Fave Furniture Fridays #3

Helloooooo! Happy Friday! I've brought you a tutorial today by the lovely Cerniks and their blog. Click on the picture below to check out how they bought a table for $20 on craigslist and transformed it. I LOVE  before and afters- and they show you how to do it and what to use.

 Here is a chair that I finished this week. It's going to take a special person to buy this chair! I wanted to use some fuschia velvet that I had, and it really pops with the aqua! The before? Too horrible to show. ;)

 And another... this one had a pleather seat that I just covered over. Usually I remove the old upholstery, but this one was kindof...nice to sit on. That's the whole point, right? This grey and yellow floral fabric is an apparel fabric so I pulled it tight and sprayed it with scotchguard. It's a staple at our house!

 THIS chair... was my favorite. it's certainly from the archives and long gone, but I loved the green color and the white seat. I think at the next house, I'm going to paint my dining room that green! :)

...and some barstools that I found for $5 and repainted. I sold these on craigslist after a few YEARS of using them.. and the person who bought had no correlation with the letter R. funny!

I leave you with an incredible quote that I found on Pinterest!

If you're as pinterest addicted as I am, you can find me here. :)

Do you have a great project that you've been working on?? Link up! We would love to show you off!

Have a great week!

Spring Banner {Free Printable}

I originally posted this Spring banner on {I Heart Naptime} and wanted to share it with all my lovely readers in case you missed it!

Spring is HERE and so is a happy, bright and fun Spring printable banner. Well, actually your choice between TWO Spring banners, because I love Spring that much . You can choose from one BRIGHT and one PASTEL.

I chose to make the bright banner to add some pop to my otherwise white and gray mantel.

To make your Spring printable banner as shown above, you will need:

Coffee Filters

Twine

Clothes pins
Scissors

Stapler

Hot Glue Gun

Download and print your choice of banner

After downloading your choice between the two banners, follow the instructions found HERE to make the pinwheels.

 After you have your pinwheels made, simply glue them onto 2 coffee filters, hang your twine and pin up your banner with the clothes pins. Then sit back and enjoy this WONDERFUL Spring season!

 Background papers adapted from Persnickety Prints.

You can download the "You make me Happy" print on my mantel HERE

Happy Spring!

I chose to make the bright banner to add some pop to my otherwise white and gray mantel.

To make your banner as shown above, you will need:

Coffee Filters

Twine

Clothes pins

Scissors

Stapler

Hot Glue Gun

and to download and print your choice of banner

After downloading your choice between the two banners, follow the instructions found HERE (tutorial on my NOEL banner also made for I HEART Naptimers) to make pinwheels.

 After you have your pinwheels made, simply glue them onto 2 coffee filters, hang your twine and pin up your banner with the clothes pin. Sit back and enjoy this WONDERFUL Spring season!

 You can download "You make me Happy" print HERE

Fave Furniture Fridays...#2

Hello blog world.. and welcome to the second edition of Fave Furniture Fridays!

 (or, as Telisa and i have started calling it- "FFF")

Thanks so much for your links last week- it was fun checking each one out. The link with the most clicks was actually Telisa's- her armoire makeover was stunning, and you can see why!

I've been busy this week with a few projects of my own. I'm a big big fan of turning "trash to treasure", and the cheaper I can get a piece of furniture, the better the treasure it makes.

(when someone puts it on the curb, even BETTER!)

I usually redo about 2-3 pieces a week, and it's gotten a little crowded in our house- most of the pieces are either sold on craigslist or given to friends now. It's such a fun hobby!

Did i mention a little crowded in our house? I meant a lot.

This chair was one that i found at goodwill for three dollars.

This is a record console (it has vertical dividers in each section of double doors) that i found on the curb. WHO would throw this away??? not i. (also, I passed up an old organ because i couldn't think of anything fun do with it. It looked like a piano, but had a few rows of keys. thoughts??) I lightly sanded it, primed and painted it a gorgeous blue-grey, distressed it and changed out the knobs.

These end tables came with the chevron coffee table (here) that I beautified a few weeks ago. No before picture, but just imagine... dark wood. dangley handles. yuck.

I like chairs. Here's another one with a FABULOUS back design. So retro! I painted it grey and had to create a seat for it because the one that was on it crumbled in my hands as i unscrewed it. ewww.

After buying some new foam, i covered the seat in a pretty yellow corduroy with wide stripes. :)

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{Free Printable} over at I Heart Naptime Today

You can find me over at {I Heart Naptime} today with a FREE Spring Printable . . . well, 2 actually:) Here is a sneak peek:

I {Heart} Spring!!!! Come over and visit!

My Memories Suite V.3 Coupon Code & Grouping Tutorial

For those of you who have My Memories Suite V.3, a FABULOUS digital scrapbooking program, here is a great tutorial on how to use the grouping tools. My FAVORITE feature of the new version and one I use more than anything. I love it!

Click HERE to view the tutorial.

It saves sooooo much time changing the size of objects. For example, I get a lot of requests to have my cupcake toppers changed from 2" circles to as big as 7" inch circles. Before, I had to change each layer separately but now I can group them all together to make the topper bigger or smaller! So simple.

If you don't have the new version yet or even have My Memories Suite, my coupon code doesn't expire! It gives you $10 off the software and $10 towards anything in their shop! Just use this code at checkout:

STMMMS88312