Succulents - (more !!) Painted Pots - & Bunting

Greetings dear friends & readers &  Welcome to October 💗

We hope you are a good month !

Early each autumn I plant these vintage aluminum pots with pansies ... these flower for me right through until the summer months & look so pretty on the old scales out on my deck.

This autumn however, there were no Garden Centres open & no pansies available.  I walked around my garden & pulled succulent cuttings where-ever I could find any ... I was surprised at all the different varieties growing around my section.

I potted them up into my vintage aluminum pots & they have really thrived on the deck area.  When I posted this picture on Instagram a lady commented that they look rather like coral.

Long time readers of my blog will know that I use the area down the far end of my lounge, in front on my French Doors as my "glasshouse" area

I grow all my cuttings & seedlings down here as well as putting anything that is looking a bit sick here & it usually revives & takes off again.

It was time to do something with a lot of the bits I had been resurrecting over the winter months.

Another fossick around under my house & another two pre-loved pots were unearthed & scrubbed ready for painting.

I have been enjoying using this Grey Mist chalk paint so I continued with the theme as well as adding some Re-design transfers from Paint Me Vintage

I especially love the bee pot - despite this being the tattiest pot of them all it has turned out great.

Last night I waxed them & then planted them up this morning.

While I was painting by the fire yesterday I decided to do another coat on this old red kettle as the colour was faded & tatty looking.

The red colour is Resene "Hot Chilli"

A simple stencil in white & I just LoVe how it has freshened it up - the white Impatiens plant is just perfect 💕

Click on the pic to enlarge .... it is incredibly tricky to photograph bunting !!

This pre-printed bunting panel was purchased from Millymac Supplies a few months ago. 

It is a design by Natalie Bird of The Birdhouse designs & was printed on a gorgeous linen - I adore anything 

pre-printed 💙

Slowly over the winter months I have been stitching it & working on a panel when time allows.

Finally last weekend I finished the last (7th) panel.  I was delighted & decided to sew up my bunting adding 3 extra panels to make a total of 10 scallops.

I chose 3 different Tilda fabrics for my extras ... an older range of Tilda prints that I cannot remember the name of.

The "sunny days" panel is repeated at the beginning & the end.

I used some Cottage Garden threads on some of this to give a bit of variation especially when doing the satin stitch.

I had no binding in my stash so just made up a scrappy binding using the leftover Tilda fabrics.

And Yes .... I had some help with the placement of my bunting pennants & also some unwanted help 

with the ironing/flattening of the fabrics !!  😉

On Tuesday I had a visitor for the day ...... Spiderman came to visit for the day & showed me how to jump off my deck from way up high !!!!

It helps if you are wearing Spiderman shorts, cap & undies & also in the way you hold your fingers apparently !!!!  😊

Thanks so very much for your visits today dear friends,

I have had such difficulty with the new blogger writing today's post - it changes the font size & placement at least every single paragraph & has a complete mind of it's own !!

I am off to hunt out that chocolate bar I keep hidden in my Sewing Room purely for Emergency Purposes !!!

With much love & friendship to you All,

Julie & the furry ones x0x0x0