> One of the most emailed questions i get besides laundry room questions is about what i use to paint furniture – brush or gun. Well….the answer is…a GUN!!! Let me tell you a little story (and its a long story, so if you don’t care then just come back in a couple of days for my craft room post, it has prettier pics!). I had a gun that i have been using for about a year or so. It sprayed well, it was easy to use, it could take a beating, and it was cheap – so when it was time to replace it, it wouldn’t clean out my bank account. By the way, i got the gun at Lowes for between $50-$60. Old gun So, although this gun was working ok, i was looking to upgrade. Mostly because i used this gun with my 22 gallon air compressor, [...]
{Ana-White plans}
> A few weeks Ana from Ana-White (formerly Knock-Off Wood) contacted me and asked me what i thought about her drawing up some plans for my washer/dryer pedestal. How could i not be excited?!? Her site is awesome and being featured on there is very cool and quite an honor :) If you haven’t visited Ana-White then you need too, right away! Especially if your in the mood to build something with your bare hands! She has tons of cute furniture plans that she puts on her site for everyone to use for free. You can find all sorts of plans there – beds, dressers, tv consoles, kids play stuff, islands – seriously everything and anything you could think of. She is awesome – go visit her and then build something :) Anyways, she drew up the plans for my washer/dryer pedestal and posted all the directions for building, [...]
{old windows for sale} – ALL SOLD PENDING PICK UP – I MAY HAVE MORE WHEN WE GET THEM UNBURRIED SO I WILL POST AGAIN IF I DO!!
> I had some plans for these old windows but i ended up not needing as many as i got. So i have about 15 of these old windows for sale for $15 each (local pick up only). They measure 27×44 – most are painted white, but some are a creamy beige color. Most all of them have some type of old hardware on them. There are so many uses for them – one of my favorite ways to display them is with a wreath – so simple. You could also paint chalkboard on them, maybe chalkboard to the top half and cork to the bottom for a cute message center. You could add hooks to them for a unique little coat rack. You can add some vinyl wording/pictures and hang them on a wall. You could build things out of them – tons of uses!!! Anyways, if you are [...]
{where i get my paint on…}
> Surprisingly i get quite a few emails about where i paint my furniture, people need to know!! Beware – this is not a post with pretty pics. Its actually very ugly and a little scary to those of us who risk our lives daily to walk through the garage to get to our cars…we really should start using the front door… (im just kiddin, we are not in any danger…as long as you move just right…) So the 2 car garage part is where i store my furniture that is waiting to be transformed. I have a lot of furniture – it may be a little addiction, but if i see something cute i cant pass it up!! I promised my husband that i wouldn’t bring in anymore until all this was painted. BUT, luckily for me the garage is so packed that if i sneak stuff in he [...]
{how to weather new wood}
> This is a little 411 on how to make some new wood look old – or in my case my old wood look old again. I sanded down my craft table with a palm sander to get all the potential slivers away and i was left with a table that had a “fresh wood” look – well, that was definitely not the look i was after. I loved how the table looked prior to sanding, and i wanted that same old gray weathered look back. I decided to sand it down and seal it because i want the top to get even more beat up – i didn’t want glass or anything on top. Before sanding… After sanding…yuk, too new for me :( I did a little google searcharoo and found a few how-to’s to gray wood. I picked the easiest one and gave it a shot. One piece [...]
{my craproom – i mean craftroom}
> Im lucky enough to have my own craft space (well, i actually have several of my own spaces in this house – my husband doesnt appreciate that very much…more on that later). But this room WAS a huge mess. I admit that i am a messy crafter, but really i didnt have time to use this room and it never was really “done” so it just became a space to neatly store chuck all my crap. Before my husband left to Iraq we got the room finished (well, most of the way) and i painted the walls a creamy yellow. I have no idea what i was thinking with the yellow – so after he left to Iraq, i painted it a light blue – its easier to re-do things when i dont have to explain the “why’s” about re-painting a room that was just painted ;) So, i [...]
>{my version of a farmhouse table}
> Dear Santi (current husband), I have recently fallen for a new fella. He’s massive, rugged, huge, sturdy, he will support me in all my crafty endeavors – which you currently groan about. He doesnt mind a little spilled paint, glitter , fabric thrown about, papers and tools everywhere. He wont complain when i leave a giant mess on his huge top, he understands me – he knows that i am a messy girl. We just get each other… I could go on and on about my new love, i could tell you how much i love his big strong wood, but i wouldnt want to make you jealous (and i dont want to lose readers for being nasty!). Anyways, i am sorry but you must move on so my new fella can move in Sausha Yup, that’s what i would say – and tonight if [...]
{my version of a farmhouse table}
Dear Santi (current husband), I have recently fallen for a new fella. He’s massive, rugged, huge, sturdy, he will support me in all my crafty endeavors – which you currently groan about. He doesnt mind a little spilled paint, glitter , fabric thrown about, papers and tools everywhere. He wont complain when i leave a giant mess on his huge top, he understands me – he knows that i am a messy girl. We just get each other… I could go on and on about my new love, i could tell you how much i love his big strong wood, but i wouldnt want to make you jealous (and i dont want to lose readers for being nasty!). Anyways, i am sorry but you must move on so my new fella can move in Sausha Yup, that’s what i would say – and tonight if i [...]
{i made it @ Ucreate top 10 awards!!}
> I was so excited when i pulled up one of my favorite blogs this morning and i saw that I was Ucreates TUTORIAL OF THE YEAR!! What an honor to be chosen – especially seeing all of the great projects that were in the top ten – what a hard decision that Kari had! So, if you have been living under a rock and haven’t been over to Ucreate, go and check out all the other amazing blogs that were chosen for the top 10. Ucreate is a blog that i check out almost everyday – she features different blogs each day with super cute stuff – you will be glad you did :) Anyways, thanks again Kari and thanks to all of my fabulous readers :)
{how i glaze furniture}
> I get so many questions about how i paint furniture and the tools that i use – so i am going to break it down into a couple of posts. This post will be about how i glaze furniture – i guess you probably can gather that by the title, but, just in case you didn’t read the title (how dare you) Besides distressing a piece of furniture, this is my most favorite thing to do to bring a little life to a piece. I do this on a lot of furniture that i paint – because i LOVE the way it looks. Plus its a style that i really like, but i don’t personally have anything in my house that is glazed – so this is my way to get my “fix” – see what i am saying, did i loose ya?! So, i am totally jumping ahead, [...]
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