Newest Project

This is my new and current project. Its our guest room. Although its been semi finished once before I have never been happy with it so I am redoing it with great inspiration to fuel me ( picture at the bottom of the page) I of course have a budget and a time frame my budget is 500.00 which includes a bed and all the bedding. I donated the other bed to DD#2 when she lost hers in the fire. My time frame is 3 weeks, the goal is to have it done by the time my mom gets here.

I have already started some of the shopping, online in thrift and antique stores and of course in in the house too. .

this is today's project I will be painting the lovely gold a brushed nickel

One of the few things that will be staying as is is the dresser.

This is my inspiration room I love the color scheme because its going to work with the carpet that I cannot afford to replace. Found it here


My list of things to purchace

*Bed

*Bedding 119.00

*Headbord

*Window Treatments 53.95

*Curtain Rod 4.49

* Lamps

*2 Side Tables 4.00 and 14.99

*Art work

* Chair 12.99

*paint for light fixture 2.97

To Date 184.41 spent.

Part 2 ~ Finished

well here they are all finished and I am really liking them all painted white with new brushed nickel hardware

Yes I still have lots left to do before it's all said and done. No more painting in the kitchen til next month though Its just getting to hot and sticky to be painting anything else right now.

so I will be happy with a partially with kitchen for now

oh and while I was cruising the thrift shop this weekend I found this cute wicker pet bed for 3.00 so I snagged it!
I've always wanted one of these

for now I have Hanna's old cushion in it I will need to make a new one.

JT wanted to wish everyone a Happy Summer

Have a great week

While Waiting for Paint to Dry

In between coats of paint I am getting other project done around the house, and this is one of them I finally got the other panels done and up in the living room I was going to wait til fall to put them up but I changed my mind ( I do that alot )

I'm liking them

Meanwhile I am making progress in the Kitchen I think I will be able to put it back together today.

More pictures tomorrow ....I hope

Kitchten Project Part 2

This week we are supposed to have the perfect weather for painting, sooo... That is what I will be doing for the next few days. Here are my before pictures. This week I am working on the uppers and actually got them all primed yesterday.

Hope to have some after pictures by the end of the week!

now I'm off to find my paint brush.

Finding The Perfect Fabric

For Mothers Day my Daughter Autumn made me this beautiful necklace! I just love love love it
But, I had nothing to go with it. The green beads are sooo pretty and I love them with the brown cording that she macramed for the rest of the necklace. It made the whole thing a little bit more organic looking. Well I looked and looked and looked for a top with the green in it but no luck. So off to Jo ann fabrics I went. I found this fabric ( on sale ) How perfect are the colors! I just love it.

I used one of my favorite patterns

Now I'm off to work on the next project on the list.

Have a great rest of the week

This Weekend

This weekend we were lucky enough to have beautiful weather so we were able to do some of our favorite things Work in the garden. This is the first year that we have had a garden in a long long time We have our garden on a friend's land as our property is too shady ... we are loving it!

Its a very big garden and we will be doing lots of canning this summer

Hubby is weeding... we have lots and lots of weeds to stay on top of

The other thing that we got a chance to do is Kayak we spent fathers day afternoon cruising around the lake, it was so much fun.

Have a great week

Little Changes

I've been working around the house a little bit, just finishing up a couple of things that I have been wanting to get done for sometime now. A curtain rod in the living room. This was more a money thing than anything else, you See this window is 210" long and I just did not want to spend the money on a custom ordered curtain rod. I had to get creative so I purchased 2 curtain rods from Target and figured that I would have DH weld them together, turns out that there was a sleeve that the two ends fit into so all I needed to do was take the two ball end's off two rod's and slip the ends into those sleeve's and viola a 210" curtain rod for under $40.00.
I will put the other panels on the rod for fall and winter but for now I just wanted the panels at the very ends of the window. we have a great view of the lake in the summer and I just didn't want to have anything obstruct it. Oh yeah and I got the back of my couch finished too.

It had only one button at the very bottom and I did not like the way it looked so now it laces up the back.

Also I wanted to thank everyone for their emails and donations for my Daughter in need.

I have an updated post on her situation here. they are back on their feet and doing well.

Thank you again for your support.

Have a great rest of the weekend!

Fund Raising for a Daughter in Need

Looking for a good home!

Well it's been a busy week with working in the shop and getting the yard in shape for this summer and when all was going according to plan , I got a call from a frantic daughter " Mom my apartment building is on fire!" so long story short I have a daughter with out a home of her own. I'm looking for way to get her back on her feet Please take a moment to visit my other blog for the details

Basically I'm trying to raise some money for her by selling some of my totes via my blog.

In the mean time this is what I've been working on with my nervous hands .... almost finished

Have a great weekend

Finished ~ part one

Finally I'm finished with the part of my kitchen redo and I love love love it I'm so happy with the way the the cupboards and curtains turned out, new curtain rod and match stick blinds

But most of all ... I'm in love with my new ( old ) table. This table was given to me in trade for some slipcover work that I did for a friend but it was in it original garage sale condition, not very pretty until My friends Claire and Shannon from the ThehogShed Transformed it into the beautiful show piece!

They started by painting the legs and apron in the same color as my trim and cupboards then they stained and sealed the top of the table to match my hardwood flooring I LOVE IT

Soo Pretty I'm so lucky to have such talented Friends!!

this is the other side of my island thingie with its new painted cupboards and a long awaited new dishwasher

and my new favorite picture that sweet hubby bought for my while we were away celebrating out 23rd anniversary.

Its works perfectly with the new look

Now on to the rest of the kitchen.

Thanks for stopping have a great week

Working on my Home for Spring

Well, here are a couple of before picture of my spring projects I am in the proses of redoing the dinning room right now and I will be carrying this project into the kitchen thought the summer
with the biggest project that I've tackled in a long time I'm painting my kitchen cupboards!!!

Yup I'm finally doing it. I've wanted to do this since we moved in 7 years ago but I know how big a project it was going to be. I thought that with the cost of the new hardware that I wanted that I just couldn't justify changing out perfectly good although VERY UGLY hardware. But thanks to blog land and great blogger that give out resources
I was able to find affordable hardware and I will be sharing my after photo's and resources with in the next week or two

I'm really looking forward to a nice new kitchen, I will be painting the kitchen in sections because of the size of the project there is just no way that I could do it all at once and keep a functioning home. So sections it will be.

Thanks for stopping