Stain and Paint

This extra day off has been great! I have done so much today, I love days like this! This whole weekend has been really nice!

Saturday I went thrifting with T and K

We stayed close to home, got starbucks and had thai! mmmmm I ended up getting this:

A tray with handles and feet, candles, lace, a pitcher and awesome frame!

Today I have been painting and staining away!

Here is the before and after. I love it so much more now! I love dark wood!

I also tried staining this washboard, but it didn't work at all. I sanded it and everything, now it looks worse!

I also was painting as well!

 remember I said I wanted to give this board some colour?! I went a little crazy with colour (for me anyway)

 I love it though!!!

 And remember these mirrors I bought?

 I painted the round ones a dark grey. Glossy too! (not my usual choice)

 I also painted this

 crazytime! lovelovelove!

 I completed everything on my list today, which NEVER happens! It was a great day off! (I almost don't want to go back to work tomorrow! hahahah)

I hope everyone had a great weekend!

My recent Finds

 I am so excited for the long weekend, you don't even know! I really need an extra day off. I think there are only 26 school days left and Ashley is off for the summer! I can't wait. I will be working part time, but only a few days a week which is perfect for me!

This weekend I am planning on finishing a few things I have wanted to finish forever! Hopefully I can finally do it!  I think with Monday off I will be able to! 

I wanted to show you a few of my recent finds at the tent sale I went to with mom, dad, gram and aunt les..

Cute garden sign

 Wooden star, only .50! I dont know what I am going to do with it yet, but I will find something!

 A $1 tray!! This will be painted (probably white) and will be more my style!

 Candle and wreath

 cloche, reed diffuser and plate hangers!

 I think this is the least amount of stuff I have ever got there! (we go every year) But I am ok with it!! I love it all!

The New Entrance

 I don't know if you remember back in November I was talking about our entrance. I kinda re-did it, but still needed some curtains...well, I just got around to it now! hahahaha. Anyway, I will remind everyone what the little entrance looked like when we moved in:

Yikes! We ended up painting it, and Mike put down stick tile and then it looked like this:

 This is where Ben would sleep every night. :( We also had a shoe rack to the left there, that I fell on and destroyed hahahahahaha  

I had a cute little table my mom and dad stained for me. It was a big change!! Well, since Ben is no longer with us we didnt have his huge mat there and we had lots of room. We I also have a shoe problem, so shoes were all over the place( since the shoe rack was gone) and I kicked them where the mat used to be! We needed a change! I grabbed the chest Mike's mom gave us, that we had in our bedroom here, in front of the bed: 

Now the entrance looks like this 

 All the shoes are hidden in the chest, and there is a spot now to sit down and put our shoes on! 

  I made a half curtain, and left Ben's name. (I had put those letters on after the other picture was taken)  I have to fix that "J"!! Mom and dad gave me that milk jug today

  I love it!  I also have plans to change a few things in the bedroom, if I get around to it this weekend. I never seem to have enough time to do anything!!!

Thanks again mom and dad for all your help today! I love you! xo

Happy Mother's Day!

 Happy Mother's Day to the best mom in the whole wide world! I love you!

And Happy Mother's Day to Gramma too!

I love you guys sooo much!

p.s Gramma-ma I am thinking of you today too! I miss you and wish you were here!