Pinterest Project

My sister-in-law turned me on to Pinterest a couple of months ago and I am addicted.  Not only have I found tons of recipes I love, but I have also found many craft projects I want to tackle.  Now I don't see myself as the craftiest person on the block, but I can usually handle the basics.  I had been thinking for a while that I wanted a little table at the end of the cabinets in the kitchen to set my purse on instead of putting it on the counter.  My parents happened to have a little table that would work perfectly.  Scott and I went home last weekend and I decided it was the perfect time to try to paint it.  My dad sanded it down and my parents actually put the 1st couple of coats of paint on it.  Once I got back to there house mom and I added the 3rd coat of paint.  I probably should have used primer since I was using such a dark color and it would not have taken 3 coats of paint.  The paint color is Show Stopper by Sherwin Williams.  It looks kinda pink in the pictures, but it's actually red. After the paint dried, I antiqued it using Valspar Antiquing Glaze in Asphaltum.  I simply painted it on with a paintbrush and then wiped it off with an old towel.  The glaze dried pretty quickly so I had to do it in sections.  All in all I felt that it was a pretty easy project.

The original table

Here it is after 3 coats of paint

 The finished product

 It fit perfectly in the space between our cabinets and pantry.

 Thank you Pinterest for giving me inspiration.  I plan on doing another table in the same colors very soon. 

Cabinet Remodel

When we built our house in 2009, they guys we hired to paint the house wanted a huge amount of more money to paint the cabinets a different color than the trim. I decided it wasn't worth it and settled for white cabinets. I hated them to begin with, and I'm still not a huge fan. So I decided I was going to glaze them over Christmas break. I bought the stain last week and Scott thought I should try it out on the bathroom upstairs. I probably should have practiced a little first, but I think it turned out pretty good. Maybe a little darker than I was going for, but not too bad. Now I just have to decided if I REALLY want to do this in the kitchen. I mean it's one thing to do the upstairs bathroom that doesn't get used a whole lot, but completely different to do the kitchen. I am soo afraid it will not turn out like I want/hope/picture. I mean I'm not the more talented/crafty person and I have little patience.

The stain is a more brown than it looks in the pictures. Here is a sneak peak at the upstairs cabinets.

Cabinets before.....

Cabinets after......

Another after view....

Maybe I did get a fraction of the "crafty" gene after all?

My mother always told me I was artsy....I always disagreed. She was always the one who could draw and paint. I was lucky to trace something properly. As I have gotten older, I have often wondered if there was a little snippet of my moms "crafty" gene in me and I decided to put it to the test and find out.

We had had a baby shower at church last weekend and when I asked what I could bring my friend Audra said "Can you make a diaper cake?" I had been thinking of making one for a baby shower in November, so this was perfect timing. Now I have never made one and I have never thought that I was a very crafty person, but a co-worker made one for a shower about a month ago and it looked super easy. I thought....how hard can this be?

I bought a package of Pampers, rounded up a million rubber bands, and went to Micheal's to see if I could find anything cute to put on the cake. I knew the nursery was going to be teal, yellow, gray, and white. I ended up with ribbon, a wooden B that I painted yellow and the sparkly things I put in the top (these were actually found in the Christmas decoration isle. Is it really time for Christmas decorations already???)

So here is the final result......





I'm thinking not to bad for my first try. I ended up using an empty paper towel roll to hold it together and put a small piece of cardboard on the bottom to keep the diapers from falling out of the bottom section.