Color!

I don't know if it's me suffering from the winter time depression or what, but I've been needing color in my life.

I always love blue but right now I'm totally digging the color orange!

I have this lamp that I made awhile back 

and this one that we got as a wedding gift.

I like the shape of both of them, but decided to jazz them up a bit.

Who's to say, it may be the pregnancy hormones and you know you aren't supposed to do drastic things, so we'll see!

It's just paint, so if I end up hating it in a month I can always do something different.

The lamps are now blue and orange, and the now blue lamp got a new lamp shade.

I also added a little pop of color to this throw pillow with some orange ribbon flowers.

So, am I crazy or what? ☺

Necklace Hanger

  I've really been needing a way to hang my necklaces.

So I came up with something from a scrap piece of wood from a different project and then some cup hooks I've had around for awhile.

The hooks were gold so I spray painted them with brushed nickel paint, and painted the wood piece, white.

Marked out how many hooks I wanted to go in, and then pounded a nail in to make little holes so it was easier to screw the hooks in.

For now I'm just using ribbon to hang it up, but I'm thinking that after we move I'll find a different way to hang it, and maybe even incorporate it with the way I hang my earrings.

Stool

Wow, I've really been neglecting this blog.

I actually have a couple of posts coming up, but don't get used to it as I'm about to have baby #3. ;o)

Here is a little project I finished quite awhile back and apparently never posted it.

Our neighbors were throwing this out in the trash, so I confiscated it.

The lid opens to a litte cubby inside.

(the kids LOVE that!)

The inside was pretty icky.

So after cleaning, sanding, primer (to keep those stains at bay), a few coats of white paint, and 4 coats of polycrylic, it looks like a new stool.

And so far has withstood the daily abuse from the kids.

It's in our kitchen and they use it to store toys (or hide toys from one another), turn on lights, and sit on it while eating a snack.

For fun, I modge podged some paper to the bottom, it gives it color and the modge podge seals it for wipe-ability.