Bit by bit, I’m finishing up projects for the loft area. This table used to look like this… …except is was red, and colored on and tearing apart. While I have seen lots of beautiful kids’ tables for sale, that’s not in the budget right now. I starting thinking about recovering and/or deco-paging it. What […]
Sharing Home Decor Insanity
July 31, 2009 by 8 Comments
I love the inspiration I get from all of you when I ask for a little advice on my blog. In response to my plea request for furniture refinishing advice, one reader, Jenny, emailed me this gorgeous picture of her banister. She used a tinted polyurethane product I didn’t know existed and made the whole […]
Jackson’s Jungle Room
July 28, 2009 by 15 Comments
My nephew must be a wild kid! First we threw this shower for his mom (here & here), and now he’s getting a wild jungle/safari room. This is where it is at now. I showed you a sneak peek of the ceiling I spent forever painting. After that, I took a yard stick and drew […]
Frugal Friday: A few finished projects and fun finds!
July 24, 2009 by 6 Comments
It’s Frugal Friday over at The Shabby Nest. I thought about just linking up this post, where I show all of my frugally acquired projects (still currently in their before state) so you all can give me your wonderful advice…(I’d still love it if you’d go there and leave your fabulous furniture makeover advice in […]
A Bunch of “Before’s”—Refinishing (repurposing) Furniture—What do you do?
July 20, 2009 by 17 Comments
Now that I am starting to recover from girls camp (yes, it’s been a few weeks…I am a wimp), all of my projects that have been on the back burner are clamoring for my attention, and I’m having a bit of ADHD jumping around from room to room and wanting to get it all done […]
Door Dilemma Solved—and other painting projects
July 8, 2009 by 22 Comments
…we interrupt the Girls Camp Craft report to make a special announcement….The front door has been painted!… When we bought our house, more than a year ago, we knew something would have to be done about the door. When it was painted the first time, the hardware must have already been in place. When it […]
Good Will…Good Advice!
June 3, 2009 by 18 Comments
I’m crashing the end of Thrifty Decor Chick’s Goodwill Party, in the hopes that I can count on all of you brilliant bloggers and readers for some good advice about my Goodwill find. I found the lovely lamp at Goodwill a while back for a mere $5. I really like the shape and style. I […]
We are the Winners!
May 30, 2009 by 1 Comment
Me and Meredith, that is! (Post edit: I just realized the grammar police are going to lock me away for this one! “Mean Meredith.” No, she’s really nice, I promise. Ok. “Meredith and I are the winners.” Is that better?) Meredith won my Purple Trail Giveaway that ended last night. And Meredith is one lucky […]
Frugal Lampapalooza
May 28, 2009 by 17 Comments
The Nester is hosting a Lampaplooza party today and The Shabby Nest is having a Frugal Friday party tomorrow. So this seems like the perfect time to share some of my frugal finds that I have been meaning to share. (Don’t you just love her button? Oh, that’s right. I designed that.)Alright. How much do […]
Budget Boys Room Decor
April 24, 2009 by 16 Comments
Guest post by Kendra’s sister, Trina, who isn’t only insanely creative, but also extremely cheap–that runs in our family, too! 🙂 I feel unqualified to talk about home décor because I don’t do too much of it, and what I do do is more often dictated most by how inexpensively it can be done. So, […]
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