first State of Origin game...so I can't resist a GO QUEENSLAND !!!! Hope you are all having a good week.