Family gathers here! {guts challenge}

Donna from Funky junk interiors has really inspired me {and many others for that matter}
 this past year.  I never look at pallets, or rusty ole junk without thinking of her!
Well, she put her blog friends and readers to a challenge, and I was up for it...well, no not really, I thought to myself, I have no clue on this one, and don't have the time to think these days! Nor do I work well under pressure..... I THINK I played it too safe for DONNA! But I did try to think outside the box, hope that counts.

Well,the other morning while walking Lucy, I spied Mike's work area from our summer outdoor patio makeover.
 {yes the poor guy worked in the woods, cutting and sawing}

His work area still sits there nestled in the woods.  

I spy WOOD! I think Donna, the challenge, what can I do?

and this little guy thought the same thing, what is she doing?

this is where I was playing...

Then I started thinking about the upcoming Thanksgiving season...where family all gather's, spends happy times, happy memories together.

I am a bit of a NUT, in case you don't know that already.

My Mom and sister fly down every year to spend Thanksgiving with my family...

we sure do have some good times...and they are pretty NUTS too, so you can imagine the fun.

So how bout, I grab  a piece of that wood, and do something special with it.

I stained it, using left over green and blue from our summer staining projects..as you can see it made a pretty blueish green.

 It makes for a very cute centerpiece...where our family will gather, and create more memories.

So there you be! I did it and really enjoyed the challenge. Thanks Donna, for always inspiring!

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Bedroom makeover!

I will be sharing this fun project with Kristin's painters tarps summer blog party edition.
Debbiedoo's has her summer paint project edition
HERE
Never have I had so much fun transforming a room as I have now.

I am not sure if it was all my Gramps positive energy floating around,

or that I just truly have fun decorating.

I know for sure it is BOTH!~

 Let's start with the curtains.  Painters tarps, painted and stenciled.  I will give a tutorial soon.

 Mike thought I was crazy...this is his old red wagon, that has been sitting in our garage for years...what a perfect time to dig it out.It is about 40 years old.  And it is serving a purpose...LEGOS!

 Now this was fun.  Once a pine toy chest turned FUNKAY! I bought the trespassing sign and just sanded the heck crap out of it, I wish things could rust overnight, but they can't to my knowledge.

Tutorial on the chest coming soon.

And yes  some rust too!

And here was Jack when he came home from school today...He is inspecting that everything is there that should be.
I forgot to show you a few other things...

These are my Granfathers gloves from when he was a child..I think this must have been an ashtray, it's missing the center piece.

Oh and here is Jack's before bedroom:

THINGS I did for this room makeover:
The bedside light
The burlap curtains
The chest
Brought in the wagon, that was my husbands when he was Jack's age.
Brought out old time memories and keepsakes of my Dear Grandfather

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