Old Plant Stand Made Pretty

Last winter I picked up this old neat looking plant stand from someone's trash pile at the end of their driveway. .. I seem to like trash finds, don't I? 

Since the warm weather has finally graced us with its presence, I decided I felt like giving it a makeover! So out of the storage closet it came! 

I brushed it up a bit with a little scrubber to get some little bits of gunk left behind from when I gave it a bath in my tub after bringing it home. Then gave it a quick wipe down with some bathroom cleaning wipes.

Spray painting can be a challenge when living in an apartment, so I went for some acrylic craft paint.. plus it's cheaper! The color on the bottle says Aqua, but the photo totally doesn't show its true color. It has more of a greenish tint.. I can't describe it very well really. But it's very vibrant and not as dull as the photo shows. I hate that! But atleast I can see it's true beauty when I look at it in person!

It's so nice to sit out on my balcony and work on a project on a nice sunny day!

And here's my new plant stand!

.. Don't laugh at my poor droopy little plant. I've had it since our first year of being married and it's kind of always been a mopey little plant.

I think I like it inside.. not sure still.. 

And I think I'd like to get a pretty new pot to fit inside.. white, maybe?

Refreshing little update :) 

Master Bedroom: Mirror Makeover

Several weeks ago when Hubby and I were driving out of his parents' neighborhood I spotted this mirror in someone's junk pile out on the curb. Shoved it in the car and took this beauty home! 

It's perfect! I love these swirls and designs on frames.

I wasn't sure what I was going to do with it yet, but a new paint job was definitely on the "to do" list for it's future! Finally, after a couple weeks of sitting in my craft room I made my decision! It got a nice makeover in white {after it got a good scrubbing down in the tub- boy was that thing dusty... that old sticky dust!}

And here it is now! ... 

I really really like it.

... F.i.n.a.l.l.y there is something on our bedroom walls!

Dollar Store Owl Gets A New Look

Hello Hello! Did you all forget about me?!.. I wouldn't blame you if you did. I've been MIA for a very long time on my little blog here and have been feeling sad about not keeping up with anything or sharing any tid bits. So I thought I'd share a fun and quick little makeover I did tonight!

I found this sad little owl at the dollar store today for $2.

 .. it cried for me to take it home and give it some TLC. So I gave in to the little cutie and in my basket he went. 

The wings were like a foamy tree bark feeling material, so I wanted to remove those. It was too hard to pick at it, so he got a little bird bath and soaked for awhile in the suds. Aaahhh, that looks relaxing..

After soaking for like 2 minutes the tree bark foam junk peeled off like a charm! ...

.. but then there was this layer of weird stuck hard glue... I couldn't get it off so I soaked him for like 10 minutes. Then I was able to peel it all right off easily.

He's a little terracotta owl underneath! :)

After he was all dried off, I set up a little spot on my balcony and sprayed away using Kylon's Bauhaus Gold.

So much cuter, right!? 

Oh ya, let me introduce you to my lovely little piano! I got it for free from Kijiji! It was actually quite the ordeal trying to get help for picking it up and moving it here. One mover kept falling through and wouldn't keep to his word and I thought it was never going to happen, but finally we found a nice mover guy and my piano finally made it to its new home. I love it! It needs work and a tune up, but for now it's perfect and plays great! And my sweet little owl looks pretty cute chillin' up there too! 

... aah, it feels nice to blog a project again : )

Master Bedroom: Nightstands Makeover

Since our master bedroom is coming along now the way I want I thought I would get started on blogging about it. Here's the project on our night stands I've been meaning to post. About a year and a half ago we bought these two used matching shelf-ish looking things that I thought would make cute nightstands.

I planned on painting them match whatever I wanted our room colors to be {which are black, white, mustard yellow, and gray}. I finally got around to giving them a paint job during this past summer.. Took them to my Hub's parents' backyard and busted out the spray paint. First I used a white spray primer which was a pain in the buns.. goodness. But the shelves were that smooth particle board stuff.. {not sure the exact name for it}, so the primer made the paint stick.

