Sunday, February 12, 2012

Before and After

When we decided to do this
room we moved furniture 
from one side to another
I did take some sort of 
before  photos


as you can see 
I tested out colors
before hand
The alcove is 
Valspar's Signature
 inch worm green
and the rest of the room is 
Valspar's Signature 
Antique Yellow
both in satin






The alcove
I was thinking abt 
painting the 
woodwork yellow
my sister suggested white
and I'm glad she did!
I went with heirloom white
I had to have Lowe's
color match it 
















Side by side






Other posts

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Until.....


There aren't many 
old photos
of this room
because it
was pretty much
a catch all room

It did have blue/grey
 indoor outdoor carpet
we tore up


under it was this
 lovely green linoleum







so we decided to pull it all up
and redo the wood floor
if it was in good shape








UNTIL......
(why is there always 
an until in old houses)


we noted a square 
pattern in the linoleum
thinking it might be
a trap door
(don't you love our imagination)
as we pulled it up
we noticed soot on the edges





The new boards are 
wider than the old 
boards and instead
 of replacing the whole length
they cut a square area out


We thought redo then 
put a carpet but 
it is in a very odd place
soooooo
back to the drawing board
and at this point we
are thinking abt painting
the floor a dk walnut color
but it won't be until 
the summer 
when we can open it all up



Friday, February 10, 2012

Craft room

I have been MIA
working on the middle room upstairs
in our house
this rm has always perplexed
me
it is a large room
but there wasn't any privacy
had only one window in a dormer

The room was an awful
white with brown doors
When I scraped the walls 
it had been baby blue at one time

As you come up the 
stairs


to the left
I just put things
on the shelves
and will revamp
when I know what I use


1. The dowels will be cut
 and glass knobs on the ends

2.The metal bars 
will be spray painted
 heirloom white




The table is for display
in my craft booth
but won't be painted
until the spring
Can you believe
I got it for $5?



aren't these bookcase wonderful?
My hsb made them
this corner was empty
and a wasted space

 I plan on some type of art 
work on the chimney


the entertainment center
will be gone. I'm not
sure what I will
be doing there


The ikea racks will have the white 
inserts in the front of the shelves
The book case will be gone as well


the table is made of a door
on top of 2 bookcxases
from Walmart
(they were originally black)
backed with pegboard
and painted heirloom white
I will be doing more comparison
in another post
and some of the things 
we did in the room
We did run into a lot of problems
one posted here

Valentine Surprise


Today
I was surprised 
when I got
the mail 


I wasn't sure what that meanty
until I opened it and realized
she had tried to send the heart


It was a heart
from Patty at 
we were Summer Swap
partners

She posted
abt the Valentines here


I had to unstitch
the heart which
I didn't want to
do - it was
so pretty


so I did
just enough to open it
and there was such
a cute little card




how thoughtful!
and I was truly surprised
Thanks bunches!!!

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Tag your IT!


Cheri over at 

is having
a

Intrigued?
Well whats stopping you
from checking out her post?

Yes it will feed
you pinterest 
addiction
but hey.....
you'll be among friends


please pass/post 
this on - it'll be fun!


Sunday, January 15, 2012

MIA

I haven't been doing 
many crafts lately
however I have 
been busy

Here's a hint:


It does involve

So it will be awhile
before I get
any crafting done
But I got a
Bizzillion ideas!
So stay tuned


Monday, January 9, 2012

Emily


Hard to believe 
it's been 2 years...


I still miss
that face




What I wouldn't
give to see this 
when I drove 
up
in the window again






Sunday, January 8, 2012

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Snow Baby

Trying to get
through the hum drums
after the holidays

We did get some snow
and Izzy 
was all excited


and was soooo
upset because
she had to stay in
and watch the kids
sled


yes she is resting
her chin on the sill


Poor baby...

My hsb is painting
my craft room
so not much going 
on up there - a 
ton of ideas but until its
painted and rearranged
it is status quo for me

Hope everyone
is doing ok
in their neck of the woods