Many thanks to Grace of design*sponge for including my footstool in her Thursday posts of Before-and-Afters! It’s my first upholstery project since I helped my mom recover her dining room chairs with leopard print when I was in middle school (so…. not recently.)
I have some beautiful photos of my studio when it is all bright and sunny and tidy and wonderful, but it has been absolutely awful in there for weeks now. Over the weekend, Rich helped me move some of the heavier pieces of furniture out there and rearrange it into a new layout that is [...]
I may have mentioned that I taught myself to crochet about three weeks ago. I made about a dozen flowers, because they were fast and I could figure the patterns out (this one was the easiest to figure out, for me at least).
After my multiple failed attempts at a granny square, my friend Sara [...]
In case you’ve forgotten (or never saw), here is what the footstool looked like just a couple days ago:
AAAAAAAAAND here is what it looks like now:
DISCLAIMER: The following post has absolutely nothing to do with design, decorating, art, or crafts, and contains several outbursts of overwrought emotions. Proceed with caution.) So I have this aromatherapy lotion – which smells fantastic – that touts as a benefit that it is proven to “calm your senses.”
The back story: I was walking [...]
Remember this and this? Well, here is what the guestroom looks like now!
Paint color is Wheat Bread by Behr, same as in the master bedroom, and was inspired by what I think is quite possibly the loveliest guestroom I’ve seen ever (and is now fast becoming one of the cutest baby rooms) – go see [...]
Here’s to another year of uniqueness, creativity, and generally being wonderful. We love ya!
Image of Amazing Em © Sylense Labit.
Here is the list as of 7:10 pm, when I breathed a deep sigh and collapsed onto the couch. Plenty of pictures to come tomorrow! 1. Prime and paint my Fira mini chest of drawers (they’ll be white), and mount on the wall in my new “dressing nook” in our bedroom.2. Take the top off [...]
So I now have a few modifications to my list, after making the trek to Ikea two days early (Saturday instead of Monday). We did not end up with chairs for the dining room – still – because we still have not found anything perfect… I think we have exhausted all of the most obvious [...]
When I came home from work today, I plunged right into my weekend list. Here are my beginnings:
Primed Fira chest
And a new project- reupholstering and painting a little footstool that was my Gramma’s:
Still have to prime and paint the stool base. I also finished spackling the guest bedroom. Tomorrow we will hopefully tackle painting. LOTS [...]
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