Opas Cot

When I was pregnant my Dad (Opa) asked us what we still needed for the baby, I mentioned a cot. He decided to make one! Little did he know how mammoth a task it was going to become, and with trying to find time to work on it in between family and work commitments it was a slow process. But it is now completed and it is so beautiful. Definitely worth the effort.

Every little bit of it is handmade, from getting all the timber by sawing up logs of Cypres Pine in the sawmill with Grandad, to designing and building a sliding and locking mechanism for the front gate.

He finished it this weekend, and came up to Perth to deliver it. The perfect 1st mothers day surprise, and to make the day even more special it happened to also be Hannah's half birthday. Happy Half Birthday Hannah!

birthday cupboard

My other special birthday gift was this old cupboard. We saw it one evening on the side of the road a few blocks away, thrown out for bulk rubbish collection. Will rescued it wheeling it all the way home that night on a sack trolley down the middle of the road. He spent weeks in his shed cleaning it up; sanding off all the old paint, fixing broken drawers and varnishing.

I wish I had taken a photo before it was cleaned up, with its cracked white paint and awful big blue plastic handles. I would love to know this cupboards history. But it now has a new life as my wardrobe.