Sharing a Favorite

I wanted to share one of my favorite Blogs with you guys. I saw her link on several link parties and noticed I was seeing her pop up in comments on lots of blogs I follow. I know....great minds think alike.

Her posts contain great photos of her projects and she gives great instructions. Check out this great outdoor lamp she made. How clever!

Check out this sweet birdcage that she put together. I told her I wanted to compliment her by doing one like it and she thought that was a great compliment.

You should check Tracy out at  Tracy's Trinkets and Treasures.

Plan on having plenty of time to poke around and be inspired. 

Thank you Tracy for inspiring and sharing! ;-)

Yay! She Loved It!!!

Well I took my Niece the desk on her birthday and she loved it. It was a hectic day and we didn't get to do pictures. The very next morning was when my Mother in law had her wreck....hence the late update on how she liked the desk. I finished the chair and added the shelf for the PC but didn't get pictures for original post. Everything is now complete and updated. Here are the pictures without further rambling!

Do ya think she looks happy?

Ok....I have posted about this desk twice now. I will cease and desist! I shall move on!

Missing in Action!

I am not one to share much of my personal  life on my blog but just wanted to let you guys know that I will be MIA for a week or two. My Mother-in-law was in a auto accident this past weekend and I will be busy helping out. I will try to view and comment on my fellow bloggers posts but will not have time to do any projects. Keep my family in your prayers. She has a long recovery ahead of her. She is in good spirits and I feel this will have a positive effect on her recovery.

My Labor of Love For My Sweet Niece

This is the desk I have been going on about and teased you with yesterday. My Mom got this at a yard sale 10 years ago for $8.00.
I still was not up to doing the clear coat, but I did get the keyboard drawer lined with some cute black and white paper.

I hope my niece loves it as much as I do. If only my brother didn't know I was doing this for her I could keep it....you think....that would be so wrong! OK I will give it to her.

I couldn't get the hubby to help me bring it upstairs to stage it. Argh! That means bad lighting and garage door background. Here is the before and some during pictures.

Shop mascots....my babies

holes filled with wood filler

My sweet hubby cut out the front of the drawer for me...gonna be a keyboard drawer.

All prime up.....

I primed with Gripper primer because the top is Formica. Let me tell you this stuff is thick. I brushed it on and had bad brush strokes on everything. Sand, sand, sand , and sand some more.

Next is the first coat of paint.....brushed on. Look at that! I had to do heavy sanding after the first coat. Drats!!

When I taped up the drawers I used the top of the desk to prop them on.....of course I covered it....I had just primed it the day before. When I was done taping I removed the heavy paper that I had covered the desk top with and  SHRIEK  I had chipped out big chunks of primer. Breath...breath....breath.

Rushed into stripping without taking pictures until I was almost done.

OK...at this point I re-primed and sanded the top. I then decided to throw caution to the wind and pull out the spray gun that beat me down when I tried to use it on another project I am working on. This time the difference is I am using latex and last time I was using latex enamel.

I just luuuuuuve power tools...

It actually worked pretty good.

Here she is all dressed and ready to go.

Bad lighting....it is white.

Lined the drawer with scrap book paper.

This is my first distressed piece. Please tell me what you think.

Linking up to:

 

Disappointed About NO Reveal

OK.....it's like this. I was so excited about finishing up the desk for my niece's birthday and revealing it today. Between the rain and the pain in my neck from over doing it for the last few days it will have to wait till tomorrow. I have had two disks fused in my neck and should do a better job pacing myself but I let my excitement cloud my judgement. I guess I could take pictures of it without the clear coat but then it would not be staged. A girl needs to stage her pieces....right? Oh well there is always tomorrow...Tooo-morrow, to-morrow..... I'll finish you... too-morrow....it's only a daaaay aaaa-way! Lol...were you singing along?

This is the sad before....just a tease

What Do You Use?

I have purchase a gravity feed HVLP spray gun from Lowe's. Can I just say I did not do enough research. It looks like they are not good at spraying Latex paint. I tried brushing a small desk and due to injuries and surgeries in the last couple of years I am not going to be going that direction. Too much pain and numbness.

I used spray paint in a can on my Gun Cabinet Rehab ....well I should say I used LOTS of spray paint. Using so much made me decide that maybe I should get a spray gun to put on my hubbies compressor. Let's just say I am impulsive sometimes. I always want the simplest....quickest way to do something....You know box cake instead of sifting all those ingredients....the same applies to crafts and DIY stuff. Right? Well it does if you research! That is what this post is about. Why not go to the people who do the same kind of projects? Any suggestions? What do you use? Should I just stick with the cans? HELP!!!!

Can you say........SCORE!

I couldn't wait to get home and show this to my people! I went yard saleing today with one of my buddies.

There was one listed in Craigslist the was a double estate sale. We called the lady and she said we would need about 2 hours to see it all. Can you claim false advertisement for a tag sale? There were pictures of things that made me and my friend salivate. When we got there it took less than 5 minutes to see it all. My friend was looking for old pedal cars that were pictured in the ad. Half of the pictured stuff was not there but would arrive at 1:00. We drove 25 minutes to get there at 6:45 and it all wasn't there?????? Let me just tell you this...they were very proud of their stuff. They had everything priced with antique mall prices. I was not a happy camper!!!

So.....we came back to the house and found a web site that listed yard sales and set out again. I am so glad because I scored big. I found an antique buffet at a sale that was packed with cars. We thought we were probably too late but there she was.....whispering to me....."take me home"! "Joe will not be mad for long" I saw no price on her and quickly looked for the seller. She directed me to a busy little man and he barely looked up and said "$35.00". I replied with buggin eyes "SOLD". I paid and loaded her up as quickly as I could for fear that he would tackle me and say he had made a mistake.

You wanna see her?

Is-n't she love-ly....Isn't she won-der-ful....yes I am singing!

The next picture is of a newspaper that was in the side compartment...

She was a traveler! How do I know this? Because I don't live in Virginia! Duh!

Here is the find that my buddy picked up at the first false advertisement sale.

It steers with the feet peddles and you push and pull the handle to go. Neither of us had ever seen one of these before. They had a couple rusted out tractors but we liked this one because it is more unique.