slowly its getting done

Lamps have been purchased and end tables have been painted. I found these two lamps on clearance for 25.00 each they came with the shades ...love them bedding has been altered I found this set at an antique shop for 39.00. It came with to standered sized pillow shams and the bedspread (queen sized) the color was perfect but I needed euro shams so I ripped out the seam that created the flange and that added an extra 4" to the size of the sham.

My ceiling fan has been re re painted in an almond spray paint

Pillows have been re ticked and re stuffed with feathers and fresh lavender buds... they smell so good.

I'm getting there.

Have a great weekend

Painting and Shopping

A whole day of Painting Starting with taking everything apart Cleaning with acetone priming and painting with a brushed nickel

all for this, a plastic and fake looking brushed nickel finish! soooo we move on to plan B. Results in a couple of days.

On a lighter note I got some more shopping done. Curtain panels from Target 53.95 for all 5 panels

Solid white for the outside and sheer for the inside. I wanted quite a bit of curtain but I did not want to completely block the view.

This cute table was purchased a couple of weeks ago at my local thrift shop for 4.00 I love it!
It will be one of the night stands, but I needed another one to somewhat match .......

After looking around here at all the thrift and Antique shops and coming up with nothing

I headed up to St Cloud yesterday with DD#2 and we found this at a thrift shop for 14.99 not quite the bargain I was looking for but it was similar in size and Scale They will both be painted white. by the way these are both old sewing tables how perfectly they will fit in my home.

and my find of the day at the same thrift shop, this Chair!!! I love the shape I wanted something that I could reupholster as apposed to slipcover because the accent fabric that I have chosen did not come from the bargain bin

That's it on the chair

There it is with the other fabrics I'm thinking that this fabric will be used for the chair and lampshades but you know how that goes, we will just have to see how it all comes together.

and finally I shopped the house and came up with these thing so far.

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