Purses

What an honor!!

I'm a little late at posting, but I was featured on Life in the Fun Lane for the Fresh Coat Friday last Friday.... I"m so honored!!! I read this blog everyday, sometimes twice. She has such good ideas. Thanks to Life in the Fun Lane!

I was also featured on Better After, a great, inspiring blog of before and afters! A must read! Thanks to Better After for the feature.

I can't wait to wake up and check this out tomorrow!

Life in the Fun Lane has such good ideas and now has a new sharing day on Fridays. Check it out!

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From flea market ugly, to flea market chic

This piece was kinda ugly in the beginning, but now it's pretty stunning. I'm kinda in love with it to be honest. It turned out so good. It's in the shop and waiting for you to snatch it up and make it yours.

P.S. Sorry for the not so good before pictures, it was a last minute thought.The top and the bottom came together, but in the hauling process ended up in 2 different spots. Sorry you can't get the full effect of the before.

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Getting my gears going...

So I find out in 21 days if it's a boy or girl. P.S. I'm pregnant. So I may be incorporating a little more baby ideas into the blog along with my shop stuff....

So here are some really cute baby rooms over at Ohdeedoh, which is really the best place on earth to get baby/kid/just plain fun stuff.

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The little sprayer that saved the day

Or shall I say my back. I'm getting a little busier with selling painted furniture, and my brush and arm strength are not getting the job done fast enough. So, I've been looking at sprayers, making my husband go with me to all the hardware shops in the country, just to look at them. I don't always feel comfortable buying stuff like that online, I wanna touch it before I buy it sometimes. So, this weekend, we went to to Harbor Freight and picked and looked at all the sprayers in sight. And I found one, this one to be exact.

I had my dad help me test it out last night, and today I went full force. It's so much faster than doing it by hand, and the finish is very nice. The trick to using it is to make sure that your paint is rather thin, and adjusting the air properly. I read lots of reviews on sprayers, and I'm convinced that It's user error in most cases. Either that or I'm just smart and know what I'm doing. Either way, it's way better and less back breaking then the ole' brush and arm style.

So, soon the shop will be filled with newly painted furniture. I'll post pictures when they are done and ready for purchase. :)

Worst blogger ever!

Image from this lovely everyday blog obsession

So It's been forever, I'm aware of my lack of blogging & motivation for that matter. I thought since the sunniest of days are upon on and gardening season has began, I thought it would be fitting to get a little nostalgic. Seeing as my mom's second restaurant was called "The Scented Geranium", I'm a little fond of the thought, smell and whole idea of scented geraniums. (she garnished with them, how fitting right?!) Well I just stumbled across some sweet scented greenery yesterday while at one of my favorite rural greenhouses and had to have a rose scented geranium. I heart it & the thought of it......

p.s. i promise to work on being a better blogger.