Bloggy land copycat

Looking at home decorating blogs is getting me into trouble! Good trouble though! I haven’t really had the time, since having Cohen, to sit down and look at all the home blogs that I used to frequent. With a purchase of a new bigger home soon, I know that I am going to need some ideas for decorating a bigger space! A few nights ago I started looking and it got my brain rolling.

People out there in blogger land are so talented. All of their stuff looks so good.

Last night after I put Bubs to bed, I handed Matt he monitor and took off to Goodwill to find frames that I could spray paint black in hopes of one day adding them to my future photo wall. My friend Jaime has one and I am going to copy her! Here is her wall:

So I got some good things at Goodwill. I actually didn’t grab a cart thinking I wasn’t going to find much. This is where I went wrong. I was in the frame aisle and so so many I wanted. Once in particular was an oval frame. It had an ugly flower print in it but I didn’t care. I was planning on making this cool white board thing, which I can’t seem to find in bloggy land again, but it was cute! Well I went to grab a cart and when I returned for the frame a lady in front of me was 5 seconds to quick and snagged it just as I was going for it. I know she was doing something cool with it. She didn’t look like the type of person looking for ugly art to hang on her wall in a Goodwill. Makes me mad!! I will always grab a cart now!

 

Here are the frames I got. They all got a coat of black, except the ones on the left. They were already black.

  

I framed Cohen’s newborn foot print from the hospital. Look how tiny and sweet it is. Man, I miss that little teeny tiny foot and his teeny tiny toes…

This item doesn’t have a before photo, but the base was just wood. It looks good painted black

Then I got this jar. I have been seeing these around in bloggy land for a while. I sprayed painted the top black and then took from vinyl I had from my Cricut, cut it out and rounded the edges. I then removed the adhesive back and stuck it right to the jar. Can you believe this stuff also acts as a chalk board?!!!! Look how cute the dog treats are now. Total cost for that was $3. I am not on a massive goodwill hunt for more jars like this. I really want to do this. I am basically in love with everything this lady does, including her Son’s airplane room. So I will be a copy cat on a lot of her stuff!

   

This shelf was a find back in December. It was white and I got it at Goodwill for $3. I spray painted it black a while back but it just sits in a corner since I have no idea where to put it. More like, I don’t have any room to put it! That will change once we move!

It is going to look great once it goes up!

 

 

Now I have spray painted stuff in the past but when I do, I normally by the cheapest spray paint possible. I thought it was all the same. Man, was I wrong!! I used Krylon satin black on these and I can’t believe how great everything looks…you can’t even tell it was painted! I am REALLY loving spray painting. Plus, they have continuous spray now and I don’t suffer from spray paint finger syndrome

 

Next, I want to recreate some crafts. This lady uses her Cricut a lot in her crafts and it looks so cute!

There is this

And this maybe to spell out Cohen’s name for his room

And I will be coping this. I love the detergent in the jar with a scoop!!