..You make me happy when skies are grey..

Hey sunshine!.. speaking of my new dresser of course.

1st, I have to show the before..



banged up, sticky, stinky and dirty... screaming for a make over

This little guy was $5 at a garage sale.  I was so excited when I found it.  Brady was not so much, he stomped his feet and pouted the whole time he loaded it up into the truck...  "you don't need anymore dressers"  Psshhh wtv, Brady!

Perhaps he just knew that he would be the one who'd have to paint it.  I can pretty much pull the pregnancy card whenever I want, especially when it comes to paint fumes. 

4 cans of primer and 5 cans of yellow spray paint (yellow didn't want to hide the flaws for some reason? or we're just not an experts on spraying furniture..)  and a lacquer finish later....  He's got a nice home in our guest bedroom.  He does a great job housing all of my xmas bows, ribbon, cards, gift boxes, etc.  I guess I did need another dresser after all!

Yes, that's yet another leather rug.. I have 4 in my house.. a little obsessed, I suppose.

Wow, that's one dusty guitar.  This lady is too lazy to dust before taking pix.  whoops!

Acrylic knobs.. Kari picked these up for me in SLC @ IKEA.  $4 total!

I'm loving them so much :)

I think I'm growing an obsession with junky old furniture.  I am currently on the hunt yet another dresser to go in my new basement office.. Anyone want to take a trip to the Salvation Army with me!?

WE ARE SOOO GREEN!

Oooo yeah, call it being "green" or call it being "cheap", whichever.. either way we just got ourselves a free(and labor intensive) curb joB!
My parents, who bought their home as a new construction back in 2009, have already been suckered into re-doing the curbing around their house.  It was cracking and wasn't sealed, so I guess if your house needs to look perfect, then it would be worth re-doing.. but Brady and I are on a mega budget and would be happy to have some not so old curbing.  And we are always happy to take on a new project.. So, one persons trash is our treasure.  We hauled off all their old curbing and used it at our house!  It was a bit of a process cutting the curbing and trying to piece it together enough to make an arch, but we did it! 

Here's the pile of curbing, which almost bottomed out Brady's truck when we hauled it down to our house

so far we're using the old rock that was under the old deck, but we plan to switch it out with River Rock.

 And guess what.. we even re-used sod... I know that is nothing to brag about b/c sod is super cheap.  My parents neighbors, who also were talked in to re-doing their curbing had all this extra sod left over.  Brady and I hauled that off last night to fill in the area that was covered up by our old deck..

 looks good right?  Now we just need to figure out what to put in front of that ugly basement window..any suggestions?

OOKK Enough talk about boring sod and curbing.. the pix below are my inspiration for the railings, which Brady will be building, for our front porch.  We are planning on installing chunky wood railing and using cable with tension turnbuckles rather than regular old wooden slats.. I don't think I used any correct terms in that last sentence, but you get the idea(I hope).  It will be a major experiment, but it's worth a try!

 This one is favorite!  We plan to copy the post design and color..