Plant Stand Before and After...

I love to paint. I love to spray paint alot! My problem lately....choosing what color to use! I usually look at something and can imagine EXACTLY what color i will paint it. But there are so many wonderful color choices these days. I have a few projects coming up that i thought i had the color pinned down...but now i'm wishy-washy about it. I know it is paint...it isn't permanent. I can live with it one color for awhile and then redo it BUT have you seen prices on spray paint lately!!!??? RiDONKULOUS!!

So I picked up this lovely plant stand at a yard sale for just a $1.

It is so funny that i found it because right before i left home i was looking around my house making a mental note of things i would love to find for the house. And one of those things was a plant stand to go in front of a window. As soon as i pulled up to this yard sale i saw it....i walked straight up to it and saw that it was only a dollar. Grabbed it up along with a few other things that i just had to have. :) As soon as i got it i just knew i wanted to paint it black. Black is usually my color of choice for accent pieces. Sometimes distressed white. But i think today i want it black. So as soon as i got the babies down for a nap today i grabbed this.....
Rust-oleum Universal spray paint!! In Hammered Black! Gives it alittle texture.

And this is how it turned out. Now i just need a plant to put on it! :P

Oh how i wish you could see the "hammered" look. Love it.... For now anyway...ha! You may see this piece again someday painted white. Can't wait for it to go where i want it AND adorned with a pretty plant. Any suggestions for a easy indoor plant??

crown molding & trim & Base Boards ...OH MY!

The remodel is coming along quite well. We have gotten alot done the past couple of days. LOTS of trim work...crown molding and base boards. And with that...we started in on another little (big) project. Keeping that under wraps for awhile. But i have to say...it is lookin' good! Big Props to the Hubby.
The crown molding still isn't finished. We still have to fill in nail holes and paint....BUT it is up. :) And yes that is a refrigerator in the background. HA! I have to say it is pretty interesting living with a fridge in the living room...hahaha! And that is a little sneak peak of our new couch.

On another note. We went antique shopping this past weekend. Found several pieces i would LUV to have. While i didn't bring home one of those items...i did bring home a new painting. It is HUGE! I don't know how old it is but i don't really care. It is Gaw-jus! It is just my style. I love black and white photographs and i love to paint in black and white as well. This oil painting is of an old street in Paris...the Eiffel Tower is in the background. It is all in black and white but the store front windows have light. The picture doesn't do it justice. Right now i have it hung in the Master Bedroom but it is going to be in the Living Room when it is finally finished.

Speaking of antiques...my husband came home last week with a few. I had found a small antique buffet on craigslist that i wanted for my entryway. It was the perfect size and i loved the look. It needs a few repairs but the price was right so he went and got it for me.

He also found a vintage leather sofa that he has been eyeing for some time now. At first i wasn't so sure about the style...it is very "Manly" but now that it is in our house...i LOVE it. It looks very "Pottery Barn". It does show some wear but that makes it look just that much more awesome. AND let me tell you about big and comfy. Well...it's big and it's comfy...HA! :) I'm going to give it a good hand rub with some leather sealer. Leather needs to be loved and taken care of. Most people don't do that. Leather can last forever if you just take care of it.

No, this isn't our couch...but it is just like this one. Ours is buried under tons of stuff right now (our whole living room is crazy right now cause of the remodel) but i will be showing ours off as soon as i uncover it and give it a good cleaning. :) I want to give you an idea of what it looks like though.

Other than that we just enjoyed the wonderful weather the Lord gave us this weekend.

Mod-Podge....

I have been hard at work in Baby Boy's room. We Painted his room a few weeks ago. It was an awful mess! Painted over wall paper on 2 walls and the other 2 walls had to be fixed and sanded down cause someone tried to remove the wall paper and it looked as though someone had had a sword fight in there. Hence the reason they probably stopped and just painted over the other papered walls. Our house is a prime example of Wall Paper gone terrible wrong...whoever did it...didn't know what they were doing. And we are the ones paying for it! So after a LONG hard week of working on the walls and prepping them for paint...finally my little man has a freshly painted room. The color...Vintage Blue. Love it!! It is so soothing in his room. I wanted his room to have a vintage feel cause i wanted to display some old vintage airplanes and cars. I wanted to make his room feel not so much like a baby room...wanted to do something that would grow with him. The hubby loved the idea...he loves airplanes (he has his private pilots license) so i knew he would love it. :) I had already picked out the fabric and made his bedding. But i will have to keep you in suspense awhile longer on his bedding i'm trying to personalize it today. I will have it ready to show tomorrow. SO here is a few decorations i have been working on. First the hubby pasted down a Photo that he had. A few years ago we went to "Sun and Fun" in Florida. He was in heaven. Lots of Planes for him to look at. They had the Memphis Bell there AND one of it's past pilots was there signing photographs. PRETTY COOL!! So he got one. I dug it out of a packed box and headed over to Hobby Lobby to get a frame and mat. Came home and put it together.




Next i hung something i found while i was at Hobby Lobby! Yep, an airplane Propeller!



Then i got out the Ol' Mod-Podge and added a little something extra to this Letter i had. Ripped up some paper that looked like old letters and podged it on.





Next on the agenda is to Repaint that shelf you see and also another shelf "Project" that the hubby helped me out with. It's pretty cool. Can't wait to show ya. :)

C is for Curtains...

I finally got baby boy's curtains finished. I'm in love. They turned out so good. I have had his bedding done for quite some time now but his room is just now getting some love in all this remodel shenanigans. Which was hard for me during the last part of my pregnancy...i didn't have a finished room for my little boy to come home to. :( I still had some of the stripped fabric i used for his crib skirt. So i put it to good use. I, for a moment, thought i had made a huge mistake in dimensions but as soon as i got them up i found out that they were just right. WHEW! Still working on decorating his room so pay no attention to the clutter on the "changing table". Speaking of...you may see some pink blankets rolled in his basket there. YEP, Pink. His big sis handed them down to him. You see i found the BEST swaddling blankets for her that were huge! They swaddled her till she was 7 months old. When i went to get some blue ones for baby boy...they were no where to be found. AND i was in need of big cause he is a big'ol boy! So bless his heart...i used/have been using the pink ones. Oh well at least that money was well spent. :P

My next few posts i will be featuring what i have been up to in his room. So sweet but all B-O-Y!
Stay tuned.......