Weekend Projects

Old Door

I can't get enough of the lovely colors on this old door I just acquired from a friend. I know the paint is old & is lead based. So I plan on clear coating it this weekend. Once I seal it, the lead will no longer be an issue. Don't want to lose all those beautiful details that only years of weathering can produce. It will eventually go in Sloans room. I plan on using it as the back of a daybed for her. I'm trying to make her room kid friendly but something that will grow with her over the next few years. She will be a teenager very soon so I'm trying to give her a timeless look that will hopefully make her happy up until she leaves the nest.

My first reupholstering project???

I found this little beauty at the Goodwill Bargain Bin last night. I paid a whopping $5 for it. Can you believe it! I've been looking for something like this for a couple of years now. It has the shape & lines that I love. I plan on recovering it in an oilcloth, adding a few more buttons, & painting the wood. This will end up right where you see it. On our back deck. I've never reupholstered anything before so I'm looking forward to this project. 

Seal

After weeks of little paper samples speckling my walls, I finally made the leap & bought a gallon of this beautiful paint. I will be painting my hallway and one wall along the front part of our living room this weekend. Before & after pictures to come.

Birds in costumes series

& last but not least I accomplished my goal of sketching 4 new paintings out. It started out as a Halloween series but I have too many fun ideas swimming in my head & changed the name. All but one will be for sale in my shop. The Little Red Riding Hoot is going to a friend.

What are you working on this weekend?

The Sketchbook Project

Just signed up for

::THIS::

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Won't you join me?

Queen of Candycorn

What I'm working on right now

A fun little Halloween series of birds. 3 will be in the shop. One is for a blogging friend. What are you working on?

P.S. Thank you for all of your sweet comments on my photo's. It made my day :)

3 Months

3 months

3 months tomorrow. Can't even tell you how much I adore this little man!

New Shelves

Welcome to the new & improved room of Sloanie!

See the before ::here::

I got rid of her desk. It was left here by the old owners & I thought she could use it until we got her something nicer. It ended up turning into a junk magnet. I threw away a huge kitchen size garbage bag full of trash. I'm not kidding. How does that even happen? So no desk for right now.

Remember the shelving system I bought at a yard sale for $16? It needed to be painted. There were marker scribbles on a good portion of them. I would have painted them myself but since I have a broken arm my husband offered to do all the dirty work ;) Dean set up a spray tent and went to work painting them black. The bummer was because they weren't real wood it peeled right off. Opps! So he went back & bought a tinted primer & another bucket of black paint. He had to sand everything down lightly. Then he primed and painted again. What I was hoping would be a pretty inexpensive redo ended up costing about $150 in paint. Double opps!

I think it turned out great though don't you? Dean still has to finish painting the two sets of doors and add them on but I am totally in love with it. Sloan is also. I was able to organize the rest of the books. Can you tell we love to read around here? All of her books are on the left. Classics are on the top right shelf. Compilations, Caldecott's, & my Sendak collection are on the second shelf down. The middle has picture books the little ones can enjoy & the bottom two shelves are filled with board books and early readers for Zoe & Aris. We don't have cable & her TV is set up to play videos & DVDs. Once the doors are done it will hide all the videos. 

There are many other projects I have planned for both of their rooms. I have to do them as time & money allow. So even though this shelf cost a little more than I wanted it to to finish it, it would have cost way more to buy brand new. I am so happy with how things are moving along. Hoping this new shelving system will keep things a little more organized.

I linked to this wonderful ::blog:: & look forward to sharing future projects again very soon.