Showing posts with label living room. Show all posts
Showing posts with label living room. Show all posts
re-post from last year: PB ran out of them super early last year, but it looks like they are back!
I saw these paper lantern stars in PB Teen and fell in love. They were $12 with free shipping, so I thought that I might get some for Christmas since we don’t have a room with an electric guitar, a furry beanbag, or a karaoke machine at the moment. Usually I’m trying to copy Pottery Barn, but I couldn’t pass these up for this price.
They came like this:
You just bring it out like an accordian and tie together.
I have had lots of inquiries about the fabric for my living room curtains. I got it from Fabric.com ~ it is the Waverly Ellis Hemp. I cut the 54” width in half to make 2 panels out of each section. They are not huge and fluffy, but they frame the windows nicely and the price was right for $40 for all 4 panels! 
Okay. Here is the before when we looked at the house:
Hello! Here I am complete with my crazy hair, wrinkles, double chin! We’re going to turn some fab mirrors I got at Target for $12.48 a piece into chunkalicious frames.
This is how to gauge how high your shelves should be hung:
It’s very scientific.
This idea was completely stolen from inspired by Richella @ Imparting Grace. I wanted my pots to have a weathered patina look to them, and never would have thought to use the stone spray paint to do it. I had tried a while ago with just some white paint, but I love the texture this gives.
I saw it at Michael’s of all places, where they seem to be clearancing out all of their Valspar paint. So, I got this can for 3.99. Stone spray paint can be pricey, so I snatched it up at this price.
I saw it at Michael’s of all places, where they seem to be clearancing out all of their Valspar paint. So, I got this can for 3.99. Stone spray paint can be pricey, so I snatched it up at this price.
I needed to escape one night after the kids were in bed. You know those days when you just have to get out of the house and you don’t care if it’s just down to Kroger to stuff your face with a Dove bar to grab some milk and bread? I was wandering down the magazine aisle and this one caught my eye:
You may have seen her button over there and down on my sidebar. -->
I loved it and said that I would sing it’s praises from the rooftops. You know I love details and these are things I wish I would have known 2 years ago when I started to try to paint furniture:
what type of furniture should I look for?
what brands do you use?
sand or not sand?
brush, roll, or spray?
what are your favorite paint colors?
how in the heck do you glaze?
what about embellishments?
She answers all of these, plus much more in her 83 page book.
And it’s only $10.
She and her husband started re-finishing furniture and it was selling like hotcakes on Craigslist, so they turned it into their own business called Altar’d.
Here are some of the examples of furniture they’ve sold:
Remember my $10 Goodwill table? 
Remember these ferns I found at Michaels over a year ago? I wanted to put one in the living room for some green, but decided they needed a little oomph. But I don’t have any money. I’m already over budget for this month for my fun money and my house money.
But I don’t have any money. I’m already over budget for this month for my fun money and my house money.
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