New Blue

 I PAINTED IT BLUE!

Here it is in my kitchen before:

And after:

It doesn't match a thing!  I LOVE IT!!!  I was originally thinking about distressing it or doing some kind of glaze or finish, but I like the pure blue-ness of it for now.  Not sure that I like my copper things on it anymore, so I may shop my house and switch some things around.

It Rustoleum Wildflower blue (part of my arm is, too!)

Eventually I may get some knobs and replace the little pawn-looking knobs on it...but nothing urgent.  I do like these from anthropologie...it has the right shade of blue and green that would tie into the rest of my kitchen and copper...perfect!:

I suppose painting a small piece of corner furniture blue isn't everyone's idea of exciting, but it was for me.  It was my grandmother's and I didn't want to ruin in.  I also knew it would be strange to have a blue piece of furniture in my kitchen when everything else is in the green family, but I'm glad I did it.  It's a bit empowering to give something new life.

Linked to A Soft Place to Land in hopes that someone else will be inspired to try something new!

I got brave enough to take Kimba's advice (on A Soft Place to Land) to paint an outdated treasure.  Here's the before:

This was my grandma's and I'll show you after pictures tomorrow.  The end.

Currently Reading

This is one of the best books I've read in a long time.  Set in the 1930s, I Capture the Castle is a girl's diary of the going-ons in the castle in which she lives.  It's a bit of an awkward title, but it makes perfect sense.  I'm about 2/3 through it and am trying to slow my reading down to make it last.  I just love books that make me want to do that.  There was a movie of it made a few years back, I'll see how that compares.

I'm also listening to the audio of this.  I haven't gotten very far into it, but it's one of those books I've always wanted to read but never got around to it.  So far so good.  The nice thing is that there are a lot of books in the series so if I fall in love I have quite a bit to look forward to.

This week when I've picked up my Bible to read I keep getting drawn to 2 Corinthians 5:

¹ For we know that if our earthly house, tent,is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. ² And, in fact, we groan in this one, longing to put on our house from heaven, ³ since, when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. ⁴ Indeed, we who are in this tent groan, burdened as we are, because we do not want to be unclothed but clothed, so that mortality may be swallowed up by life. ⁵ And the One who prepared us for this very thing is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment.
    ⁶ Therefore, though we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord— ⁷ for we walk by faith, not by sight — ⁸ yet we are confident and satisfied to be out of the body and at home with the Lord. ⁹ Therefore, whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to be pleasing to Him. ¹⁰ For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each may be repaid for what he has done in the body, whether good or bad.

Goodbye Jeep, Hello Murano!

We just traded my Jeep Liberty in for this beautiful Nissan Murano!  After driving it for 1/2 a day now, I can say that I LOVE it!  So comfy...plus the a/c works!

Weekend at the beach!

Shane and I got away for a couple days to St. Simon's--and had a great time!

We enjoyed walking down the super windy beach!

We enjoyed the beautiful view from our room!

We enjoyed finding sea creatures!

And eating them!

Something in Common

It makes me so happy to have something in common with The Nester.  Even if it's just a few white plates on a wall.

Nester's--

Mine--

In a few days we will be here...

The King and Prince Resort on St. Simons Island.

Chandelier Love

Will someone please buy this chandelier from overstock.com and let me come visit and see it?  Although it doesn't really look like "me" or the things I'm usually drawn to, I love it!  Maybe it keeps showing up with the black and white rugs I've been looking at...

Jewelry Holder!

One of the easiest things I've ever made.  Pretty much just followed what Centsational Girl did when she made hers.  The hardest part was waiting for everything to dry so I could start using it!  I bought a $5.00 frame at Hobby Lobby (50% off)...they have these way in the back of the frame section that don't have backs on them.  I was going to use it for something else so I Heirloom Whited it and used a glaze.

Didn't turn out like I thought it would so I decided to use it for my long-awaited jewelry holder!  My mother-in-law has a great stash of craft stuff, so she let me have a couple of plastic canvases--even if you had to buy them, I think they're super cheap.  So I basically just hot glued the plastic canvas to the back of the frame and added the hooks ($0.97 for a pack of 8).  Painted it all pink.  The end.

linked: Make if for Monday, Metamorphosis Monday

Happy April Fool's Day!

I've been trying to come up with something funny for today because it's April Fool's and I forgot to take a picture of my jewelry holder and I don't have anything else to share or talk about but I can't think of anything to say.

Sorry.

Happy April Fool's Day.