tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32256761056527237442024-03-12T21:20:48.546-07:00BIG FAMILY / small apartmentTwo Parents. Four Kids. 1200 Square Feet.Kristin {thehomeavengers.wordpress.com}http://www.blogger.com/profile/02227212085314605796noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225676105652723744.post-51346262889668574582012-11-04T16:36:00.002-08:002012-11-04T16:37:52.316-08:00Here Kitty, Kitty - Looking Glass Fail and WIN!It seems that all my posts start out with the phrase "a while ago at a thrift store I found...".<br />
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On several repeated trips to our local thrift store <a href="http://bigfamilysmallapartment.blogspot.com/2012/10/thrift-store-thursday-4-prom-dresses.html">Girlfriend</a> had eyed these little kitties:<br />
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There were a lot of them at this particular thrift store. We actually passed them by on 2 trips, but on a 3rd trip I finally picked them up for her. They were bruised up, the finish was wearing off and the larger one was cracked. They <a href="http://bigfamilysmallapartment.blogspot.com/2012/09/girlfriends-desk-and-dresser-makeover.html">sat up on girlfriends dresser</a> while we waited for inspiration to strike.<br />
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Well it did! We both love mirrors and had wanted to try the new Krylon "Looking Glass" mirror finish spray paint. I see a lot of fun projects being done with it on the blogosphere!<br />
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So these kitties became destined for some mirror-love! First we washed, sanded and repaired the kitties. Second, of course, we applied several thin coats of primer:<br />
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After the primer was totally dry, we started spraying on the looking glass paint in thin coats. I loved how the paint went on, but was disappointed it didn't produce the mirror finish we were looking for. They still looked pretty cute though, all shiny and all:<br />
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When they were dry they took their places on Girlfriend's dresser. Right now she's undecided about keeping them this color. That doesn't surprise me because this girly changes her mind rapid-fire-like (love the teen years!). So the plan is two-fold. If she keeps them this way, we'll apply a glossy clear coat to shine them up. If not, she gets to pick a haven't-yet-used-in-our-apartment spray paint color. Then I'll even update this post!<br />
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Even though owl's are all the rage right now, I sure do love the kitties! These were able to get cleaned up and repaired nicely. Now every time I go to the thrift store I'm going to look extra hard at all sorts of figurines because so much can be done with them. I passed up some little birdie figurines on my last trip and I think I'm going to pick some up next time. They would look so neat painted glossy blue sitting up on my bookshelf! It's surprising where inspiration comes from.</div>
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But wait! I wasn't done with the Krylon looking glass paint yet! Because I didn't get the finish I'd hoped for it was a little bit of a fail - and we're the type of never-give-up family that always goes for the win!<br />
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Theatre Boy and I washed and prepped a jar.<br />
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Following the instructions (hmmm...maybe we should have done that the first time?) we spray painted thin even coats on the *inside* of a jar and set it out to dry.<br />
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Well, talk about ahhh-mazing! The only way to describe how it turned out was WOW!<br />
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Here it is sitting on our end table waiting to hold something special. I will definitely be using this paint for future projects. I already have a couple in mind that I can't wait to get started on!<br />
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I used to be an exclusively redo-furniture kind of gal, but the accessory bug is starting to bite!<br />
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Thanks for stopping by today at BIG FAMILY/small apartment. We hope you follow along with us as we turn our small spaces in Awesome Spaces one project at a time!<br />
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<br />Kristin {thehomeavengers.wordpress.com}http://www.blogger.com/profile/02227212085314605796noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225676105652723744.post-37007505999187051182012-10-30T11:32:00.000-07:002013-09-12T22:07:17.517-07:00Mr. Big and the Silver Mirror<i><u>Note as of September 2013</u> - My husband and I are now blogging over at <a href="http://thehomeavengers.wordpress.com/">The Home Avengers</a>! We made the switch because we are looking to move from our small apartment sometime in the near future. So enjoy this post and then come visit us!</i><br />
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Quite some time ago I purchased this mirror at a yard sale, and got an awesome deal on it too! Since then it's been <a href="http://bigfamilysmallapartment.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-garage-of-happiness.html">sitting in our garage</a> waiting for some LOVE.<br />
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I've been wanting to jump on the Rub'n'Buff wagon for quite some time after having seen some ahh-mazing bloggy transformations with it.<br />
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But first I had to buy some. Here's where it gets interesting. So Mr. BIG [FAMILY/small apartment] was heading to Home Depot and Michael's is right next door. On his way out I told him I needed some "Rub'n'Buff", so he spun around all wide eyed and said..."You need some 'Rub In The Buff''?'<br />
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Umm, then I found myself in a quandary. I could crush his manly desires and say 'No dear, that's not what I meant, what I'm really looking for is this silver pigmented waxy stuff...' or I could delicately word my response to ensure he knew he was my studmuffin AND that I wanted to redo my mirror today. I chose option #2.<br />
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After he retrieved the product for me I got to work. Here are some before shots of this mirror. I was definitely NOT digging the gold.<br />
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It was dark, dreary and looked very dirty, even though it wasn't (cause I washed this little puppy):<br />
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So I got to work:<br />
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Progress was really slow. I rubbed...and I buffed...and I rubbed...<br />
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All this activity at the kitchen table got Mr. BIG's attention. Have I told you about Mr. BIG? He's quite incorrigible. He said "Oh honey, my shoulder really hurts, do you think it could get the mirror treatment later?" and "You missed a spot" while pointing at his back. I could tell he wasn't done though and was still thinking about it. After a while he made his final comment..."Maybe Rub'n'Buff is meant to be rubbed on...in the buff?".<br />
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That's it ladies. That's the answer. Do you have a man that is less than supportive of your DIY projects? Well, you are guaranteed to win him over by DIY'ing...in your birthday suit!<br />
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Please excuse my PG13 blog digression. Back to my usual G rating and the mirror.<br />
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Here we are half complete - what a difference!<br />
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I also had to use a small paintbrush to get all of the details and I was pleasantly surprised with how easy it was to clean up after:<br />
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So that's the story of Mr. BIG and the silver mirror. I hope you'll keep following along as we DIY and blog our way through the appropriate and, well, slightly less-than-appropriate projects!<br />
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Financial Friday</a>, <a href="http://www.fresh-eggs-daily.com/">Fresh Eggs Daily - Friday Farm Girl Blog Fest</a>, <a href="http://cupcakesandcrinoline.com/">Cupcakes and Crinoline - It's Party Time Sunday</a>, <a href="http://designdreamsbyanne.blogspot.com/">Design Dreams By Anne - It's Party Time Sunday</a>, <a href="http://threemangoseeds.blogspot.com/">Three Mango Seeds - It's Party Time Sunday</a>, <a href="http://pjhdesignsoneofakind.blogspot.com/">PJH Designs - Totally Transformed Tuesday</a>, <a href="http://www.soimarriedacraftblogger.com/">So I Married A Craft Blogger - Man Up Link Up Tuesday</a></em></span>Kristin {thehomeavengers.wordpress.com}http://www.blogger.com/profile/02227212085314605796noreply@blogger.com41tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225676105652723744.post-26757521776805148572012-10-28T23:43:00.000-07:002013-09-12T22:07:59.188-07:00Girlfriend's Yellow Lamps and I WAS FEATURED!<i style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><u>Note as of September 2013</u> - My husband and I are now blogging over at <a href="http://thehomeavengers.wordpress.com/" style="color: #b5653b; text-decoration: none;">The Home Avengers</a>! We made the switch because we are looking to move from our small apartment sometime in the near future. So enjoy this post and then come visit us!</i><br />
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If you've been following my blog you may remember that on one of my recent <a href="http://bigfamilysmallapartment.blogspot.com/2012/09/thrift-store-thursday-2.html">thrift store excursions</a> I picked up these lamps:<br />
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But he didn't get his way :-( See, these lamps were going in Girlfriend's room on her dresser. And I put them there and they sat for a time while we waited for some inspiration to hit. And it finally did!</div>
