Flexible Flyer Sled

 My Dad is the consummate dumpster diver...

maybe trash picker would be a better description...

He has always worked outdoors and been on the road back and forth to job sites so I can remember as a little girl him coming home and saying "Look what I found on the road today..."

I get it honest...

 He brought me this beauty yesterday and my husband and I love it...

What's not to love...amazing graphics 

great patina...

It's still in amazing shape and all there...

 A great winter time decoration...

I have a pair of old ice skates that will look great with this...

Thanks Dad!!!  A great trash score...

Letter Gift Tags

My big gift tag idea this year was to use my letter stencils and the fun new metallic sharpie markers in gold, silver and bronze....

My stencils are well used *translated* gunked up with acrylic paints...so I made the lines thicker to clean up all the jagged edges left after I traced them.

Doodlebugs real name starts with an "S" so of course he keeps insisting that all the "S" tags are his...how do you explain to a 5 year old at Christmas that other people's names start with "S" as well?!??!?!?

We have a few repeat letters so I added some other colors so I could tell whose gift was whose....

you could write the full name on the back as well...

Coke bottle Christmas Decorations

 My husband LOVES Coke in glass bottles...

 So any time he spies them we have to buy some...

 These are the Holiday bottles for this year

 I decided to wash them out and keep them in our window....

 Some clippings from our tree and some candy canes....

Simple and easy.

Christmas Decorations

Love these vintage ornaments my husband bought for me last year...especially the box and graphics...

Doodlebug found 4 pinecones at Mamaw and Papaw's house and insisted on bringing them home "momma will use these to decorate" 

oh yes she will!  So I added those to our bookcases after lining the glass with wrapping paper...

My pottery barn twig reindeer knockoffs....

He also wanted garland around our dining room doorway so we decided on a string of lights with cupcake papers.

  He picked the red and green polka dots and I chose the silver... Mighty chose snacks :)

Hanging stars this year over the mantel...

With lights of course....

And I did a post on these last year.  I used water balloons and paper mache to make these....

And our old sled by the front door....

Feminine Zinc Topped Table

 I LOVE this room...but it's not mine :)  I just "vanhooked" the table for a sweet friend of mine.  I love the red print on the curtain fabric with the dark gray on the walls and the crisp white bedding....this is her new guest room since her oldest son recently got married and moved out....

The before photos are upside down because I'm always excited about starting and I forget to take them until I've already started....

This table had sat in their entry way of their home and unfortunately a chandelier fell on it and broke off a piece of the top right in the middle of the table....

So I painted her with ASCP in Duck Egg and distressed it a little bit...

My husband topped it with a piece of zinc to disguise the "injury"...

Now she's a got a whole new look working...

Even though there was a "shape" to the edge of the table top the zinc still wrapped around it pretty easily and followed the edge really well....

I painted the hardwear and the edges of the drawers with ASCP in Old White....

She is now *girly* compared to how she looked before...

We did a whole post on topping a table with zinc HERE if you're interested in seeing how we do it. And there is another post on aging it HERE... 

A nice piece of furniture given a new phase of life!

Medical Cabinet Repurposed

 Back in the spring we went to the Springfield Flea Market, and it rained the whole day...

it was soooo cold.   Hard to believe now that it's 100 degrees :) 

I spied this little wall hung medical cabinet and thought it was just a really cool piece.  I originally planned to hang it above the toilet to store our towels...

that, of course, was before we realized we were going to have to pretty much redo the whole bathroom....

 So it was pretty rough looking...we took it apart and my husband sandblasted all the metal hardware. I decided to sand it down a little bit and use a dark stain on it followed by a coat of polyurethane.  This is the only "before" photo I took...and I'd already stained it.

 So as we were working I was thinking this would make a great spot for ME---only one thing missing  right now, and that's the mirror but I've got something in mind.

 Our bathroom is small about 5x9' so this is just enough to be a spot to sit down.  I'm thinking that my fan can be mounted to the wall too ---

just haven't decided if I want to do that or not....

 This folding chair is my favorite out of all those we've bought....

I was thinking more along the lines of a small stool...maybe metal...

Not sure but I'll know it when I see it

 

 the room is coming along nicely...baseboards are in and it's all painted and floored and caulked....

 The last thing is the sink...and some storage.....but I'm loving the way this looks!!!  And feeling better about getting it wrapped up...

Remodeling a Bathroom

SO what started as JUST replacing the bathtub and surround has become almost a total bathroom overhaul....we just remodeled this room about 4 years ago and this is how it looked...

We discovered a crack near the back of the tub a few months ago and knew we were going to have to replace it quickly because our home is for sale...

 So we bought a new tub and surround and my husband started tearing the old one out.  Then he and his Dad put this new one in ---on Father's Day week-end no less :)

 See that nice little gap in the flooring between the tub and the tiles?????  Yeah that would be because this tub is about 2 inches narrower than the old one....

AND you cannot buy our flooring any more...

So I'll be redoing the flooring as well...probably the same flooring we used in the dining room because we have 2 boxes left over from that project so it will almost do the whole bathroom.

It's the Allure vinyl flooring from Home Depot in the Hickory color/finish.

Which means taking the toilet out ---and then I'm thinking about redoing the floor and how I really don't like the vanity we have so we took that out too :)  Might as well go all the way right??!?!?!?

 Our bathrooms are small and I really like having the pedestal sink in our hall bathroom...

I'm shopping for a wall hung sink and something more creative for storage.
In my mind this is our bathroom!!!  Gorgeous huh?????