plain white no more

this is my girls dresser. it is perfect that she can reach her dresses but it so boxy and kind of looks like a filing cabinet attached to a small closet. I can't change the boxy so I added the flower hooks for whimsy and today I used more scrap paper and mod podge. love the stuff. seriously.

Isn't it so much better? {{Excusing the drying warpy paper}} I think it is so much more fun. And little sis loves it!!

owl are you?

I love me some before and afters. I love to find cheap, ugly things and make them suit my needs. I needed a way to display the boy's kindergarten artwork. While at hobby lobby I found cheap ugly pictures in the 80-90% off aisle. Ok they aren't terrible they just don't go in my house,  I can imagine a few places where they wouldn't be ugly at all. Anyway with a little mod podge you can change just about anything. So now I have a darling owl in a rustic looking frame. Which fits into my boys woodsy room.

guest room dresser

It's been a while since this was finished. But, I'm behind on life, so my blog follows suit. I took the advice from allthingsthrifty.com from their glazing 101. Except I made my own glaze with one part dark brown paint, four parts water. This furniture was my great grandmothers and has been sitting in my basement guest room not very loved. And it was showing it's wear and years of previous love. I thought about painting it for a few years. really.  And finally did it. I primed it, got a quart of off white oops paint for a dollar, painted, and then glazed.  I love it now! It has a similar looking sister too that has yet to be painted!

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lace dress

This is the inspiration dress found on Target.com.

Below is the dress i made for my girl out of a lace curtain panel, like the one on the side of the pic. for some reason I remembered a  bow on the dress but I guess I was wrong. i think it looks really cute on her.

I hooked up with the party on today's creative blog.

lamps and lettering

A two dollar lamp from a yard sale got some glossy purple paint. ( i may actually like it better in the white primer, hm) And that is my short hair in all it's windswept glory. the lamp with a 3 dollar shade from goodwill, it's not complete yet. I've also been putting up some vinyl lettering. (sorry pic is really dark) I put the clock up a while ago, but it seemed so big and empty. I think the lettering was just what it needed.

brassy to classy

Oh this is so much better. It looks nicer hung up in my dining room too. Just a little metallic rustoleum, no primer needed. One word of advice, if you get a phone call in the middle of painting put the phone away, don't leave it in the painting area.

up to? up to?

ok, if you didn't catch the sleeping beauty quote, get yourself a daughter (you can borrow mine) and watch it.  this is what i have been up to.

dollar store print, mod podge, paper, stencil, picture and acrylic paint, thats what it took for this cute bathroom deco. i made one for all the kids. (modest ones) i have also used this stencil a couple other places in the house, i love it, i;m trying to figure out out to get a large one on my wall in my LR.

Don't judge me, my bed isn't made. I was to busy making a headboard out of a door. (it was an extra door that didn't go to anything, not the one in the pic, random) I say look up some tutorials online and don't use a door. use some thin plywood, i was trying to make this as cheap as possible and it cost me just over 20 bucks for all the supplies, but i didn't use all of them and have lots of fabric left over for more pillows.

I made an easter dress for my little girl. I also made a skirt following this tutorial from the same lavender fabric for me. My friend gave me yards and yards of this stuff, i still have more, oh what to do, what to do!

And last I'd like to welcome you in. It's not perfect, but it keeps getting better, with everyone else's awesome ideas.




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a small before and after

I took one or a few of my kids books (I know most of you have these), and re-purposed it.  There isn't a full set of any of these because my kids tore most of them apart throughout the years.  Chipboard can be expensive. I just covered it with scrap paper and now it is the beginnings of a little i love you because book or brag book. you can all do this! it takes :
little books
sand paper
glue ( i really used white paper glue)
scrap paper
other embellishments. (buttons, glitter, leaves, whatever you have or want)
oh there is one trick, you have to sand off the pages to remove the shine or the glue won't stick


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