cupcake roadblock

hey friends,

I am in the middle of sewing the new seat cushions for the couch I picked up at a yard sale last weekend. Sewing zippers makes me really nervous! So I am being really productive doing anything but sewing in that damn zipper. I made a zuccini and potatoe au gratin and sauteed greens for dinner. Used up some leftover potatoes making roasted potatoe soup for tomorow and made the sweetest little spring cupcakes
 lemon poppyseed with cherry lemonade frosting and spring smore peep on top(peep dipped in chocolate and graham cracker crumbs)
It is amazing all I can do when I am avoiding doing something else. lol. Oh, I also looked up the user manual for my sewing machine online(after spending 15 minutes in the basement looking for mine) and places to have it serviced for a tune up. Not liking the reviews for the local service center I then looked up how to give it a tune up all by myself. Now I am on here telling y'all about how I am not doing what I should be so I can avoid doing it a little longer. lol. Now it is time to put the kids to bed, deliver some cupcakes to a neighbor and convince my husband to go for a walk with me.

Saturday's yard sale goodies!

I am so excited! I have been wanting to replace our couch(which my husband owned when we started dating) well, since then. lol. It is huge and dark green and ugly! It's saving grace has been that it is super comfy. But the last year or two it has really gotten broke down and is like sinking into a bean bag chair lately. So I have been boosting the cushions with a old comforter and pillows underneath but it is just a stopgap. But the couch I have picked out is closer to 1000 dollars then not. NOT in my budget. But the community yard sale Sat morning netted me not one couch but a couch and loveseat set! Now they are not in perfect shape. They need scrubbed good with my upholstery attatchment on my carpet cleaner. And the couch needs the seat cushions recovered but my grandma taught me to do that:) So (thumbs pointing back at me) this girl has new family room furniture! For less then 50 bucks!

Spring Cleaning Projects Begin!!!! Master Bed and Bath

Hey y'all! I have been so busy I haven't had time to swat a fly. I told you last time I was working on a little master bath spruce-up. Well, it took forever but I am finally done. Here is the list of projects I had on my spring cleaning list I was able to mark off.

      1. restain 2 small dressers in my bedroom. They were just old and beat up and looking dated

2. paint antique dresser from sad yellow to go with everything black, also paint mismatched mirror to match
3. put down new vinyl flooring in master bath
4. restain vanity from ugly orangy oak to chocolate brown, paint hardware from brass to ?
5. clean every inch of entire master suite
6. new light fixtures over vanity
7. clean carpets
8. wash, iron and rehang all sets of curtains and 
9. scrub blinds, window tracks and vacuum screens
10. paint and clean inside closet
    paint accent wall behind bed

So here are a few before pics and then I'll give you the “BIG REVEAL” lol

now this “lovely” flooring was in both upstairs bathrooms when we bought

the house 3 years ago.








 this is the ugly oak vanity and brass hardware

ugly builder grade light(this one is actually in the hall bath cuz

I forgot to take before pics) as you can see it is broken and is also on the

list, just haven't gotten to it yet

AND NOW THE BIG REVEAL!!! DANHDAHDAHDANHHHHHH!    

OMG!How much better is that? And these aren't even high end lights!

But such a improvement over those horrible gold toned hollywood

hideous ones! And you can see the beautiful new paint color too!

It's the shade of a fresh praline! Mmmmmm....speaking of that,

makes me think of the delicious fresh beignets my husband brought me

from New Orleans recently. Sooooo gooood!

                                                                 Back to business,lol, ok onward. I changed the flooring to this

ok, so I should have swept the floor before I took this

picture but you can see the dramatic change! And I did it

all by lonesome in just 1 evening. First time ever removing

baseboards or laying flooring!

And this is the redone vanity! No more ugly orange oak.

The entire room is changed with the 3 little projects I am showing you!

New lights, tile, and vanity redo. Those are even the same brass knobs.

Just with 3 coats of spray paint and clear sealer!

And this is my coffee bar, champagne and cool whip

fridge right next to my vanity. I love this!!! I can live solely

in my master suite the whole weekend without leaving!

(Not that I ever have gotten the chance to do that but I could.lol

And this is the soaking tub(which we swore we would              

use and rarely do)

Now on to the closet!

Yes, I painted the inside of my closet bubblegum pink. It was leftover paint already

in the house when we bought it and there was a ton of it. This is the

color the entire back of the first floor was painted when we bought it!

(I primer'd over it the day after closing on the house)

But it is cheerful and girly in the tiny amount you see inside the closet:)

And on to the bedroom-                                              

ok, ignore the ugly carpeting, it is on the list for

next year:) but check out the warm beige on this

wall. And this is one of two restained small dressers we

use as nightstands.














 

Here is the antique dresser and my mismatch mirror that now all match!

It is so awesome what paint can do!

So that is mostly what I have been doing for the last few weeks.

And I am happy with the results. Still some projects I want to do(like framing

out that giant builder mirror over the sink) but for now I am on to another

room to clean and repair and keep marking things off

my spring cleaning list. I do love to mark things off my list, lol, I get such

a sense of accomplishment!

New projects!

hi! I spent today putting new light fixtures over the master bath vanity.  I forgot to take a before pic but I have some from before we bought the house. I will post one very soon! I have to finish some drywall patching and paint touch ups, then when it is gorgeous I will share. Working on some other things in the Master too. New peel and stick tiles for a budget improvement and some new stain on the vanity and who knows what else!!!

Puttin a little spring air in the house!

I repainted this little guy after finding him for a dollar at the Goodwill. He was looking a little drab in his navy blue country vegie look so I brightened him up for Spring:)

This is my early spring mantle display.

I will keep you posted on a few more little projects I am cookin' up!

just a little sumpin' sumpin'

I wanted to share a few more projects I have been working on!

This little wreath is actually just an old embroidery wreath I picked up at a garage sale for 75 cents. I tied tulle on in alternating black and white bunches then added a bit of red and a big red felt flower. It still needed a little something so I added the B for our last name. In polka dots of course since that is my current obsession!

These little cuties are cupcake stands I made from some old dollar store candlesticks I already had. I picked up some little wooden plaques at the  craft store and glued them on with some fix all. Then primer and spray paint and I glued on some crft paper I found that is a great match to my contact paper I use for everything. You can see it under the cutting board here. Then I gave each one several coats of triple thick crystal clear spray on glaze. Now for some red velvet cupcakes to go on top!

Here is this little cutie. I made him from a pic I saw on Pinterest. Here he has jelly beans inside but I quickly switched to bubblegum so I would stop eating all the jellybeans!

Y'all come back to see what trouble I get into next!

How to spend a rainy day in the garage painting furniture!

ok, so last time I mentioned I was repainting the kitchen island but it wasn't going well. Here is the picture of it not going well. I got the coat of green on with black drawing attention to the circle detail. But I hated it once I did it. So I painted it back to plain ceam and spray painted the handles black. I am still planning to change them but haven't found any I really liked yet.

here is a better shot of the handles and the rubbed glaze

This is my 10 dollar garage sale coffee table I repainted. It was yellow with honey oak top and drawer pulls. I thought it looked a little 90's dated so I gave it a few coats of cream and then spent hours rubbing in this glaze until I thought it looked right. I was going to replace the pulls with metal ones but then realized after banging my foot on it that the wood ones were gentler on my body parts. So I just spray painted them with some hammered metal paint.

I have been up to several other projects so come back to see what else I have been staying busy with lately!