Frame it up with base molding

Do you remember this project from a couple of posts back?  How it started like this...

And we were working on this!  Well, I finally finished the project and I love the results.

I knew when I finished the picture it needed something extra, so off to my favorite store (Lowes) we went.  I decided on using base molding for the frame. I liked the chunkiness of the molding. "We"  (meaning Jeff) routered the inside to fit the picture and mitered the corners together.  Impressive building words I just used right.  Jeff is probably  laughing his head off now...hope I spelled them right.  I sprayed the frame black and "we" attached it together.  I displayed it in my entry above my closet.  I love the way it looks up there!

I heart wainscotting

Today I am posting a few posts for the CSI project.  This week's challenge is molding, and I do love my molding! I have shown these pictures of my living room and entry before, but it is one of my most favorite touches we have added to this home. When my hubby and I decided to remodel the main level of our home, I knew that I wanted this in my living room.  We looked around and priced a few pre made kits, and in the end, decided to just make it ourselves.  My hubby and his brother took mdf boards and routered them to finish off the edges.  We nailed backer board to the wall and added the routered boards.  I primed and painted them white. I decided to put it up higher in the living room than in the hall.  I liked the look of the piano against the white.  It was a lot of work, measuring and making it all fit and look right, but in the end I totally love it.

mirror mirror on the wall

Today I am linking up with the CSI project and showing off my frame project.
My girls have a jack-and-jill bathroom between their rooms. They chose the color purple to be painted in there. I was not in love with the color, so I tried to come up with some ways to make it better. They had a long mirror above their sinks that was not framed. I drew out the pattern I wanted on some wood and my husband cut it out for me. We also drew some over-sized flowers to go on it, and I painted them with all different pastel colors and dotted them with the back of a push pin. I also painted poka dots all over the frame to add whimsy and color. I found some wooden letters at the craft store that spelled out their names, and painted them to match the mirror so each girl knew which sink was hers. It was a very easy and inexpensive way to add some life and personality into that room.

Some Friday Favorites

This Friday I decided to post a couple of my favorite things. I am a sucker for old doors and windows. This window is my absolute favorite.  It not only is my favorite window, but I have my favorite fabric behind it.  A red toile quilt pattern.  I made window treatments out of this in my old home, and had just enough to put it behind my window to take with me.  My second favorite is this old door I found at a local antique store.  I put a wreath on it, added a painted letter, and put on a  vynil saying.  I love how it turned out, and it fills a long wall space perfectly.   Have a great weekend!

Craft room wrap up

I am happy to report that I am finally finished with my craft room.  No more craft room posts after this one. Yea! I used Saturday to finish hanging pictures and making my window treatment.  The whole room was done on a budget using a lot of what I already had.

I had a whole blank wall that needed something on it.  I bought some two dollar frames and spray painted them turquoise and gray, and added a framed doily my great grandma made to fill that wall.  Just spraying some inexpensive frames give them a more custom look.

I took the left over fabric I used on my sewing chair and used it for my window treatments.  I added a little ribbon and bling...and in my hubby's words, made it look girly.  Doesn't he know by now...he married a girly girl.

Um..yea, that's the treadmill...I have to share the room with that.  A constant reminder that while I am hot gluing, I should be exercising instead.  Anyhow...here is the room finished. I used an old sofa table, painted it gray and it became my paper table that now holds my cricut. I bought some shelves from Ikea and filled them with all my fun crafting treasures.  A glass container to hold buttons, my fun turquoise box to hold my hot glue guns, tool boxes to hold my crafting paints, and magazine holders for all my inspiration.

I have had this shelf since I was married. It was white and stored my dishes in my small apartment. I stenciled some red checks, and letters on the side, added some chicken wire on the front, and it became my craft cabinet. I bought some cute containers to store my stamps, scissors, and sewing supplies, and it has become a great place to store my crafting supplies.

Here is a pic of the whole room. It was a fun project, on that I am glad I finished.  I love having a space all to myself to be creative, and it was fun to have something to do and think about in the cold month of January.

Groovy

Today is groovy man. The kids got to dress up as hippies for school. This was what they came up with.  I have to admit that I don't have a lot of hippie costumes, but I think they did OK.  I spent the day spray painting my mirror, and painting a chair.  I went turquoise with the mirror and I think I really like it.

Do you remember the chairs I had Landon put together. Well, I got one painted for my craft room.

It started as this...and ended up as this.

I painted the chair onion peel and stenciled a gray checked pattern.  I took my fleur de lis pattern and used some tuquoise paint to stencil that pattern on the top.

I also got my other chair's cushion re-covered in some different fabric.  Thumb tacs and a screw driver, and I had that done in about an hour.

My room is almost done, and I'm excited for the weekend.  Happy Friday!

Window window on the wall

We had a great weekend this past weekend.  I was able to finish a few projects, and go to a fun Jon Schmidt concert.  Love his music!  I love that my kids liked it too.  Maybe it might motivate them to practice the piano more...you think. ha ha  I got my bulletin board done for my craft room, and it turned out great...just like I envisioned it in my head.  Love it when a project turns out like that.  I took my old window.

