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Hi everyone!
I hope you’re all enjoying this long weekend! As most of you celebrate President’s Day, we Canadians are celebrating Family Day and I am celebrating this day by making cushions!

Last week I was watching a local TV show called Cityline. Thursday is Homeday where they give decorating  advice, tips etc. A regular on the show, seamstress Mary Dobson did a tutorial on how to make a five minute cushion. She had me at cushion! I love making cushions, you can change a room up with a little bit of fabric and now an extra 5 Minutes!

I also wanted to try making one of these faux grain sack cushions that I’ve seen in blogland lately using a fabric marker and fabric paint. I have to say the fabric paint turned out better for me.

 

This is the black one I made. Many of you may not know this but I love black!

 

I used my favorite dropcloth material for these. Butters is a little upset that my pinecones are preventing him from jumping up on his  stool to get to the sofa!

I think it turned out well.

You begin with 1 piece of fabric. Just add 2 inches to the width of your insert.Then double the length of your insert and add 8 inches for your flap.My inserts were 18×18 so I ended up with a piece of fabric 20x 44 inches.

It actually only takes five minutes after you have cut your fabric and then folded and pressed your seems. Here I started by  pressing my two ends

 

 

 

This is the first table I found at GW and posted about it here. I wanted to find another one similiar to this one as she fit in so well.

This is the first table seen here after I did my bookcases post. It sits on the left side of my sofa. 

I’d been looking for another table to match  the first one and was willing to take the time to find it. I didn’t think I would find the exact one and was really excited when I found this one that had the same look and dimensions as the first.

Love her little scallop trim on the bottom.
I think she fits right in.

I’ll be partying with these ladies this week:

White Wednesday @ Faded Charm
Beach Life Wednesdays @ Beach Cottage
Transformation Thursdays @ The Shabby Chic Cottage
Strut Your Stuff Thursday @ Somewhat Simple
furniture feature Friday @ MMS
Fabulous Friday finds @frou frou decor
Frugal Friday @ The Shabby Nest
Flaunt it Friday @ chic on a shoestring decorating
SNS @ Funky Junk Interiors

Hi everyone, I said I would post this today but was called away to see my sick sis. I quickly made my bed and tried to take some pics while I had the light.
Better late than never!

Here is my headboard we were so blessed to get as an old door from our church a few weeks back.

This door was original to our Church building which was built in 1899.

Here is the before. She had a few chips but not enough to make her chippy. I wasn’t sure what to do with her and got a lot of suggestions and lovely comments from you all.  I thought about removing the old paint but didn’t want to get into the whole lead thing. Even after a cleaning she still seemed a little “dirty” looking to me. I knew I had to finish her off in a way that I would feel comfortable spending all my nights with her!

Hubby and I put up some molding on the top to give it a finished look and  provide a little shelf. I gave her a couple coats of Ben Moore’s “cloud white” which also match the night tables. I wanted to keep the paint color a little uniform to create a sense of space as the room is not that wide on this end.
As soon as I put my first coat of paint on her I knew I had made the right decision for me.
I love it!

She’s not shabby or chippy but hey! If you get to be 112 years old you may want a little paint job too! I’m really pleased with how she turned out!

I will probably post a part 4 to this mini makeover because I’m trying to milk it for all it’s worth I’ve got a couple of  ideas for my blank wall. Stay tuned!

Be blessed

I’ll be partying with these ladies this week:

Transformation Thursdays @ The Shabby Chic Cottage
Saturday Nite Special @ Funky Junk Interiors
Frugalicious Friday @ Finding Fabulous
Flaunt it Friday @ Chic on a Decorating Shoestring
Show off your cottage Monday @ The house in the roses
Metamorphosis Monday @ BNOTP
The DIY showoff
Show me your style @ In  my own Style
Power of Paint Party @ Domestically Speaking
Furniture Feature Friday @ MMS

Hi everyone.
Thanks for the lovely comments regarding my sewing tables to night tables!
I am really pleased with them. They’re the perfect size for my room and I love the height. There is also room to place baskets underneath for added storage!

Well, here is part 2 of my little mini makeover.
I’ve been planning on doing this project for months now as my old bedskirt just wasn’t cutting it. There were very few bedskirts that I liked and the ones I did like were too expensive. So…I would have to make my own, back to my old standby fabric, the dropcloth.

Yes that’s Jack’s tail in the pic. He was all over this bed. He loves to be in  the middle of my photo shoots for some reason.lol

Here is the before bedskirt. A little bland eh!

Here is a sideview.
Jack thinks it’s His bed.

Be blessed!

I’ll be partying with these ladies:

Wow us Wednesdays Party @ Savvy Southern Style
Good Life Wednesdays @ Beach cottage

Happy Tuesday everyone!
I was busy last weekend working on a bedroom mini makeover!
Here is a part of the makeover.

I had found an old sewing table a few months back and thought what a great night table it would make! It cost twenty dollars without the sewing machine in it.  I spent the following months trying to find one to match it from a thriftstore. I finally found another one this weekend. It came with the sewing machine in it and was thirty-five dollars, too much for me but it was 50% off Fridays so it only cost me seventeen dollars!

You can see here in an old post what I had been using as night stands before. They were two little metal tables from IKEA.  While they held most necessities, It dwarfed in comparison to my kingsize bed. My bed is quite high and I wanted a table that would be high as well.

