I Need More Jewelry Stat!

I am very familiar with the washer and dryer eating your socks.  I swear the hub always has one missing sock!  However, I’m not too familiar with losing my earrings during a move.  We moved into our new house a month ago and when I unpacked all my jewelry, I noticed some of my earrings were missing.  Hmm … I’m still on the search for them! 

But in the meantime, I needed to make something new to hang my earrings on.  It’s a new house which calls for new things, duh!  That’s how it works! 

I found this printers type drawer at McKinney’s Trade Days (I could spend so much money at that place!)

And with a little paint and some elbow grease, I turned it into my new earring display …

Now I need to go shopping to replace the earrings I lost!  Oh honey … credit card please!

Oh How I Love Sunday Night

Before I start telling you what the hubs and I did last Sunday night, I want you to promise me that you won’t judge us.  Promise?  Pinky promise?  Okay … you have my permission to continue reading then …

So, last Sunday night the hubs and I were bored and so we loaded up munchkin and all got in the car for a little drive.  You might be thinking, “Where in the world would y’all be going on a Sunday night?”  Well, here’s where the “adventure” began.  As we backed out of the driveway we saw an old desk that was pretty much broken apart.  I say it was broken apart because the drawers were out of it, the legs were coming off, etc.  This desk had definitely seen better days that’s for sure so I decided it needed a makeover.  Yes folks, I picked that baby up and put it in the back of our car and decided we were now on a mission.  I told munchkin to sit tight and get comfortable because we are going dumpster divin’. 

Now let me make this clear … WE NEVER WENT THROUGH ANY DUMPSTERS!!  We just drove down one alley to the next looking for crap!  You might be laughing at us but don’t be so quick to judge my friend!  Wait until you see their makeovers.  Ohhh I can’t wait!!!

Here’s a list of what all we found last Sunday night …

One antique desk

Two antique chairs

Two bookshelves

One nightstand

Laughing now?  I didn’t think so!  We hit the JACKPOT!!!! 

Here’s a picture of our desk before …

We are currently working on its facelift.  To be continued …

All You Need Is A Little Love

Remember the wooden trough I did the other day?  Well, I kept looking at it ALL day today and was thinking it needed something else to it.  I couldn’t decide if I wanted to add numbers, letters, or a design to it.  I thought I could put “Family” on it but when I laid the letters out on the trough, the word looked too long.  I thought maybe I could put our anniversary date on there “10.24.09”.  I LOVED THE IDEA!!  You would think since I LOVED it so much that I would have put that on there … wrong!  Don’t ask me why … I don’t have an answer for you.  J Instead, I put the word “Love”.  I guess it will do, right?  After all, I do LOVE the hubs and my munchkin.  

Here’s a picture of it before …

And here’s what it looks like with the letters added to it …

I don't know ... I kind of like it!  Have I mentioned what a fickle person I am? 

Move Over Chocolate Chip Cookies ... Pinterest Is My New Best Friend

I’m sure many are already aware of the latest craze called Pinterest.  If not, you’ve got to check this thing out.  Have you ever looked through a magazine and thought to yourself, “I really like the way that room is laid out?”  I’m not the only one that does that, am I?  Pinterest is a place where you can “pin” all the things you love whether it’s fashion, actors, quotes, or my favorite, home décor.  You create these different boards and then you can follow other people around the world.  I’m warning you, this thing is ADDICTIVE!! I don’t want anyone to come back and say I didn’t warn them.  It is not my fault you are still in your clothes from 2 days ago starring at your computer playing on Pinterest.  Not.  My.  Fault. 

What Would You Do?

The boxes are unpacked and everything is finally put in its place in our new house.  Phew!  We definitely have more things than what I thought.  According to the hubs, I’m a hoarder.  However, I can’t help but think, “I’ll use it one day, right?”  Wait a second … isn’t that a hoarder’s motto? 

As of right now, our breakfast nook in our kitchen looks a little bare.  I absolutely LOVE our new kitchen.  The big bay window lets in so much light and it just makes it feel so open.  I normally don’t spend a lot of time in the kitchen – I’m not allowed to go in there.  I apparently can’t cook worth a hoot but it’s not my fault the hubs compares my cooking to his momma’s southern cookin’.  He knew I was a “meal from the box” type of girl!  Anyways, enough with my venting on that subject!  J  As I was saying, I don’t normally spend that much time in the kitchen but the windows make me want to be in there all day long! 

Now here’s where I need your help.  I can’t decide what I want to do with the windows.  Should I do long curtains, valances, leave it as is?  What would you do? 

Nate Berkus ... Will You Accept This Rose?

Is anyone else obsessed with the Nate Berkus Show?  I have my DVR set to record him every day.  I like to consider it my guilty pleasure every afternoon.  The Design Star contestants were on his show yesterday and they had to do a challenge in front of the live audience.  Their challenge was to make something for the house that everyone can make so it had to be (1) easy (2) cheap.  Easy and cheap … I normally don’t put those two words together but when it comes time to decorating, those are my two favorite words! 

By far my favorite, and the design that won the contest, was the decorator that had those standard Ikea shelves and he used vintage books to sit on the brackets instead of the boring shelves they come with.  Can we say GENIUS?!? 

The Nate Berkus Show

Seriously people, this has to be in my house!  I’m going to have to check out the prices at Ikea but if all else fails, I could always make my own, right?  I would love to have one in my daughter’s room or in our upstairs office.  Maybe I could put one in EVERY ROOM!!!!  Okay, that might be an overkill but this definitely has to be made! 

My Mirror Needed Some Company

Now that I made the wooden trough for our kitchen table, there seemed to be something missing in our “dining area”.  We have a framed mirror on the opposite wall but the mirror looked so lonely hanging up there all by itself, and that’s when I had my idea!  I will make my mirror some friends!  Mason jar sconces anyone?

After making random projects throughout the house, my garage is filled with extra wood.  Even if I didn’t have the wood to make this, it would cost under $10 to make.  What I did was measure how long I wanted the sconces to be and how big I wanted my shelf to be for my mason jars to sit on.  Then, I had the hubs cut me my pieces.  Thanks Nater!  J 

I used gorilla glue (this stuff is awesome) to attach my pieces together.  I wanted to make sure the wood would hold together so I put some nails in the pieces to tighten the wood together.  Once that was done and dried, I was ready to paint.  I gave it a quick coat of heirloom white spray paint and then then went to town on the distressing.  I found it to stain the distressed edges with a small paint brush.  It made the process less messy. 

The sconces looked great but I felt like there needed to be some kind of decorate piece at the top of it so I just used what I had on hand and grabbed some black cardstock and used my Silhouette machine to cut out a fleur de lis (I lurrve me some fleur de lis)!  I had to think about how I would stick it to the wood … Mod Podge it?  I really didn’t want to Mod Podge it.  I was having a lazy day so I grabbed my 3M spray adhesive and sprayed it to the sconce.  It worked purrfect!!!  I love easy projects! 

So here’s the final project … what do you think? 


I found my inspiration at http://www.shanty-2-chic.com/