Garden inspiration,organizing, thrifting, and furniture makeovers.

Garden inspiration,Organizing your home,furniture makeovers, thrifting

Good morning! 

Hope you all have enjoyed your weekend so far! Today the sun is shining so bright, it just makes me want to go outside and start gardening.  

HOWEVER, it is only like 30 degree. 

 Last weeks newbie party was great as always.  I see this party is growing weekly, and it makes me so excited to see all the new bloggers joining us.  

Today I would like to share some awesome participants.

First up is Rob from Island Rustic.

Don't you just Clematis?  I can't wait for mine to start growing.  His is amazing!

Not to mention he did a little repurposing for this job, so go check it out.

Next up is Wanda for No place like home.

Wanda shared with us some home organizing, and I was really inspired to do some of my own this week.

There is Miss Bliss from Bliss Ranch.  Bliss shared her day out with her daughter and some scores they made....



Don't you just love the wire basket and all the fun goodies...yeah even the toilet paper looks good!

Then there is Sandi at Fuller Fair, who tried her hand at sewing! She did an amazing job on this curtain.




Last feature for today is Beth from a Little Country House and vintage Market.

 I really love her style! LOVE!

Thank you all for joining me! 

See you later this evening for the newbie party.

Feel free to grab my crow button on my sidebar..You have something to crow about!

Assistance needed in aisle one please....HELP!

I don't know why that title popped in my head! 

I need your help and your advise.  

This is a BIG project coming up and I do not want to make the wrong decision here.  In fact, it is hard to believe my husband is even on board with this idea.  I suppose he has CONFIDENCE in me now. 

So here's the deal....

We have had this entertainment center for about 10 years.

I hate it, Mike loves it.

It serves it's purpose, TV, stereo equipment, DVD's, the whole purpose of an entertainment center I suppose.

I hate the color, and it looks outdated to me anyhow...

SOOOOOO....

 YUK, I just noticed Lucy's chewie on the couch...

Rug colors...reds, blue, green, salmon, off white...

 Furniture is a rustic chocolate color, and the walls are butter {Soft yellow}

Here are my thoughts on colors...

Of course I am going to use Annie Sloans chalk paint

from my favorite stockist and my sponsor

SHADES OF AMBER

{Primer red}

Deep red ochre is a color found in practically every culture from Venetian palaces to Vietnamese temples 

Red earths were plentiful and relatively easy to come by so the color is often associated with the color for priming furniture and as the base coat for gilding

It is a wonderful color on its own or as a base for other colors particularly when distressing

{#1024 Chateau Grey Chalk Paint}

An elegant greyed green, this is the color found in French woodwork

{#1025 Graphite Chalk Paint}

Graphite is a soft black made with purplish blues and brown

It is not completely black

I do have plans of heavily distressing this piece as well as changing out the hardware...

{#1000.3 NEW - CoCo Chalk Paint}

A warm greyed brown, the color found on old French woodwork.

This is my least choice, but I thought I would throw it in the equation to get your thoughts.

HELP!

I could play it safe and just do black, however, I do not like to play it safe...TOO boring for me!

Thrift store score from Goodwill!

One dolla fifty cents!
Another junk find at the Goodwill, that is perhaps to someone else.

I have a very tiny guest bathroom, but always wanted just a small table in the corner.

Found one ugly one.

SO... for LESS than a cup of coffee, I had fun transforming this piece.

BUT wait just one minute...this is our winter bathroom, how about seeing the summer fresh one?
This table has had another redo since.
Oh and check this out. You know how we like our Spanish decor.
While browsing Traditional homes mag, I happened to come across this page..
look at the table in the corner...how ironic!
I am betting theres was a lot more than a dolla fifty cent!

Now onto the summer bathroom.
Of course still working with the Annie Sloan Chalk paint.  I swear one can last forever!

The color scheme compliments the guest bedroom.  Different variations of blues and a splash of  orange.

Our Mexican Paper art.  My husband made the frame.

Nice legs, wish mine were that curvy!

Cream color chalk paint on top, and the duck egg blue on the bottom.

And there you have 1.50 table!

MY wonderful chalk paint giveaway going on

HERE



Joining:
 Diann at the Thrifty groove
At the picket fence
Feather nest Friday
The charm of home
No Minimalist here Open house party
Susan from BNOTP
Southern hospitality

Mod podge, painting and more,....Newbie party on!

This is an older post I am sharing with the
Graphics fairy Brag monday party.

I had this pretty tray in our bedroom for sometime now. I bought it at World market on clearance for 10.00.

It started to look BORING...

so I fixed her up..

 First I spray painted in Olive, by Krylon, t
hen I took some simple gold metallic craft paint and applied it with a paper towel, and wiped and rubbed in evenly.

 Took some sand paper and sanded the edges..I let the natural color come through as well, for that aged chippy look

New pillow from Marshalls..loves it!

I found some cute graphics from the graphic fairy website, printed, cut, and Mod podged them on.

Easy!

How about we get this newbie party started?

You know the rules?

Blogging 6 months or less, and/or less than 100 followers.

Link your post back to me saying you are joining the newbie party, or just add my button.

