Well, they are finally finished!  I think they turned out pretty nice.  Here's the finished product...

 The shelves were just a bit wider than we had room for, so we cut a section out to allow us to turn the lights on and off without sticking our hand behind the shelves.  The trim around it is just a dollar store picture frame.

Total cost for this project was $16.00 - $12 for the molding, $4.00 for the paint, which was from the mis-tinted bin at Lowes, and the bead board backing was free (we already had the bead board from a previous project.)

Stop by again soon and see what I do with this poor little rocking chair that my sweet hubby rescued before it became landfill.

Hugs,

Deanna

Book Shelves

My friend gave me these awesome 7 ft. tall book shelves. Of course when they were offered to me, Mr. David's first comment was, "Really? And where are we supposed to put them? They are just particle board shelves. Do we really need them?" Well, I told him that I had big plans for them thanks to Pinterest yet again!

Immediately, I moved the smaller set of shelves that we had in the game room and brought in the new set. They were so big that they covered the light switch. No problem, I had seen something like this before. We just cut a hole in the shelf backing to accommodate the light switch.

After I cut the light switch opening in the original cheapy backboard that came with shelves, I used it as a template. I traced the back board onto wainscoting that I had purchased eons ago for another project, Mr. David used his carpentry skills to cut it out. I reused the nails from the original backing and attached the wainscoting to shelf frame.

Unfortunately, I didn't take a picture of the shelves before I started all of this, but here is a picture after I replaced the backing with wainscoting.  The original backing was just that brown card board stuff.

I think these shelves are going to be amazing when they are finished!  I will be posting progress on these beauties as I work on them!

Polyvore fun!

Brittany's Room by cheriese0430 on polyvore.com

Entryway by cheriese0430 on polyvore.com

Sitting Room by cheriese0430 on polyvore.com

Finished!

It's finally finished!  I had a few mishaps with the spray paint and our humid weather down here, but those are fixed and lessons learned.

Here are the bookshelves after they were rescued from the trash.

BEFORE:

...and after 3 days of transformation.

AFTER:

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Project Progress

After we finished home school this morning, I started in on my new project.  I couldn't wait to get back to it!  I decided that the sides of the shelves were just to boring when they were a solid color.  So, I added some swirly things around the door and window.  Then, I felt it just needed a little bit of bling to go with that cute little chandelier.  Here are pictures of my progress so far.

The window and door frames are still outside drying.

Here are a couple of pictures of the whole thing put together.  Of course, I am still adding details.  It's easier to figure out exactly what I want to do when I can see it all together!

Will post the finished product tomorrow!  Time to get some sleep!!

A New Project

I have now become a "dumpster diver."  Well, not necessarily diving, but my husband did pick up a really cute bookshelf off the curb last night.  I immediately knew that it could be fixed up and didn't deserve to be tossed away to end up lonely in a land fill ~ LOL!  Here is a picture of it before I disassembled it.

It is one of those dollhouse bookshelves from Target that originally cost $79.99.  Yay for Mister David; it was free for me!  With a little creativity, it is going to be even cuter than when it was new!  Of course, I couldn't wait to get started...so here are some pictures of what I have done so far:

The house has gone from pink and white to celery green, black and white.  I washed everything down to remove dirt and dust, then started spray painting (I used Krylon brand.)  When the attic back wall dried, I stamped a chandelier on it with black acrylic paint.  I got the stamp at Hobby Lobby for $0.99.

After I stamped the chandelier, I decided it needed a little sparkle.  I used E6000 glue to adhere the jewels to the board, and the coolest thing happened - the mirrored back of the jewel crackled and sparkles even more than it did before!

Will post the finished project tomorrow!

Pin-spiration #2

Pinterest is keeping me so busy, and I LOVE it!!  I loved this cute wall hanging, so I immediately went to Hobby Lobby and picked up some wooden hearts (0.99 ea), painted them with acrylic paint and stapled them to a piece of pink ribbon that I already had.  So for less than $5.00, I have a new little Valentine piece that I love :)

Valentine's Day Wreath

I am so excited for Valentine's Day!  We don't have very much in the way of decor, but I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE pink and doilies and all of the other pretties related to this fun holiday!  So when I was surfing Pinterest, I found a beautiful wreath at She's {kinda} Crafty, and just had to try to make one for myself.  Here is the fruit of my labor...

It was relatively easy, just time consuming - took about 4 hours from start to finish.  I love the way it turned out though :)  I followed the directions provided on this fabulous website ~ tatertots & jello.  Time for the football game, Go Texans!!

Have a blessed day!

Hugs,

Deanna

Valentine's Day

I know it's early, but I have the Valentine's Day bug!  Seeing all of the pink and red frilly things at Hobby Lobby just made me want to go home and make something.  I don't really decorate for Valentine's day, except for the kid's breakfast, but I thought a nice little picture to go in place of one of the Christmas decorations on the wall might be nice.  So here is my little piece of art...

The word Valentine is outlined in lime glitter.  It doesn't show up very well in the pictures, but  it looks really sparkly in person!  I need a new camera pretty bad, maybe one day :)

Pin-spiration!

Thank you Pinterest for all of the inspiration that you provide!  I thought that I would post a few of the things that I have completed since discovering Pinterest.

~ 1 ~

First, I reorganized my food pantry...

Such common sense ideas that I didn't even think about until I saw her picture on Pinterest!  

~ 2 ~

Next, I reorganized my medicine cabinet.  This was the best idea so far!  With all 4 family members taking a variety of medicines for allergies, etc., we had medicine falling out of the cabinet when we would look for what we needed.

Yay!!  Things don't fall out anymore!  The little totes are from Target.  I even took it a bit further and toted up everything under the bathroom cabinet in larger totes like this.  That way in the mornings when I get dressed, I just pull out the tote and put it back when I am done.  No more mess sitting on top of the counter!

( Inspiration photo here.)

~ No. 3 ~ 

I saw this really cute little frame converted into a dry erase board.  So one day when I was antiquing, I found this adorable little vintage card and immediately knew what it was meant for...

All done, and now it hangs on the wall in my work room with all of my New Year's Resolutions written on it!

Click here to see my inspiration.

~ 4 ~

I gave these away for Christmas gifts to my sisters and mother.  Two plates from the dollar store and candle sticks from Walmart - total $10.00.  I wrote the song Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer on the rims using a porcelain marker.  I took ideas from 2 different pins to make these (decorated plates and cake stand).  The cute little North Pole cupcakes idea also came from Pinterest.  I made these Gluten-free for my momma.

~ 5 ~

Also whipped up a starlight mint tray.  This was way to easy and really cute on the dessert table for my family Christmas party!  (Instructions for the mint tray.)

Found the little Pretzel/Rolo/M&M treats on Pinterest too!

Well, this is a long enough post for now.  Will post more as I try the different things I find.

Hugs,

Deanna