I painted both tables in my favourite white, Ben Moore’s Cloud White. This table had three little diamond shapes on the front which I removed. I may add a knob to match it with the table on the right.

 

You can see the before pic of one of the tables here in an old post. You can also see those little diamonds on the front, a little too retro for me!

I removed the knob the table came with and added a little pink glass knob.

Thanks for stopping by and stay tuned tomorrow when I reveal my new bedskirt!

Be Blessed!

I’ll be partying with these ladies this week:

Hi everyone!
I hope you’re all enjoying the wonderful weather we’re having! Lol
All kidding aside I hope everybody is safe as weather all over the world is a little crazy right now.

The snow has stopped here in Southern Ontario and I’m hunkered down in front of the fire with my laptop.

I was at the Salvation Army this week and found this lovely mirror. I took it out of the garage today and introduced it into the dining room.

I took out my white frame and coffee filter wreath I had in there from Christmas and replaced it with
my thrift find.

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I have two armoires in the dining room that I use to house extra plates, platters and dishes that the kitchen doesn’t have room for.
The square basket is a file holder and holds all our files and the round basket is filled with magazines.

My daughter has told me no more plates! She says we don’t have anymore room! Do you think there is a problem?! lol

I gave this wooden frame a wash of white primer, let it dry and gave it a light sanding.

I couldn’t help but add a pic of lavender that I have on top of my armoires. I love lavender.

I took out some of the winter themed accessories and spruced up the room with some lovely dried hydrangeas.

I don’t know about you but I am really craving a pop of green right about now. It’s all white outside and You all know how I love white but…I need some green!

 I usually buy flowers to brighten things up but they are a little pricey right now so instead of buying those lovely flowers I decided to add some spring like color using apples.

 

Look at how pretty this little apple centerpiece is and it’s edible!

I did a little photoshopping on this photo to really make the green pop! I must say that my daughters have already eaten a few bits from my centerpiece.

Just makes everything so fresh!

 

Here I am playing with my camera and trying to achieve bokeh. That green really pops!

Jack is enjoying the pop of green too!

Yeah he is lying on the table. I know, I know, but if you were as cute as he is I’d let you lay on my table too! lol.

Have a great weekend everyone!

For this project I used some acrylic paint in white and black, some  verathane stain I had left over from my breakfast nook table, a sanding block, paint brushes, scissors, pencil, a bowl of water, and old saucer to mix my paints, and the lettering that I got form my word program.

I started by painting my board with the white paint, I mixed the paint with water to give the board a color wash. You can add more color/water as you need. I just wanted the wood to look a little aged but you could certainly make it more opaque.

You can see the difference here between the color wash and the original board.

While the board was drying I picked out my font and size for the lettering,  printed them out and  then cut them out. (originally I thought I could find some stencils and stencil the letters on but they were limited in size and font and were too expensive. It may have been a little less time consuming but you have more options by printing the letters out yourself and much cheaper!)
(Since posting this I’ve received a really good tip! Instead of doing all the cutting, use a ball point pen and trace over the letters with a bit of pressure. You could also use tracing paper! Who knew? apparently some of you and not me! lol)

I then took a pencil and traced each one out. I thought that this would be difficult considering the paper was so thin and flimsy but it was quite easy using both hands and it took me about ten minutes to trace them all out.

After they are all traced out. I painted them. I mixed a little of the white and black together for a more charcoal color so it would look a little more aged as opposed to stark black. Here again you can you can use so many different colors, mixes etc. to get the look you want.

Hope this has helped to  inspire you to start creating and restoring!
Be blessed and thanks for visiting!

Hello everyone!
I hope you all had a great weekend.
I was busy working on finishing up my other Ikea bookcase and making this new sign!
I really like it.
Whadda ya think?

I’ve seen signs like this around blogland and from fleamarket style’s header
in particular. I’ve wanted to make one for a while now and finally took the plunge. There’s no stopping me now. I’ve got big plans for other signs!

I was thinking of placing it above the cupboards here. The wallpaper will eventually be removed and…I’m going to start  painting my cupboards in the spring. A big job and I’m hoping the whole family will get involved!

This is a close up of the sign, you can see where I distressed it to make it look a little more vintage.

Here is the other bookcase just finished.

Between naps on the porch, Metamorphosis Monday
Coastal Charm, Nifty thrifty tuesdays
House of Grace, Twice owned Tuesday
Domestically Speaking, Power of Paint Party
A Beach Cottage, Good life Wesnesdays
The Shabby chic cottage, Transformation thursdays
My Romantic Home, Show and tell Friday
The Shabby Nest, Frugal Friday
Funky Junk Interiors, Sat nite Special
Under the table and dreaming, Sunday showcase party

Hello everyone! I’ve been excited all evening waiting  to choose the winner for this giveaway.  You’d think I was getting the prize!
I’m pretty much computer illiterate and was not sure how to get to that random generator whatchamacallit!
 I asked my daughter Hope to pick a number from 1-94 from a glass. She’s pretty shy and did not want to be a star in blogland so here is the results of the draw.
The lucky winner is:
#57 Heather Ryan
 please email me with some info so I can contact you and send you your prize.
Congratulations!

Thanks everyone for participating in my first giveaway, it was a lot of fun.

Have a great weekend!