Long time no see.....

Well hello there family and friends, it has been a while but Stephen and I have been quite busy since you last saw us.

Firstly we have been wanting for a very long time...well ever since we moved into this house, to put a gate opener on our driveway gate and finally after 6 years, we have! The only problem was the bottom of the gate rusted away while waiting for us to get around to it, so had to be replaced. Steve had done a bit of welding while on the farm but left most of it to his dad as he was a gun welder in a previous life. 

But being the very handy man that he is he got the job done and spray painted the gate and it looks great and works really well.

Only thing was, it then made the rest of the fencing look terrible so all had to be painted too.

After finishing the gate we realised we had over sprayed a bit and the car had little black speckles all over it, (more about that later) so we thought it might be a good idea to get a tent to paint in. When we were ready we had plastic pegged around the sides. Made it a bit dark but better than painting the house and cars. Then when we finished the painting we could take the sides down for the air to flow through and dry the paint. Excellent!

All set...

..ready to go!

 

After finishing all the black painting we thought we may as well do any other stuff we had planned to paint (one day) while the tent was up.

I had been wanting to rejuvenate this old (not antique) bed head and side tables for a long time, so while Steve was painting the gate I dismantled and sanded it back ready for him to paint white. 

This is a little video I made while Steve was spray painting.

But of course before we could put it all back in the room we needed to paint the walls, remove a large pin-up board and give everything a good clean.

Looks much better!

Also a couple of little tables we have on the balcony had become a bit weathered got a make-over too.

We, well more Steve than me, have also been working on a couple of things at my sisters place. She had a garage door opener that packed it in which Steve repaired. She also had a gate that had never been put back after the house was built so Steve installed that for her. 

(I will continue our Iceland/Ireland trip in the next post)