New Furniture to work on!

Just a quick post about some new furniture pieces i've gotten to work on before I head out to my parents for lunch. I hope that everyone is enjoying their 4th weekend! Ours has been rather lazy. Which I'm not complaining about!

Kid's Rocking Chair.

Bamboo chair.

Vintage Tanker Desk.

Solid Wood Dresser.

I can't wait to get started on all of these! Plus, a friend of my dad's is getting me a paint sprayer from his job, on the cheap! That will help tremendously.

So, Everyone got great plans for the 4th?

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I'm up for a challenge!

Today marks the first day in my 101 in 1001 challenge. (you can check the official site here.) Basically, I made a list of 101 things that I would love to accomplish in the next 1001 days. And let me tell you, this is not as easy as it sounds. I thought, "101?", that's easy. I got stuck at about #60. Not to mention, I tried to think realistically. I could have put tons of things on this list that I'd love to do, but going to Paris in the next thousand days just isn't going to happen.

You can check out my list here. I made a tab for it in the nav bar up top. Not sure where I'm gonna start at. But as I work through my list, I will mark through and date each item. Of course I'll make lots of posts about it along the way, so I can keep everyone and especially myself informed of my progress. Lots of encouragement may be needed! haha

I am a master list maker, but my follow through is not so hot. So, for me, this challenge means something. I'm hoping that it'll give me the push to get off my butt and get some things done! Plus, airing it out here for all the world (ok, maybe not the whole world) to see is kinda a lot of pressure. Which I believe might be what I need to get it done.

On a side note, my dad and his friend got a buttload of stuff yesterday. He's wanting to get into the flea market business. (and so am i!) But his specialty is old farm equipment, tools .. you know, man stuff. And yesterday he hit the jackpot. Annnnd in all that stuff he got was and old dresser, desk and cabinet! Stuff for me! We go to pick it all up tomorrow, so I'm excited to see what they look like!

Whaaat? A post with no picture? We can't have that! So I'll end with this..

Hershey is my painting buddy. He gets coated in as much paint as I do!

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Hello Yellow!

New blog layout! I got bored last night, and as much as I love owls, I was just a little tired of looking at the old layout. Anywho, this post is to be about my yellow sofa table! It came from my uncle. I get alot of my things from him. He has a habit of buying new stuff and then 6 months later, wanting something else, so he just gives it away. Score! I forgot to take a before picture and I've even looked through old pictures hoping to find it in one of them. No such luck, so we'll start with the first coat of primer:

And then a second coat of primer:

And let me say, I am super messy with primer. I think I should probably start buying it in the spray cans, because when it's all over with, I'm covered. I even had it in my hair! And being oil based, it did NOT want to come off. Nightmare!

 

I actually had only bought a little paint sample bottle of this yellow color. The color is called "Warm Gold" in the Glidden brand. And I thought yellow would be such a fun color for a sofa table! So me and my little sample bottle got to painting:

The little sample got the whole table covered, but obviously it needed more coats. Which made me have to go out and buy a whole gallon of yellow! Well it didn't make me, I wanted to. I've actually decided to do yellow in my craft room now because I love this color so much! But that's a nightmare in itself and for a whoooole other post.

After buying more paint, and painting a few more coats. Then some light distressing and some clear coating. OH and I also painted the inside of the drawer a turquoise blue color that I had leftover from some bedroom things and lined it with a really pretty paper that I printed out from online! So, without further ado:

 

Hope you like it! I know I do! Yellow just makes me feel happy and I need all the happy I can get here lately. :)

LINKING UP:

Perfectly Imperfect Furniture Link Party

Making the World Cuter 

Sumo's Sweet Stuff 

DIYbydesign 

Primitive & Proper 

Miss Mustard Seed 

Alchemy Fine Living 

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Vintage End Tables

My mom bought these end tables (and coffee table, but that's somehow gone missing!) for my grandparents when they bought a new house. I believe I was like 3 at the time, so that makes them about 25 years old. That's Vintage! Whenever my grandparents decided to move outta there house and into "retirement" homes, I took on the tables to use in my first apartment. That was around 10 years ago. Now I'm actually just kinda tired of looking at them, so I decided that they needed a facelift. Here's what the tables looked like before:

When I first started, I was going to paint the edges in a beige color, so I assumed that I wouldn't have to prime. Big Mistake. So they sat half painted in my living room for over 2 weeks... then I finally went and bought some primer and got to work!

I'm not much for writing a tutorial of what all I did. Not to mention this is my first attempt at it! Hopefully with all the upcoming projects I have planned, it'll become easier for me to write it all out.

Now it's pouring down rain outside, the dogs are terrified of the thunder and I have so much work to do! I have about 8 loads of laundry, dishes, a craft room to start painting and some barstools to start sanding down. Although it's hard to move with 2 dogs under your feet at every moment...