The color I used was Krylon's Bauhaus Gold

Then after seeing this post I was inspired to add some decorative wooden trim to the flat boring edges of my nightstands to give them a prettier textured look and more personality. I went to the hardware store and had them cut all my pieces to size there. This trim was actually expensive! Apparently I saw the wrong price tag on the shelf and thought it was $7 for each looong thing of trim, but it was NOT that cheap.. that's all I'll say. I felt pretty defeated after purchasing those. Oh well, took them home and spray painted them {yes, I painted the night stands before gluing on the trim.. I'm a nerd I know, but that's just how I roll cause I'm impatient to wait till I have everything at once!}

I used wood glue to fix on the trim. Not sure how long that will last.. I may have to fix them again another day when they pop off! Then I cleaned up all the little crevices with a tooth pick.. Such an annoying and time consuming little task! haha!

I kept the trim tight and flat on the nightstands with heavy books.

and here they are finished!

I think they yellow is a bit brighter than I want. 

I was thinking about doing some glazing on them.. like this. Just so the trim would show up more.. cause that's really the only place glazing would work I guess.. where there's detail in the wood. 

And the headboard {that's taken me forever and ever!} is actually coming along! I finished the last little paint touches on it last week and Hubs and I made our stands for it. We had already bought all the wood supplies to create the stand months ago! And I have my new white fluffy duvet I'm waiting to replace our blankets with! I'm still not completely sure if the BRIGHT yellow nightstands are the look I'm wanting with all how the room is going to turn out. I might be wanting a more softer gray and yellow look... I don't want it too bold and bright. Who knows. We will see and change up things where and when necessary.

Munchies vs. Coasters Makeover. .

The evenings are quite uneventful for me. Hubs works all evenings and I'm .. well, left home alone.. this could be bad. Especially if I have the munchies! Boredom + got-the-munchies = b.a.d! So I try to find things to do to keep myself busy. Tonight I did a little makeover on our coasters that were given to us when we got married. Their appearance never did find my favor, but we've used them faithfully on our coffee table whenever we have a snack together while watching a show (currently we just started watching Who's the Boss- love it). 

Anyway, so here are the coasters, drab style

I picked up some pretty scrapbook paper

(the one on the left was the winner for me)

Traced the coasters onto the paper, cut, and 

Mod Podged the paper right to each coaster then a couple more layers of Mod Podge on top.

And wa-la!

Lovely new coasters that make me happy!

Mmmm.. hot chocolate? and mini marshmallows? 

..Uuummm, maaaybe I should find another craft to keep myself busy..!

but.... 

I just tasted a spoonful of my YUMMY Mocha Almond Fudge ice cream, and I could definitely go back for more! ... uh-oh . .

Cheese Dome Makeover

Finally I've found my very own cheese dome, and for only $3 at my local thrift shop! I've been wanting one of these little cuties since seeing so many cute makeovers of them on blog land.

Ugh, some people might like the look of this, but I really don't. I'm not all about the wine and such. ... And that little leafy knob?? Oh boy.. that's so being replaced! The lid is made of plastic.. wish it was glass, but I still like it!

The bottom round base is like a heavy ceramic or stone material and the artwork is like etched or engraved into it then painted.

There's a glass bottom that fits down on top of the engraved/etched artwork

(there was also a clear plastic protective piece sitting on top of the glass, but I just threw that away)

I also picked up this .50 cent glass candle holder at the thrift to use as a stand for my dome

SO I decided to spray paint the bottom of the cheese dome black. I used Krylon spray paint that bonds to plastic, glass, metal, ceramic.. etc. It's kind of neat how the artwork looks after painted

At first I thought I would mod podge some scrapbook paper or fabric to the bottom, but after painting it I just decided to not do anything permanent to the bottom. So I just cut a piece of fabric to fit the bottom and put the glass back on top. That way I can change the bottom out whenever I want, or leave it just like the above picture. 

I also went to the hardware store to find a new knob!

.. painted the knob black

Then out came the Gorilla glue.

I glued the candle holder to the cheese dome base and stacked some heavy things on top to make sure the glue would secure well.

After letting the glue sit over night like this, the cheese dome makeover is finally done! 

I like it how it turned out! 

These are the colors I want for our bedroom eventually.. so, hmm.. it might sometime find its way in our room! Not sure still what to do with it yet!.. or what to put in it! haha! For now it will hold my one apple :) 

One more before photo.. 

the NEW look is much better!

 Man, have I really been in the "makeover" mood lately. I'm wanting to redo all sorts of furniture pieces we have in our place, but not able to start just yet.. so this little cheese dome project was an alright fix for my crazy mood.