RED!

I went to a yard sale this past weekend and saw this lonely chair...It was DISGUSTING, obviously, the reason of it being lonely! Anyway, for the $1 price tag, I couldn't just let it sit their in it's misery!
I loaded it in the back of the vehicle, all the while, my son was telling us how nasty it was and he didn't want it to touch anyone until I "dissected it" (disinfect). He was grossed out, so I was I really! Anyway, she is going to be my Christmas Season chair! That's what it resembles now, until I find some better coordinating fabric so that she blends in better!
Here is the breakdown of how I did it! All in all, she cost me $5 after the makeover! I used leftover everything except for the padding that I had to buy for $3.99. IF I had to go and buy the spray paint and the fabric too, I think it still would have been under $15 FOR SURE!

GEEE-ROOSSSS! GROSS!

Feeling refreshed!

Had to buy this because the original turned into dust (seriously).

Voila! Doesn't it scream sing Christmas?

I hope to get to a fabric store soon. I am unlucky in the fact that I live 90 minutes away from the nearest Hobby Lobby or JoAnn's or Hancock Fabrics! I guess there is always online shopping, but I like to see it SEE IT before I buy it!

Not bad for a $5 chair right?!

Have a great day...!

Linking to:

Dragonfly Designs

The Trendy Treehouse

The Shabb Chic Cottage

Try it Tuesdays!

This is "Try it Tuesdays"!! Everyday I search tons of blogs looking for all the different things that I want to try sometime! I thought it would be fun to feature a few of those items every Tuesday! It will be from a list of things I want to sew, craft, re-do, cook, organize, and other miscellaneous items that just look fun! Here is my first "Try it Tuesday" list:
I want to try these Pretty paper covered books, go on over Junkin' Junky and see how she did them! How cute and clever, right?!

Then I hopped on over to The Blackberry Vine and took one look at these Apple Pie Bars and got hungry! Go on over to her site and take a look at the recipe! YUMMMY!

While making my lovely owls this week, I decided I better go look at some sewing blogs to get some ideas to further my sewing skills. That's when I knew I had to try these Sew Basics: Appliques like real soon. Her site is The Cottage Home and she makes it look so easy! Her full tutorial is HERE!

This is my Fun Find on my "Try it Tuesday" list!

Don't you want to try this Teacup Clock? Mandi over at Vintage Revivals posted this and I was in love with the uniqueness of it! This had to be on my list of things to "try"!

Well that was just a few of MANY things that I want to try! Hope this gives you some inspiration to try something new too!!!

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Tuesday!

Trying to figure this thing out!

 I really wish I knew how to add the blogs I follow on to my site, for some reason only 2 of the many blogs will add?! I also have no idea how to "grab" a button at people's site or even how to make one for my own! I hope to get all these things figured out so that this can be an actual blog! If you have any tips for me, I am very new at this, please let me know!!

Thanks! Have a great Monday!
UPDATE: Thanks for the comments! They really helped! I have my own BUTTONS now! I hope they work!
As for the blogs I follow, I have a little more on my list, but not all of them! I'm getting there! S-L-O-W-L-Y! That's how I roll!

Yard sale deal...?

I am not sure if I got the STEAL or if the person selling me this bed got the DEAL. I was driving by this yard sale, on my way to my in-laws, and I saw this cute little bed that kind of matched this queen size bed that we have in the babies room. I was so excited, so I stopped and went over to it, asked how much it was and the lady said $20, then she said she would give it to me for $15 after I bargained with her a bit! I was all sorts of excited! UNTIL, I picked it up and put it in my car, I realized I just bought a piece of junk...it was particle board, light as a feather, and all the paint around the bottom and top was all chipping away. Geeze I am ditz! I thought it was real wood just looking at it sitting there. (tear)
When I got home I was so bummed, but I decided to use a couple cans of left over spray paint, so that in case I couldn't get the UGLY-CHEAP out, then it wouldn't be much more of a waste! So here it is. it's okay I guess, still looking for a nicer one to go in the room, but for now baby T is still in her crib anyway.

The BEFORE

The AFTER....It's GREEN alright...I still have to decorate the room, that is still to come, and so is my idea for the black table next to the bed!!!

I'm linking to:

The Girl Creative

The Shabby Chic Cottage

DIY Pottery Barn Owls!