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Girlfriend just loves this dress that <a href="http://bigfamilysmallapartment.blogspot.com/2012/10/thrift-store-thursday-4-prom-dresses.html">Grandma found at a thrift store:</a></div>
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She loves it so much, that it's the inspiration for the redo of her bedroom! It will be the 'Plaid-ish Orange-y, Yellow, Turquoise with just a *hint* of Green Room' when we are finally done!</div>
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I have seen spray painted lamps all over the blogosphere and have always wanted to try it. It turned out so much better than I even thought it would. The paint was so shiny smooth and pretty! Girlfriend loved them!</div>
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Our first feature was on <a href="http://myricandreasen.blogspot.ca/2012/10/hello-world-we-are-having-such-lovely.html">Petites Passions</a> where my <a href="http://bigfamilysmallapartment.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-awesome-orange-mirror-and-126.html">Awesome Orange Mirror</a> caught the spotlight:</div>
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Kristin {thehomeavengers.wordpress.com}http://www.blogger.com/profile/02227212085314605796noreply@blogger.com78tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225676105652723744.post-76454253401371128952012-10-22T10:04:00.000-07:002012-10-22T10:05:55.407-07:00A Cold, Sick and Rainy Monday & The {thrifted} Lord of The RingsYep. That's what's going on here today at BIG FAMILY/small apartment.<br />
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My teenage boys are participating in their fall high school musical and have had rehearsals and then shows for 14 days straight. Theatre Boy took his PSAT's somewhere in there too. My job was to make sure their meals were hot and their laundry was clean throughout the ordeal. Still they landed sick. Typical not-able-to-pace-themselves-gung-ho-overachievers. I wonder who they got that from. Girlfriend may get the award for most over-achieving though because she sniffled all the way to school this morning so as not to disappoint her adoring fans.<br />
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So I'm doing the hunker down and snuggle in thing here because the boys are asleep, the apartment is nice and quiet and the outside looks like this:<br />
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Somehow my camera didn't catch the pouring rain.<br />
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The inside, however, looks like this:<br />
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See? I know how to make the best of a cold, sick day.<br />
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This past week I didn't do a Thrift Store Thursday because of the boys schedule. But I still took Girlfriend to the thrift store and she picked out a couple of things for her brothers that I wanted to share with you.<br />
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I love thrift store shopping with girlfriend. She'll <strike>forcibly drag me away from the furniture section</strike> discourage me from buying furniture I don't need and she's got a good eye for the unique, unusual and definitely one of a kind.<br />
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Her first purchase was a vintage 1981 Snowflake Shmuzzle Puzzle for 99 cents.<br />
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Our family had so much fun with this by the fire last night! This puzzle has 168 identically shaped pieces that look like salamanders. It says 'number of correct combinations - 1' and 'number of incorrect combinations - Approx. 2.5 x 10^302'. Now any kind of challenge involving scientific notation fires my boys up. So the Shmuzzle got 1/4 of the way finished last night while I made the whole family their sickie food.<br />
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Speaking of sickie food, let me share our sick traditions with you. Doesn't everyone have sick traditions in their home? We always treat our viruses herbally, and our favorite herb to use is Lemon Balm. Lemon Balm has been found to have some anti-viral properties and also helps with rest and sleep. I always make and herbal 'decoction' with it.<br />
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First we take organic dried herbs and put them in a teabag. Then I fill a stainless steel pot with filtered water and bring all of it to a boil. Then I turn the heat down and let it simmer until the liquid in the pot is approximately 1/2 of what I started with. Then everyone gets a cup of strong, decocted Lemon Balm tea.<br />
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It looks like this in the pot:<br />
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After everyone has had their tea then I make something I call "Sick Soup". It's gluten free noodles (we're all gluten free here), organic chicken broth, butter and a dash of cayenne pepper. Whatever the Lemon Balm doesn't take care of, the Sick Soup will!<br />
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Because this post totally has ADD, I wanted to get back to Girlfriend's thrift store shopping. She won big points for getting her biggest bro (Theatre Boy) a present.<br />
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Any clue what this is?<br />
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Well, it's a tree, made out of wire, epoxied to a couple of pieces of granite. It cost less than a Starbucks, and I thought Girlfriend was insane when she brought it back to the shopping cart at our local Goodwill. She apparently knew what she was doing though, because when she got it home her brother bowed down to her greatness. Apparently the wire-tree-and-granite-sculpture was a total depiction of the tree from The Lord of the Rings and thus earned a prominent place on his shelf.<br />
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Living proof you can find ANYTHING at a thrift store.<br />
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Now to change the subject on you one more time before I go back to my coffee-sipping, laundry-doing, quiet-making, fire-stoking Monday morning life.<br />
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I'm currently in a dispute with Mr. Big [FAMILY/small apartment] about the use of these:<br />
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Our apartment complex is brimming with them and my girls did some major pine cone gathering yesterday. Mr. Big wants to throw them in the fire and burn them up with the firewood. Noooo! I want to spray paint them and dip them in glitter! Of course Mr. Big said they wouldn't burn well that way, but he would definitely give it a try. Grrrr. Look for some pine cone projects in the future as well as attempts to hide them from Mr. Big.<br />
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I'm excited about some up and coming projects this week. My furniture-painting-enabling-friend and I moved my two projects into their garage before the rains hit. So I get to work on them inside this week and actually finish them! So excited!<br />
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Have a great Monday and I'll see you back here again soon at BIG FAMILY/small apartment.<br />
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<br />Kristin {thehomeavengers.wordpress.com}http://www.blogger.com/profile/02227212085314605796noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225676105652723744.post-43861876805338110622012-10-17T17:39:00.000-07:002013-09-12T22:08:18.180-07:00A Tale of Two Tables<i style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><u>Note as of September 2013</u> - My husband and I are now blogging over at <a href="http://thehomeavengers.wordpress.com/" style="color: #b5653b; text-decoration: none;">The Home Avengers</a>! We made the switch because we are looking to move from our small apartment sometime in the near future. So enjoy this post and then come visit us!</i><br />
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Today I'm going to show you what I did with a couple of yard sale tables and a quart of leftover green paint!<br />
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This first table I got at a yard sale for $10. It was all scuffed up and the finish was bad. It apparently used to have a piece of glass in the middle of it from a former life. Nonetheless it was a sturdy little bugger and because I love sofa tables I loaded it up and brought it home.<br />
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Here's the before:<br />
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Good bones! I like that!<br />
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This was a pretty quick job. First I lightly sanded the whole piece. I didn't bother to prime because I was going to sand some of the edges and I wanted the dark wood peeking through. Next I applied a couple of coats of leftover green paint that I had <a href="http://bigfamilysmallapartment.blogspot.com/2012/07/my-cool-green-chalkboard-machine.html">used on this</a> back in July. After the green paint was on, I lightly sanded the edges so that the wood could peek through, then I lightly glazed the whole piece with Valspar Antiquing Glaze.<br />
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I got creative when replacing the center. I didn't want glass there, but a chalkboard! I went to Home depot and had a small thin sheet of wood cut to fit the center. Next I sanded, primed and painted it with chalkboard paint <a href="http://bigfamilysmallapartment.blogspot.com/2012/09/love-chalkboards-tutorial.html">like this</a>. Then I glued it into the center and used black grout around the chalkboard. It looked marvelous!<br />
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Like this:<br />
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My children and even Mr. Big [House/small apartment] loved it too!<br />
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It's so neat how chalkboards bring out the kid in all of us.<br />
