Red Boots!

Well I just realized I did not let you see any of my pictures from my trip! Here are a few, enjoy! Also the last two are of my sister in her 1900s wedding dress and a pic of me at her wedding in my red cowboy boots!!

 On the way there!!

 Me and my big sis!

 Me and my dad!

 At the rodeo!

 My sis in her wedding dress!

Me and my red boots at the wedding!

Finally Over!!/Наконец над/Mar fhocal scoir breis is

фу, finals are finally over!! I have a week off school then back to class and back to interning at the secondary school. Well while I have my week off I will be working on long over due projects. My first project to work on is my barn door and lumber wall for my bedroom. This project will prob. take me a few days so I'll be sending up dates on the project till the final finish. I'm excited though!!! I have it pictured perfect in my mind, lets hope it comes out that way.
August is going to be a busy month for me, my three year old starts PreK and I'll be back to school and my cousin is getting married and I am a bridesmaid. So I will be busy busy but I hope to stay up on my projects as well so you lot will have things to look at and maybe try yourself. I also will be posting pictures of the food I am making for my cousins bridal shower! Yummm!!! I'll let you have the recipe too so you can try it yourself, you'll thank me! Well off to my projects!! Bi'odh la' maith. 

Home Again

Hello Everyone, Well I had a wonderful time spent with my family. I also founds some wonderful ideas for some new projects. This week is my finals in my master classes so I will be busy but then I have a week off and I plan on getting started on some good projects so look for those!! Hope you all had a wonderful weekend as well. 

On the Road Again....

I am traveling this week to the good Ole' cowboy country of Wyoming for my sister's pre-wedding adventure! While I'm there I'm hoping to find some inspirations for some new projects. Wish me luck and I'll be back in a week!! All my love my fellow nature lovers and DIYers! Keep up your home projects and let me know how they are going!!
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Bloodly Deadly!

So I fifnshed up the mud room. I love the look. I still have the rest of the front door to stain dark brown and to create an awesome light fixture but as far as decoration and the over spray and paint yeah! Is all I have to say.
Oh so I forgot to tell you about the decor items haha. Okay so the lamp in the corner found it in a garage sell, 2 bucks, the shade also a garage sale like .50c The chair a yard sale 5 pounds. The trivets on the wall a collection of three from willow house 39.00 pounds the painting I did myself. The wine bottle carrier 1 dollar at a yard sale. The wine bottle in the weave 5 dollars at the local farm store and the candles I got in Alaska at a Walmart years ago but im sure they are cheap. The oil lamp also a willowhouse product and the key holder I found in an old farm house so free. So I just decorated my whole room for under 100 pounds and I love it!

Textured doors

Hey guys, here are my doors to.my cabinet before and after. I love them! They really feel like stone. The paints still drying so, they are not as dark as they will be yet but you will get the idea. This is that textured stone spray paint from Wal-mart.

The Mud Room

Hey guys, thanks for coming back to my blog I know I've been MIA for awhile but I'm back with tons of new project ideas for hardly no cost!
Well let's dive in!
So I have been redoing my I suppose you could call it a mud room. It's the first room you walk into at my house and it leads to the basement. It was a horrible blue color even the doors. But the stairs to the basement are made of old stones and bricks and always gave me the feel of walking down to an old wine cellar so that is the theme of the room now.

Well to start. Since the doors were an ugly blue. I have taken then off the hinges today and sanding off the old color. Well since I want to be thrifty, I took four tea bags, since I want a dark color, and one SOS wool pad and tore it apart and placed it in a jar full of white vinegar (with the tea bags) and let it set for 24 hours.After your door or whatever you plan on staining is sanded down from the old paint just apply the mixture with a regular paint brush and let dry. If you want it darker add another coat. I did this as a practice first on a regular pine colored box for the room and did one coat and it turned out a nice dark brown. The doors are still drying so the pictures will be posted later but here is a picture of the box!

To add to the feel of the wine cellar I also took an old green wine bottle and placed a long thin candle in it and just melted the sides down to have it drip on the bottle. It gives it a nice old world feel I think.
I also hated the colors of the railings since they were blue lol and so I went to the local Wal-Mart and bought a dark brown stone textured spray paint. Unfortuently it's a little expensive about 7.49 a can but the results are fantastic. It really feels and looks like stone. I am also doing it on the blue cabinet doors. I think it looks great with the gray color I painted the wall and the feel of the room!

Well, enjoy the pictures and let me know how your projects turn out! 

Tea Paint

Hello All, sorry it's been so long. I've been working on some new projects though and so I'm excited to post them for you to view.
I recently went shopping with my friend Steph and she asked me if I would paint her the letter B, since that  is what her last name starts with, on a canvas for her.She has the Country/Americana style so I had to think of something good to do and I have been experimenting a lot lately with new techniques. The technique I discovered was tea bags and Elmer's glue! The tea bags gave it the aged look I was trying to get and the Elmer's glue gave it the crackle look that's popular with the Americana style, with out spending a bunch of money on the crackle paint itself.
The steps were actually pretty easy.
1. I just took a regular Lipton tea bag and put it in hot water and rubbed it across the canvas in different directions and let it dry. It gave the canvas that sepia look.
2. Then I painted a B on the canvas with one color and let it dry.
3. I took Elmer's All purpose glue and you have to get the old formula stuff not the new kind otherwise it doesn't work as well. I applied it to the letter B in different strokes and let it dry for about 5 mins. till it got that tacky feeling, YOU CAN NOT LET IT DRY ALL THE WAY!
4. Then I applied my top coat of paint on the letter B and let it dry, as it dried it began to crackle.
5. I then took two tea bags so the tea would be darker and added it to just the edges of the canvas giving it the aged look.
She loved it, and it seriously took me two days to paint this all. Luckily I live in the Midwest where the temps are super hot right now so I just put the painting outside to dry and I used Acrylic paint as well.
This project was so easy and so inexpensive. The main cost the canvas which was 11.99.

If you try this technique let me know how it turns out I'd love to see your projects as well.