CRAFTY SUNDAY #12

Crafty Sunday this week is a bit of a re-make, I made this play kitchen for Freya almost 10 years ago...

I remember going to B & Q with a rough picture drawn on a scrap of paper and measurements of how big I thought each piece of would need to be.  I managed to persuade the man in the wood cutting department to cut out each piece for me , he had said that he was only meant to make one cut to a piece of wood for you to fit into your car etc not cut out individual pieces for projects, but I think he felt sorry for me when I explained I really wanted to make this for my baby girl !

It is made from MDF, as everything seemed to be at that time, and incredibly heavy !

As you can see it has been well played with over that time and was looking a bit worse for wear...

The doors had fallen off, we had lost a knob and the paint work was in a very sorry state.  I decided that it was time for an overhaul...

I had some lovely duck egg blue paint left over from another project and decided to go with that ...

I still need to put the doors back on and replace the knobs, and I would like to add some sort of 'tap' to the sink unit (which was always my intention, but never happened)..

But I am very pleased with the progress so far and the two little girls (and Freya and Finn, although they would not admit it !)  have played with it all weekend...

A while a go I saw this fabulous play kitchen that a German blogger called Catherine Hug had made for her daughter and posted about on her blog Hyggelig..

Can you believe that she made this from THIS....

Very clever, and isn't this just the sort of cabinet you see outside junk shops ?

Next I intend to recover the girls ironing board, perhaps make them a little peg-bag, oven gloves and aprons to match, oh, and maybe some of the great felt food I have seen around...