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The next table I don't have a before picture of. I know, I know - I'm getting better though! I bought this table at a yard sale for $5. It's top was beyond repair and it was actually in two pieces. First I fixed and sanded it, and used the leftover green paint - and it looked like this:<br />
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A little boring don't you think?<br />
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All those great grooves really called antiquing glaze as well. So I painted the glaze on and wiped it off with a wet rag, making sure glaze stayed in each groove. The result was amazing!<br />
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Here's a closer look -<br />
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We wound up selling this one for a pretty penny too! I hadn't intended on selling it, but after I got it home it was lower than my couch and awkward as an end table. So rather than have it go to waste, I became a furniture flipper for this piece! Too fun! Need to make a little money here in there to fuel the next project.<br />
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Thanks for stopping by today!<br />
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Kristin {thehomeavengers.wordpress.com}http://www.blogger.com/profile/02227212085314605796noreply@blogger.com64tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225676105652723744.post-11753462767609729582012-10-13T23:22:00.000-07:002013-09-12T22:08:39.740-07:00Duct Tape Bed Skirt and the Hidden Stash of Dew<i style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><u>Note as of September 2013</u> - My husband and I are now blogging over at <a href="http://thehomeavengers.wordpress.com/" style="color: #b5653b; text-decoration: none;">The Home Avengers</a>! We made the switch because we are looking to move from our small apartment sometime in the near future. So enjoy this post and then come visit us!</i><br />
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I have TWO teenage boys (15 & 17) sharing a small bedroom at the back of our apartment. Somehow we managed to fit 2 twin beds, a nightstand, 2 dressers, a desk and a chair in this room! There is a 3 ft. walkway between the beds, a 2 ft. walkway between the beds and dressers and a 3 ft. strip of space at the front of the room. We rearranged things 4 times until we got it this way! Here's a pic from the doorway looking into their room:<br />
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Right away what do you notice? All the junk under the beds! Well, we're going to cover that up shortly, but first, let me tell you a little bit about their room. The picture on the nightstand is actually a picture of Theatre Boy in his first leading role as Shan-Yu in Disney's Mulan Jr. and the Himalayan Salt Candle is because my boys like fire. The nightstand in the middle was a DIY project from last year. The 2 dressers match it and we love the vintage square hardware! This set has been in the family for many years and actually came from my boys Aunt Karyn. They had been forgotten inside a storage unit and we rescued them! Here's another pic:<br />
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Yep. Look at all them bare walls.<br />
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Under their beds is pretty scary too:<br />
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There are the usual teenage boy things. Chemistry set, box of hot wheels, models of Star Wars things and shoe boxes filled with cards.<br />
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Under Theatre Boy's bed things get a little crazy, because that's where he houses his [not so] secret stash of Mountain Dew. At any given time there are at least four 12-packs in multiple flavors under here. Original, Throwback, Voltage, Code Red, Dark Berry and White Out can be found and sometimes he doesn't even notice if we steal one!<br />
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To make more space under their beds I put each bed frame on risers (actually all the beds in our apartment are on risers) and some beds have the special under bed boxes with wheels on them . This has presented a problem finding bed skirts because the height of all our beds is definitely non-standard. I would either have to special order bed skirts (pricey) or have them custom made (even pricier) for them to fit. And even though I sew I have neither time nor inclination to tackle bed skirts for the whole family right now.<br />
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Enter Duct Tape. The solution for everything.<br />
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These no-sew bed skirts are made out of 2 lovingly used King size flat sheets (but you can really use any size sheet for this, this is all I had on hand that I wasn't planning on using ever again), a pair of scissors and a roll of duct tape.<br />
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To make a bed skirt, first cut the sheet in half longways. Like from the middle top of the sheet to the middle bottom. The next thing I did was iron each piece of the sheet, but you don't have to.<br />
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After that take the sheet and fold over one of the edges that borders both the cut side and the uncut side. Then drape the sheet, uncut long side brushing the floor, at the middle end of the bed and duct tape it in place. Here's a picture to give you a better idea of what it looks like after this step:<br />
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The next thing I did was drape the sheet around the bed, ensuring the edge was barely brushing the floor, while wrapping the box spring like a present and duct taping it into place, like this:<br />
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Once the first side was completely draped I duct taped everything into place (while eating a bowl of Cool Ranch Doritos):<br />
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Then I repeated it on the other side:<br />
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Once it was all duct taped and done, I tugged and pulled and re-positioned until everything was exactly where I wanted it, then I put the mattress back on and made the bed. And Voila':<br />
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The Mountain Dew stash is finally hidden. This project actually cost me ZERO dollars! So exciting!<br />
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Thanks for stopping by BIG FAMILY/small apartment today. I'm gonna go drink a Dew now.<br />
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Kristin {thehomeavengers.wordpress.com}http://www.blogger.com/profile/02227212085314605796noreply@blogger.com42tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225676105652723744.post-82264210215203630892012-10-11T11:31:00.000-07:002012-10-11T11:31:11.368-07:00Thrift Store Thursday #4, Prom Dresses and a Big SecretIn a desperate attempt to NOT have to go to the store (because I am so crunched for time!), I tried drinking my coffee black this morning. When that didn't work I got the brilliant idea to use nonfat vanilla yogurt in my coffee as a creamer. That was really bad. Like 'don't ever do it' bad. Then I broke down and went to the store just to get the 'vanilla yogurt in coffee' taste out of my mouth. Ewww.<br />
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So this Thrift Store Thursday isn't really about my thrifting trips this week. I only made one trip and couldn't find anything that I liked or needed, and came back with one small picture frame for a dollar. So no, this post isn't going to be about me, it's about my mother (Hi Mom, I know you're reading and I hope you don't mind being the main attraction today).<br />
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All I got was a measly $1 frame. Though it is quite an awesome frame.</div>
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My mom lives near an SVDP. For those of you that don't know what SVDP is, it stands for St. Vincent De Paul. Now these are fabulous thrift stores. I've been into this SVDP several times and everyone is so nice. There was a staff member that actually marked items down just for me because I was buying a lot. The staff is always very friendly and they even ask if you need help. Finally, when I've checked out of SVDP they have always thanked me profusely for supporting them. One time I bought some furniture and had to make several trips to get it all home, and each time I came back they happily loaded the rest of my purchases and thanked me for supporting them every time. I mean, these people are NICE!<br />
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Now, Mom is Girlfriend's personal shopper. And unlike most 13 year old girls, Girlfriend NEEDS a personal shopper. Let me share with you the big secret reason why Girlfriend needs an experienced thrifting Grandma...so come closer...and shhhhh...<br />
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Along with being a queen, she has all sorts of "gotta look very pretty" appearances to attend to. Of course "gotta look very pretty" usually means "gotta be very expensive" and doesn't every mom want a closet full of dresses your daughter will only wear once or twice each? Not only that, her responsibilities include fundraising for some local charities she's interested in, and I would much rather have her learn to support charity, and not her closet.</div>
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So for less than a Starbucks Grandma keeps Girlfriend dressed. Look at some of Grandma's finds:</div>
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And Grandma's most recent acquisition for Girlfriend is this hot pink dress with adorable swirls dropping down from the skirt. She saw it and immediately texted me this pic (yes, Grandma texts!). I showed this pic to Girlfriend and she said "OMG yes!".</div>
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Kristin {thehomeavengers.wordpress.com}http://www.blogger.com/profile/02227212085314605796noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225676105652723744.post-1387326295575033342012-10-09T23:16:00.001-07:002012-10-17T16:31:56.761-07:00Vintage Floral Wall Art and how Kilz nearly Killed My ProjectTonight Mr. Big [Family/small apartment] went to the grocery store and bought his second case of fire logs in under 2 weeks. We've been having great family time each night around the fire while Cutie Girl gives Daddy singing lessons. So far she's taught him Doe, Rae, Me - but seems to have lost him after that. Needless to say our teen boys have discovered new uses for their earbuds while all of this is going on. Girlfriend even came out of her room and asked who was dying...<br />
