Monday, November 28, 2011

I had a successful charity shop find on Friday - I have been looking for a cloche/ bell jar to use as a display case for ages, but all of the ones I found were just way more than I wanted to spend. So, quite by chance I stumbled across a wooden based, glass lidded cheese board in our local Hospice shop, it had hideous cartoon mice on the wooden board but I knew that I had some blackbaord paint at home and once it was cleaned and then painted it would be just what I was after - and for £3 I couldn't go wrong! So this was it before;


And after, displaying Zach's first shoes, on my sideboard;

2 comments:

thoughts running through my head.... said...

I am always on the look out for a cheapo one of these too, yours looks great now!

Kate said...

Thank you :) x it is rare to find one cheap isn't it? Cox and Cox do a lovely one but the glass alone is £35!!!