Took out the screen and added chicken wire and some fabric.

And with a few staples and thumb tacs...I ended up with this!

Just need some clothes hangers and some inspiring pictures to hang from it.  I am working on my window treatments next. This room is taking forever, and each time I add something, I decide I need to change something else.  I am excited to finish, and see how it turns out.
I also finished my spray painting project, and put them on my shelf. Remember these?

They turned into these and now have a home on my new shelf.  I am still arranging, and don't love what I've done yet.  I am still looking for some cool old picture frames to add to it. 

All in all, it was a really great weekend, hopefully I can finish a few more things this week. Happy Monday!

Junking

We have had a four day weekend around here, so what is more fun than a weekend full of junking.  I know for a fact, it is my kid's favorite thing to do. ha ha  Seriously, a little bribery doesn't hurt either.  I digress, back to the subject at hand...junking.  I love looking at antique stores, DI, anything second hand that can be improved and made better. I had a few things in mind I was looking for this time, and found a couple of great finds.

I couldn't pass these up.  Not for the color, but for the shape.  I am going to spray them this color, and put them on the new shelf Jeff made. Yea so excited!

You know what they say...a family who sprays together stays together. Ha ha  funny I know.  I think these days off with the kids is making me a little loopy.

I don't know where I am going to put this lunch box, but I love it.  I was thinking of my shelf as well, but we'll have to see how it works.  Maybe in my craft room with my thread and scissors in it.  We'll see.

Lastly, my cute kids...no, I didn't find them at an antique store, but I had to show my cute boy building a chair for the desk in his room.  I love that I now have two handsome men who can do my honey dos.  See kids what happens when you say you're bored too many times.  Way fun weekend...but glad to send the kids back to school tomorrow!

A homemade shelf

For Christmas this year, Jeff surprised me with this shelf he made.  While we were in Paris this last summer, we took pictures in the architecture museum of letters of our last name.  I have wanted to do something with these pictures forever.  I didn't know what exactly what I wanted to do, so when I saw this shelf, I thought it looked perfect. I was excited to paint it and hang it in our entry.  I decided to paint it white instead of my usual black.  The molding on it reminded me of all the molding you'd see in the old castles, so that decided the color for me.  I still need to find some fun things to put on top...I am thinking of old picture frames and colorful vases, we'll see.  I was so excited to receive this gift, it is fun to have something that brings back great memories every time I see it.

A fun day project

I have been working on changing the color of my wood furniture to match my new room.  I decided that my screen which was painted green defiantly didn't match anymore.  I had the idea to paint it the light blue gray and stencil letters in the center in brown to mimic the letters on the chair.   Easy peesy fun project.  I love paint.  I love how quickly things can be transformed.  I say be creative with paint, colors and design.  If you don't like it, you can always paint over it later.

In the Kitchen

I was recently organizing my photos into a new program, and I couldn't help looking at the pictures I've taken since I've moved into the house five and a half years ago.  I still remember the sound of the steamer getting off all the blue wallpaper that was around my main level of the home.  I never want to hear that sound again! I painted the cabinets the first time, then did a whole gut job for the final project.  I love my kitchen and I love to cook. The perfect combo!
I have recently discovered the perfect delicious, easy fall desert.  Buy some pumpkin icecream and either make...or buy at costco some soft gingersnap cookies.  You could make icecream sandwiches with them, or I just like to dip my cookies in the icecream.  I thought I would share the perfect recipe for my soft gingersnaps.

1 cube softened butter
1 cup brown sugar
1 egg
cream together
then add
2 1/4 cups flour
2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp ginger
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp cloves
Mix together, roll in balls, then roll in granulated sugar. Bake on a greased cookie sheet at 350 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes.

Say it with a Letter

For weeks I have been buried under this pile of box tops.  I have clipped and counted over 3,000 so far.  Yea for the school....a little time consuming for me.  So at last I am done and they are submitted.  To celebrate, I decided that I needed to do a little something fun for my house.  I had this gold letter T lying around I had bought at the Hobby Lobby for a while.  I wanted to paint it, and had seen way cute wreaths with letters on them on other blogs.  I had to do this...so I sprayed the T black and hung it on the wreath I have on the old door in my family room.  I love the way it adds interest to the wreath, and it was a fun fast afternoon of fun!

Crazy weather...Happy Fall

Where I live, you just never know how fast the seasons will change. On Tuesday the temperature was in the nineties. I was mowing my lawn, sweating and wanting a popcicle. Not even twenty four hours later, the was freezing temperatures and snow on the ground. Crazy! Hopefully it will warm up a little bit and give us a few more weeks of fall. I went to Logan to Hobby Lobby..sigh...last weekend and got this great frame. I can't wait to find some pictures to go in it, and that perfect place to hang it.
Since it was snowing outside, I decided to put out a few more fall touches to make my home feel like fall, rather than the winter we were having outside.

My one and only Halloween decoration so far. I need to get busy with that. My kids can't wait to carve pumpkins!