Hello Friends! It’s that time again. Swap It Like It’s Hot 5. If you weren’t around for the past few rounds of this fun swap it game for bloggers, I’ll catch you up to speed. Here’s the low down. A group of DIY bloggers pick out items that desperately need rescued from thrift stores and then send them to other bloggers. When that blogger receives their
How to Cover A Lamp Shade with Fabric
Hello again friends. I hope you are having a good week so far. Today I am going to show you how to take a plain lamp shade and cover it with fabric to jazz it up. Here was my lamp before. It’s a simple lamp with a super simple shade. Nothing extraordinary going on here so I wanted give it a little life but I didn’t
Pantry Renovation/Creation
Hello Friends! Ok so it’s been a little bit since I showed you something in my house. The store has been rockin’ good ole Lancaster PA so needless to say I have been a busy little lady. So this week I heading back to my house to reveal to you our matching pantry closets in the kitchen. My husband and I sort of fly by seat of our
Renewed Table with Minted Fabric Overlay
Hi Friends! How is everyone today! It’s almost the weekend. woohoo!!!! Which means it’s time for yard sales:) Speaking of yard sales, my little old grandma is my little yard sale elf every weekend for me since I am now running a store on Saturdays. I must say she does a phenomenal job finding me goodies. She just recently found this adorable table and saw my name
Vintage Painted DIY Arrow
Hello friends! Today I am going to share with you how to take something that might not fit into your décor and personalize it to fit in with your own taste! So I found this cute wooden arrow in my travels for a great price however I don’t go to the lake, I don’t have a house that is by the lake nor do I
Antique Hutch & Dining Room Table Makeover
HEY HEY friends! This week I did a HUGE project!!! If you remember I bought this piece at an auction about 6 months ago (maybe more, time flies when you’re painting!) I paid more for it that I would have normally but I just saw the potential in this piece. It was like going to the pet pound. You can’t leave it behind!!! So home
Antique Display Case Table Turned Modern
Hello Friends!! Hope you are all enjoying spring as much as I am. I’ve been outside gardening and painting my little heart out. I’m loving it!!! This past weeks gorgeous weather was perfect to take furniture projects outside to be sanded and painted. I found this sad display table at an estate sale a few weeks ago. No one wanted it!!! I can’t imagine why?!?! I saw good
Calendar Frame Turned Decorative Wine Cork Board
Howdy folks! So quite a few of my readers have asked me to do a tutorial on my wine cork board which I casually showed you in my DIY wall shelves with scroll brackets post. This was one of the easiest, stress relieving projects I have ever done. There’s no thinking involved, just glue and stick, glue and stick. You can binge watch your favorite show
Chicken Wire Basket Turned Pendant Light Fixture
We are in the finishing stages of finishing our first floor open space concept remodel. Part of that remodel was to be able to accommodate a long farmhouse dining table that my in-laws gave us. Now that the table is in and decorated and hubby rewired the ceiling for new lights, I needed to come up with some cool lights that fit the space and our style.
Church Pew Turned Dining Table Bench
Have you ever bought a piece of furniture that you build a whole room around? No. Well I have. Call me crazy but this is how I work. I find that one piece of furniture that I LOVE and I make everything else work around that one piece of statement furniture. I introduce to you my very old rustic farmhouse table, with enough leaves in it to