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The Painted Ladies

Little girls wardrobe

 

Two side tables

 

My prize piece. My Love. My favorite. I had to keep it for myself. It now sits in the guest room and holds hundreds of sheets of scrapbook paper.

Can you believe this was FREE??!! My Dad picked it up on one of his scrapping trips. He gets some great stuff.

Also Free, this cute 3 drawer dresser turned out cute and sold really fast!

Before

After

My Mom’s Christmas gift… a coffee table

 

Kitchen island roller cart

Before

After

Two pieces I redid for a friend.

Black night stand in a high gloss

Cute teal blue dresser

Pretty rough shape wooden desk. My Dad picked it up on a scrapping adventure. She cleaned up good after lots of sanding.

 

A mirror, turned chalkboard

A wooden high chair painted and all ready for a first birthday!

A side table

 

More coming soon!

Staying busy!

I have been redoing lots of furniture lately and have decided to kind of make a business out of it and people are actually buying it! Why wouldn’t they though, they are great pieces and perfectly refinished!

Here are some of the items I have done recently.

 

Here are some items I am working on right now

This is going to be a little girls dress up wardrobe

 

This past weekend my friend Danielle and I went into my Salvation Army just as they were closing and we discovered that they had had a 50% off everything including furniture sale going on all weekend for black friday. It literally pained me to walk around and see all the sold signs on all the awesome stuff. I still managed to grab these items above but they still aren’t as cool as the other stuff they had at the 50% off.

What I’ve been up to…

Having another baby sure makes you busy… long gone are the days I could sit and blog during the 3 hour naptime window I had. One day we will get there again, but I am sure by that time Cohen will think he is done taking naps. Oh how I miss those 3 hour blocks of quietness…but the exchange is an adorable little boy, so it’s worth it.

I have been redoing lots of furniture lately and it’s fun! Mainly dressers. I can’t seem to pass them up at yard sales and I am getting quite a collection.

The first one I did was for Cohen’s room. I came across it at a yard sale. I called my friend who was looking for one but since she couldn’t get there in time and didn’t know if she wanted it for sure, I snagged it.  I know, great friend I am. You snooze you lose though! (she ended up find one and I helped her redo it)

I paid $60 for it.  All real wood.

All primed and ready for paint

A coat of bronze on the handles and 4 coats of candy apple red spray paint with a coat of glaze and here it is. So pretty and bold and works great in Cohen’s new big boy room.

 

I ran across this piece at a yard sale for $5. I couldn’t pass it up. I didn’t know exactly where I was going to put it but I still needed it.

I pulled the ugly veneer off of it and gave it a coat of primer and a few coats of white.

Here it is in the guest room/craft room

Here is the others half of the room with another piece of furniture I redid.

It’s an armoire and it was free! It came from Grandma’s house originally.  I had help sending it and then hand painted a few coats of white onto it. This was before I knew how much easier spray painting was.

I painted chalk bpard paint on the inside and it houses all of my scrapbook stuff. I love this piece.

 

Next I helped my friend, Jessica, do a dresser when I went down to her house to visit.

She scored her dresser for $40. It was plywood and veneer and some areas were fraying but once it was painted you couldn’t really tell.

The spray paint on this dresser is Valspars Tropical Oasis.

And the dresser that inspired Jessica was this one.

This is my friends dresser she got after I stole the one I wanted her to get.

We redid this piece in the hot summer sun. We were pretty pooped but I am sure Danielle was even more tired being 8 months pregnant and sitting in the heat.

We did a coat of primer, 4 coats of spray paint, a coat of black glaze and then a seal over it all. (I am waiting for photos of the dresser with the hardware. It looks so good in her soon to be daughters room)

My next project is waiting in the garage for me. It’s a real wood dresser I scored for $40 at a church parking lot sale.

Husband hates the look of it. He likes clean straight lines. So I think in order to bring it into the house I will have to put it in the scrapbook room. Maybe it will replace my current dresser that houses all my paper. I am thinking that the white piece I did a month ago will probably get the boot to make room for it. After photos to come soon!

Hello lost blog…

Man, I seriously suck! I guess that’s what happens when you add another baby to the pack, time just slips away. It’s been nearly 6 months since I posted. Projects haven’t stopped, they just aren’t being documented like before. One of these days I will update on everything that has kept us busy like rehabbing old furniture and build beds and tables and decorating big boy rooms! So until then….

Busy Husband….

My birthday is coming up and for my birthday Matt has agreed to build me a crafting table! No more folding tables for me!! Maybe the new table will help me feel creative again and I can catch up on my scrapbooking!

Here are the ones I am leaning towards.

This one is nice. I would modify the sides though to fit my Cricut.

Although I like this one as well but I don’t think I like the sides. It looks messy to me. I love this whole room in fact.

 

and before he builds that, he will be turning our old coffee table into a craft table for Cohen that will also go into the craft room.  How cute is this?!!

Cohen turns 2! Airplane Birthday Party

They party has come and gone and what took me 5 months to plan only took about an hour and a half to throw. I will let the photos tell the story.

Don’t judge me. I know “claim” is spelled wrong. It was fixed. I was having major foggy brain this day. I could barely get out a story! What’s  even funnier is when I asked Matt to look at that sign he said “Ba-gauge?” I said , “no, baggage is spelled correctly”… spelling it’s our homes strong point.

These are the goody bags

Present table aka “Checked-Baggage”

Airplanes in the entry

Time zone wall and directions to the restroom.

Map banners

“Come Fly Away” banner

The signs that got staked into the yard (forgot to take photos =(

One reads Cohen Airlines the other reads Terminal C

We converted half of the garage  into a room. We hung light blue plastic table cloths from the dollar store and I cut out and taped white clouds to them. I ran more airplanes on fishing wire from one side of the room to the other and then added crape paper and balloons.

I am really sad I didn’t get a photo with all the food on the table. We had cute little mini sandwiches my mom made and nachos (which are always a hit)

The tables were lined with more maps. We had a lot of maps already from Matt’s military days and and then picked up a lot of city maps from the thrift store for $.25 each.

Another view of the garage with the happy birthday cloud banner. This room was the big hang out. Who doesn’t love to be around food?

Glider airplane anyone???

Airplane propeller pops

And our little pilot, complete with his costume.

The party was great and Cohen got some really cool gifts and at almost a week later, we are still trying to get our house back in order!!  It was tiring but so cute.

I have come to realize that I need to no worry about the small things, like airplane cut cheese or airplane cut cookies. Chances are they will be left in the fridge and forgotten about and all those hours of hard work are wasted.