Family Motto + Old Ironing Board = ?

Ok so I've been wanting to do a family motto.  So that when someone in the family isn't behaving we can say, "What's our motto?!?!"  And so that we can feel like we have a purpose in our family.  Something that we strive for.  So we made the motto all together one (actually it took a few nights) evening and then I made this to display it-  

I found the ironing board at a thrift store a long time ago- like at least 5 years ago-  It started out a light brown.  So I stained it dark -

Obviously I outlined the wave... (note about waves- I really like them because they mean two things to me at least.  First they are constant.  I love the fact that they are constant.  Sometimes big sometimes small but always rolling against the shore.  That is a goal of mine to be constant.  Next they are beautiful and a gift from God.  The waves say to me, "Beautiful things don't just happen, they are made."



Then I painted the wave and using my friends Cruicit.  I cut out all these little letters and mod lodged them on.  IT turned out like this...



 Do you have a family motto??

My Cute Chair

I was surfing craigslist and found this fabulous chair.  For only $25.00 It was such a deal I couldn't afford not to buy it.  SO I did.  In the middle of a blizzard I drove out to the middle of nowhere- strangely enough that is only a 30 minute drive on sunny days.  But that day it took me an hour and a half.  Then I put that cutish thing in my hubbies truck and drove off with my two little girls.  It took us another 2 hours to get home (the storm had worsened) and we missed 3/4 of my daughters ballet class.  Sorry sweets.  But dang just look!!  I really like how it turned out.  

 

 
See that petal my daughter smudged.  Yea I can't get that stain out.  Dang it.

Pot Rack UPdate!

So here was the before, I wanted it more full and to have more variety.  SO I just added stuff.  Now people hit their heads once in a while.  But its so cute- I think it's worth it~ sorry friends :)

 

Here it is after being "filled up"

 

 

Yea its better now- everything is a work in progress !

Bathroom Cabinets Before and After

I have been wanting to finish my cabinets downstairs to match what I have in the kitchen.  So I woke up this morning with a fire under my rear to finish!   Here is the before...
 I removed the doors and with a hand sander did a light sand over the surface, then painted my base coat of whitish cream...  (yep you dont see any tape, I know Im crazy but I hate taping, so i don't and i just spend the time painting carefully, much more fun than taping)

I gave a nice coat to the doors, remember it doesn't have to be nearly perfect because you are putting a brown glaze on the top to antique it, antiquing is fabulous because it doesn't have to be perfect!
 

here they are all drying.. the other two are for the laundry room

Never a good idea to paint drawers on a toilet seat, the fall off   ...:)

Then I glazed using a damp lint free tea towel and just dipped it in the glazed and brushed the rag across the surface trying to put more in the corners and then I would take the clean side of the same towels and wipe off the excess... quickly! To make my glaze I just bought a quart of really nice satin paint in the brown that I wanted.  I put about a cup of water or so in a bucket and then drizzled a bit of paint in and then stirred, so easy so cheap.  It dries REALLY fast so you have to be ready to wipe up any mistakes pronto!
    

K
 

Lots in the corners then wipe it off...


Replace the doors after a few plus hours of drying and then you have your after.....!!

 

and I'm done-phew!

Brit

Sisters Friday!!!!- Typeface Makeover

Jocelyn's week was such a fun before and after that this post can be put into so many different categories, Before and after, Decor, Tutorial, and of course Sisters Friday!!!

So our fabulous friend told us that This weird box thing that Jocelyn found at a yard sale is an old typeface organizer for a printing press... how cool!!

Before...

 

So we spray painted it,

Made all these little boxes by first cutting out tons of the pieces of cardboard to fit the spaces in the wooden thing.

Glued them together with handy dandy hot glue.

 

Cut a ton of different fabrics into rectangles, then modge podged them onto the little cardboard boxes, the corners were the hardest part!  

We used a ton of modge podge to make it all stick and solidfy.  

Drilled the heavy thing to the studs- booya! with out the men-

And filled it with fun crafting and sewing paraphernalia.

 

So Fun and colorful!!

Jocelyn's Sewing Room Makeover

Before...

Fair warning this pictures may not be suitable for all eyes.  They are quite scary and may cause lasting damage....I even want to cry when I see them.

 

My sewing room has a lurking sewing room monster that likes to rear its ugly head as I get super busy.  I end up losing control of it and then it looks like this.......(cue scary music and loud sreaming:))

Can you see all the projects piling up in this crazy "waiting" room...When it looks like this very little sewing actually happens

 

Knowing that Sisters Friday was at my house this week I spent ALL week cleaning and reorganizing and resisting the urge to complete or start new projects.  I even threw some stuff away....when all was said and done  the Sisters came over and helped me do the finishing touches and rearrange some.

 

After.... (I love love love the color)

These fun red cabinets were beige filing cabinets that were on the side of the street in Brit's neighborhood, somehow we convinced her hubby to load the one million pound metal hunks into his truck and deliver them to my house where we spray painted them, I then painted some swirlies and loaded them with all of my fabrics...they work great!  I love them so much....

 
 
 
 
 The plan is always to keep my sewing room looking like this but who am I kidding...I just hope and pray that the sewing room monster doesn't rear its ugly head again...let's hope I vanquished that foe

~Jo

Kitchen before and after

About a month ago I painted my cabinets cream with a brown glaze, which I now love! It really lightened up my kitchen, which I love the lightness but I also feel that now it is almost white washes, there is now umph or focal point to the kitchen. So I've been wanting to paint the space between the backsplash and the cabinets a musty blue. So my mom told me of the cool second hand building material store. I'm always up for something like that ao I headed right over yesterday. The lighting wasn't great but they had a pretty big selection, at least bigger than I thought. So I picked up this paint for a whopping $2.00! Nut when I put it on the wall, I stated having second thoughts...it's not a big deal at all for me to repaint... So what do you think... To dark?

before...

after...




and...

Our First Before and After!! A dresser

So my friend was giving away a dresser, when I went over to check it out my friend was saying, "Its a hand me down of a hand me down, are you sure you want it?" And my hubby was saying, "Really Babe?" and I was saying, "Oh Sweet!! Fun times ahead of me!!"

So here is the before

 

(The paint slpatter on the side there was not present when my friend gave it to me, I tripped and sent paint flying everywhere, uh woops)   
 
 
 I painted and added some fabric and after a very windy afternoon of fun work I came out with this...

 
A little detail for you...

 
 

I love the bit of vintage oldness it gave to my daughters room.   Her previous dresser was white and newer, with drawers that slid so nicely, but this just looks....... um..............better, design and function is optmial in my book but if I have to choose looks over function, looks win out every time. you?