Step by Step – How to Refinish a Dark Wood Table… I loved this table, and it’s color, when we first bought it over 8 years ago, but it just didn’t look right in our home anymore. Especially after I painted the walls white and painted the hutch blue and this thrift store piece blue too. I wanted the table to be more Coastal looking. So, How to Refinish a Dark Wood Table? Read on…
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…
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…
It is time for another Thrift Store Challenge! I have been participating in these monthly Thrift Store Challenges with a group of very creative bloggers for the last few months. It is so much fun. For this challenge, we did not have a theme or any budget (but try to keep it as budget friendly as possible). Just buy something from a thrift store and spruce it up, paint it, etc. and do what you…
I love lighthouses and I realized recently that I have taken A LOT of pictures of them over the years. This summer alone, we saw a bunch of amazing lighthouses while in Pictured Rocks Lakeshore in Michigan, and Door County, Wisconsin. Heck, I even got married at a place that has a famous lighthouse on it’s property. Castle Hill Inn in Newport, RI, which houses Castle Hill Light. Lighthouses are full of history and I…
