My Projects

A little Annie Sloan Chalk Paint Chair Redo!

I picked up this little chair (actually it was a pair) at a yard sale for $5 each.  Although they were sturdy, they were in terrible condition, they had been sitting in a garage for what looked to be several years.  They had several layers of paint on them and the seats were a mess.

I removed the seats & stripped all of the paint off of the chairs with paint stripper, then sprayed them down with the garden hose to be sure all of the paint stripper rinsed was off.

Next, I sealed them with sealer & got to work painting them with Annie Sloan Chalk Paint I purchase from a local occasional shop called Liliana.

I found a curtain at a local department store that was the exact pattern and colors I had in mind to recover the seats so I snapped it up.

I loved how they turned out.  I would have kept the if I had a spot for them.  I brought the pair to the “Junk Hunt” and they found a new home with a woman who was so excited to purchase them!  I love when I can watch someone’s face light up with something I have redone….that is what it’s all about!

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What do you think?  I Love it!

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs~ Wendy

No Sew, Tee-Shirt Halter

Part of my Saturday morning routine is to sit on the couch with my coffee and my Mac and do one of my favorite things…PINTEREST! (don’t tell my husband…he thinks I am working on our candle website! 😀 …silly boy! who has time for that when there is PINTEREST!) I LOVE PINTEREST!  and could honestly waste an entire day lost in all the DIY projects!

Today I found this little tutorial at wobisobi.blogspot.com for a DIY, no sew, tee-shirt halter….I have already gone in my husbands tee-shirt drawer and picked the perfect blue tee-shirt for my project(husband got wind of what Tee-shirt I was going to cut up and I had to find a different one, so instead of the perfect summery blue I had to go with a dark navy)and have my scissors ready!

This was a great project!  Simple and in the end I have a cute halter to wear with my white shorts this summer.  I will update with pictures once I talk my daughter into being my model.  Or once this Minnesota weather gets warm enough for me to put shorts and a halter on.

 

Love me some cuteness!

I Love white Christmas lights….and when I say love what I really mean is LOVE!  There are so many cute easy projects you can do and adding white lights makes it 100 times better!

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I picked up this old galvanized boot at an occasional shop several years ago. I am sure I was wasting hours away  looking for dinner recipes on Pinterest and stumbled upon something similar being immediately inspired to create something!

That weekend I drug my teenage daughter outside my youngest daughter and I hit the woods and sawed down several birch tree branches until I found the perfect two.

I put foam in the bottom of the boot to help keep the branches upright….I quickly found I needed to add rocks as well 🙂  It only tipped over a few times before I got it right. Then I strung some battery operated white lights around the branches and picked up an unfinished wooden birdhouse which I painted with some paint I had left over from another project.  I bought a little clip on bird from the dollar store and added that after the above photo was taken.  So happy with my results!  What do ya think?

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs ~ Wendy