and his name is...RED~

Is it FRIDAY already?? I know you can't see me but i'm dancing in my chair right now! hehe!! The hubmiester always gets a chuckle out of me being so happy that it is friday. HE says that everyday is friday for me {since i'm a SAHM}. I say but darlin...friday means family time to me. :)

I have a few things that i'm working on right now i found a fabric that i have TONS of and well i have a few ideas for it! :P Super cute stuff!

Today i want to show you something that i just got the hubby to help finish up for me. I'm sorry i don't have a before photo. I did have one but we had a little virus pop up on my computer not to long ago and so the before pic is long gone. BUT i do have an after picture. :)
We were givin this cute {but in need of a little help} rocking horse. IT is an antique...and i loved it as soon as i saw it. The paint was very worn and a funny shade of red. I immediately wanted to paint it brown so that it would look oh so cute in my daughters room. So the hubby took it apart for me to sand down and repaint. I had purchased a chocolate brown paint and was going to put a pink rope on it. So i sanded...and when i went to apply the paint....the brown didn't speak to me. At this point i found out i was pregnant again with my son. AND then we started a house hunt. Project officially abandoned! So there he laid for months on end this UGLY shade of brown and dismembered. A few weeks ago as i was picking out a few cans of spray paint and i saw this.....





It is called Cardinal Red. I knew right then what i was going to use this on. So i came home grabbed Mr. Rockin Horse and headed outside. With the first spray of red...i was in love. Perfect!! And what was even more perfect was that the ugly brown turned wonderful under the coat of red. I lightly sprayed the edges and some of the brown was showing through. I love it, I love it! Now i had to talk the hubby into putting him back together again. He went into the DREADED GARAGE OF ENDLESS PROJECTS...PROJECTS...projects....{can you hear the echo??} HA!! And came up with the horse in hand....the kids went wild. The smile on my little girls face was priceless! She was so very excited about this new toy. And it is a great new addition to our living room. :)

He still needs a tail and a rope to hold on to but i can do that later. :)

I'm off to enjoy this beautiful day the Lord has blessed us with. I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

XO

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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??