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🌱 The mini veggie garden has struggled in this last intensely busy year of my day job, but has now had some love and attention to try to save it from the marauding resident possum ☠️

Let's hope moving it away from the fence line makes it less accessible and that the poor bok choy, rainbow chard and spinach gets a chance to grow back from the mischevious marsupial's mightnight munchies 🥬

🍅🌱🥬🌼 I'm impressed my marigold, lettuce, basil, and tomato seed saving and sowing from last year is showing results already even in this chilly weather.

And with the garden bed relocation and refresh job now done, it's back on the tools next weekend for a long awaited return to furniture renovating! 🔨🪚🔧🪛

🫒 This light olive colour has been a long-time favourite at .

🪄 I make my own chalk paint with a custom mix of calcium carbonate to thicken and make regular water-based interior paint more durable, along with quicker drying time. A few drops of dish detergent per litre batch gives it extra silkiness that glides right on beautifully.

🧼 I prep each piece with a good clean and sand first, then undercoat and lightly sand again. The homemade chalk paint is then the perfect way to give each old piece a new, long-lasting life. I sand lightly between each layer of chalk paint, and finish with a clear coat of water-based polyurethane to seal and protect.

It's a meditative process, and workshop dog is never far from my side 🐶