Archives for February 2011

Hi everyone!

Hope you’re all enjoying the weekend!

I wanted to show you a find I picked up @ the Salvation Army this week.

 

It’s a lovely shadow box that I painted, hot glued a little left over wallpaper on and then hot glued some shells to. (Please ignore the little hanging wire popping out! Lol)

What do you think?

This is what it looked like before!

I don’t know about you but I think it looked pretty hideous! I walked past this one and noticed it on my second go around. It was an ugly old wooden and gold frame that had the most ugly purple velvet backing with some 3D paper birds inside. I’ve been frame hunting so this caught my eye.

 

After looking it over, I realized it was in good shape and I could picture it with a fresh coat of paint. It had good bones!

Sometimes with things as with people you need to stop and take a second look. We may not look so hot on the outside but we have nice bones !

Be Blessed!

I’ll be partying with these ladies:

White Wednesday @ Faded Charm
Metamorphosis Monday @ BNOTP

Hi everyone!
I hope you’re all enjoying this long weekend! As most of you celebrate President’s Day, we Canadians are celebrating Family Day and I am celebrating this day by making cushions!

Last week I was watching a local TV show called Cityline. Thursday is Homeday where they give decorating  advice, tips etc. A regular on the show, seamstress Mary Dobson did a tutorial on how to make a five minute cushion. She had me at cushion! I love making cushions, you can change a room up with a little bit of fabric and now an extra 5 Minutes!

I also wanted to try making one of these faux grain sack cushions that I’ve seen in blogland lately using a fabric marker and fabric paint. I have to say the fabric paint turned out better for me.

 

This is the black one I made. Many of you may not know this but I love black!

 

I used my favorite dropcloth material for these. Butters is a little upset that my pinecones are preventing him from jumping up on his  stool to get to the sofa!

I think it turned out well.

You begin with 1 piece of fabric. Just add 2 inches to the width of your insert.Then double the length of your insert and add 8 inches for your flap.My inserts were 18×18 so I ended up with a piece of fabric 20x 44 inches.

It actually only takes five minutes after you have cut your fabric and then folded and pressed your seems. Here I started by  pressing my two ends

 

 

 

This is the first table I found at GW and posted about it here. I wanted to find another one similiar to this one as she fit in so well.

This is the first table seen here after I did my bookcases post. It sits on the left side of my sofa. 

I’d been looking for another table to match  the first one and was willing to take the time to find it. I didn’t think I would find the exact one and was really excited when I found this one that had the same look and dimensions as the first.

Love her little scallop trim on the bottom.
I think she fits right in.

I’ll be partying with these ladies this week:

White Wednesday @ Faded Charm
Beach Life Wednesdays @ Beach Cottage
Transformation Thursdays @ The Shabby Chic Cottage
Strut Your Stuff Thursday @ Somewhat Simple
furniture feature Friday @ MMS
Fabulous Friday finds @frou frou decor
Frugal Friday @ The Shabby Nest
Flaunt it Friday @ chic on a shoestring decorating
SNS @ Funky Junk Interiors

Hi everyone, I said I would post this today but was called away to see my sick sis. I quickly made my bed and tried to take some pics while I had the light.
Better late than never!

Here is my headboard we were so blessed to get as an old door from our church a few weeks back.

This door was original to our Church building which was built in 1899.

Here is the before. She had a few chips but not enough to make her chippy. I wasn’t sure what to do with her and got a lot of suggestions and lovely comments from you all.  I thought about removing the old paint but didn’t want to get into the whole lead thing. Even after a cleaning she still seemed a little “dirty” looking to me. I knew I had to finish her off in a way that I would feel comfortable spending all my nights with her!

Hubby and I put up some molding on the top to give it a finished look and  provide a little shelf. I gave her a couple coats of Ben Moore’s “cloud white” which also match the night tables. I wanted to keep the paint color a little uniform to create a sense of space as the room is not that wide on this end.
As soon as I put my first coat of paint on her I knew I had made the right decision for me.
I love it!

