Oooh how I love this turn out!!!

I found this curio coffee table on CL. It was cheap and the money was going to a good cause. The family has adopted 3 Ethiopian boys that live in orphanages. They could not bring them to the US, because they were teens. So they provide them with books, food, clothes and donate to the whole town. Last time they flew 250 lbs of supplies with them on their visit.

Anyway they were selling stuff and getting donations of stuff to sell to afford another trip, and this adorable coffee table was one of them.

The Before...

It was a light to medium stain and had a hunter green velvet liner in the drawer and the whole inside of the drawer was painted hunter green, YUCK!

I seriously can not stand hunter green. It is about the only color in the world I truly despise. I have no idea why, I was on the Hunter Green & Cranberry bandwagon 15 yrs ago like everyone else.

One day I just hated it. I even would pass up a good deal on a car if it were hunter green.

Get Ready!!!

Here is the after...

Master Bedroom Nightstands

Remember a while ago I said I had purchased these beautiful nightstands/end tables from Homemade Home

There are so beautiful, very detailed and were such a great deal!!!

I finally got around to staining them cherry to match my sleigh bed & armoire.

Here are the before pics...

You can see around all the detail was a greyish glaze, the stain was a medium brown w/ orange tones.

Here is the after...

                                               Before...                and                       After...

Check out the sneak peek tab for what's coming up next! I am so excited for this one!!!

End Table

After taking a few weeks off, I finally got a lot of projects completed over the weekend.

First up is the end table for my guest room. I got it for $10 (from the dog lady). It had scratches all over it, lots of wood filler was used :)

Here are the before pics...

And here is the after...

 The bottom shelf is a dust collector, it was windy here yesterday and no matter how much I cleaned it, 2 seconds later it was dirty again

Haha, the one disadvantage to living in the Valley of the Sun, you can't get a good pic of something black with it always being sunny ;)

Wow what a busy week!

Figures I get my blog all set and then get too busy to put any new posts on it. LOL that is just what happened too... 

So I wanted to at least get something on here quick. 

We decided last Mother's Day to do a "really made from the heart" type present for my Mom-in-Law and my Grandmother (who is my biggest role model and just turned 90). 

They are both the type that are so hard to buy for and I had millions of ideas wondering in my head, including sending them Edible Arrangements (which are in my opinion way too expensive). But the concept is a wonderful idea.

So I got brave and I said to Kayla (my 16 yr old daughter) we should make them edible arrangements ourselves!

Off to Walmart we went for some supplies. I found a box of 101 peice set of various plastic cookie cutters around 10 bucks, bought some wooden skewers ($1), assorted colored tissue paper ($1), 2 curly ribbons ($2), 2 small flower pots ($6), 2 flower foam blocks ($3), white & brown chocolate melts ($5) and the fruit was probably the most expensive part (probably about $25).

This one is my grandmother's

And this is my Mom-in-Laws

If you look close, you can see we spelled MOM out of fruit!

We had so much fun with these, and I got some great bonding time in with my daughters ;) especially with all the chocolate covered strawberries taste testing, that was very necessary!!!

The BIG Reveal...

This is the project that took the most time.

Remember my oldest daughter's new dresser & mirror for $25 with all the dog scratches ? Well the same women who sold them is getting ready to move out of state and had shown me all she was selling. As soon as she said I have a French Provincial writing desk, I knew I wanted it, then I saw it and fell in love. I couldn't fit anything else in my SUV that night. So I promised her I would be back for the various things I wanted. 

I actually dreamed about this desk that night. She wasn't sure if it was an antique, but thought it was possibly and it did have a little water damage with some of the blonde stain peeling.

I am so excited about it's reveal!!!!

And here is the before

Get ready.... Here is the after!!!

 

See below, that crooked detail on the scroll part of the pull. That was already like that, I didn't remove the them because I was going to paint them and they were nailed on and when it was all yellow I didn't notice it was made crooked...

I finally charged my camera's batteries but took these pics at night. I think I will retake them today, the flash takes away from the detail. 

Ok here it is without flash...

Oh I forgot to mention, I believe this is an antique. It is made by American Drew and has a Barker Bros. quality inspection sticker. Barker Bros. was once the largest furniture dealer based out of LA and went out of business in 1992. They started in 1881 and American drew started in 1929. So I have a feeling by the construction this is very old.