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February 4, 2014

Turquoise Dining Table

I’m pretty excited about this post! It’s been a long time coming.

Shortly after moving into our house eight years ago, we purchased a nice glass table and chair set.

I regretted that purchase almost immediately! Glass table + busy family = constant, smudgy mess. This table has been wiped down at least 1,000,000 times.

It’s almost uncanny how quickly this thing gets dirty. I’ll wipe it down so it’s spotless, walk into the next room, come back and see that some poltergeist ran smeary fingers across it — or the sun shift in the afternoon and all of a sudden an entirely new set of schmutz will magically appear. And don’t even get me started on how disturbing it is to eat while three little white dogs stare up from underneath…

I hate that glass table.

I knew our next table would be wooden, and about a year ago I can across this table on Craigslist….

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March 24, 2016

Farmhouse Decoupaged Sewing Cabinet

Guess what today is? It’s Themed Furniture Makeover Day!

If you’re new here, it’s where my blogging buddies and I share our furniture makeovers with a monthly theme. This month’s theme is Farmhouse.

With all of the furniture makeovers that I do, the pieces I keep tend to be a bit more on the glamorous side, with lots of carving like my vintage buffet and my turquoise dining set. I know with Fixer Upper taking over the world, simple pieces are definitely trending.

When I received this vintage sewing cabinet from a friend, I knew it hard more of a farmhouse feel to it….

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February 23, 2015

25 Shades of Blue

Well we all know that 50 Shades of Grey is taking theaters by storm.

Since that is not really what my blog is about (ain’t nobody want to see that!), I’m doing my own spin with 25 Shades of Blue.

If you follow my blog, you know that I am obsessed with two things: furniture makeovers and different shades of the color blue. I have it everywhere. It’s the color on my walls, my Christmas ornaments, my chandelier, my furniture pieces, and so on. When I first started my furniture booth, I went to load all of the pieces in, and I quickly realized everything was a different shade of blue! I have had to force myself to incorporate other colors.

I think we all have colors that we are naturally drawn to, and blue is definitely the one for me.

For today, I decided to gather together some of my favorite blue makeovers!…

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October 21, 2014

How to Stain Your Deck the Easy Way (and a HomeRight Giveaway)

We have lived in our house for over 9 years.

Since we bought new, we’re approaching that time where things around the home start showing some age. The carpet starts looking ratty, the outside of the house needs a fresh coat, you have nicks on your walls, and appliances start going downhill. For the last year, we knew we needed to stain our deck, but we kept putting it off since it’s not the most fun thing in the world to do, and it is totally time consuming.

We were feeling like we were starting to get the stink eye from our neighbors, so we decided to bite the bullet and get it over with….

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July 23, 2014

Why Ya Gotta Be So Mean? (and a Wine Cork Bulletin Board)

You know how in high school there was always a group of mean kids? The ones that picked on people for no reason in particular, other than just being hateful? It could be over the smallest things: the way someone wore their hair that day, or that they didn’t have the coolest shoes on, or just the fact that the person was too tall, short, skinny or fat.

Making others feel bad made them feel good. Well, I hate to say that … some people just never grow out of that bullying phase.

You all know them, the boss that gets a kick out of belittling her staff, or that friend that makes nasty remarks to someone and then says “just kidding” when you know she’s not.

Well when you’re a blogger, occasionally you get someone who feels the need to knock you down a notch and be horrible to you because they are hiding behind a computer screen.

Now would these people have the guts to say these nasty things in person? Most of them probably not.

The projects bloggers post are ones we spend hours, weeks, and sometimes months killing ourselves on. To then have someone come on our site and leave horrible, insulting comments about these projects can really just suck. Would they like me coming into their homes and telling them their newly redone kitchen is “ugly and a circus clown could have picked better colors”?

We are all someone’s wife, daughter, sibling, or mother. Would they want someone speaking to their family members the way they speak to us?

Now I’m sure you are saying that we are putting ourselves out there to be judged, and you would be right. Do I expect everyone to think every one of my projects are as awesome as I do? No way. Everyone has a different opinion and likes different things. Do I get all bent out of shape when someone says “Oh I love that table, but I think I would have liked it better a different color”? Of course not.

I read tons of blogs and not all of their projects float my boat, but I simply don’t comment and go on my merry way. I don’t ever feel the need to leave a comment that will hurt their feelings or disrespect them.

Now I’m not saying I get nasty comments on a regular basis … luckily I have awesome readers like YOU that pump me up by telling me super sweet things and keep coming back everyday to visit me.

But every now and then I get the comment like the one down below:…

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July 1, 2014

Plaster Painted Vintage Chair

Do you ever have days where you have a million errands to run, but you don’t do them because it would require you to put on real clothes and makeup?

Yeah that was me yesterday. So now I have even more errands to run since I was too lazy to pull myself together.

One of the reasons I had to get going today was to get my haircut. Don’t you love having someone else do it for you? If I won the lottery, I would pay my hairstylist (Casey at Shine Salon in case you were wondering) a ridiculous amount just to come do my hair everyday just because I’m too lazy to do it.

I live with my hair in a ponytail. My hubby has asked me why I keep it long when I almost always wear it up. I explained that when you have short hair you always have to fix it — there’s no hiding behind ponytails or messy buns.

A few years ago, I needed a change and I whacked it all off, (against my hairstylists advice) because I wanted it to look like Carly’s off of General Hospital. My hair looked cute the day I came home from the salon. Topher was full of compliments, and I was pretty proud of myself for taking a risk.

The next day, I washed it and that is when reality hit me … I looked nothing like Carly. What I quickly realized is that Carly has a trained hairstylist that does her hair everyday, and that is why it looks perfect. Try as I might to have my hairstylist move in with me, that didn’t fly.

Also, when you have naturally curly hair, you need the weight to weigh it down or you look like Richard Simmons.

So for months, I despised it. Every picture taken of me in that 7 month period has been burned. If you happen to have one of me that has not been confiscated, you need to hand it over immediately or I am no longer your friend.

So when I told my hubby I have a haircut tomorrow, and he said you should try something different, I said “remember the hair fiasco of 2012?” … and he said “oh yeah, you should really just leave it alone”.

And that is exactly what I am going to do.

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