A HUGE bonus~

My mom called me from the shop and said a sweet lady wanted to buy a hutch from me, she didn't care what it looked like because she knew she loved my style and paint finishes.. I described what it looked like, but she didn't have an email for me to send her a picture so i was hoping she would like it!!

here is the Before:

She wanted it white, and white she got! My husband delivered it today and she LOVED it, makes me love my job that much more :) :)

So it gets even better!!!!  My husband as he is leaving walks by a vintage couch and says "oh my wife would just love that couch" and she says to him " oh then take it! I want her to have it" he said no, a few times and offered to pay for it, and she said "no, i insist, take it"... just give me a discount on the next thing i buy from her" she went on to  tell him a story of why she didn't want it anymore and was going to get rid of it anyway.... Ummm how awesome!! this thing is gorgeous! I'm keeping it! for now anyway :) :)

here it is!!!!  eeeeeeekkk!

can you even believe my luck! I am going to make it up to her!

linking up to :

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I was featured~

 I was featured!! thanks again to 3 Mango Seeds, Im so excited!

Adding intrest to what you already have~

I had this boring iron basket...hmm what to do , what to do....  I had some burlap webbing...  (light bulb moment) 

Sooo just weave the webbing through the iron and "Voila"  an easy DIY with things you already have in your home

and now that i look closer at this picture, i can see i need to wash my walls... looks like some sort of sauce ... thanks to my kids :)

have a great weekend, My plan is to be creative and paint paint paint!!

Im being featured ~

I am being featured at  3 Mango Seeds 


You can check out the DIY burlap wreath at 3 Mango seeds this morning!


Thanks Clydia!

DIY Burlap Ruffle Wreath

After scouring the blogs for the easiest, cutest , cheapest wreath to make, here is what i came up with...

You will need:

1 foam wreath from craft store :  about $5
1 yard of burlap any color about $3
1 box of sewing pins about $2
       and a hot glue gun

                          For the wreath you need a really long 2"piece of burlap to wrap around it
                          at this time, i also cut about 60 pieces of 6" long burlap strips for the ruffles.

hot glue the end and wrap all the way around then glue the opposite end.. (this took me about 3 pieces) because i never measure anything :)

once your wreath is wrapped in the burlap, you can begin pinning on your ruffles:

I made a fan in a 1/2 circle and used 2-3 pins per ruffle

Make sure to pin the next ruffle close enough to cover the previous ruffles pins..

this is the next picture i took:

as you can see, my ruffles got bigger towards the end!! It doesn't really matter though!

it looked a little boring so i found some cute buttons and since i dont know how to sew on a button, i hot glued it!

and it made it prettier!

Here it is hanging..

I think for about $10 and an hours time, it turned out cute!

Happy Sunday!!

linking up to :

http://threemangoseeds.blogspot.com/2011/10/link-up-motivational-monday-link-party.html

and

http://linda-coastalcharm.blogspot.com/

and

http://makingtheworldcuter.com/about/

Screen Door Cabinets~

My husband asked me if I needed any help this last week and I said, why yes I do. :) 

I drew this picture of a cabinet i wanted, the great thing about my husband is I can draw a picture and he sees what I see in my head (does that make sense) LoL!   Then he builds them, and amazingly they look exactly how i had them envisioned!!

                                         Here is the picture I drew for him : 

so he ordered the lumber for the cabinets:

then i spray painted the outside of the cabinets black....

then painted the outside white, and the inside with ASCP Louis blue:

the other one wanted to be RED!

They were so cute, I had to get a picture of both of them!

Im now working on some 6ft tall ones, that are going to be soooo cute!!! I love the glass look in these cabinets (we usually use glass when we build these) but there is something so cute about the screen on the doors, im loving them!

have a good week~
Mindy

Linking to :

Under the table and dreaming and:

http://savvysouthernstyle.blogspot.com/

and:

                                                     http://www.theshabbycreekcottage.com/

                                                        http://www.missmustardseed.blogspot.com/









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