ORB to the Rescue!!

GIVE AWAY & ANYTHING GOES PARTY #12

I love ORB, for you new folks that stands for 'Oil Rubbed Bronze'.  It's really one of my favorite spray paints.  I just used in my new lamp.  LOVE the result.

I found the cutest lamp at Hobby Lobby, and they wanted $60, and that was 1/2 OFF!  I didn't buy it of course.  $40 is my lamp limit, and that has to include a shade.  I'm cheap.

Home Goods did not disappoint, but the lamp was the wrong color, but the right price.  I figured I'll  just paint it, I have a zillion cans of left over spray paint.  So that is  exactly what I did.  Now my $40 lamp looks just like the $60 one, and I save $20! 

Here is the lamp right after I bought it.  Not very exciting, the shape is great and so is the shade.  The color is just kinda okay, a little drab.

I used a plastic bag and some painters tape to prepare the lamp for painting.  I didn't do anything else, no sanding, nada.  I did spray it in the garage, with the door open.  It was 70 here today!

Three coats of ORB later, PERFECTION!  It really doesn't even look like the same lamp.

Now back in place, it makes a statement.  No more drab.  The sconce got a candle this weekend too.

Close up of it's glory!

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my lamp! xx

WHERE I PARTY!!!

Talk about Changes!

This even surprises me, and I'm the one responsible or it!  This is how the kitchen looked when we moved in May of 2004, and much hadn't changed until recently.  I still can't believe we've been in this house for almost seven years.  Time flies!

What a sad looking kitchen. =(

Excuse the mess on the counter, this was before I started staging my photos, and became so OCD.  OCD is a silent illness, and it totally snuck up on me after I had my first child, now there's no going back.  I was such a minimalist in the early days too.  I guess I knew deep down the more stuff I had the more to clean!

I just took these pictures this morning!  I'm so over being a minimalist, I almost qualify as a hoarder!  (That's very clean and organized!)

Doesn't even look like the same kitchen.  What do you think about an island in the center?  I've been thinking I really want one, not sure if that would be too much?  Handy man is gonna give me a quote on a custom job, that is mobile.  I'm designing, he's building, then I'll be painting.  We work really well together.  One of these days I will build stuff myself,  but I don't have any tools.  Beefcake is a mechanic not a woodworker. 

I'm working on some signs to replace the ones under the cabinet.  I want some thing with a country feel.  I never would have thought in zillion years that I would have a country kitchen.  I wish I could  gut this one and do a total remodel, but this is not the forever home.  We hope to rent this place out and move, so the next house I will get my farm house sink, butcher block counters with subway tile back splash and bead board cabinets!  I know that's a hefty list.  Girls gotta dream!  Really that's just part of the dream for the next kitchen, but that's a post all it's own!

I am considering changing the can light over the sink to a mason jar chandelier.  That is affordable, and I can take it with me when/if we rent/move.  Yes English is my first language!  lol

I just love my kitchen now, it has such a homey feel.  Thanks for checking it out!  Would love to have any feed back you guys have!  xx

Christmas Presents, Who doesn't love 'em?

Everyone who knows me, knows I love all things Etsy.  Really, they have EVERYTHING!  If you haven't checked them out yet, you don't know what you are missing.  I'll make it easy for you, click HERE, the Etsy world awaits.

Even I have two shops on Etsy.  One for buying, and one for selling.  Okay, so the one for buying has been used a TON.  The selling one, now so much.  I'm all set up and ready to go, but alas I'm to busy lazy to stock it.  I will tell you this, when I do finally open the store, I'll blog about it here.  

For the time being, I want to brag about my Bestie (yes this is a word) Sommer over at Designer Garden and her Etsy shop SewStylishBowtique.  This girl has got talent, and I'm not just saying this 'cause we are good friends.  Check out her blog and her shop, she won't disappoint you!

This is a sample of the home decor she has in her shop.   She custom makes everything, and is uber friendly and professional.  She even makes kids clothes.

 Here is a taste of her Christmas line up.  She has quite a few different ornaments in stock, and if you see something on her blog, just convo her to see if she would do a custom listing.  I'm sure she would, she's really that great. 

I know, how shameful of me to plug all my friends!  Hey I'm an equal opportunity plugger.  If you have something you want me to share, send me an email.   I would be more than happy to give you some kudos too!

Happy Thanksgiving,

Tammy ;)