Forever Decorating!

1/12/2011

Valentine's Day Decor

Well, you caught me again. It's snowy outside...not to mention COLD, which I hate, so I am inside, nice a cozy whipping out crafts for Valentine's Day.

I brought out an antique pitcher. Starched my vintage Valentine hankies and stuffed them gently inside. Don't they look whimsical?

I purchased this cute Cupid's Best Love Potion #99 decor at my local antique mall. I just thought it was well done, whimsical and the price was right.

I thought that I would make fun hang tags for my snowflake twig tree. They could share the space with the snowflakes since it's cold here during Valentine's. I downloaded graphics from The Graphics Fairy and made these cute two sided tags by printing onto old book pages.

They say things that I love. Such as Hope, My Kids, Family, My Hubby, Antiques, Joy, Love, Pedicures, Thrift Stores, Painting, God, Blogging and Garage Sales. I then took my scalloped punch, punched them out and put them back to back with a ribbon in-between. They look like this on the twig tree. Super easy if you are good with manipulating graphics on your computer.

Then I decided to go through my collection of antique postcards. I found one that I really liked but wouldn't mind making over. I used old songbook pages, lace, ribbon, glitter and a little bling and combined them all to come up with this.

Lastly, I took a picture of this rose hanging in my laundry room...just for you!

Please feel free to click on any picture to enlarge it to see the detail better. Terry

I'm linking up to these parties:
Susan's Met. Monday
Sassy's Trash to Treasure
Becky's Under $100
Kim's Boring to Better Party
Gina's Transformation Thursday
The Shabby Nest's Frugal Friday
Little Knick Knack's Everything but the kitchen sink
Cindy's Show and Tell Friday
Courtney's Feathered Nest Friday
Vintage Inspiration Friday
Frugalicious Friday
Flaunt It Friday
Saturday Nite Special
Show and Tell Saturday
Strut Your Stuff Saturday
Sunday Showcase
Masterpiece Monday
Just something I whipped up

1/11/2011

SnowDay~Creating & Moving Furniture

After

We have been having snow for the past two days. I am snowed in and that's not a bad thing.

So I decided to take the opportunity and re-decorate, re-arrange, re-do, and re-vamp.

I went from room to room looking for something to change...make better. This stool in the kitchen was first on the list. I added the black and white check to the legs.

Feel free to click on any picture to enlarge.

Snowday

Before

After with the checks added

Next on the list was the white Ice Skates. I never embellished them on the shoe area like I did the black ones that I have. So I added glitter, the words 'snow' in scrap-booking embellishments and snowflakes.

Before

After...I even added twigs with snowflakes next to the skates.

Close-up

On to the upstairs bedrooms. We just went from a queen bed to a king bed and I felt that the furniture was a bit tight, so I decided to re-arrange the furniture and that led to the wall decor too. I find that if you keep a close/coordinating color pallet throughout most of your house, it not only flows better, but you can grab something from one room and put it easily into another. Basically, shop your own house. So I moved this white dresser from the Other Guest Bedroom to the Master Bedroom since it is smaller.

White Dresser in the other guest bedroom

White dresser in Master bedroom currently.

In this location, below the TV was our faux fireplace. Since it is more narrow...and portable, I moved it where the dresser had been by the bed.

Faux fireplace in old location in master.

Oak dresser in Master went to the other guest bedroom.

Faux Fireplace in new location by the bed in Master.

Notice the upper wall return vent in the above picture? I always paint them the color of the wall so they disappear instead of having a white grate on a colored wall. Simple to do, just use your wall paint. Then I moved some of the decor on the walls. And I put together a new piece of wall art.

Married a left-over new kitchen door to wire art purchased on Etsy.

The great thing about this display...it can be changed...my middle name! LOL

My kids, old photos, a bird and a tassel.

Moved rose print to this side of the room between plates.

Now that left me with the oak dresser in the other guest bedroom. It now looks like this.

Oak dresser now in the other guest bedroom with different art and stuff on top of dresser.

I think it works okay...for now!

I also made this angel wing display...

I truly love change and think it's from moving a whole lot while growing up in the Air Force. I went to 14 different schools in several states before I was in the ninth grade. I always looked forward to a new home and ways to make our existing furniture work. I don't get attached to my 'stuff' because I sell most of it and end up with better or just different pieces. What's more fun than that? Now let's wait to see what hubby says when he comes home tonight! Terry

I am linking to these parties:
Susan's Met. Monday
Cielo's Show Off your Cottage Monday
Sassy's Trash to Treasure
Linda's Nifty Thrifty Tuesday
Kim's Boring to Better Party
Faded Charm's White Wednesday
Kelli's ReStored It Wednesday
Gina's Transformation Thursday
Becky's Under $100
The Shabby Nest's Frugal Friday
Little Knick Knack's Everything but the kitchen sink
Cindy's Show and Tell Friday
Courtney's Feathered Nest Friday
Vintage Inspiration Friday
Frugalicious Friday
Flaunt It Friday
Saturday Nite Special
Show and Tell Saturday
Sunday Showcase
Masterpiece Monday

1/08/2011

Stools...I have a ThinG for them!

After

Before

Stools, simple upholstered stools...I have a thing for them. When I see one, the first thing that pops into my head is what it Could look like, the second thing is, where will I put it in my house or how can I sell it because I don't have room for another one in my house. Sometimes I even pass up these ugly little creatures Because,

I don't want to have to deal with getting rid of them. Here are some of the many that I have made into beauties...some with before pictures, some without.

This blue one, for example was all white when I found it. I adore MacKenzie Childs and so my vision was to paint the curvy legs in their style. I found a needlepoint that would fit as the top and upholstered it using brush fringe as accent.
This was one of my very first addiction to stools. I still have this piece.

This next one, I was determined NOT to buy. I knew what it could be IF it was given some love. Oh well, I lost that battle.

The lady kept going down in price and I kept going back and looking at it. So now you see the beauty it became in my green toile guest bedroom post here.

This next one is another inspiration from MacKenzie Childs. They were putting tassels on furniture that I found very attracted to. So with this having the space for such a treatment, I purchased this ugly duckling and...

Before

This stool is now used every day in my master bathroom post here.

This next one was another unexpected find. It had such attractive (sorry, no before picture) legs but again was unloved. I decided that toile was the way to go and gave it a shabby look.

Since I love how black and white check pops on my upholstered pieces, I added it as trim here. My girlfriend bought this piece from me as soon as I was finished with it. It looks great in her home and it is a versatile piece.

This stool is unusual because the lid comes off for storage. I purchased it for $6 at an antique store and upholstered it shown in this post on my blog.

Before

The next stools that I will show you do not have before pictures. Some are in my home and some have sold or are for sale.

This stool I made a slipcover for.

Sold this stool and table that I painted.

I made the stool, cushion and pillow. Now I am selling the stool, it has black legs.

I made this one for my daughter. It has a needlepoint top and I painted cat prints on the legs.

This was purchased for $4 at a garage sale. I put the needlepoint top on it.

This was purchased for $6 at a garage sale. I upholstered it.

I purchased this for $10 because of the cute size and great legs. I upholstered with my leftover curtain material in my kitchen and use it for a step stool.