Blue, Blue Nightstand

I have been away from the blog for a few weeks...things have been crazy around here!  One great piece of news we received was that we are having a GIRL in September!  :-)  This is wonderful, but also stressful, as this means the most work for us to prepare, including switching out the kids' rooms, as my son now has the largest room and my daughter, the smallest.  Being that the girls will be sharing, we need to give them the bigger room.  So, let the painting begin!! 

A little project that I will be adding to my son's new room is this nightstand.  I bought it off of Craig's List for $15...pretty standard wood with brass pulls. 

 I, with the "help" of my five year old son, have decided on a color scheme of three blue walls and one tan wall in his new room.  His bed and nightstand will go on the tan wall, so I thought that I would paint the nightstand in the blue color.

I used one coat of primer and two coats of blue.  Then, spray painted the drawer pulls with a dark brown paint.  I decided I wanted to dress it up a little more, so I created a grid with the painters tape (I love Froggers tape, btw).  Then, I used a tan paint and watered it down for a wash and painted the diamond pattern.

Once I removed the tape, I lightly sanded the top...basically just because I liked the way it looked.  :-)  Then, two coats of satin polyurethane and voila!  A cute, $15 nightstand for my son's new room.  I promise to put a better picture of the finished product up on here when I get it into the new room, but for now, here it is!

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25 Cents Girls' Party Favors

I know some of you are thinking, "enough with the (bleep) rosettes already!"  :-)  But, I gotta say that it is becoming a stress reliever of sorts for me....glueing and wrapping and glueing and wrapping.  No deep thought involved, just me and my fabric.

Anyway, these babies are going to be favors for my daughter's upcoming spa birthday party.  We are doing manis, pedis and I will be doing a little bit of makeup for each girl at my daughter's vanity.  My thought was that these headbands could be their finishing touch, once their makeup and nails are done. 

I started with some shirts that I have decided to never wear again and cut them into strips.  I bought the headbands at the Dollar Tree, four for $1, hence 25 cents a piece!  Love it!  I just rolled my rosettes from there and hot glued them to the headband.  I think they are sweet and I hope the girls like them.  I think they will look adorable!

The shirts...

I made 12 headbands, three of each color.  I plan to just grab one and put it on each girl, so there is no fighting (beforehand anyway) over who gets which color. 

So there you have it, cute huh??  I actually really like the way the colorful pictures turned out too, so I may use them as framed art in my daughter's room...just a thought.


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$7 Easy Frame Re-do

I bought this frame at Christmas Tree Shops, because I loved the look of the old barn wood and the texture.  What I didn't love was the flower painting.  The frame was $6.99, so I decided I would buy it and give it a facelift.  This was really simple...



I painted it a coat of white latex paint.  Then, I went over it ever so gently with the blue paint that I have on the walls in our kitchen and some of the great room.  I didn't want to cover it with the blue, just bring out the texture.  I think it looks like old beach cottage planks.  Then, I recently got some burlap and wanted to try some rosettes with the fabric (I must say, burlap isn't as easy to manipulate as some other fabrics I have used).  I liked the way they turned out, so I popped them on the frame at the bottom.  I had a picture of my son walking the beach, so I added that...waiting on another photo to come in the mail that I think I'll like better, but for the purpose of the blog, this works. 

I have recently painted the wall up the stairs and this is a work in progress, taking my time with it.  But, this is what it looks like at the moment.  :-)

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Project 52 - Week of 3/28/11

My favorite pic of the week was taken on Sunday afternoon, 4/3/11.  This is my maple tree blooming, a sure sign of Spring, which makes me HAPPY!

I took a few of these, but had to pick one for project 52.  I am thinking I will print three of these, frame them and hang them above our bed as referenced in my most recent post.



My Pretty Little Pillow

Continuing with my rosette obsession, I had a cute plaid decorative pillow that came with my bedding.  I also had two red pillow shams that I was no longer using...idea!  The red matched the bedding perfectly.  I had seen these cute pillows around and thought, "I could totally do that!"  So, here it is...my cute pillow that was boring and so-so, transformed into a pretty little pillow that's so ME!  :-)

First, the old pillow case.  It pulled apart so easily for the frayed (sp?) look I was going for.

I still have SO much left of this one pillow sham (and I have another).  Planning to dress up the lamp shades in the room, too.  And, here is the pillow all dolled up...I stitched the rosettes together, then stitched the top one to the pillow and hot glued them all to the pillow as well.  It's strictly for decoration, so I think it will hold up fine. 

On another note, I am thinking of new decor above the bed that incorporates my Project 52 for the week...off to post that now.  Have a great day!

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Somebody got an Early Birthday Gift!!

My parents came over for a visit on Friday evening and I casually mentioned that I was on the lookout for a cloche...OK, maybe it wasn't so casual as it was deliberate and desperate.  :-P  I have been seeing these cloches ALL OVER the blogging world and I NEEDED one!  I was actually just throwing it out there to my mom in case she happened upon one. 

Well, don't you know it, she found one the next day and today, after our weekly Zumba date (yet another of my obsessions) she gave me an early birthday present!

Ain't she purty?

Moms are the best!  And, I have a pretty spectacular one! :-)

Happy Sunday all!

Easter Decor for 75 Cents!!

I am telling you, I got my money's worth out of this spanish moss!  I used it for three different recent projects.  I love it! 

I bought the jars at the thrift store for 25 cents a piece...I just adore these jars and I can use them for all sorts of things.  For now...they are Easter decor.  The spanish moss I had, as I stated previously.  And, the eggs I bought years ago at Lillian Vernon.  I think this is simple, yet adorable for the holiday.