Crafty Monday

How Corny is my Cornice?

When my sis moved into her new house I decided to make her something vs. helping her move.  Since I myself was moving a few weeks later I didn't want to help her move, so the deal was I don't help her, she doesn't help me. I shot myself in the foot on that one! So this is what I made her: a cornice board for her window. I wanted to try to make one and it was super easy and fun and came out nice. I will make more, I will. The total cost for this was about $30 and they sell on line for hundreds of dollars.

Measure your window and have a piece of wood cut a few inches longer.  Depending how far off the window you want it to stick out, have two side pieces of wood cut for the sides. Take some wood glue and glue the two side pieces on then take small L brackets and screw them in to secure the sides to the main panel.

Buy some batting from the craft store and spray adhesive. Spray the crap out of the wood and cover with batting. Pick a pretty fabric and cover your board, pulling it tight and staple gun it all around, making it look neat and tight.

Screw large L brackets above window and hang your cornice! Easy, breezy, beautiful.

Salvation Army + a Benadryl

I ventured out to go treasure hunting yesterday with my mom's friend Teresa who says "the real treasures are at Salvation Army in South Tampa. An oxymoron, yes, a good time, well a little sneezy but I picked this little bench up for $5 and martha-ed the heck out of it. Avery's room is owl themed and this is gonna look so cute. I plan on going back to the treasure store, but this time I will pop a Claritin D before I head in there.

Craft-astic Monday

I found spray paint to be more than just cheapy and stinky....

 

That was easy.....

Just call me Scrappy

So like every other resolution, I have failed once again. Not only have I not blogged in awhile like I wanted to, I haven't blogged in so long I forgot my password. Moving on.  I wanted to post one big super post about our move and our project house but it's too much so I will do it in stages. The short of the long is:

We found a great house, in a great neighborhood and snatched it up as our "investment property". Now we are living here and love it, love it. It feels like home. The real wood floors that creak in the best spots and the 5 minute drive to anywhere. Baby, I'm back in Hillsborough County! Ahhh, the air smells better, the schools feel nicer, there isn't a K-mart or Winn Dixie for miles and I couldn't be happier.  The house is a fun fixer upper and we get to pick our bathrooms, paints, molding all that fun stuff. We put a new roof on and large down payment so I think we're poor and it's kinda fun. I have become very scrappy and have found ways to make old things new with a little sweat equity and paint. My love for Pinterest has taken a hold of my life and I have conquered the stripping.

 

I took this hallway that was a horrible shade of green and turned it into something fun. I painted the hallway a graphite gray and then striped with a coordinating color of Ashes. Behr primer and paint in one is my boyfriend this month. The stripes are 7 inches thick and with the help of my laser level, double sided tape to hold the laser to the wall and some blue painters tape I was able to knock this out in about 4 hours. It took about 3 hours to get the lines perfect and about an hour to paint.

 

Over the girls doors I bought some white letters from Jo-Ann Fabrics, sprayed them silver and then sprayed a thin coat of glitter spray. Added some scrap booking stickers and used velcro to hang them on the wall. Pretty crafty eh?

In the middle of the hallway was an old cabinet that Albert wanted to rip out and put a little table there. But since I like to salvage things now I wouldn't let him. I bought a quart of Rustoleum in silver, bought 2 knobs and for $17 turned a dingy yellowy cabinet into my wrapping paper quarters.

All I need is a mirror above it and the hallway will be complete. I will be hitting a goodwill for a cheap mirror that I will make over. Who am I?

I made this short and sweet and will post some more DIY things. I have carple tunnel from the more than 2800 sq ft of painting I have done on my own.  You have no idea the colors that were here before and now it is updated and fancy. For the trim around the doors I found Glidden's oil based high gloss gel flow technology trim paint is the absolute best! You think you have nice trim, wait until you slap some of this on. So shiny and white. You never notice the small things that make a house but the next thing that's bothering me are the door hinges. You can get a pack of brushed nickel hinges at Home Depot for a few dollars and will make all the difference. See the ugly gold hinges on this door? Doesn't match my pretty hallway!

Toodles....