Linky Love and the finished high chair

I contribute to a little blog called 'Save the Date for Us'. It's a place for a few friends to record our dates with our husbands. The goal is to go on one date, every week, for a year. I absolutely LOVE being a part of this project and I'm so thankful to have been invited! Although I'm behind the other girls (because I started a couple months in), the Mr. and I have gone on so many fun dates! Before joining in, date nights were a thing of the past for us. It just wasn't a priority. Now, we make time for it and we have a lot of fun thinking of what we're going to do each week, even if it's just a quick date in the living room, after the kids go to bed. DATE NIGHT has taken on a whole new meaning.

Last week, for our date, we picked out some paint for the high chair that I mentioned in my last post. We found this high chair at the antique store, for $25. We sanded it down a bit, applied a coat of primer and two coats of paint (Royal, 'Waffle Cone').

BEFORE

AFTER

AH!! So fresh. I'm loving this and can't wait to see my little Sweet P in it. I just finished this today and she's taking a nap, but we'll be using it by dinnertime!!

For my next project, I'd love to make a little seat cover for this. I know it's kind of a random project, but if anyone has seen a tutorial out there that could help, just point me in the right direction!

A little fun with furniture

We made a stop at the antique store and found SO MANY things that we LOVED, but we settled for this desk (and a cute little high chair. Pictures of that, later).

We made it out of there for under $60!! Talk about GOOD prices! The desk was only $25!!

It's from The Peabody-Stiggleman Co., so I imagine it must have been sitting in a schoolhouse over 100 years ago. Pretty cool!

We didn't need to make a big change. We really just wanted to see the natural wood, so we sanded it down and then put a couple coats of varnish on. Now it's nice and shiny. Beautiful. I'm so happy to be rid of that paint!

I love all of the little marks and imperfections. There were a lot of spots that wouldn't sand down very well, so there's still some of that green paint in spots, but I wasn't trying to make it look brand new. I couldn't be happier with the outcome.

Now my Colsie has a place to do his schoolwork, other than the couch, where he used to end all of his lessons in the supine position.

Before and After: Gold frame

I found this gold mirror at DI a couple years ago and never did much with it.

I finally decided it was about time for it to have a purpose in our house, so we painted the frame yellow and we painted the mirror with chalkboard paint.

and hung it in our kitchen. Perfect solution. Now we have a place to write notes to each other, to do lists, recipes, etc.

Before and After: oval mirror

Remember this mirror?It took a lot of paint to cover all of the tiny holes and crevaces but it's done. Now it's hanging in our bedroom. I went pretty safe with black, but I love how it turned out.

Red Jet Whistle -POPPY

Amanda, from Red Jet Whistle, made over some thrift art she had hanging over her desk, to give it an updated look, and I can totally see the new version in Urban Outfitters. What a simple idea! LOVE IT!

beforeafter Speaking of Urban Outfitters,

weather wood jewelry cabinet? Don't mind if I do.

and I love these branch hooks. I have one in white. Got it to hang necklaces from, but I'm kinda liking it sitting on top of my jewelry box as decoration. Maybe I need to get these brown ones, too.