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So, onto the reason for my blog post tonight. I have a "Blog Crush" on <a href="http://www.sawdustandembryos.com/">Sawdust & Embryos</a> and anxiously await each one of their new projects. Quite a while ago (like back in 2010!) Beth posted about a <a href="http://www.sawdustandembryos.com/2010/06/floral-decorative-thingy.html">Floral Decorative Thingy</a> she bought at a thrift store for $4.99. I loved what she did with it so much that when I found someone selling THREE similar pieces on Craigslist for $5 each, I snapped them up! (excessive much?) Here's a before picture of the one I just completed:<br />
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These were made in the 60's and 70's and what I thought was really neat is that on the back of this, in raised lettering, it says "Made in the USA". It also says it was made in Indiana. We don't see that very much anymore!<br />
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So here's what Beth at <a href="http://www.sawdustandembryos.com/2010/06/floral-decorative-thingy.html">Sawdust & Embryo's</a> did with hers. She even painted part of her flowers orange, and we all know how much <a href="http://bigfamilysmallapartment.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-awesome-orange-mirror-and-126.html">I love orange</a>:<br />
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Yeah, I'm jealous much.<br />
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I, however, was going in a different direction with mine because it was going to land in Girlfriend's bathroom. For what I was doing I needed to prime it, and then paint it gloss white. I've learned to prime anything that is going a lighter color and that I don't plan on distressing. So I bought a brand new spray can of Kilz oil based primer and got to work.<br />
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What happened next is right out of a DIY horror movie! I was very careful to shake up my can of primer and even do a quick test spray. All seemed well. I then proceeded to prime my vintage art piece. Instead of spraying smoothly the Kilz Primer sputtered and spattered and clumped and gobbed it's way out of the can. And with one spray I had completely ruined the nice smooth finish on this piece. As a matter of fact, after that first spray of primer my piece looked like an old 70's popcorn ceiling! Here's a pic (I did not include a pic of me crying over ruined art...)<br />
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Isn't that awful? I tried everything I could to get that can to spray right and it just didn't work. It was a nice warm day outside so it dried nearly instantly (I guess that would be a plus for Kilz), but since it had dried so fast I could not wipe it off (I tried!). The next thing I tried was a piece of fine sand paper. That managed to get the little leaves flattened out again but the rest was still a big hot mess. Finally I got a very hard bristled scrub brush, took this over to the sink and got to work. Here's a pic with the brush that sorta saved it:<br />
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And that was as good as it was gonna get. It still wasn't perfectly smooth like it was before, but it was workable. I live too far from the store to justify returning my Kilz, so I sent them an email and haven't heard back :-(<br />
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Next I went over it with a light dusting of Valspar Gloss White Spray Paint. Good 'ol Valspar, that kind of saved it. Onto the the next step. I grabbed a sample of Melon colored Oops paint - don't you love that price -<br />
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And I used it to paint the flowers. Then Girlfriend came over and needed homework help, but instead took my paintbrush away and painted the flowers herself. I think she did a fine job:<br />
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We were having so much fun! Anyway, after the flowers were done we used a bright turquoise color in the middle of each flower:<br />
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We just loved it! We wanted to tone down the brightness a bit though, so the last (time consuming) step was to glaze the entire piece. For that we chose Martha Stewart Living Metallic Glaze in Mercury. Yes, I use this glaze everywhere and one day will probably glaze my entire body. No I'm not being bought off by Martha, but she's welcome to send me a check for all my enthusiastic advertising.<br />
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Mercury is a silvery metallic glaze and very pretty. We glazed the whole piece. A word of advice for glazing a piece like this is to use a small brush to put it on, and a small dry brush to wipe it off. When it was done the leaves were defined and it had a little sparkle and shine to it, just like Girlfriend. Lastly we hung it up in her bathroom and it is now the "inspiration piece" for the rest of the room. Considering there is nothing else on any wall in there. That means I'm going to be blogging about decorating this place for a looong time. Here's some more pics:<br />
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So pretty!<br />
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It matches Cutie Girl's jewelry box below it:<br />
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Too bad I'm in an apartment and can't paint the walls. I can think of some great colors that would show this little piece off nicely! But we'll make do. At least we don't have contractor white walls!<br />
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A while back I made an AH-MAZING yard sale find. My husband and I spied this mirror at a yard sale, with the $600 price tag still stuck to the back! It wasn't in the greatest of condition, it was dirty and peeling. I don't want to tell you what I paid for it (much less than 10% of that price tag) because you'd be so jealous you wouldn't read my blog anymore! At first my husband and I WALKED AWAY and left the yard sale. It was just so big and heavy and we didn't know what we'd do with it. Then we got our heads back on straight and drove as quickly as we could back to the sale to snap it up!</div>
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This mirror is very large and hand carved in India. It weighs about 50 lbs. and is about 4 ft. by 3ft. in size, and of all things, it hangs by a serious iron chain on the back! Like the kind of chain you'd see on Jacob Marley - that kind of chain!</div>
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So what does an incessant DIY-er do when they find something like this? They paint it orange. Duh. I got out some lovely Annie Sloan Barcelona chalk paint and got to work. Progress was verrrrrrrry slow with all the deep nooks and crannies on this thing! Here's a picture after I was off and running.<br />
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Soon I ran out of stream and got distracted. Here's where the Starbursts come in.</div>
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Theatre Boy, my 17 year old son, bursts in the house after drama rehearsal and announces he needs 10 large bags of Starbursts. Of course my reply was "YOU NEED WHAT????". To which he confirmed said request for a ridiculously large amount of candy. After continued interrogation on my part, I come to find out that the cute little choir girl I've spied him holding hands with after school has a favorite candy. You guessed it. Starbursts. But not just any Starbursts. Her true favorite is only the YELLOW ones. See where we're going?</div>
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So after a late night run to Target, we all sit down to open bag after bag of Starbursts and sort out the yellow ones. (might I mention the kids said "hurry, throw away the wrappers before mom finds something to Mod Podge them onto - love these kids). After all the sorting there are 126 yellow Starbursts. "Just enough" Theatre Boy says.</div>
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Time to ask a girl to the Homecoming Dance properly (see my mirror back there? soo neglected).</div>
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Now this is one sweet offer. I mean, when did these kids get all fancy shmancy in how they ask a girl to the Homecoming Dance? Seriously, when I was in high school the guy came up to you in the hallway and said "Hey, you wanna go to Homecoming?". And that was it. Now there's flowers and posters and well...I'm jealous.</div>
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So the next morning I was part of the plan. I had to wait in the parking lot with this poster so he could get it right before the class he has with this cute girl.</div>
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She said YES, and since then has acquired a gorgeous purple gown for the dance. Pictures will be forthcoming. </div>
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Now I could finish my mirror.</div>
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Even though all that orange was, well, Awesome! - it left me feeling a little flat. I mean, all those little carvings and nothing to make them shine.</div>
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So first it needed some distressing. I got out a sanding block and distressed every single raised edge on the entire mirror.</div>
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After I had beat the heck out of it, and couldn't feel my arms either, I was totally dismayed. It still looked...flat. Like my chest after breastfeeding all my children.</div>
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Enter Martha Stewart Living Metallic Glaze in Muscovado. You know I love these glazes and use them, like, on every other project.</div>
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And wipe it off...can you tell the part that was glazed? I was finally satisfied.</div>
