Handmade Harbour

Hello there! This is my recently upcycled sideboard. It started out its life with me as a freebie. It was dark brown, and had a top section, too, which I thought was overbearing and (being brut...

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Hello!  Hope you are safe, happy and well.  We are still waiting for news on our house move.  The sellers have had a new valuation back, so we are hopefully now just waiting for paperwork to b...

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Hello.  Hope you are doing well. You may have noticed I have a thing for maps as decoration. I love vintage maps (although pretty soon, won't all paper maps be vintage?) like this one... T...

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Hello and welcome to my latest upcycling project. This linen basket (laundry basket) was a constant in our bathroom when I was growing up in the sixties and seventies.  I remember Mum proudl...

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Hello!  Hope you are happy and well! I have a thing for decorative mushrooms and toadstools... possibly makes me a little bit weird, but I think I can live with that! I bought three of th...

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Hello, and welcome!  Happy Friday to you! We should have been moving to our new house today, but yesterday our seller's solicitor discovered one of their documents was out of date.  This mean...

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Hello! Hope you and yours are safe and well! It's a bit of a stretch calling this part of my Furlough Furniture projects, but it is furniture, just on a very small scale! My mum bought thi...

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Hello!  How are you? I'm still painting furniture! My latest upcycled project is a bureau (or writing desk) which I found at a car boot sale some years ago.  It was quite tatty when I bought ...

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Hello there!  Hope you are safe and well.  I'm sharing another upcycled furniture project today... This dressing table was part of a bedroom set my parents received as a wedding gift in 1953....

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Welcome!  Hope you are safe, happy and well! So, the latest in my long list of Furlough Furniture projects (upcycled pieces I've only had time to complete because of coronavirus furlough !) is...

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Hello - hope you are keeping well and not too fed up with social distancing and lockdown.  I'm spending much of my lockdown time upcycling old furniture in readiness for a house move.  Here's m...

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Just a quick post today... We couldn't get together to meet up during lockdown (and the Atlantic Ocean was between us anyway!) so we got together for a drink anyway! A night in the pub, without...

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Hello!  Hope you are keeping safe and well in these really strange times. The upcycled furniture project I'm showing you today took me a while, but it was a thoroughly enjoyable project and t...

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This ottoman was the first project I completed during lockdown - the first of my Furlough Furniture projects! When my sister and I were clearing out my parents' flat, about five years ago, this ...

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Hello to anyone who still follows this blog, or has stumbled across it!  I hope you are keeping well in these strange times. It's clearly a long time since I blogged (as someone who was brough...

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I'm really sorry if you have tried to buy a digital stamp or other digital product from Handmade Harbour in the past few days... The website is adding postage charges onto digital products for...

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One of the things I've been playing around with recently is designs for totes, t-shirts and other stuff like phone covers and cushions (pillows), all via the print-on-demand site, Redbubble. On...

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Time off is always precious, and in the UK having time off when the sun shines seems even more precious! This week we spent a couple of days in Llandudno.  I love Llandudno's genteel Victorian...

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Regular readers will know that guide dog puppy Quentin has been a regular visitor to the vet for a whole lot of x-rays and CT scans and has spent much time both limping and resting.  After sever...

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If you missed last week's Handmade Monday, you'll also have missed the announcement about it being the last one on this blog. However, all is not lost!  Vicky from Lucy Blossom has kindly off...

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Hello and welcome to the 200th Handmade Monday! I've spent quite a long time (months!) thinking how I want to go forward with my various different creative endeavours.  I've been aware for...

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Do you sell your handmade items?  Have you opened an online shop?  If so, are you getting enough customers to keep you busy?  This post is aimed at helping you identify ways you can increase s...

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Hello and welcome back to Handmade Monday! My daughter and granddaughter returned home to London yesterday, so the house is now much quieter and much tidier!  But I'm missing the toddler chat...

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Handmade Monday will be back next week! This week, Christmas festivities are being extended a little in our household because my middle daughter and my youngest granddaughter are visiting from...

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Wishing you much joy, happiness and good health in 2015.

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