Millie's patchwork wall and room makeover

 We finally got around to doing the patchwork wall that my little and I had been 

talking about for ages and we love it! 

Most importantly, she loves it.

These are some of her treasures on top of her antique wardrobe.

She had a blue gingham Pottery Bark Kids valence and red gingham painted finials from there as well, that had hung on her window since she was a baby. I painted those expensive finials with Duck Egg Blue ASCP and threw a vintage tablecloth that I'd had over the rod. Didn't even sew it! 

 her window art that she and I created a few years ago. We found the window in my Grandma's attic and the best part? It was already pink!

one of my favorite spots on the wall with the sweet bird

her pink dyed coffee filter "m" that I made and gave her for Christmas 2011. 

I'm thinking about offering these in my Etsy shop. What do you think??

another of my favorite spots on the patchwork wall. It has the word "dance" and both of my girls dance

love the framed sewing machine and Eiffel tower. 

I had most all of the frames in my stash for ages, except the yellow {a .25 cent thrift store score!} and pink{that Millie painted herself!}

we spent about two whole days working on this and it was totally worth it and fun to spend the time with my girl! 

button letter art: Pinterest inspired

Millie and I had been inspired by some images and tutorials we've seen on Pinterest such as

this:

source:American Crafts Studio

and this:

source:Pinterest

so we decided to make our own. She actually did most of it

herself.

I helped pick out buttons, mostly vintage, that would match her

room.

Millie did all the placing of the buttons herself.

We repurposed an old print and frame that I'd bought a long time ago

from Bed Bath & Beyond and we had a ton of  buttons from 

Grandma's 

stash.

Gma would love what we'd done with them :)

an old project

this is a project I LOVE that I did a long time ago but have never shared.

The chairs were found at Curb-mart (i.e. fancy way to say the curb) via my mom. Good eye, Mom!

I set them up and took a picture to give you the visual...

oooh! Someone's throwing away those chairs!

My amazing daughter could do something sweet with those!

Thanks chair-throwing-away-people!

I'll take 'em!

I put them side-by-side & gave them a light coat of matte mod podge

to keep the paint at just the right chippy-ness.

I found the perfect board/door thing combing the my grandma's attic

I added some padding and fabric to the board and finished it with black braided trim.

I bought this great black & white houndstooth suiting fabric at a

garage sale and covered a rectangle pillow form.

I love the way this pillow turned out.

Is this not the cutest little bench?!

and now my table sings!

 I've finally gotten to re-doing this hand-me-down coffee table that sits in our front living

room....it was that dated blond wood color in that classic early '90s style that I see re-done all over blogland.

Here it is before. Lovely. I know.

And here it is now!! All dressed up in vintage sheet-music!

 I absolutely love it! I gave it a good coat of primer, followed by

a few coats of Krylon Ivory gloss spray paint (I didn't want it glossy, but I knew I'd be glazing/antiquing so

that would make it have a more satin finish).

Then I carefully selected the sheets of music (which I bought a BIG bag of recently at a garage sale for a steal) I wanted to Mod Podge on the top. I purposely chose

ones with varied tones from light ivory color to a really aged tan color.

I also chose some with titles and words that were pretty and some with just music notes so it would be varied.

some detail of the sheet music...

then I mixed up a grayish/tanish glaze to antique it...

I'm SO glad I got around to doing this! It's so...me.

linking this up at~

 I'm submitting this post to Miss Mustard Seed's

go take a look! I'd love to win!!

vintage sheet music tray

I've had this tray that I got from the thrift store for about $2.00, like a year ago, waiting for me to finish it.

I had mod podged some paper to it a while back, but decided to take it a different route.

 

I just spray painted right over the other paper and printed out some vintage sheet music.

The "French Opera" music (and probably some of the others) came from The Graphics Fairy, of course.

added a sweet little nest stamp...

it's not perfect and I love it that way

a little light distressing on the edges and corners....

I {love} it!

busy summer and my first re-do job!

I have been SO busy this summer! But now that we'll get school
in full swing, hopefully we'll have some version of a "normal" routine...

I FINALLY finished a table and chairs for a friend of mine to go in

her little girl's room. It took me a while with all of our business but

I think the end result was SO cute. The sanding took forever, I wanted

to get it totally smooth and free of brush marks, since I'm a perfectionist
like that! I was going for a simple, antiqued, pottery barn-esqe look...

Here's the before...

and here's the after....

What's blooming in my beds??

Clematis

Snapdragon

and since it's been so rainy, these are the blooms I have to

enjoy inside. This is the metal cone basket that I bought while thrifting

and put in a post a while back. I painted it off-white and antiqued it.

The raised pattern really made the glaze stand out nicely.

It's so fun to make something pretty out of something so cheap!

I had a pretty awesome day thrifting yesterday. I just love half price day! I'll

post my finds and things to redo soon!