I would love if you became a new friend as well.

Let's get started!

Have fun, and be sure to visit the gals that visit you....

I will be joining:
Graphics fairy Brag Monday.


Current newbie party going on 10-2-11

HERE

Airsofting and a new cool box!

 A lot of you gals were not familiar with air softing.

Paint ball seemed to be a bit more popular.

My son is 13 and this is his thang!

I had to ask him permission for this post, as I have to start respecting his privacy as a teenager.

Some of his friends caught wind of my blog at school, and let's just say, his new name for the day was Debbiedoo's...NOT COOL!

So anyhow he said because this is COOL, I can post it.

Airsoft is an activity used primarily for recreation where replica firearms shooting 6mm or 8mm plastic rounds are used for personal collection, gaming (similar to Paintball), or professional training purposes (Military Simulations and Police training exercises).

As you can see he takes it pretty serious!

 While Mike and I were antiquing the other day, and yes for the record I forgot my camera....

We found this cool Old Tool box. I thought this is perfect for Alex's airsoft equipment.  His room was a disaster otherwise, and I was pretty much forbidden to touch his stuff....again, it's that ole respect thing a Mother has to do as well.

It was the perfect size too.  Oh BTW we scored it for 85.00 bucks. I thought that was pretty good considering, the cabinets we were looking at like at Sears, were over $200.00 and they were not even wood.

 I painted it a color called Duckeywood, by dutchboy.  It was perfect.  I bought the stencils at Walmart and we added the initials of his team and his initials on the bottom.

Perfecto, I have one happy organized Airsoftin son!

Newbie party still goings on HERE

and I forgot to mention my other website HERE

Joining DIY

Thrifty decor chick
WOW us Wednesday 
DIY by Design 
Transformation Thursday

Choice of color, and tutorial on painting furniture

First things first.  Clean the crud!
Remember it was someone else's crud, for who knows how long.

I usually use a cleaner with some antibacterial in it.

I then removed the drawers and did the same scrubbed.

Removed and cleaned hardware.

Sand, sand, sand, clean,clean, clean

Prime, Prime, Prime

KILZ is what I used.

 Let that dry, a couple of hours.

Then I took my spray paint of choice...
For the drawers I used:

for the rest of the piece including the hardware I used

Let it dry for a couple of  hours.

I then took my craft paint

and a paper towel and lightly rubbed the edges and the top, and wiped to get a streakish look, I used the worn penny color.

Took my stencil and stenciled away....

You do NOT want to put the tape on too hard, just lightly...you may risk removing some paint..in my case I did not have a problem. A lot of you gals have indicated you have NEVER stenciled before.  I would suggest a few practice runs on perhaps some cardboard.  The key is not to glob too much paint on the sponge or brush applicator.

I then printed up the graphic of my choice which was butterflies from the GRAPHICS FAIRY

I cut them and tea bagged them. 

Which basically all that is is boiling some tea bags, throwing my butterflies in the water for a minute, and gently removing them to dry on a cookie sheet.

I then took my My Mod podge and placed them where I wanted to and Mod podged away.

Now if I wanted to, and I did NOT, I could use a poly finish on top to protect the piece.
I do no anticipate this piece getting beat up and a lot of wear and tear so I skipped it.

joining Donna from Funky Junk Interiors

Thrifty decor chick, spray paint party

If you are new to blogging, I have a NEWBIE party going on
HERE

They always come back!

I have decided I needed to throw in a project for this week.  I have so much spinning in my mind. I am so excited to share and reach out to all you new bloggers. I hope so far you are enjoying and learning. Lots more to come TRUST me, you don't want to miss.

For years now I have had roosters in my kitchen, even in our South Florida home, where everyone else was doing palm trees and shells.

I do from time to time remove them, add something else, and then they make their way back.  I suppose I just like them! As many of us do out here in blog land.

I gave you a sneak peek of something last week...remember?

Did you guess yet?

Sometimes the simplest thing can be an inspiration, without even realizing it.

As these once black stools, then painted raspberry red, sat in my garage.

That trip to HOBBY LOBBY had done my brain some good.

Again, husband scared, not knowing, what will I do next....he waited patiently for the end result.

Much to his surprise, I guess, I came up with something pretty good! Mike does know I am creative, and I can come up with some good stuff...he also worries first what it will cost him and second, what I am cluttering up.

Now if you noticed how I taped these chairs off, I did the entire chair as though each square would be painted....however, I skipped some in between, made it random, and not so busy..COUGH!

I am pretty tickled with the end result.

I have painted and been creative in the past with many furniture pieces while living in Florida.  This is the first time since living here in the Carolina's that I have done furniture with a twist. I adore painted furniture of any kind, with art work on it.  I forgot how much I love to do it myself, and will be continuing on this path.  One problem though, I have to buy the furniture.

I may sand these chairs some more to give a real rustic look. For now, I am liking them shiny and new.

Joining Vanessa from Southern in my heart
Show and tell with Cindy from My Romantic Home 
Fingerprints on the fridge 
Tatertots and jello 
DIY
Susan for MM
Remodelholic

Very great information here if you are new to blogging come check it out HERE

Newbie linky party going on here