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But now there was a dilemma. I had NO place to put this mirror! That's what friends are for though. I've known my friend Erin for over 20 years and one of her favorite colors is orange! And she just moved and has bare walls! What could be better? So this wonderful piece went over to Erin's house. I figure if I die first she can keep it forever and if she dies first she'll just will it to me. All settled.</div>
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Here it is up on her wall - can you see how awesome the glaze is in defining all the details?</div>
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So that's it! Thanks for tagging along today! I'm gonna go eat some Starbursts.</div>
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It seems as though my teenage children and myself have a lot of delicate clothes. Either that or all of my preaching about how taking care of things makes them last longer got heard. Needless to say Theatre Boy and Girlfriend have quite a few items of clothing they won't let near a dryer. When clothes are hung dry they last longer, stay colorful longer and the fabric won't get fuzzy or have pills. Yes, after doing laundry for 7 people for years, I know this first hand.</div>
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So in our small apartment we had to get creative with a clothing line. We don't have the capability of putting a laundry line outside of our apartment, but we do have this really great looong hallway inside of our apartment. My boys hung up 4 hooks in a line in the hallway using drywall anchors. The anchors we used have a 75 lb. weight limit on them because we wanted to make sure they held whatever we hung up! Then we draped twinkle lights from hook to hook, wrapping the lights around each hook a couple of times. They reach the electrical outlet nicely and make a great clothesline! Here's what it looks like with damp clothes on it:</div>
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Now these are outdoor lights that can stand up to wind, rain and snow, so I'm thinking that some damp clothing isn't a problem! Here's a closer look:<br />
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When we don't have clothes on the line we'll turn the twinkle lights on just for fun! It's really cute in the hallway. Here's the clothesline with the twinkle lights on:<br />
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As I'm hanging clothes I do take care to make sure the lights aren't actually "on" the clothes. And most of the time the lights are off when there are clothes on the line. But sometimes the lights are on and it's just really fun!<br />
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What a neat and creative way to hang dry clothes when you live in an apartment. Space is at such a premium here that I don't want to waste any space with a clothes rack. Before I thought of this idea we were hanging clothes to dry in the showers, which really didn't work when someone needed to shower!<br />
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I don't hand wash these clothes, we have a full washer and dryer in our apartment so I will wash the clothes on the delicate cycle with a gentle detergent and fabric softener before hanging them to dry. When they're drying they also make the apartment smell nice and fresh.<br />
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<br />Kristin {thehomeavengers.wordpress.com}http://www.blogger.com/profile/02227212085314605796noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225676105652723744.post-36716645378050279202012-10-04T08:36:00.000-07:002012-10-04T08:36:56.061-07:00Thrift Store Thursday #3I was so sad I didn't get to go to ANY yard sales this weekend! And oh my were they out in force with the beautiful weather and all! Instead, my children had activities and performances from 4:00 a.m. (yes, that was when we got up!) until midnight on Saturday. I was quite rummy by the end of the whole thing yet quite proud, having flung 4 children in 11 different directions over the course of 20 hours. He's what we fit in to our Saturday: my 3 teenagers volunteering and performing at a local charity run event, 2 sets of photographs for my daughters ballet company, 1 playdate for Cutie Girl, 1 sleepover for Girlfriend, 2 rehearsals and 1 performance for Theatre Boy and a rehearsal and performance for the Geek. (Haven't heard of the Geek yet? He's my 15 year old son that understands and reiterates all things science. They modeled a sitcom after him called The Big Bang Theory, lol!). Somewhere in there we ate, and some family members even got a nap. Nope, not me though.<br />
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Anyway, Cutie Girl and I did make it to some thrift stores on our weekly outing - and even tried a new burger place with crispy french fries and gluten free friendly taco's! Here was our haul after a couple of stores:<br />
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As you can see I'm still on the hunt for frames and I scored FOUR of them, all in perfect condition! Here's a closer look at some other things:<br />
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Cutie Girl has her ears pierced and she picked out this cute butterfly earring holder. It's perfect, just needs a good washing!<br />
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I just liked this white box. I don't know where it will go or what I will use it for. Can you see it filled with a bunch of milk glass vases? Or in the bathroom filled with smell goody thingies? I'm sure it will find a home around here very soon.<br />
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I adored these 3 little butterflies that were 49 cents each. These will get a coat of spray paint and land on Cutie Girl's desk wall. Notice the 'Q' and 'Z' in there? These are glass paperweights sold by a very popular local gallery. Considering those are the letters of both my son's first names I thought they would look great on their desks, and I couldn't pass them up for a dollar.</div>
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Cutie Girl is growing like a weed! She may still be 7 but has outgrown every size 7 piece of clothing she has. We found these great Justice shorts for her and a sparkly light blue velveteen shirt. I love Justice clothes for my girls but don't love the price. It's awesome when I find these brands at the thrift stores.</div>
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All these items ranged in price from 49 cents to $3 and our total spent was less than $20. We had fun, and we'll be back next week for another Thrift Store Thursday! In the meantime I'll be unveiling some awesome new projects. Stay tuned!</div>
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Kristin {thehomeavengers.wordpress.com}http://www.blogger.com/profile/02227212085314605796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225676105652723744.post-9814888735586557912012-09-30T20:42:00.001-07:002012-09-30T20:46:35.897-07:00The Garage of HappinessWell, today we averted a kitchen fire. My almost 17 year old son, photobombing "theatre boy" for those of you that read my <a href="http://bigfamilysmallapartment.blogspot.com/2012/09/thrift-store-thursday-2.html">last post</a>, thought it would be a brilliant idea to make a grilled cheese sandwich in the toaster. He even thought to lay the toaster on it's side while it was toasting and everything. This is the truth because it would be way to difficult to make stuff like this up. Yes, I swear he's taking all AP classes in high school. Really.<br />
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Anyway, I recently had a long catch up phone call with a friend that has moved away. She'd read my blog, and knowing that I was in a small apartment with all these kids, she asked me where on earth was I painting and keeping all this furniture? So that's what this blog post is all about. You get to peek into what my husband has dubbed <em>The Garage of Happiness</em>...<br />
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Our specific apartment complex offers one car garages for a small additional fee. However we didn't just get a garage for me and my projects, we got a garage because we needed it for all the kids extra stuff and it was less expensive than a storage unit. But, having all my up and coming projects in the garage is a definite plus!<br />
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So here's the pic of our one car garage:<br />
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Now let's go on a tour, shall we?<br />
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First we have this lovely Hepplewhite highboy dresser. It's drawers are on the other side of the garage and they have all their original hardware! When this dresser grows up it has told me that it wants to be an ombre delight, complete with pewter rub'n'buff on it's hardware and lovely paint and wallpaper inside it's drawers. It will definitely get its wish once I figure out what ombre color scheme I'm going with!<br />
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Next up is this delightful vintage highboy dresser that my friend Erin gave to me. Once again, the drawers live in the 'draweryard' on the other side of the garage. Her sweet daughters dressed it up with peace and love stickers. When it gets redone it wants to hang on to its hippy roots with some awesome 60's colors and swirly psychedelic stenciling.<br />
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The draweryard. Need I say more?<br />
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And what about this chandelier? It's been a bad faux brass boy so I'm gonna get a rope and hang it up by it's neck from a tree - then shoot it with a can of Krylon. Bright Pink. Then Girlfriend and I will take a trip to Michael's and pick some crystals to hang between it's boughs. Oh what an afterlife it will have. But don't worry, it will get <strike>baptized</strike> washed first!<br />
