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Trash to Treasure – Half Circle Side Table Makeover

Here is yet ANOTHER trash to treasure makeover. A neighbor was getting rid of this cute half circle side table (as well as a few other fun things) so I grabbed it. In the past couple of months I have made some decent money making over and selling furniture that either myself, my husband, or friends find for me on the curb waiting for the garbage trucks (or waiting for someone like me to come…

Trash to Treasure End Tables

Trash to Treasure Side Tables

If you’ve been following me at all, then you know my husband has found some pretty good things at the curb waiting for the garbage trucks.  Like this Trash to Treasure End Table, This Bench, and these Wicker Chairs!  I, however, never have much luck in this department.  That is until a few weeks ago when I spotted THESE! The day I found these was trash day, and consequently as I was leaving my neighborhood,…

Renovating Your Bathroom On A Budget

The bathroom is one of the most used rooms in the house, but it is often the most neglected in terms of design. Renovating your bathroom can get fairly expensive if you are not careful, so planning ahead and sticking to your budget is the best way to make sure that your bank balance does not feel the squeeze. Ideally, you would look at hiring bathroom remodel contractors to do the job for you –…

DIY Dollar Tree Christmas Trees

Christmas Craft… It is time to start thinking about Christmas!  Our neighborhood goes all out during the season.  Each house tries to ‘out do’ each other with the decor and people come from all over town to check  out the lights.  It is not uncommon to see tour buses, trolleys, trucks, cars, even those bicycle pedal pubs full of people driving through here on any given night in December to check out the lights.  Most…

DIY Wine Cork Pumpkins

DIY Wine Cork Pumpkins

What to do with all your saved wine corks… Are you a wine drinker like me?  Do you save all your corks like me too?  Then they sit there forever in a vase or jar or something and you think, what the heck am I gonna do with all these, but you can’t seem to throw them all away?  Sound familiar?  A few years ago I made this DIY BAR Sign with my stash but…

Creative Thursdays – Fall Floral Arrangement

This is the first month of a new monthly blog hop called Creative Thursdays.  Thanks to Tara from Stiletto’s and Shiplap, Emily at LeCultivateur and Shae from Sweet Southern Grace for the invite.  I am more than happy to be working with such creative ladies. This month’s theme is to create a fall floral arrangement spending no more than $15, using a container we already had.  We could use both faux or real florals.  Please…

How to Paint an Old Dark Wood Piece of Furniture

We’ve had this dining room set for a LONG time.  We bought it when chocolate brown furniture was all the rage.  I still love it’s clean lines and all the storage it offers, and the fact that I get to display all my ‘pretties’.  After re-doing this Thrift Store Find a few weeks ago, it really made my old dark brown hutch stick out like a sore thumb in my dining room.  Soooooo, much to…

Fun Ways to Stay Cool at Home During the Summer

If you have lived in any part of the south of the country, then you will know that there are only a few words that can describe a summer in the south: humid, sticky, and hot. Sounds great, right? Have you ever found that as a child you didn’t even pay much attention to the heat, but as an adult, and a parent at that, you are much more conscious of it all and are…