She’s not shabby or chippy but hey! If you get to be 112 years old you may want a little paint job too! I’m really pleased with how she turned out!

I will probably post a part 4 to this mini makeover because I’m trying to milk it for all it’s worth I’ve got a couple of  ideas for my blank wall. Stay tuned!

Be blessed

I’ll be partying with these ladies this week:

Transformation Thursdays @ The Shabby Chic Cottage
Saturday Nite Special @ Funky Junk Interiors
Frugalicious Friday @ Finding Fabulous
Flaunt it Friday @ Chic on a Decorating Shoestring
Show off your cottage Monday @ The house in the roses
Metamorphosis Monday @ BNOTP
The DIY showoff
Show me your style @ In  my own Style
Power of Paint Party @ Domestically Speaking
Furniture Feature Friday @ MMS

Hi everyone.
Thanks for the lovely comments regarding my sewing tables to night tables!
I am really pleased with them. They’re the perfect size for my room and I love the height. There is also room to place baskets underneath for added storage!

Well, here is part 2 of my little mini makeover.
I’ve been planning on doing this project for months now as my old bedskirt just wasn’t cutting it. There were very few bedskirts that I liked and the ones I did like were too expensive. So…I would have to make my own, back to my old standby fabric, the dropcloth.

Yes that’s Jack’s tail in the pic. He was all over this bed. He loves to be in  the middle of my photo shoots for some reason.lol

Here is the before bedskirt. A little bland eh!

Here is a sideview.
Jack thinks it’s His bed.

Be blessed!

I’ll be partying with these ladies:

Wow us Wednesdays Party @ Savvy Southern Style
Good Life Wednesdays @ Beach cottage

Happy Tuesday everyone!
I was busy last weekend working on a bedroom mini makeover!
Here is a part of the makeover.

I had found an old sewing table a few months back and thought what a great night table it would make! It cost twenty dollars without the sewing machine in it.  I spent the following months trying to find one to match it from a thriftstore. I finally found another one this weekend. It came with the sewing machine in it and was thirty-five dollars, too much for me but it was 50% off Fridays so it only cost me seventeen dollars!

You can see here in an old post what I had been using as night stands before. They were two little metal tables from IKEA.  While they held most necessities, It dwarfed in comparison to my kingsize bed. My bed is quite high and I wanted a table that would be high as well.

I painted both tables in my favourite white, Ben Moore’s Cloud White. This table had three little diamond shapes on the front which I removed. I may add a knob to match it with the table on the right.

 

You can see the before pic of one of the tables here in an old post. You can also see those little diamonds on the front, a little too retro for me!

I removed the knob the table came with and added a little pink glass knob.

Thanks for stopping by and stay tuned tomorrow when I reveal my new bedskirt!

Be Blessed!

I’ll be partying with these ladies this week:

Hi everyone!
I hope you’re all enjoying the wonderful weather we’re having! Lol
All kidding aside I hope everybody is safe as weather all over the world is a little crazy right now.

The snow has stopped here in Southern Ontario and I’m hunkered down in front of the fire with my laptop.

I was at the Salvation Army this week and found this lovely mirror. I took it out of the garage today and introduced it into the dining room.

I took out my white frame and coffee filter wreath I had in there from Christmas and replaced it with
my thrift find.

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I have two armoires in the dining room that I use to house extra plates, platters and dishes that the kitchen doesn’t have room for.
The square basket is a file holder and holds all our files and the round basket is filled with magazines.

My daughter has told me no more plates! She says we don’t have anymore room! Do you think there is a problem?! lol

I gave this wooden frame a wash of white primer, let it dry and gave it a light sanding.

I couldn’t help but add a pic of lavender that I have on top of my armoires. I love lavender.

I took out some of the winter themed accessories and spruced up the room with some lovely dried hydrangeas.