Finished Projects!

So we cleaned out our garage and it showed me what I had hanging around to work on.

Following are some lovely before and afters (well I think so anyway, its so great to get them finished!)

I found this chair in some ones trash pile. The tacks were pretty easy to take out.

One coat of primer and two coats of paint later I realized that chars are hard to paint!

The frame was a last minute garage sale find from last year. I think I paid 50 cents. But all good DIY blog readers should know that any chunky frames should be picked up so thats what I did.

Not knowing that How About Orange would post something to fill it that would be pretty and practical!

I used the same paint that I had used on the chair and the dresser but since I had been jaded with the whole painting experience I went for the whitewashed look. that worked great since there was still water in my brush and I wanted to show off the details. The page didn't fill the frame so I put some muslin I had a remnant of across the back. I'll say its decent. Now I just need to find a bit of wall space for it. The calendar may have to move.

Hooray for finished projects!

Inspiration

Some inspiring pics from blogland today

A recent post from Joy of course the rug is from Anthropologie!

My fabric scraps need these cute bags desperately.

And if you wish you could sit with some tea or lemonade and put beautiful stitches together all day like I do, this site is loads of stitch inspiration!

I should have done this years ago

I finally made a list and Not just any list.

I've had projects from the last year left unfinished and constantly jumping into my daily mind's to do list. So I finally wrote that list down! This has made a huge impact on my concentration and daily work. Plus I got four of the projects crossed off in the first week!

So here is my list:

Ruthie's Bag (yes Cassandra, over a year later I am still planning to finish it)
Cross stitch
Soap cover
Heart cards
Shelf over stove
Drawer Pulls
Mirror
Birdhouse

I couldn't believe what a relief it was just to get the list out of my mind and onto paper. I was able to remember more immediate things and not have these running around every hour. And heres the kicker, this blog was supposed to be postings about projects I was working on. Now I can actually post some finished projects!

So here we go! I got four finished last week. here are some pics.

The Shelf over the stove

Includes brackets and riser board from Lowes. Two coats primer and one of semi gloss. It would have been much easier if our walls were flat.

The birdhouse that you see above I got at a garage sale this past summer and origianlly looked like this.

It was cute, I knew it needed a future with new paint.

Next Up, Drawer pulls.

I got this dresser off of Craig's list but never took a pic of its originial funkiness. If you wanted asian look, cool, but thats so not me. So here it is painted and finally has the pretty knobs (or handles?) that waited so long. I needed a different drill bit.

The knob/handles are from Target.com. Wow, did I have a hard time finding some that I liked (but thats usually the case with me).

And finally here is the one I'm really kicking myself about. Our bathroom mirror. We had been living with this for two years!

and it now looks like this. What a breath of fresh air and in our tiny bathroom it really makes a difference. The paint is the same as all previous projects.

So thats my first week roundup. I'm sure to be adding more projects to the list and will be staying on track for the blog with updates!