Campaign 3 drawer dresser..

Hi Friends!

Today's post is a campaign dresser I got. This is the 1st item I ever purchased from a Thirft store. Brought in excellent condition just needed clean up and paint.

 I did not even bother to sand it down. I just went right along with 2 coats of primer. Once done , I painted 4 coats of high gloss blue paint and then I cleaned up the hardware and boom it was done. I love that this item can be used as a dresser or even a nightstand. 

                                                            Bringing  Old to New LIfe!!!

                                                                      SOLD

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DIY Decoupage world map desk

Hi Friends! Today's post is an exciting one for me! I find this little antique desk for a steal. Came home cleaned it up. First, I replaced the back of the desk because it was worn out. I cut a new plywood for the back.

 Lightly sanded it, prime and painted it a very light blue. Once I painted, I knew I wanted to do a world map on top. I already had a map paper. As you can see in the picture below.

Sadly, once I started to Mod Podge it, it ripped. Failed!! So, back to cleaning up the top desk again. This time at Joann's Fabric I picked up a World map for project crafts. This paper is thick and i had No issues.

  I cut the map to it's size. Using a sponge foam brush to mod podge the desk then, quickly smoothed it out..
Slowly, working around  the edges was tricky.  Once map was done I did 4  coats of minwax polycrylic.

Last was to work on the handles. I really wanted to order suitcase handles but the cost was out of my budget. Came up with an idea to use Leather for it. I found tons of scrap leather at Michael's using a coupon it came to less than $8.00.  Used a ruler to cut out strips then I punched holes with a leather punch. Had to let hubby do this part since I couldn't punch the hole through.

Once we punched the holes on all leather strips, Hubby got out the roller and tied a rubber band around the leather pieces around to form them. We left it overnight.

Next day, we purchased the screws for the leather and started drilling the drawers.

I must say I am pretty darn impressed with myself on this project! Also, thanks to my wonderful hubby giving me a hand on this project! 

Now it's at one of my customers home!

Thank you D for sending me a picture.

Have a Blessed Day!

Maria

DIY Pumpkin burlap coffee bag

Hi all!

I had this old coffee bean bag for a few year's now. I was planning on using it for my laundry room but never came to it. Trying to figure out what to do with it. I came up with an idea to make a pumpkin from it.

It's very easy to do! First, I painted the bag orange. Using a sponge brush to paint it was not so easy, but since I already had orange paint in hand I went a long with it.  (spray paint is best option)

 Leaving 1/3 of it brown on top. Once paint dried, I got out the black garbage plastic bag and started to fill it  with bunch of newspapers or scrap paper.

Once, I got it filled to where I wanted it, I used a thick rubber band to tie the top. I made my boys to cut the eyes, nose and mouth out of felt fabric. Using adhesive glue I added the felt to the burlap bag. Last, I finished decorating the top with some Raffia and leaves.

Cute burlap coffee pumpkin bag!!

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Maria

Refinished Antique desk

Happy Monday all!!
Today's post is another antique desk. When I brought this. I had to replace the back plywood and the legs. The legs were broken in some places. I couldn't save
them. Forgive me as I forgot to take a picture of it. Here it is as we are working on it.

                                                          Here is the bottom leg

This desk was Solid Heavy Wood! Before I started to patch up the holes and paint it. Had to figure out what kind of legs to use. Went shopping and find these round legs. Once we got the legs screwed. 

I started to fill the scratches and holes. Sanded it down to its grain. Prime it and painted it starting bottom up. Using white glossy paint for bottom. Next, I came to the top I bought me some general finish java gel stain. I am going to be honest with you at first I hated it. It's very messy and after 3 coats It still needed more. Last 6 coats later it came out to the T! The stain made it perfectionist look! 

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Maria

DIY Halloween Wreath

Hi everyone! I have been off the grid for almost 2 weeks now. These next few weeks I  will be posting very little due to having family visiting again and dealing with 3 kids in 3 different schools and times.

Well, back to my post. Halloween  almost around the corner I finally got myself a little head start to decorate. So,I started with a wreath.  The best part of this wreath is that it costed me less than $5 dollars. Using  2 plastic table covers cost of only $2  and for the wire wreath cost of $1.89. It was easy to make but it does take a few hours to do.
Picture below didn't show the green wire wreath. I forgot to add it into the picture

I started with the Green wire wreath and 2 different colors of plastic table cover. I cut the plastic cover into strips about 6 1/2 inches long and about 1.5 inch wide. Then I tied each strip into the wreath. Best to start from the inner wreath then go up. I only tied plastic once. Be careful not to pull plastic hard because it will tear.

                                       Here it's almost 95% done! My hands started hurting by now.
 Once you cut all the strips I suggest you add a nice movie on netflix with a nice glass of vino! :)  This took me 2 nights. Once, done I added a spider that I already had. Taaadaa..

Pretty darn cute, Right?

Have a Blessed Day!
Maria

Refurbished Mid Century Nightstands

Hi all! I have been crazy busy with kids schedule, house and projects. Due to this crazy humid weather in South Florida I am behind working in the garage. A few weeks ago on a Saturday morning hubby and I went out to the yard sales. One place we stopped had all house items for sale. I found these 2 lovely Mid Century nightstands and got them for a reasonable offer.

Well, as you know from previous posts, I have been stockpiling my garage with furniture lately. So after a couple weeks  sitting in the garage I finally decided to get to work on them this weekend. I cleaned them really good with some TSP. Added wood filler in a few places. Top was Laminated so I sanded it lightly with 220 grits. Next I used Kilz Primer and added 2 coats.

Deciding on Paint color, I went with White satin and Java Gel Stain. Last I applied 3 coats of Minwax Polycrylic in Gloss.

 They came out a perfect combo!
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Maria

1972 Desk turned into a Vanity

Hi All!

Let me just say that now with kids back to school and sports I have been super busy lately!  Honestly, I don't mind being busy at all. Well, I was so happy to find this 1972 Vintage French Provincial desk. It was in great shape. With that being said, I thought I'd try to be a little creative and make a vanity out of the desk. Here is the desk. The stool was from an estate sale I went to about a month ago.

So, as I mentioned this was in good shape. I learned a lesson on this desk. I thought the top was solid wood but I was wrong!! I started rough sanding it and it started to bubble up. I kept trying again and in another section and the same happened. I stopped sanding looking and touching the spot that bubbled up and it felt like a particle board. Oh my it was a disaster!. The round edges was solid wood but the center whole piece was not. Here is a picture of what happened. I primed it to see if it would cover up but didn't. Called my husband down to see it and he said that it would be best to take the top off and get solid wood

Off to Home Depot we picked up wood. Once we got home we slowly started to take apart the old top. Unscrewing the top off. 

Now it's a bare top. Than Hubby traced the old top to the new wood. He cut it out looking like this.

Next we placed it back to the base and screwed the top on and NOW we have a desk again.

He wanted to curve the edges like the old top, but I told him not to. Back to sanding it lightly, prime it and finally went with  Pink color. Once, I painted it pink I knew I had to give it a spark by adding Gold Metallic Krylon spray paint. The gold added a Wow factor to the desk. 

Here it is  After all!

Gold dazzle edges and legs. The stool painted blue and my vintage mirror spray painted it with Gold Metallic spray paint

Didn't it turn out perfect?

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Have a blessed day.

Maria