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Then we have these sweet parlor chairs in a hideous dark wood and deep red vinyl. Ewww. These babies are going to be used for the desks I have and each one will get treated like the individual it deserves to be. With every thrift store and yard sale I attend I seek out <strike>new life and new civilizations</strike> pure wool items to felt and dye and make into proper cushion covers. There is guaranteed to be a dipped piece in here and I'll even take one step further and tell ya' that one of those red seats is going to get a coat of chalk paint <strike>and I will boldly paint where no one has painted before</strike>!<br />
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And check out this mirror! This was definitely the yard sale find of the century. I have no clue what's going to come of this one. Your input is appreciated!<br />
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I do some of my painting in the garage. If something needs to be sanded though, it goes to a friends house and we bust out the sanding together. I typically take the drawers to my apartment and do them there. And my husband and I have negotiated that I get to keep one active project in the apartment. Right now there's an awesome almost orange mirror in my hallway that you'll see soon!<br />
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Now I've got to tell you that there are plenty more secrets in this little garage. But a true lady never gives away all her secrets. You'll just have to follow my blog to see what else pops up. I can guarantee there's some chevrons, neons, unique glazes and stencils coming up because there are over 10 pieces and decorative items that I didn't even show you! No hoarding here. Really.<br />
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Until next time. And don't use your toaster as a grilled cheese maker.<br />
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Kristin {thehomeavengers.wordpress.com}http://www.blogger.com/profile/02227212085314605796noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225676105652723744.post-12258650187397389622012-09-27T19:38:00.002-07:002012-09-27T19:38:50.814-07:00Thrift Store Thursday #2My life is insane and today was no exception. I wanted this post up first thing in the morning, but like usual my life had other ideas. My morning usually starts by first taking my 13 year old daughter and her friend to Jr. High. Then I come back home in time to take my oldest son to high school. This particular morning my husband stayed home because he had an appointment, so I got all wrapped up in making him coffee, then I ran off to pick the girls up from Jr. High because they had a very early minimum day. Next I ran off to pick up a friend up from the airport, got him some lunch and dropped him at home. While I was doing that hubby ran my youngest son to high school. Yes, younger son and older son are in the same high school but have different schedules. No, I didn't plan it that way.<br />
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Are you tired yet? It gets better.<br />
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Then I went with my husband to his doctor's appointment, oh, and we stopped to get something to eat on the way. By the time we're out of the appointment my husband realizes I've ran all day for everyone else, so he says the magic words..."How 'bout we stop into that thrift store you love around here?". See, the doctor's office is 25 mi. from where we live and there is a jammin' huge thrift store in that town, and I married an awesome man who understands a thrift store shopping trip gets him more points than bringing me flowers! So off we went. Look what I scored:<br />
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These are two matching decorative metal lamps. Can you hear them screaming "Paint ME!"? Like I said, the lighting is really bad in this apartment. These were in perfect condition and were $6.50 each! Here's a closeup:<br />
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Please excuse the photobomb by my ginger haired, theatrically inclined teenage son. I usually take pics while he's at school for this very reason. At least he got Chipotle for dinner. He liked my new lamps and said he'd like them better if they were orange. Not gonna happen.<br />
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Then I also found these:<br />
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These are for girlfriends desk. To catch little makeup thingy's, earring backs and sticks of chewing gum (preferably not already chewed). That price tag says $3.00 :-)<br />
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I had more thrift store adventures earlier in the week, and wouldn't you know it - but it was another lamp!<br />
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This one was in perfect condition and only $4.00. The only thing not pictured was the pink striped tank top I got for my little cutie girl. So just picture a pink striped tank top for $1 in your head.<br />
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Now this post is going to go further than just the thrift store. I made a Craigslist score this week that I have to tell you about. I saw a project with these floral thingies on another blog and when I do the project I will definitely link to the other blog so you can see where I got the idea from. These were only $5 each (but 7 year old cutie girl charged a Jamba Juice for her company on the ride to pick them up). They are from the 60's or 70's and are made of resin. If anyone knows anything else about these things I'd love for you to share. I cannot wait to add my paint and glaze touches to these. Girlfriend swooned over these and theatre boy said they were awesome. Reaffirming that fact that everything that was out of style eventually comes back in! Here's the small one:<br />
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This will probably get revamped and put up in the bathroom. And here's the big one, I actually got TWO of these:<br />
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Isn't the little butterfly on the bottom adorable? That butterfly is gonna be blue - I just know it.<br />
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So this post is like a big infomercial for frugal shopping so I get to say 'BUT WAIT - THERE'S MORE!' Even with my crazy family schedule I got to go to a few yard sales this past Saturday morning with my hubby. Our neighborhood was packed with them. However, that's where I scored these for $2.00:<br />
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They are never-worn, Skechers Twinkle Toes in cutie girl's size! These are the shoes that produce seizure inducing blinkie lights with every step she takes - and she LOVES them! They're dirty in this picture because she's worn them for 5 days straight. I love being able to see exactly where she is in the dark though!<br />
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So there are my finds for the week. The other thing I learned this week was to write most of my Thrift Store Thursday post Wednesday evening. That way I can hit my Thursday morning self imposed deadline. Can't wait to see if I make it next week!<br />
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Kristin {thehomeavengers.wordpress.com}http://www.blogger.com/profile/02227212085314605796noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225676105652723744.post-22435392151074047692012-09-25T10:22:00.001-07:002012-10-02T23:23:32.427-07:00Girlfriend's Desk and Dresser Makeover - In ProgressMy daughter is 13. The age of eye-rolling, too much makeup and embarrassment over my presence. But it's cute and we're having fun with it. Recently, I set out to completely redo her room for a less <strike>junky</strike> retro feel.<br />
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Many years back I picked up a dresser with a mirror, and a desk with a hutch at a yard sale. They were only $20 each. They were this awful yellow color with these blue flowers on some of the drawers. They were badly beat up with stickers on them and peeling paint. My older daughter used them before she went to college and she proceeded to beat them up further. She drew all over them with Sharpies and added even more stickers. They were her ongoing art project. Last year they were handed down to my 13 year old and we knew they needed a makeover!<br />
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Because I've already completed one piece, I only have a before picture of the piece I have yet to complete - buy hey - it's a before picture! I know, so far on this blog before pictures are like white elephants. But I'm getting better.<br />
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Here's the desk with hutch that is still not complete. This is what her dresser looked like before:<br />
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The orange sharpie, dirty peeling yellow paint makes a statement, huh?<br />
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So Girlfriend (my 13 year old daughter) just wanted white, with a little bit of shine to it for these pieces. So we chose Kelly Moore Diamond White in High Gloss for the paint, and used Martha Stewart's Metallic Glaze in Medallion. After sanding, Kilz primer, 2 coats of Diamond White, Glaze, some distressing, refinished hardware in matte black and 2 coats of Polyacrylic here's what her dresser looks like:<br />
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But we didn't just stop there. As you know I have a thing about the drawers. Well, the inside of these drawers were gnarly! We primered, painted and polyacrylic'd the sides and insides of the drawers in the same Diamond White. Then Girlfriend picked some cute scrapbook papers and made a Mod Podge collage on the bottom of each dresser drawer. We think they turned out awesome:<br />
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She even did the inside of the cabinet:<br />
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Girlfriend got a little wild with the glaze and even glazed the insides of the cabinet and drawers. It actually looks pretty awesome with the glaze in the corners of the drawers!<br />
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Anyway, this project has only just begun. We still have to paint a mirror that goes on top of this dresser, as well as the desk and hutch. So check back to see our progress as we redo Girlfriend's room now that she's a big 8th grader!<br />
