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. 

Forgotten Art

So I was cleaning my house and found an old poem written for me and thought I'd share it. I also am going to take the poem and with a calligraphy pen write it down on antiqued resume paper. Then frame it in an old wood frame. It will give it that antiqued look you can do this with any poem or letter if you want it makes it look very nice.

Forgotten Art

Love her face upon the canvas,
take the tears within her guise,
hear her modeled gentle aching,
through your brittle mortal eyes.

Awe on gentle brushstrokes given,
know the take of which it speaks,
let your heart be falsely melted,
when the painter's color peaks.

And such a perfect weakness lies,
a simple human err to be,
to glance at forests so divine,
yet only see a single tree.

Look for once behind the letters,
tears are seeped withing this page,
dig beneath arduous wording,
Till you breathe her solemn rage.

Every Poet knows the tragic,
words unfelt, like brushes dry,
never chance to pain the canvassed,
empty portrait hung up high.

By. C.R.H for N.D.E.S

родословное дерево/family tree

Okay, I'll have a busy weekend with dance recitals but I'll give you a sneak peak of my upcoming project. This Wall use to have a huge book shelf attached too. I took it off and I'll be transforming it into a new setting for my family tree. Look for a new post of what's to come on Monday! Here's your before pic, without the shelf I already took it off before I took the picture sorry, I got something in store for it too.

Quiet Corner

Hi, sorry it's been so long, busy busy this time of year. Okay so this is what I did. I took an old closet that we never use, took the door off and moved the top shelf down to the bottom to use as a seat. I have a three year old who loves too throw fits so time out is a thing that happens often. Well I decided that sitting on the floor and still throwing fits just doesn't cut it. So I made the closet into a Quiet Corner. A place that she can sit and calm down with toys and books and crayons that are quiet and recollect herself. This teaches her to calm herself instead of being angry sitting on a floor screaming. Also serves as a place for me to just sit when I need to calm down myself. It works also a place that when we both are getting mad at each other we can sit together and calm down. So anyway.....here's the pictures. I haven't painted it yet but remember if you do this stick with colors that make kids happy and promote relaxation. These would be soft blues, and oranges, and mellow yellows.