Sneak Peek

Here's little peek into what has been keeping me away from blogging... aside from everyday life and 2 kids under 2 that is... :)

Unpainting

This is a nice little bookshelf I picked up at a yard sale for $5. They painted this fake wood shelf that they probably got from Wal Mart or Target with Latex paint. And it was scratched. Bad. So, I decided to unpaint it. (I have decided that this s the best way to describe it... despite my husbands literal translation. :D) It took me a lot longer than it should have, because I kept pushing the little voice out of my had that was telling me to try getting it wet. Turns out the 8+ hours I spent peeling the paint and making a HUGE mess could have been closer to 2 hours if I had just rubbed a wet wash cloth over the paint and watched it come off in huge pieces. Oh well, you live and you learn. :) Also, I left the back brown because it is on a different material so it didn't come off... and they primed that part first too. But it's okay because brown works in my front room. :)

Here are my before pictures:

During:

After:

Bright Flower Pillow

Today I made a pillow for my younger sister that matches her new bedspread to go away to college! I love the way it turned out... I was tempted to keep it for my little girl. ;) Again, this is based off a pillow tutorial I found on Make It and Love It.

Recovering

I got this rocking chair at a yard sale out of the 'free' box. Two of my older sisters had pink chairs just like these growing up, and I thought it would be easy enough to make a new cover for my little girl. So I gave it a shot and here's what I got...

Before

After