My Projects

 I still love love love having a home.  I've been having so much fun decorating our bare walls. I took a few pictures of some of my recent house projects. 

 

I've seen so many people use chalboard paint, so I thought I'd give it a try.  I found some really cheap 5x7 frames, painted them green, added some black stain, and then painted the glass with chalboard paint. 

I found this piano bench for $5 at a garage sale, painted it turquoise, and put some fabric inside and then glazed it with some black stain.  Since I don't have a piano I decided to use it for a table. 

I found this mirror at goodwill, pained it white and glazed it. 

I found some really cheap picture frames for our family pictures and put them all together on my living room wall. 

I found these at goodwill and painted them black.

I found this really ugly vase and painted it turquose.

I found this old dresser super cheap, painted it white and replaced the knobs. 

This is what it looked like when I was finished. None of it's perfect since I'm really not very crafty, but I had so much fun doing all of it.

After finishing projects for my house, I sort of got addicted to finding cheap stuff and redoing it.  I talked to this lady in a store called the Bees Knees.  There is a lot of really cute painted furniture and vintage decor.  She told me that I could sell a few things in her store.  I thought it would just be a few things, but I ended up renting out a whole booth.  Wow, I had no idea what I was getting myself into.  She wanted me to fill up a booth within a week, so I was a total stress case all week trying to get everything done.  I neglected my children, my house, and my husband for the whole week and managed to get some things done.  I messed up a lot and had to repaint some of the things I made.  Here are a few pictures of the things I finished.

Cake stands

Dry Erase Board

Rosette Headbands

I found this really ugly window mirror and painted it white.

I painted three chalkboard frames and glued them on a strip of burlap.

This dresser was brown before and I repainted it and distressed it.  I love how this one turned out.

This is how my booth looked when I finished everything.  It's definetely not as cute at the other booths in the store, but I was just happy to be done with it!  Now maybe I can get a little sleep :)