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Also, it's looking like my Thrift Store Thursday is going to be more of a yard sale/thrift store/craigslist kind of post this week. We've found some great deals this week and can't wait to show them off! See you Thursday!<br />
Linking to:<br />
<a href="http://primitiveandproper.blogspot.com/2012/09/poww-107-furniture-link-party.html">Primitive an Proper</a><br />
<a href="http://www.bystephanielynn.com/2012/09/the-sunday-showcase-party-no-120.html">Under The Table And Dreaming</a><br />
<a href="http://www.savvysouthernstyle.net/2012/10/wow-us-wednesdays-86.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: SavvySouthernStyle (Savvy Southern Style)">Savvy Southern Style</a><br />
<a href="http://www.iheartnaptime.net/sundae-scoop-link-party-48/">I Heart Naptime</a><br />
<a href="http://linda-coastalcharm.blogspot.com/">Nifty Thrifty Tuesday</a><br />
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Kristin {thehomeavengers.wordpress.com}http://www.blogger.com/profile/02227212085314605796noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225676105652723744.post-88793936971978297832012-09-20T15:15:00.000-07:002012-09-20T15:36:46.521-07:00Thrift Store Thursday #1I'm starting a weekly tradition here at BIG FAMILY/small apartment. From now on every Thursday I'm going to show you what I found on my thrifting adventures during the week. It's called Thrift Store Thursday. Maybe, just maybe, as my blog grows I'll turn it into a linky party. However, it would be nice to know how to create a linky party first, Lol!<br />
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Every week my little girl and I make it out to a thrift store or two. After we thrift, and usually because she was so helpful, she gets lunch at her favorite burger place, The Habit.<br />
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There she is with her fries :-)<br />
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This week we went to 2 thrift stores. The first was our local goodwill and the second one was a thrift store that benefits our local hospice organization.<br />
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Now, thrift stores totally make my husband crazy. He can't go in them because it causes him to develop a major case of ADHD. I'm no different. To battle our attention deficit issues, I always thrift store shop with a list. I change my list every single week, but here's an example of my list today:<br />
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<li>Women's clothing - shirt size small, pant size 7-9 ( for my big girl)</li>
<li>Men's clothing - shirt size XS-M and pant size 28/32 and 30/31 (for my guys)</li>
<li>Girl's clothing - size 7/8 and shoe size 3 (for my little girl)</li>
<li>Cool frames (for chalkboards and for a gallery wall in our hallway)</li>
<li>Mirrors (for a mirror wall I'm planning)</li>
<li>Buttons (for button art)</li>
<li>Old gold, silver or colored flower brooches (for another upcoming project)</li>
<li>Sheet sets (we eat sheets in our family...)</li>
<li>Lamps (I'm still looking for 4 more lamps for various places in our apartment, the lighting is not so great here)</li>
<li>Blankets</li>
<li>Furniture (nightstand for big girl, something for our entryway, buffet for living room, bench for end of my bed, furniture for our apartment deck)</li>
<li>Big pots (for the unpotted plants my husband keeps on our deck)</li>
<li>Anything else that's really awesome that I totally can't pass up.</li>
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As you notice I don't have clothes for myself or my husband on the list - it's because we don't need any! I make a huge effort to not overbuy, especially with space being a premium in our home. Now the kids? Well I could buy for them everyday the way they're growing. My 15 year old son grew, oh, like a million inches this year and all his pants look like capri pants!<br />
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The other thing I check on when I thrift store shop are the specials. Check the store calendar to see when the discount days are and check for coupons.<br />
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Today was half off day, which was awesome! I found a couple of tanks tops for my big girl. One Banana Republic and the other Gilly Hicks - Sydney. My little girl found a cute turquoise dress by Guess. Here they are. Barely worn and super cute! The tanks were 50% off of $1.75, or $.88 ea. and the dress was 50% off of $3.00, or a $1.50.<br />
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My trip got even awesomer than this though. I wasn't looking for framed art, so these kind of found me. They are 2 prints from Cost Plus. They have a beautiful silver frame, are double matted and are in perfect condition! The prints are white flowers with shades of taupe, green and butter yellows. I'll be hanging these 'as is' over the sideboard in my dining room, they are that pretty!<br />
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Here was the price before the 50% off - <br />
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So that means they were $3.25 each! But they were originally this much each -<br />
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So I scored! Lastly I found this next frame and it was only $3.75 after the 50% off. This frame will get painted and will definitely get made into a <a href="http://bigfamilysmallapartment.blogspot.com/2012/09/love-chalkboards-tutorial.html">chalkboard!</a><br />
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Total spent thrifting this week was $13.51 + tax (minus the hamburgers...).<br />
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Stay tuned, I've got some more projects coming up this week. I may even post a pic of how these prints look in my dining room. Hmmm...<br />
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<br />Kristin {thehomeavengers.wordpress.com}http://www.blogger.com/profile/02227212085314605796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225676105652723744.post-86564207251086153092012-09-12T12:31:00.000-07:002012-09-24T23:07:13.030-07:00Love Chalkboards! (A Tutorial)So my latest project has been making chalkboards for each of my children. Even though I have 4 children at home, the 5th child at college has put in an order for a chalkboard too. So that means I'm making (at least) five.<br />
For this first chalkboard the frame came to me free. It was actually a frame around a print that my mom gave to me. Now, I know my mom is reading this so I'm going to be very polite and let her know that the <strike>ugly</strike> unique and unusual print <strike>went to a neighbor's house</strike> sold on eBay for a tidy sum. I know that would make her very happy.<br />
This frame started off as an old gold color, like many of them do. My 13 year old daughter wanted a very bright chalkboard frame though. So here's what I did:<br />
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I gathered some bright green "oops" paint. Can't beat that price for a quart of Valspar, semi-gloss paint + primer!<br />
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Then I relied on my longstanding relationship with Martha. I just love the Martha Stewart Metallic Glaze Specialty Finishes. I have almost all of them and use them regularly in my projects. This color is a rich brown called 'Muscovado'.<br />
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Then I made this! Here's a close up for you. Sorry no before pics, but I'm working on it.<br />
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See why I love this shiny glaze so much?<br />
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After the frame was finished I moved on to the chalkboard part. At Home Depot you can get 1/8" smooth plywood, and they even cut it for you. So for ALL of my chalkboard projects it cost me about $5 for the wood to make the chalkboards with, and <strike>my husband</strike> I didn't have to saw anything.<br />
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At home I primed each board. I like to use Kilz spray primer for projects like these. A little can goes a long way.<br />
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Then I sanded and wiped down each board.<br />
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Next I got out the chalkboard paint and a foam brush. I use lots of this stuff on my projects. I actually have chalkboard spray paint and Valspar chalkboard paint. Determining which one to use really just depends on the project.<br />
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<strike>My children</strike> I painted each board with 3 coats of chalkboard paint. With each coat we would change the direction that we were painting. After it was dry all we had to do was put it in the frame!<br />
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Kristin {thehomeavengers.wordpress.com}http://www.blogger.com/profile/02227212085314605796noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225676105652723744.post-28817570940710338772012-09-05T09:16:00.002-07:002012-09-17T10:00:49.603-07:00Little Pink ThingSo this piece has an interesting story. As you already know most of my pieces come from yard sales, and this piece is no exception. Now my husband will usually drive me around on a couple Saturday mornings a month, and the deal is I pretty much have a $20 limit. Without the limit, my home would probably be filled to the brim with unfinished projects that didn't have a hope of completion! So this particular Saturday I had already spent $8 on some really cute clothes for my daughter and I had $12 left. Then I saw this thing:<br />
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Of course it wasn't painted. It was dark, dark brown. And of course it doesn't have a before picture, because I only started taking those recently. After I got a new phone because the camera on my old phone died. Anyway, It was REALLY scratched and stained on top. It was also completely solid with smooth sliding drawers and intact hardware.<br />
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The guy wanted $20 for it - and it was almost noon.<br />
