revamped tv stand

My little bro and his darling wife are moving to Texas here in a few weeks. They gave us some of their furniture including this little old TV stand

It is a good sturdy solid wood thing that is just the right size for the TV and small overfilled living room. I'm not quite sure about the color though....so What Do I DO?? of course, Spray paint! not just any old spray paint, flat black of course! My favorite color is blue, any blue, but there is NOTHING in my house that is blue! well, actually the bathroom has a few things and the kids bunk bed. everything else seems to be black or become black with the occasional tan thrown in there. I AM trying to expand my color wheel, I PROMISE!! So after several coats of paint and some repainted handles we now have:

I seriously LOVE it!! I thought the little teal for the handles would be a nice little touch but it is awesome! I think I am going to incorporate more teal in my living room. I cant find my polyurethane....I am going to have to get more in the next couple days and get some protection on this little puppy. You know haw much this cost me?? $2.91!! the stand was free, almost 3 cans of cheap spray paint (.97 each) and lots of time. It'll be a few more dollars once i get a protector coat on but, I'll buy a big ol can of that and use it on more then one project so we aren't gonna count that. I also need to find a drill bit that will cut 2" hole in the back so I can get the dvd and vcr off the floor next to it. I think my dad has one but it's a little late to call him :) tomorrow tomorrow there's always tomorrow. 
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rain rain go away...

It has been raining almost constantly for weeks now :( rain makes me depressed. I'm cool with a day or 2 but not weeks. I have a buttload of stuff to spray paint and I need it to stop so I can go outside and get it done!! I have so many projects to show you guys. The one that I don't have to go outside to complete I just have to put the finishing touches on and I'll photograph and post it later(after I get some sleep and donate some plasma) We went junking on Sunday and got a few good finds, a glass patio table and 2 chairs and a cute old end table. I have big plans for the end table, but, it needs to stop raining so I can get outside and get it painted... hopefully this afternoon. You guys are going to LOVE this table when I am done with it! really!! I promise!! check back this afternoon, I'll update with something awesome then :)

out the ying yang

I hit a road block. I could not think of a single thing "crafty" to do. So, I decided to sit down and brainstorm. I made a little list. Then it got bigger. and bigger. and now I have a list of about 30 different projects. I am satisfied with that being my goals for the next few weeks (or months lol) Here is a small list of whats to come: dandelion painting, I am super excited about this but it may take sometime to find the right size canvas.
tea pot herbs, another one that excites me :)
bucket garden(of course)
end tables :( not so excited about this, but we NEED them...
cloth boxes, I found a cute pattern for cloth storage boxes.
something to fill the recessed cuby in the bathroom, a cabinet, shelf, bench something...
also want a shelf up on that wall
do something with the shelves that are sitting in the basement. hmmm....not sure what yet
Thats a good start :) hopefully I will have something new and fun to show everyone in the next few days. Something besides my pissed off rants. Maybe I should seperate the blog, one my projects, one my insane pissy rants.... there is an idea. Don't know if I'll actually do that though. Oh, we found something interesting to do with pork! chili! This is only really interesting because we really didn't have alot of the ingredients to make chili. What we did: 2 cans of kidney beans (we did have those) 1 can chili with beans, 2 cans tomato soup 1 can mild enchilada sauce, we didnt have tomatoes or tomato sauce so we made do with what we had on hand. add regular chili spices(onionpowder, chili powder, garlic salt, oregano, cilantro) a minced onion and jalapnos and cubed pork, and viola, pork chili. It was AWESOME! I think the enchilada sauce really made it!  yummy.

recycled dry erase board

ok, Last post of the day! I promise! See the super cool dry erase board I made from an old window and some flat black spray paint that cost 97 cents at walmart! FABULOUS! I got the window free from someone off CL. taped off the glass, add black spray paint and hanging hooks to the back. and voila, A Dry Erase Board!

Sorry again about my poor picture taking skills!

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butterfly window is complete!

After hours of tracing cutting and argueing with the kids to clean their room so I could get in it, THE BUTTERFLY WINDOW IS DONE!! Its adorable and Layla loves it! sorry about the bad photos I am terrible at taking pictures. Maybe that can be one of the next projects, learn to take better pictures.  now to get the dry erase board done....

out the window

this is adorable! I found it on http://organizeyourstuffnow.com/wordpress/?p=18873. I'm going to make something similar for the bedroom wall in the kids room. I decided I'm going to use old magazine pages, in pretty colors instead of dictionary pages. I didnt know where to go for the window so I posted it on Craigslist, aparrently there are alot of extra windows out there cause I got plenty of responses. I have the perfect place for it. Hopefully I can go get some and get this done today or tomorrow. I'll post pictures once I take some :). I also wanted an old picture frame with the glass to use as a dry erase board in the kitchen, but I think maybe a repainted/decorated window will work as well. I can't find where someone else has already done that so I dont have any pictures for ideas. Maybe I'll be able to find some today. I'm going to try to make a crochet bunny hat today too. and get the laundry done :( I hhhhhhhaaatttteeeee laundry! Not so much the washing and drying part, the putting away is what gets to me. urgh. and then I let it sit in baskets. Not cool. so, my biggest goal of the day is to get the laundry all done and put away and by all I mean ALL. and there's alot of it.  urgh i hate laundry. Somebody wanna come help me do my laundry? we'll make it a laundry party!! woo hoo! no takers? awww I guess I can do it :(:(.