Fiona at Just Paint It White

Fiona.

Isn't that a pretty name?

No I don't have a bun in the oven and I'm not naming a new pet.  Although the name would be fitting for either.

Today I'm going to sing the praises of my longest running blog friend.  Fiona from Just Paint It White.

Stop over and heckle her.... please.

Fiona started blogging roughly the same time as me, and has been a faithful reader and commenter on my blog ever since.

Thanks Fio.

I think she looks like Angelina Jolie and sometimes I have to decipher her posts and the lingo she uses that resembles Downtown Abby.

That's because Fiona lives across the pond in England, and says things like loo and water closet, which are pretty fun words actually and I might start saying them around my house just to see the looks on my kids faces.

Clients Boiler Room

 Fiona is a good sport.  She is funny.  She is creative and talented.  She paints.

She transforms everywhere she goes with her artistic touches, be it at the cafe where she works or her clients homes.  Freehand painting by the way, not stencils or a vinyl cutting machine.

Crab Claw Art

She likes to walk on the coast line and collect bits and pieces of driftwood and crab claws that wash up.  Yes crab claws.  She sees beauty in nature that others might just turn their nose at.  And smelly crabs are something to turn a nose at aren't they?

How come I haven't seen your dog on any beach walks lately Fiona?

She sews, and puts together stuff like the pillows below, from scraps of nothing that she has laying around.

Pillows

She recently moved back to the first house she ever bought after renting it out for 7 years.

Fiona's English Garden

She has been rejuvenating the place, while also accommodating her brother who moved in.

If you decide to follow her blog she won't bombard you with 7 posts a week.  She pretty much marches to her own drummer and posts when she likes.

That might mean sometimes you won't see a post from her for a month.

Of course I think you should follow her blog if for no other reason then to give her a hard time about having a crab claw collection.

IKEA Drawer Hack

I don't think I would necessarily use the word frugal about her, and she's not cheap.  But she is certainly not a spend thrift.

She just sees a use for everything around her and takes stuff and makes it better or she finds a way to reuse the tiniest bit of something.

Scrap Wood Creation

Above is my absolute favorite project of hers.  It's a bunch of wood remnants that she made into a shadowbox.

I don't think she has a Facebook page.  What's up with that?

And while I'm at it Fiona, you don't have any of your blog photos watermarked.  Get on that would you, so I don't have to do it myself the next time I pirate your pictures.

The WC.... Water Closet

And here is her loo.  Her WC as she calls it.

She just recently gave it a chalkboard wall makeover and hung photos that are dear to her.

She even put a saying on the ceiling around the light.

Check out the ceiling of the WC

I'd probably have to take a little longer if I used her bathroom.  I would want to read everything.

Which leads me to the point of this post.

With all those photos on her wall, don't you think she should have a bathroom appropriate photo of me to hang in there?

I always wanted to have a go in England.