Giveaway #4 over at Villabarnes

Yup, Rosemary's at it again!  She has, as usual, a stunning giveaway of one of her beautiful vignettes.  Head on over to Rosemary's blog and admire the lovely items she has assembled and check out her Etsy store also.

laundry area/mudroom redo

I'm almost embarassed to post this.  Ok, my husband was a bachelor for quite a while before I met him.  So when we got married I sold my home and we moved into his home.  The last room I really wanted to tackle was the laundry area/mudroom.  This room is the first room you walk into if you come in off our side patio/porch.  Our home is over 100 years old, so it has lots of "quirks".  The walls arent exactly "square".  lol

Here are some before pictures.  (I said I was embarassed to show them).  The colors are ghastly!
 

My husband used to barber, so this was an area where there was a barber's chair and wash sink.  I actually found the home depot card showing the exact colors that he painted this room in. 

Here are some of the during/afters!  I used some beadboard wallpaper purchased from Rhoda at SavvySouthern Style  

I painted the exterior of the door black.  Wish I had taken a picture of the christmas swag that was on it during the holidays, the green was so nicely offset by the black.

 My hubby still needs to move the washer/dryer so I can paint behind it.

A sweet table my friend Rosemary Weinberg gave me.

Giveaway #3 over at Villabarnes

Rosemary has outdone herself again!  Rosemary over at Villabarnes is giving away the most beautiful vignette, giveaway #3.  If you have seen her work, you know its always beautiful! 

Visit Rosemary over at Villabarnes, become a follower, etc. and enter her generous giveaway!

Have fun.

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Villabarnes giveaway

Rosemary over at Villabarnes has an awesome giveaway going on.  Visit her beautiful blog and soak in her enormous talent and visit her Etsy also; beautiful things for sale.

Some of my favorite ornaments and what I got for Christmas!

We have a very ecclectic tree.  Ornaments comprise of ones my children have made from school, since they were three and four, to ornaments

From our honeymoon

Our first Christmas together

My daughter Cassondra's first baby ornament

My daughter Megan's first baby ornament

My son Adam's first baby ornament

Some beautiful ornaments my husband bought in Russia

Of course I love the sparkly too..

Oh, and my wonderful, dear husband got me a Canon Powershot SX40HS - that's why these photos are so wonderful!  So much better than my old Kodak... 

A few Christmas photos.

I wanted to add a few Christmas photos so you could see the hutch all painted (Annie Sloane - in Graphite) and the buffet I redid all decked out in holiday decorations.  I really love the hutch and now I have somewhere to store my Christmas dishes (during the holiday) and some antique glasses I purchased a while back.  Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas this year, I know we did.  

The buffet is finished

before Annie Sloan chalkpaint

Well, I feel like I finally accomplished something today. I finished the buffet that I purchased from my sister. My husband finally went back to work after injuring himself in July, so I really felt I could devote a good chunk of time to accomplishing this. Its all decorated for fall. I just love the way it came out. I really want to paint my dining set now. The base of the buffet is painted in Annie Sloan chalkpaint in graphite, and over the top is old white. I sprayed the hardware with brushed nickel and semi gloss black to give it an aged look.    Here's the before

Let me know what you think.

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Bedroom in transformation

I've been wanting to do something with our master bedroom for a long time now - actually since I sold my home and moved into, my now husband's home.  The whole house was really void of any character, color and decorating.  Our bedroom is quite small, but cozy.  These before pics are awful, because I literally had stripped the room of any pictures and had just "thrown" the down comforter on the bed - for those cold nights.  My husband is away 3 wks out of the month, so that comforter comes in handy!

Here is the before pic of our bedroom:

Here is the after.  The end tables - I spoke about in a prior post.  I had purchased them from my sister.  I painted them with Valspar paint, and sprayed the hardware in brushed nickel from Rustoleum.  The wall paint is from Valspar also in Sleek Grey.  I still need to add some artwork and a window treatment - oh, and new carpeting! 

Here's what the table looked like before..

Dresser turned paper storage

Finally I finished something!  Had the day off so I thought I would revamp the dresser I had bought a while back on Craigslist.  I really needed some storage for my 12x12 papers and some other things for scrapbooking, etc.  I'm an avid scrapbooker so I have accumulated alot of papers. 

Here's the before and after.  I was kind of going for a whimsical look.  I like it.  I painted the dresser with Rustoleum 2x and sprayed the handles in brushed nickel. Added some scrapbook papers to the front with modge podge and Voila!  Nice litle addition to my scrapbooking room.

Back from vacation

Well it sure is good to be home!  My husband and I took our kids to No. Myrtle Beach, SC this past week.  What a welcome and overdue vacation!  Wanted to share a few pics from our vacation and I'm definitely ready to get back in the saddle to revamp some pieces to show you.  I have one I will post tomorrow of a dresser I had done but did not get a chance to photograph it yet.  If you remember from a previous post - here.  Of course I had to throw in a single photo of my adorable grandson Carter Timothy (son of my eldest daughter Megan).  Enjoy!