Time to Start Planning the Upcycle

The post move projects are becoming actual priorities....yikes!

I guess I will be adding Upcycler blogger to my list of blogging expertise.  Yeah I am not sure where this is coming from.

My thought is we have tons of stuff, we might as well make the best of it.

So far my projects include:

1) Making my sewing parlor cabinet into a curio (supplies already purchased)
2) Making a folding sewing table into a desk for the girls. It think it also needs to be refinished (most of the original finish is long gone, but I will see if I can salvage it without having to strip and refinish).
3) Recovering my dining room chairs, and deciding if I want to go with vinyl or have fun with fabric paint.
3) Recovering a vanity bench
4) Repainting a vanity and converting it into a desk.
5) Cutting the vanity mirrors into squares and then stenciling them with frosting paint
6) Possibly restaining the headboard, again with a little extra work this weekend it may be fine.
7) Refinishing the cedar chest we use for a coffee table.
8) Cleaning up my cherry clover table (which will be an easy fix and will probably get done this weekend as well)
9) Hanging the bookshelf my grandfather made for me on the wall.
10) Restoring the Victorian trunk

Most of these I have researched thoroughly and I have detailed instructions on how to complete said project. Others I am not so sure about, but I will have fun looking into those.

When possible I will have posts for each showing the before and after and hopefully have pictures of each step as I go.


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Bottom Line

Image
Writing Prompts: 1.)  Six Word Memoir : Write about a significant time in your life in just six words. 2.) “One need not be a chamber to be haunted, One need not be a house. The brain has corridors surpassing material place”. -Emily Dickinson What haunts you? 3.) Describe a talent or flaw that seems to be in your genes. 4.) What are you passionate about? 5.) Comfort food at its finest. Share a family favorite recipe you loved as a child. Lets go with #4  Shall We? It has been an interesting ride over the past almost 32 years: I was a cute baby: I was an adorable toddler: I was a child with a bad perm: Police Radios were just a part of Christmas morning and family dinners : I had the "coolest car" I may have vandalized a friend's car with evidence tags and rubber gloves found in aforementioned cool car: I went to college: Moved Away and Made New Friends: I traveled: I even toured with a band: Bottom Line: No matter where I have gone, what
Read more

Best Laid Plans

I sat down and crafted a list of blog topics last night, and the plan was start working through that list tonight. It was going to be the start of a true reboot of this old thing. While I had planned on picking my stepdaughter up at the Boys and Girls Club after work I didn't plan on: 1) The amazon parrot needing me to make a food stop on the way home 2) My stepdaugher wanting me to watch her practice for color guard 3) That working on our budget would take nearly as long as it did. 4) Being this exhausted for no particular reason Now I sit here with a basset hound in my lap, and I am awkwardly trying to type on my laptop without disturbing him. This won't  be the blog I wanted to write tonight. It won't  be carefully crafted. That blog post will have to wait. Sometimes  you have to roll with the unexpected. Sometime you have to focus on what is really important. That means acknowledging that you have to make sure your priorities are in check. Sometimes you ha
Read more

Summer To Do List

view more detailed instructions on how this weekly meme works, check out the  Writer’s Workshop  FAQs. Writing Prompts: 1.) List 10 things you wish you could say to strangers who share unsolicited advice about your parenting skills. 2.) Write a poem inspired by a picture you took last week. Share both! 3.) Create a bucket list of 50 things you want to do this summer (with or without the kids!) 4.) A country you would like to visit. 5.) What is something you could stand to learn from your significant other? After much deliberation, we are going with prompt 3 Let's see how this goes I will get a tan...it will take all summer,  but I can do it I will spend more time with my friends I will go to Cedar Point I will have a non-craptastic birthday I will grow out my hair no matter how hot and miserable I get I will go to Chicago just to shop up at Clark and Belmont I will run every day that I can...even when it is balls hot  I will take at least one friend home with me to meet my
Read more