Awhile back, I bought the Brooke bedding for my baby girls' bedroom. I loved it, so whimsical and vintage, but so dang expensive! There are these cute owls that go with it, each for about $30! What?!? Anyway, I looked at them and decided I could make them out of scrap fabric so they would practically be for FREE! How hard could it be right?! (I, kid)
I tried, keep in mind, I am used to only sewing STRAIGHT lines, not circles....mmmkay! I was totally going to give you all a pattern and a tutorial on how to do these, but I am not sure once you see these pictures that you are really going to want either! But what the heck, if you have a little seamstress skill this would be CAKE for you! Or maybe even if you can sew a circle this would be like butter! I really wish I was better at it, I have so many ideas in my head of all the cool variations you could do for these cute things, like ruffles on the back side, or even the front, patchwork, puffy wings..the list could go on and on!
Anyway, both of my girls love them, so I guess I can be proud, who are they to judge their ob longed crooked owl, that their amazingly talented mother made for them!

Okay, so here is your giggle for the day! You're welcome!

I need to make the wings bigger on the tall owl!This is where I found out about circles! Then I used a star stitch on my sewing machine for the other owl, to make things easier, but I got them lop-sided!

The first set of the feet I sewed. U-G-L-Y! This really was frustrating, but once I got to the second one it did seem to get a little easier.  I am hoping I can make a couple more and get it down, so then if anyone wants, I can give them a tutorial or pattern! Practice makes perfect!

Thanks for stopping by!

I'm linking to:

The Girl Creative

Picture wall...

Okay, so I bought all these cheap frames from the Family Dollar. They were a shiny gold, not that they were ugly or anything, just not to my liking! Anyway, I am ADDICTED to spray paint, (in the decorating sense, not the drug sense) so I had to spray paint them of course! I used some colors that I have all over my house, I love color! So I choose a hammered finished bronze, Ivory, Turquoise, and PURPLE (WHAT?!). I thought that I would throw that color in for the heck of it! After they were all painted I threw them up on my wall and created this....

I am still trying to decide if I like it with no pictures, or if I want to add SOME pictures, along with a couple vinyl quotes or designs, or my children's artwork! Any ideas?!

Also, I made that LIMA BEAN WREATH there in the middle. I got wreath idea from Brooke at All Things Thrifty. She would be my best friend if we lived by each other! She is freakin' GENIUS!

I linked up to THE DIY SHOWOFF , The Girl Creative & The Shabby Chic Cottage!

Ceramics!

Maybe I just like ceramic things because I was raised with them? My Grandma had a ceramic shop, well she still does, but nothing is to come of all those ceramics because she is too old to run it :(...Which brings me to my post. I went in her shop the last time I was back home and came across A LOT of cool things! I forget how stinkin' cheap ceramics are, if you just get them unfinished! I of course got these things for free, but if you were to go to her shop than none of these items were over $10! Is all I needed was some paint, found at Walmart and I was set! There are SO many different techniques that you could do to these, the possibilities are endless! I was just in a home decor store here in town and found a finished water bowl thing (don't know what they are but the red picture below) and it was $55 for a smaller version of the same thing!

Here are a couple that are unfinished because I haven't decided where I want to put them!

Here is an owl cookie jar, it's in my kitchen on top of the cupboards. I don't know why I didn't paint the bottom of the hat! Opps!

This is the water bowl thing that I see everywhere, this one is really big, and in a store this would cost me at least $40-$60! It cost me it would cost you only $10 to buy unfinished and then $2 for the paint!

 

This is a cute little owl, I just painted it yellow and added a glaze, my grandpa drilled out the eyes, so I can use it as a nightlight in my daughter's room! I made a basketball nightlight for my son's room, but he is sleeping right now and I forgot to take a picture of it. Darn!

Thrifty!!!

I linked up at The DIY Showoff, http://www.creationcorner.blogspot.com/, & The Shabby Chic Cottage !

When we bought our house there was a built-in entertainment center. It is really dull, so my next project is to spruce it up, on a minuscule budget of course.

 

It started out with regular glass panels that let's you see all the cords and wires from your husbands distractions TV consoles and crap. UGLY.

Ignore the dust! I'm grossed out! I was gone all week...Don't judge!

I used Mod Podge to stick the fabric to the glass. Super easy!

