I spray painted everything around!!!

Hi folks, I've been spray painting :)  I've never done it before and I might have went a little crazy but it was fun!!! hehehe  

I spray painted the Christmas tree stand, it was black with gold paint. Didn't match my new decor.

I have since taken this picture, primed my old chest you see at the right...it was a mess, it belonged to my great grandmother I believe and I've moved a few times and have been dragging it with me everywhere. I had it in my father-in-law's barn for a few years and thought it would be a great thing to put wood in for our wood stove that we have in the living room...but it doesn't match my decor so I have to paint it. I've decided to paint it black on the bottom trim and the legs also black. The body I will paint white with a black pattern of some kind and then the top I will upholster it with fabric to make a settee. No one will ever know that it holds wood. :)  Yes I'll post pictures when it's done :)

PS. disregard my shelf decor as I just put random things in there until I decide what I'm putting in there. I'm thinking of making cute little sparkly miniature houses.
Notice the headless figure? It's from my beautiful nativity set and a lot of the pieces were broken when I brought them in from storage. I wonder if the cold broke them because it wasn't banged around and it was well packed in foam?

This little tricycle was outdoors in my garden rusting up pretty good, so before it falls apart I thought I'd bring it in so I gave it a good spray of silver paint and I think it looks fabulous!! I love it!!! I had one of those ugly plastic Terracotta pot and I spray painted it silver and put it in the basket, filled the pot with some pine cones and Christmas balls and voila, lovely decorations that go well in my living room and free at that...already had the paint!

I love my dollar store finds!! faith, love and hope!! Out of these words,do you know which one is the most important to have?

Spray painted my wreath silver and the old flowers and some pine cones too!!!

I am going to spray paint this in black

These are lamps I spray painted in silver, they were brown before I've also since this picture spray painted the lamp shades in black (used almost a whole can of pain for 2 medium lamp shades, inside and out) but I'm not sure if I will stop there or not. I may do the trim in lime green....I think it might look cool.

This was a ceramic face I bought years ago and never painted it so I spray painted it in silver.

This was a glossy cream color and I spray painted it silver, I didn't even think it would stay on there but it did!

Spray painted my beige flowers silver.

Some Christmas decor I whipped up....large glass bowl and a small glass bowl turned upside down, candle in the middle and add your favorite decor...easy peasy :)

My nativity set....I probably would have painted these silver too but I ran out of paint! lol

Christmas decor

So there you have it, I painted everything I could get my hands on and made it the color I wanted. 

Saved a whole lot of money with not having to go buy everything new to match my decor! Love that!!

Have a great day everyone!! :)

Pinteresting things I’ve been making

 

Being a seamstress, I have a fascination with dress forms,I had seen some miniature ones on Pinterest and I thought what a great idea, so I got my march 2000 Threads magazine out (Which I am trying to go through all my threads magazine stash and do at least one thing out of the magazine) and there was a pattern of a miniature dress form and I thought, yes that’s what I want to do!!!
So I traced out the little pattern and enlarged it a bit. I had some fabric straps on hand (of course) and I cut out my little form and started hand sewing them…well one thing I figured out….Don’t use fabric that unravels easily!!! It just kept falling apart but I managed to sew it up in some fashion. lol  I wasn’t happy with the shape of my dress form. It was a bit on the short and wide side hehe, but cute for a pincushion though. So I proceeded to make my own pattern and the dress form below is what I got.

I just did it up quickly not being too fussy on how I was making it as I’m just practising until I get the shape I desire. I liked the shape a bit better on this one but I’m still not satisfied yet. I didn’t like that my neck and the bottom of the form was not solid enough. The bust wasn’t shaped properly either

This size is a bit bigger than the first and great to put hold bracelets!!

The front

the back

 

the bottom got a doggie on it

I really hate sticking pins in my dress forms…It makes me feel like a bad person with a voodoo doll!!! lol

 

and so I decided to make yet another pattern to try it out.

here it is

This one is bigger. loved the neck!! as you can see it’s a lot straighter and solid because I put cardboard in it. I also did that for the bottom of the form

bottom

I didn’t like the waist on this one…I feel that it is too thick around the waist and I didn’t like that the dress form is made in two pieces, top and bottom. I wanted my dress form to be one piece…so I made another pattern….and you’ll have to wait until I finish it to see that one!

here is the back.

Here are the second and third together.

 

These are some flowers that I made from old magazines that I had….found the idea on Pinterest……Pinterest is great!!!!

Made this butterfly with paper….another Pinterest idea

Made this butterfly from a magazine page

Pinterest….5 ways to organize your books…..I chose to put them in order of color! What a great idea….Why didn’t I think of that!!???

Also decorated my shelves with Gourdes for fall

Painted flowers on a rock

 

Made these little bags that hold a pair of earrings with magazine page! fun!! Pinterest idea

Made my own Mod podge and did a decoupage on a table a friend had given me with some old magazines I really needed to get rid of….Threads magazine will be happy to know their magazine was so great I bought the same magazine twice, TWICE!!! So I used it on my table. Haven’t varnished it yet.

Want some ice-cream!?? hahaha

 

My husband brought the wood stove up from the basement with the help of my brother and father in law….it was very heavy,…..into the living room so we will be toasty warm this winter!!! Yay, love my wood stove!!! He also made the hearth underneath.

 

This corner was a bit dark as it is receded from the rest of the walls and so I painted it with my accent color….lime green!!! fun!!!

The rest of the walls in the living room are a medium grey
Love my new laminate grey marbled floors!!! 

Need some mouldings next

 

Toasty toasty toasty!!!

That’s it for now….. but I have some outfits to show you soon…..y’all come back you hear!!!