One last holiday craft post!

Hello friends…I am soooooo excited for this Christmas my Mom will be here as well as Favorite Son Jamel and the best part is, the girls have no clue.I love surprises! So before the business of having company ensues here’s one more holiday craft post. I saw this Pottery Barn inspired Noel sign on a couple of different blog in the blogosphere. I loved it and it’s super easy to make your own! But I don’t really go for the rustic look, I LOVE sparkle and shine. So here’s my version of the sameproject.

 I got the letters from Joann’s on sale for $1 OFF each letter so I think they were $1-2 each. Should’ve gone bigger but I wasn’t sure what I was gonna do with them at the time.

 In the inspiration post she used brown paint, I used black-didn’t have brown but it worked out really nice.   

I LOVE this stuff! Did you know there is a blog all about Mod Podge, I like the glossy shinny look and this does the trick!Just slop it on and it dries clear

I Really wanted frames that were 8 x 8 but I didn’t have time to make them or go out to get them so I settled for these from Target for now. They were about $2 each!

 So that I can reuse the frame for something else once I get the frames I’d really like-I used Velcro so that it’s not so permanent.

It looks so small in that space-I might make a bigger one and give this one a new home, I am definitely going to make a similar one (someday but with the letters SNOW).

Happy Holidays’ Everyone!  CHRISTMAS IS 3 DAYS AWAY!!!

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Lil PINK & White Desk Re-finished



My Lil E, LOVES herself some  PINK! Any time she gets a choice of which color she wants for an item if it comes in pink-she always choosed pink. Well we've been hunting for a desk for her room for a while now. At first I was thinking of a old skool class room desk like this, I'd paint it pink ofcourse. Then I thought that was to small so I went looking online and found this desk at walmart and thought it wouuld be PERFECT! Well I put off ordering it for whatever reason. The Hubbs was off one Friday and happened upon a yard sale where he found the cutest little desk for $5! I couldn't believe it-either.
So here are the before and afters.

BEFORE

I forgot to take a pic before I started sanding-OOPS!

AFTER

(gotta get two plugs for those 2 holes there)

All I did was sand it down so that there was no shine. This was impossible on the back of the hutch section so I went to my local Home Depot Store and instead of spray paint. I bought a 1 quart of the pink in a semi-gloss and 1 gallon of rhe white paint in a satin WITH primer in it! **genius**

(thought it was clever to paint the inside of the drawers pink)

It's a little more expensive but I'm a Lazy Crafter. I like stuff done quick & easy. So I painted the pink first, taped it off with blue tape then painted the white.

I also changed out the knobs it had long fat wooden ones I thouht these little round ones were cuter. This was my first time re painting a large piece of furniture and now I'm hooked...next on the list...the rest of the girls' room furniture, dinning set, and lawn chairs!

Total desk redo cost around $50!

TFL!

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