I used fabric that matches all the different colors I have throughout my home, I went back and forth between this and a brown and green damask print, ended up with this one for some reason. I am really indecisive if you haven't already noticed. Drives me my hubby crazy!! For now it will be this fabric, but I am sure in a few months it will be something else, because that's just me!

Then I got some cheap knobs at Walmart to add a little pizzaz and we used some extra paint we had to paint some of that dull looking wood. Kind of different, but I think I like it for now.

I think it still needs A LOT of work, just not quite sure what else to do with it. I LOVE what she did HERE! I'm thinking about doing something like that around it! Any other ideas? My hubby is just thinking about ripping it down, and re-building something nicer, I am all about that!

Color!

We got this sofa table from my mother-in-law.  It's been sitting in our presence for years, with the 1980's look and the gold hardware, so I figured it was time for a face-lift. I'm bummed because I didn't get a before picture of it since it was a last minute whim. The color of it was the same as the color of the before picture of my desk, that orangeish-brown, ugly. It had gold knobs and decal things that I just spray painted and antiqued. It took me 2 cans of Kilz and 2 cans of spray paint to pretty it up! It makes a nice statement in my front room! Total Cost = $16, Gotta love freebies!

I'm linked to Under the Table and Dreaming  The DIY Showoff, Creation Corner, & The Shabby Chic Cottage ! Check her blog out! I love it!

Desk Re-do!!!!!

This is one of my first furniture revivals! I was so excited when I saw this desk at a yard sale, that I had to have it! She was asking $300 for it, that was WAY out of my tiny budget. After I went home and couldn't stop thinking about it, I decided to go back into town and see if she had sold it yet. She hadn't and it was the end of the day, so I had to see if the price had changed! She decided to drop it to $180, but I was still really hesitant, because I knew the Hubs wouldn't go for that! Then after deciding once again not to buy, even though I LOVED it, I started cringing walking away. Then the lady must have saw how much I loved it, and said that she would sell it to me for a steal $130! I was like "WHAT?" I actually felt kind of bad, because that was soooo far away from the original asking price, but she said she had to get rid of it! LUCKY ME!
(I seriously couldn't control my excitment, when I got in my car, my kids were laughing hysterically at me because I was going crazy with my happy dance! You can only imagine how I they acted when I was finished with the desk.)



Then it was TONS of debating back and forth of what I was going to do to it! I LOVE me some color, so I had red, yellow, turquoise, or orange in mind. The Hubs was totally against me painting over wood, so somehow we compromised with leaving the top wood, and just sanding it down and staining it with a pretty cherry stain, and then painting the rest Ivory (not really a color if you ask me). This is how she turned out......

UPDATE: SOLD

before...UGLINESS!

This is after she's all painted, just starting the glaze. I actually liked it without the glaze, but I felt like it needed something, I will probably paint it again in a year or so....next time turquoise!

The AFTER....What do you think?!

I linked to Under The Table and Dreaming & The DIY Showoff! I love her blog, check it out!

Desk Re-do!!

This is one of my first furniture revivals! I was so excited when I saw this desk at a yard sale, that I had to have it! She was asking $300 for it,  that was WAY out of my tiny budget. After I went home and couldn't stop thinking about it, I decided to go back into town and see if she had sold it yet. She hadn't and it was the end of the day, so I knew it was mine meant to be! She decided to drop the price to $180, but I was still really hesitant, because I knew the Hubs wouldn't go for that! Then after deciding once again not to buy, even though I LOVED it, I started crying walking away. Then the lady must have saw how much I loved it, and said that she was sell it to me for a steal $130!  I was like "WHAT?" I actually felt kind of bad, because that was soooo far away from the original asking price, but she said she had to get rid of it, and she knew that I loved it!

Then it was TONS of debating back and forth of what I was going to do to it! I LOVE  me some color, so I had red, yellow, turquoise, or orange in mind. The Hubs was totally against me painting over wood, so somehow we compromised with leaving the top wood, and just sanding it down and staining it with a pretty cherry stain, and then painting the rest Ivory (not really a color if you ask me). This is how she turned out......

before........UGLINESS!This is after she's all painted, just starting the glaze. I actually liked it without the glaze, but I felt like it needed something, I will probably paint it again in a year or so....next time turquoise!

P.S. This desk is HUGE! It measures 6 feet x 4 feet! It's better than the desk at the White House...KIDDING!

Voila! The finished product! Ya like?

I'm linked to Under the Table and Dreaming

The Shabby Chic Cottage!