Display Case

My next work of art.
Guess you would call it a display case. I wanted it for some of my dishes. Found at a online auction, I paid 27 dollars.  I think it maybe from the seventy's.

Didn't know for sure if it was going to paint up well, I was quite surprised. I like it much better then before. It has sliding glass in the front.

I painted this in black onyx as well. I got a gal of this paint because I have a few pieces I want to paint. I would have preferred a china cabinet, maybe I will fine one I can redo, this will work until then.
I was actually thinking about selling it until it was finished...now  I kinda like it.

King Headboard

Sharing my headboard. I found it for sale in one of the groups you can join on Facebook.
Well I got the paint and it set here, that is until the hubby got up motivated.

Our newly painted headboard.

He is still working on it as I am taking photos. One more coat will do it. I picked Black Onyx.
Abby had to be close by, she doesn't leave him if she can help it while he is home.

We got her Jan 6 2010. We were told she was 12 months. Jan the 6 is her birthday to us.
She is now 6 years old.

Out With The Old In With The New

One more sale today. I have been selling everything I can in order to move and not have to lift or ask anyone else to do the lifting. I figure I will be just as well off selling as paying someone to move it.

Its not like I have a lot of new furniture everything is pretty old. I wouldn't mind having some new.
This bedroom suite has a new owner, a thirteen year old.

 her granny brought it for her they are going to paint it black. Its solid wood made by Broyhill.

I sold it for three hundred dollars. Now on to see what else I can find to sell.
I am thinking my china cabinet.....table and chairs. I have never had a new one its about time.

Up date on selling my house they have moved the closing date out yet again, this is only the fourth time, its out to Sept 15 now. I am beginning to wonder.

My Hutch

I have been needing more storage in the kitchen..in a bad way.

My granddaughter Alicia started the painting of my little hutch.

The before photos.....

I found it at a yard sale, close to two years ago. 

 

 

 

  I let her pick out the

 

color.... Willowy White.  I really liked it..... so all was good.

She painted all day on a Saturday before she had to go to work that evening.

 

 Then I painted on it at night while she was working.

Hubby did all the sanding for me and took off all the hardware and spray painted it.

 

It took me a whole week working on it a few hours at a time. 

 

After photos ........

 

                              Look at the storage I have now.

                       What a can of paint and a roller can do.

 

I am going to use the bottom storage for dishes.

 

Craiglist Fines

Some of my favorite things this week are......

The china cabinet I found on craiglist some two years ago. I have never used it ...it has been stored waiting on me to paint it.

   last week while my girls were here painting the bedroom for me I had hubby and Ashley to bring this up to my dinning room.


I have two many other projects I want to paint
so I decided I would use her just like she is.

she doesn't match the table. I left the table that went with her at our other house for my sister because it fit that space better and I wanted a bigger one. 

I found this table on craigslist to...I guess they look ok together. I was getting

dispread for more storage. I still have lots of dishes boxed up that I am going to dress her up with.

For now I cleaned out my kitchen cabinets that were screaming at me.

A lot of these are my goodwill fines......

      the rooster in the middle was a mothers day gift this year. The white plate and bowl I got at GW I liked these because my grandmothers used these when I was young.

I have found only two plates and the one bowl so far.
I don't know what the deal is with the differ sizsed writing I couldn't change it.

Joining http://fairybreadmusings.blogspot.com/

Painting

Hello to each and every one of my blogger buddy's. Its almost four o'clock my two oldest granddaughters have left after painting for a couple of hours. I am hiring them to do a bedroom for me.

This is the bedroom that Alicia had when she was living with me. I had let her paint it whatever color she wanted at the time. It was a little to dark for me so here is the new color. I think its gray they think its light light purple.

You can see the base board was the color she had painted this one wall the other wall was lighter purple

she never did finish her painting of the base boards.

They are going to come back

tomorrow to finish it and paint the trim....that's a string from the blinds you see hanging down....I had to go back into the room to see what it was myself. 

Now the reason I didn't know for sure what the color was going to look like is because I got it out of the bargain

paint  where someone mixed it and didn't buy it....there was three gallons of the same color at 5.48  each....I'm cheap like that people.... just can't seem to help myself.

I  like it so I will be using it in my other two rooms....if I can get the girls to paint them....I am just not up to doing this anymore. I had started to painting this shelf. My sister had sitting on her front porch to put in the trash.

I couldn't see it being throw out.

What would that cost to buy.

 I sanded it and put two coats of paint on it....it still needed another one so my sweet sweet Hubby his name is Doug...finished it for me

today...now he's outside painting the closet doors that we haven't gotten around to since we moved. I had painted them all with primer.....then my old body just said no more painting.

 Here it is now

 Its holding my crafting flowers now.

I will be moving it to the newly painted room.

Mirror For Our Bathroom

My hubby has been making a mirror for our bathroom.....we had a huge mirror in there that went all the way across the sink and commode...he cut it down to fit over the sink and made a frame .......here is the beginning of our new mirror I took this before I started painting it.....

my twenty five dollar HUTCH

while I was at it I took these pictures of my yard sale find  from last year a cute little cabinet with

a hutch .....now I know they are much needed in my kitchen. I 'm showing them so I can make myself 

finish them....I have burned myself out on painting since buying this big old house.

I would like to get them done I would just love them....I need some get up and go.............mine has got up and went lol and I don't know how to get it back...must of went on vacation.

The mirror is finished thanks to hubby.

no pictures

Batteries went dead.... plugged the rechargeable ones in the wall got up in the night hear a sizzling

 it was the batteries.....still can not remember to get more.

took these right after He finished the bathroom

I liked the flowers tried them in my rooster

not sure about him in a bathroom.

Changed to a glass jar still not sure

them I changed to this pitcher I found at goodwill

I'll show you when I get some pictures made

of our new mirror

after I remember to get batteries.

Dining room....

Haven't done much in the way of decorating ...which I'm not any good at anyways

.......unlike some of you very talented ladies.... I have put up a few pictures

in the dining room....its really in the kitchen...the room we were going to use as a dining

room I have kept closed off to keep from heating it....I have also kept the sewing room closed off

for the time we have been here to keep from heating it.....Ladies to be honest with you 

the four bedrooms large kitchen, living room and two baths are quite enough for me 

right now to heat and clean.....the sewing room is serving its purpose it is holding all my things I

have no room for in the rest of the house....keeps me from being crowded like I was in the other house

my plans are to open it up when we sale the other house and get the cost of two houses

off us......

the picture is really no uneven as it looks on the wall ...just me..lol

I need to find a shelf to go here the one I had used before I used in the living

room....one of these days I'll put up curtains when I find some that speak to me..

I don't think they need to be green a little to much of that already.

Good day ladies have a good one

God Bless Trish

Hubbys Chair

My hubby made this chair and painted it this pass week

I didn't think about posting until the paint had dried

and he put it on the porch...wish I though to do

some before...its darling he did a fine job on it

I hope he'll make another to go with it....

his birthday was in April and I got him a

 table saw and ordered him the plans

for the chair off eBay.

Name This Flower

I dug this up from someone else's yard that was cleaning up there bed....I think its

a Lily but not sure....if anyone knows would you please tell me.

         
       
                                         God Bless Trish