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I explained that I only had $12 left this morning, and would he take $12? He said 'no way' and insisted it was worth a lot more - like $150 or something like that. So I did what I normally do in situations like this. I told him that he should put it on craigslist. Then he'd probably get a lot more for it. Then I walked away. This man then literally chased me to my car saying he didn't have the time to put it on craigslist and he'd take my $12. So hubby loaded it. End of story.<br />
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This one took a lot of work though. The finish on top had to be completely sanded off, then the piece was primed. Then painted twice. Then glazed. Then distressed. Finally it got waxed. But in the end there was something missing.<br />
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This piece had a little pull out top shelf that seemed boring to me. So I got out the chalkboard paint. I had to. I have a chalkboard paint problem.<br />
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Isn't she totally cute now? Can you picture leaving your sweetheart a little note on this at your bedside? Or how 'bout a cup of coffee with a chalked message that says 'for you' and an arrow pointing at the coffee? Awwww. As I always say, if you're gonna say something, say it with a piece of furniture!<br />
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Let me also show you a close up of the distressing:<br />
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Distressing this was so fun. I used a sander and got down to the bare wood. In a strange twist of fate this piece did ultimately end up on craigslist! My 13 year old daughter informed me she'd grown out of pink. But had I done it in turquoise...<br />
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Linking up to:<br />
<a href="http://www.bystephanielynn.com/2012/09/the-sunday-showcase-party-no-119_16.html">Under The Table and Dreaming</a><br />
<a href="http://www.twiggstudios.com/2012/09/sunday-show-off-linky-party.html">Twigg Studios</a><br />
<a href="http://www.niftythriftythings.com/">Nifty Thrifty Things</a><br /><a href="http://www.504main.com/">504 Main</a>Kristin {thehomeavengers.wordpress.com}http://www.blogger.com/profile/02227212085314605796noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225676105652723744.post-3652677281840024302012-09-03T22:22:00.000-07:002012-09-14T11:26:22.323-07:00Look What My Husband Brought Home!My husband is always bringing me little presents. A picked flower, a coffee drink, bath salts...<br />
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This time I think he outdid himself. He found this little thing on the side of the road with a sign that said 'FREE'. He picked it up because he was thinking about his wife's late night therapeutic painting <strike>obsession</strike> hobby. The dresser was in much worse shape than this. Sorry I didn't think to take a before picture. Next time.<br />
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I have this thing about dresser drawers. It makes no sense to me to make the outside of a dresser really nice, and then when you open the drawers the whole mood is spoiled. So I had to do the drawers this time too.<br />
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I painted the insides and sides of each drawer in a lime green color. Next, I tore out pages from an old atlas I got at a thrift store. I then used one of my favorite products of all time called 'Mod Podge' and lined the bottoms of the drawers with the atlas pages. Like this:<br />
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Actually, the neatest thing about the chalkboard paint is what I'll find written on it tomorrow morning. My kids love chalkboard paint and often draw me funny stick figure pictures or leave me Dr. Seuss quotes.</div>
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Sadly, this is going to a friend's little boy and won't be staying in my apartment. Well, it's actually not that sad. When it goes it'll free up wall space for another project...tee hee!</div>
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<a href="http://www.bystephanielynn.com/2012/09/the-sunday-showcase-no-118.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Under The Table and Dreaming by Stephanie Lynn</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> and</span></div>
<a href="http://www.twiggstudios.com/2012/09/sunday-show-off-linky-party-33.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Twigg Studios Sunday Show Off</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.504main.com/2012/09/tickled-pink-no-114.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">504 Main Tickled Pink</span></a><br />
<a href="http://primitiveandproper.blogspot.com/2012/09/poww-105-furniture-link-party.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Primitive and Proper Furniture Link Party</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.kammyskorner.com/2012/09/trash-2-treasure-tuesday.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Kammy's Korner: Trash 2 Treasure</span></a><br />
<a href="http://tatertotsandjello.com/2012/09/weekend-wrap-up-party-and-shailie-starter-set-giveaway.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Tater Tots and Jello Weekend Wrap Up Party</span></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.the36thavenue.com/2012/09/best-diy-projects-and-link-party-73.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The 36th Avenue</span></a>Kristin {thehomeavengers.wordpress.com}http://www.blogger.com/profile/02227212085314605796noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225676105652723744.post-8303351409535119362012-07-15T18:22:00.001-07:002012-10-04T22:57:05.777-07:00My Cool Green Chalkboard MachineI found this at a yard sale for $5, like most of my project finds. After another late night paint fest with a bottle of Coca-Cola, here's what happened! I've been having a lot of fun with some new techniques. My favorite so far has been Valspar's antiquing glaze. I seem to be using it on everything. Add in some of my fav green and chalkboard paint and voila'!<br />
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I'm using Valspar paint+primer. A quart is about $17, which is pretty pricy for paint, but I can get up to 4 projects out of a quart so it works out well. I always tape of the edges and around the drawer fronts because it just gives it a better look.. Not to mention paint drips drive me crazy! After I painted it green I antiqued it, waxed it, and then I taped off the top so I could shoot it with a can of chalkboard spraypaint.<br />
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My kids loved this and so did I, until I kept tripping over it in the entryway. It was just too low and stuck out too far. So it hit Craigslist and it's gone :-(.<br />
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Update: I found some before pics. This was fugly!<br />
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<br />Kristin {thehomeavengers.wordpress.com}http://www.blogger.com/profile/02227212085314605796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225676105652723744.post-18480189553630844062012-07-05T00:03:00.001-07:002012-09-03T15:06:49.319-07:00Chalk Painted Sideboard - All Done!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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If you read about this piece in my last post you'll understand what a pain it was to get it to this point. It took 3 coats of shellac to stop getting bleed through on my Annie Sloan chalk paint. Then is took 3 coats of Annie Sloan Pure White. Then I got creative. I put one very minor coat of Annie Sloan clear wax, then sanded and distressed it. Next I used one of my very favorite products, Valspar antiquing glaze (and a wet rag!). After letting it dry, I put one more coat of clear wax to seal it. I love this shabby chic look. Reminds me of all the Rachel Ashwell books I have in my cabinet. I even painted and waxed the inside of this cabinet.<br />
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My favorite part is the hardware, look at this:<br />
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I never even took the hardware off! I really like the effect of the chalk painted hardware, distressed, glazed and waxed. This piece has made an amazing turn around from the broken, $5, peeling veneer yard sale find that it used to be.<br />
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I'm keeping it right where it is for now. I had a friend make me an offer for it, so we'll see if it stays. I sure do like to change things around here all the time. Can you imagine what my husband has to go through everyday? He never knows what its going to look like here when he gets home from work. What an easy going flexible kind of guy!Kristin {thehomeavengers.wordpress.com}http://www.blogger.com/profile/02227212085314605796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225676105652723744.post-75443507966400076122012-07-01T15:31:00.001-07:002012-09-03T15:16:30.310-07:00The $5 Yard Sale Sideboard<div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It seems $5 yard sale finds are my price point. This was one of them. It was in really bad shape. It had peeling veneer, was wobbly and chipped to death. I bought it while my husband gave me the 'Are you crazy?' look (he was also probably wondering how much work he was going to have to do on it too!). I'm in the middle of the project now and I'm at the 'what was I thinking?' stage. To get it to this point I've already glued the veneer down, wood-filled it, sanded it, washed it, chalk painted a first time (then it bled through!), then I tried Kilz primer (and it bled through again!), and finally today I broke down and put a coat of shellac over the entire piece. I doubt it will bleed through this time. Its been sanded so well (by my honey) that's it's as soft as a baby's bottom, and then I'm bringing it in to chalk paint it one last time. Late at night of course. With a bottle of Coca-Cola. I think I'm going to keep this one because it's just so darned cute. Stay tuned!Kristin {thehomeavengers.wordpress.com}http://www.blogger.com/profile/02227212085314605796noreply@blogger.com1