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Wedding Photos

Our wedding photo's finally came in today and I love them! Just one for now. Maybe tomorrow I'll post a few more. :)

Christy, Me, Marc & Shawn

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Craft Room Start!

I've been wanting to turn our smallest spare room into a craft room for months now. Just so that I have someplace to keep all my supplies so that they aren't scattered all over the house, like they are now. I still have to move the bed out, and I'm not exactly sure where I'm going to store it. Our storage building is packed with holiday stuff and furniture waiting to be worked on. But last night I came up with a brilliant idea to decorate my room. At least I think so anyways. It all started with this...

I printed out letters on the computer to make a collage on the wall. Something to kinda display my name and make it feel more like me. After cutting allll these out, my hand was cramped up pretty bad. Plus I'm still not done, I've got several more flowers and such to cut out that go with it. So then I went and tacked them up on the wall with some painter's tape just to get an idea of how it would look before I made it perm.

I think its incredibly cute, but the color of the letters is awfully close to the wall color. I had planned to paint the window wall a lime green, but now I'm thinking that this wall should be green so that the letters will really POP! I also talked with M about building me a bookshelf for the opposite wall to store all my goodies in. Now if I can just figure out where to store that bed at, I can get things rolling!

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Quick update and some Pictures!

So today was my first day "working" at home. My last day at my day job was Wednesday. I told myself I could have the weekend to be lazy and just enjoy myself. On friday night, I had a slumber party with myself. Saturday, I baked a rainbow cake! Sunday, I cooked Tequila Lime Chicken (just like Applebee's!) for M and my parents. Now it's time to get to work! I've been taking lots of pictures and have lots of things to update about but for now, just a quick picture of my first project.

I've got a pair of end tables that i've tackled as my first project. They were my grandparents and I was given them when I got my first apartment. There actually was a coffee table that matched them, but it has somehow disappeared. I don't remember throwing it out, but I guess I did. They have served me well for the last 10 years so now I'm passing them on..

a sneak peek!

In between coats of paint on these 2 guys, I set up a sofa table outside to be sanded and I went back and forth. The heat was ridiculous, within minutes I would have sweat rolling down my face. Yummy, I know. At the end of the day, I was left with this lovely sunburn. (excuse the nastiness that is me, this was pre-shower)

Now I'm clean, fed and ready to lay up for the night with this little cutie! Her name is Roxy and she belongs to my parents. They are having some issues dealing with potty training her and all her energy, so I'm taking her for the night. Not that I'm complaining! She's adorable and she loves it here with all our critters.

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Inspiration!

I lose myself online sometimes .. ok, all the time. It actually makes me NOT want to sit down and get on the computer. I get so caught up in looking at all the pictures and different blogs (and even facebook) that I lose complete track of time. Take this morning for instance, I woke up around 9:30ish. I made myself some breakfast, watched one episode of Platinum Weddings while I ate and then I got back into bed and opened my laptop. It is now 12:45 and I'm still sitting here, hunched over and complaining that my back is killing me. Craziness.

Anywho, I did stumble upon this awesome website and a certain picture that has me totally inspired. I am now on a hunt to find the perfect old barstools that I can transform into masterpieces. My counter area has been bare since we moved into our home almost 3 years ago. I do have 2 barstools that my old boss gave me, but they are a bit to tall for the counter.

via: Rubbish Rehab

Are these not the sweetest looking barstools ever?! As much as I now want to head over to Craig's List to search for stools, I really must make myself get off this computer. I do have to be at work at 4. But guess what?!! Only 10 more days and I am free of my day job! I can't wait..

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Cactus Garden

My new little cactus garden .. or a start anyways. I still need to actually pot them in the pots but I couldn't resist testing it to see how cute they'd be! M and I decided we wanted to try the green thumb thing recently, so we'll see how it goes. I've never been able to keep anything but weeds alive.

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Wedded Bliss.

WOW! Where has the time gone? In my last post I'm excited about doing a 365 challenge and that has gone totally out the window. There has been so much going on in the last month that I haven't had much time to sit down and breathe, much less take a picture! But .. I am now a married woman. :)

The wedding went very smoothly, although there were several things that I wanted to do that we just didn't have time. I'd pretty much reached that "i don't care" mood by the end of it. We spent lots of time with family, outside on the new deck, and made alot of memories. I haven't gotten my photographer's pictures back yet, but here are a few from family.

 

 

 

 

part of my new family!

 

the guestbook .. marc drew it, i painted! <3

our cupcake tree.

 Now that the wedding is over, I can focus on getting out of my work situation and then onto my furniture! I'm so excited to get started working for myself, I can hardly stand it. Until next time!!

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