Crafts, Sewing, and Home Decor
-GIVEAWAY CLOSED- Today I bring you a few things. First a tutorial on using Annie Sloan Chalk Paint, then how I made my pretty new side table, and a GIVEAWAY. Sounds fun right? Ok, well let’s get to it then! : ) Here is a great place to buy Annie Sloan Paint if you are [...]
I just finished this dresser a few days ago and I am so excited about it. However, once I was done painting and finishing it up, every time I opened the drawers I kind of threw up in my mouth a little. It had this horrible drawer liner stuff in the bottom and crayon marks [...]
I have been promising this for a while. I have had it almost finished for about 3 months now, but I had to paint one part before I showed you all. I did all this right before we put our house on the market and we needed a piece of furniture for a showing so [...]
A few days ago I was driving home from the grocery store with dinner on my mind. WHAT?! A garage sale at 4:30 in the afternoon with a chair sitting at the end of the driveway? So, remembering that I have frozen food and that it is only on the next street, I go unload [...]
I have found a new passion for redoing furniture. I think mainly because I have this sudden urge to redo my entire house, and to be quite honest I just can’t afford to run to Pottery Barn and pick out my favorites! Next best thing: Find things on the side of the road and craigslist [...]
I may not know if I’m moving, selling, renting, or basically anything at all that gives me the slightest clue as to where I will be living in the next month, but I am redoing my living room. : ) I’m not entirely done, nor will I be for a little while either. BUT I [...]
I keep seeing all these awesome furniture redos from the trash and craigslist….. and well, I want to jump on the bandwagon! So the other day I got this old practically broke dreser from craigslist. Yeah, its ugly! Can’t decide if there is any hope for these handles… we shall see : ) The top [...]
How about a little story into my childhood… and how I ended up with this mosaic table top. I have this mosaic “thing” that I made along time ago with my mom. We smashed a bunch of tiles in a pillow case and made a mosaic on a wooden square with rounded corners. What were [...]
