Its been forever!!!

Summer has been crazy and luckily I had time for a few projects.  One that I had been wanting to do for a while was give our dressers a MAKE OVER. They are really nice dressers, they are just old and out dated. We got them for free from my moms friend. We were a young newly wed couple who was happy to get anything we could. Now I'm especially glad she gave them to us because I LOVE THEM!

Here they are before. 

I almost forgot to take before pictures, so that's why the drawer is missing. I don't know if you can tell really well from this picture but they have some designs in the wood and because of those I decided refinishing was not an option. the handles were broken and boring also.

The finished product ...........................

 sorry this first one is kind of blurry, but I wanted to have the mirror in one. however please ignore me sick self in the mirror.

It's amazing to me how much brighter our room looks with this lighter color. I really love how they turned out. K so here's how I did it!

Step 1: SPRAY PAINT! I love spray paint. I used just regular white ( not the cheap white it doesn't work very well). I primed it all first with spray paint primer and then I used white spray paint. Don't forget to remove the knobs. Especially if your going to use them again.

Step 2:  I sanded the edges to make it look old and worn. Then I used wood stain and a wash cloth to give it the antique look. You put some stain on and then whip it off. I made sure to go in every direction with the stain so that there were no clear lines.

Step 3: Spray paint again. This time is clear though. This just gives finished look.

Step 4:   The knobs. I really wanted glass knobs to continue with the old look. (this was my splurge)
I got them at  Home Depot but they were a lil expensive! (cheaper than a new dresser though.

The total cost:
Dressers : free
Spray paint : $6
Knobs :   $60

Total:  $66
The result is worth every penny though! 
com back soon and I'll show you my  new wall layout and some fall decor ideas!

Putting it all out there!!!

Matt and I are putting it all out there this weekend. Some of you may have found this post based on business cards you found at the Booth Barn craft fair, if so GREAT!!! Welcome. Matt and I are doing our very first craft show! We will be selling decor items at the booth barn this Friday and Saturday. The fair will be open from 10-6 on Friday and 10-5 on Saturday come check it out. If you were there and saw our booth thats great. If there was something there that you loved that  was already baught leave me a comment and we can maybe make you one. What we do is based a lot off of what we find. We love to take what other people don't want and make it into something new that people will want!! Hope you enjoy the craft show!!!

Valentines DIY!!!!

It's time for another Holliday! And of course I have not decorations, so I went to the craft room to see what I could come up with!!!! Our house needed a little "love" in the air! The first thing I made was a wreath. I must really like to make wreaths! It turned our cute for the most paft but I can't decide what to do to finish it off. Ill post new pictures when I decide what to do with the top but for now the rest of it turned out cute. I just covered a foam wreath with white fabric with red polka dots, then I cut hearts out of red fabric and made flowers out of pink and purple silk fabrick. The flowers were really easy I just folded the fabrick over a bunch of times and then cut on the non folded edge some flower pedals and then open it up and theres a flower. Then you place a dab of hot glue in the center of each petal and bunch the fabric and then repeat for the following layers! I decided to add a little bling because everyone knows life is better with Bling!!! The wooden letters I painted and hooked on with ribbon. Again adding bling!

The next thigs I made were the good old pictures frame art with paper and what ever else I could find!! The big one is kind of hard to see in the pictures but it says BE MINE. I did the letters with pink ribbon. the heart inside is purple fabric and of course some bling.  The smaller one is my favorite. I made it with some coordinating scrapbook paper. It says love and the o is a heart made our of little half pearls. I cut the letters out in two colors and layed them over each other to add a little flair!

I bought the cady jar you see bove from Tia Pan in Utah for like a dollar and filled it with candy hearts! I also filled another one like it with some sparkle hearts and valentines tissue papers as well as a large vase. I decided rather than fake roses I would use some heart sticks. I got everything I needed for the jars at the dollar store!!!  The final craft was a wood block. I had some sitting around in the craft room so I painted it pink and cut out some paper to go over it. I used some other wodden letters I bought at Joannes for like $2 to make the I and U, then cut out a big heart to go behind them and then I added some Bling of course. a little bow and a small purple heart! ( I used Modge Podge as the adhesive).  Hope you can find some fun easy ideas here! Happy Valentines day may your house be filled with "Love!"

 

Home AT Last!!! The Nursery!

After a number of months of being homeless( we had places to live just really close  or underneath other people!) We were finally able to get back into our home in Chubbuck. I decided to share with you some of the fune things I have made for our home! Hopefully you will get some ideas for something that might work for you!

I'll start with The nursery. I made some of these things when I first had Lexi but it took the second time around to finish it off how I wanted. I painted this mirror and then baught some christmas ornament birds after Christmas at Joannes and I painted them to match her room and put them on the mirror! sorry not a great pic.

Matt and I made these when we knew we were having a girl and I decided I wanted the nursery to have an earthy feel to. I wanted birds and trees and flowers. We cut some willows from behind his parents house and made this mobile to go over her crip as well as the letters that spell her name. The flowers I bought from hobby lobby and just cut them out of the boquet and placed them around the ring. Willows are a  really wet wood so we formed them while they were wet and then used wire to hold them im place. After they dried we removed most of the wire and this is the final product.

 Above is pictured  wall art I made. I often times get my ideas from Pottery Barn because I love their stuff, but I can't afford most of it so I copy them and add my own twist. That's where this idea came from. I painted art canvases pink and then cut out the pictures I wanted with some old fabric my grandma had given me. I then hand stiched the cut-outs onto the canvas. I was really excited how they turned out****.This item is pictured above with the flower mobile.***  Hope you enjoyed some fun Ideas from our nursery to yours!