April, 2012 | Pinterest Addict

My latest thrift store treasures

April 19, 2012 by A Pinterest Addict 7 Comments

I've been running around lately looking for fabric for the chairs I am re-covering, and checking little thrift stores and consignment shops for the chairs that I am hopelessly in love with. I'm sure you've seen these before - and all over blogland - but I desperately want them. I haven't had much luck at all finding them - except for one little shop that had a set of six for $2400! I knew they were expensive, but that's way more than I want to spend. It made me sad to leave that store … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Furniture, Treasures found Tagged With: Faux bambou, globe bar

When the old colors just don’t work anymore

April 19, 2012 by A Pinterest Addict 6 Comments

I have a thousand knick knacks, or shelf-sitters/dust collectors - as I call them, around my house, most of which came from our old house. In the old house, we had a lot of cream and brown and orange going on. In this house, we are shooting for grey and black and white and... well, I'm not settled on my "other" colors yet. In the old house, we had a lot of very heavy furniture too. For example, this was our old living room. And (really) old family room picture, even before we painted … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Before & After

I’m tearing off it’s “clothes”!

April 12, 2012 by A Pinterest Addict 8 Comments

A few months ago, I bought two of these chairs at a garage sale for $10 a piece. While the fabric didn't go with my decor, they were very comfy and soft. At the time, I didn't have $350 to re-upholster each of them, so at first I tried to cover them up. And then, I decided that I would try more drastic measures. I painted them. Yep, PAINT. I used latex wall paint, acrylic paint and fabric medium. You can read about that process here. While they looked okay, they were really … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Before & After, Furniture

Happy Easter

April 8, 2012 by A Pinterest Addict 5 Comments

Nothing like the smell of cinnamon in the morning to get kids out of bed.

We are on our way to my sister's house to celebrate Easter and my little brother's birthday. Before I go, I wanted to share what I have been up to this morning. To try to pry the kids out of bed (mine aren't small anymore, so they tend to sleep in) without having to dump cold water on them, I tried out this pin hoping it would coax them out of their slumber... But I changed it a little. I didn't mash the butter together with the sugar (I used brown sugar instead) and cinnamon. I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Holidays, Pins I tried Tagged With: easter cake, food, hoppy easter

OMG!

April 5, 2012 by A Pinterest Addict 16 Comments

Great things are happening around here lately... First, Lindsey from Better After stopped by and left a comment on the chair I re-upholstered. Well, a little confession is necessary here: I did send her the link to it because I was hoping she would use it for her blog, but she didn't. But, she was kind enough to leave a comment though, which I thought was frickin' amazing! I did a little happy dance - it was like blogland royalty stopping by to have tea, err.. or something equally … [Read more...]

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Starting a vegetable garden isn’t as easy as it looks…

April 4, 2012 by A Pinterest Addict 8 Comments

I was pretty excited about all the peppers, but my tomatoes weren't coming up.

Maybe a better title for this post would be "I'm a plant murderer". A few months back, I was inspired by this pin, and many others like it, to start a vegetable garden. It looked easy enough - plant seeds in little pods, use old concrete blocks to build a raised bed, fill with garden soil, add plants, water, watch them grow, weed the beds and pick lovely veggies/make lots of salads. Uhm... yeah, not so much. The part about planting the seeds in little starter pods was easy enough, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: In our Backyard, Oops!, Pins I tried Tagged With: fail, pinterest, planting, vegetable garden

My Daughter’s 18th Birthday

April 3, 2012 by A Pinterest Addict 8 Comments

My daughter turned 18 the other day. To be honest, the idea of her being an "adult" both terrifies and excites me. I can't get over that my baby is old enough to vote, buy lottery tickets and make her own decisions, etc. I see her making plans for someday moving out, and it brings me to tears. I know it's such an exciting time in her life and I'm happy to see what a fabulous person has grown into, and I know she will do great things, but she is still my "baby" and always will be. I guess the … [Read more...]