Lions!!

So remember this dresser?

It's named Lion because it has these weird little lions on the sides of the top drawer. It's not very cute...haha but I didn't think it would be easy to get those things off so I am leaving them. Every time Mike and I would talk about the dresser, we always referred to it as "lion" because of those weird little heads. 

Even though it has those weird heads, it still turned out pretty well. 

It's probably my favorite. I know I say that every time but I'm serious. This one was awesome.

I'm really not very good at taking "during the process pictures" so you'll have to deal with my before and afters. 

This project was really nice because it didn't take much time or effort, and I was kind of winging it with the idea I had, but it turned out to be a success. 

Here were the supplies:

I basically just covered the top while I painted the drawers and the desk. I went through about 4 cans of Primer because I was going from such a dark color to white. Primer became my best friend.

This is the part where I suck doing the "during" pictures. Basically I covered the top and painted the bottom and then uncovered the top and did about 4 coats of stain with a black stain. It worked really well. I had never stained anything before so I was so glad. After I did the stain, I did a single coat of polyurithane which is practically the best thing ever and it made the top shine like crazy. 

And here is the end result in our bedroom!!! 

Oh and a few side notes:

I put a better end picture on the bench. It's still not the best, but you can see it here.

Also, I have some sad/happy news. We moved all our stuff in our house and regretfully, the twins just really don't match with the other yellow colors in our room. They are soooo cute but I'm a freak about matching so...I think we are going to sell them....(this makes me nervous because we've never sold any of our furnitire) sooooo...if anyone is possibly interested, please let me know. I don't know a price yet, or even if we will be able to find them a home, but we will see. You can look at them here. If anyone is interested, you can email me at kristin.b@aggiemail.usu.edu. We'll see how this goes.

home sweet home

Surprisingly this is no post about our projects.

:) 

But instead about how grateful we are to be blessed by a Heavenly Father who loves us and gives us way more blessings than we will ever deserve.

This is the latest.

This is our new house in Layton! :) We are so grateful to move into this new neighborhood and join a new ward! Even though we already are missing our old one dearly... But we are super excited and life is so happy right now! (just waiting for the storms to move in now..haha) We are also so grateful for family. They have really blessed us so much by helping us out with the house. Especially our brother in law and sister in law Bryan and Jenn. We really love them and appreciate all they've done for us. 

Right now we are living in the unfinished basement with all of our boxes. It's super fun. haha We are just getting carpet and paint this week so we're only half moved in. We are sooooo excited for the finished product though! 

Everyone come over soon!!!

Mucho Crapo

Sooooo....

We are moving. 

Into a home. 

Woo hoo!!!

We had some other plans actually...like going away for Mike to go to grad school...

But sometimes the Lord leads your life in a different direction than you expected. And that is perfect. 

We are super excited for what the future holds. Even though we have no idea at all what that is going to be.  I think I've learned a lot in the past six months about not trying to plan everything myself and letting our Father in Heaven do the planning. He's a lot better at it than I am anyway. Sometimes I find my mind going crazy about how much we need to save in the next three months, or what bill I want paid off by XX date, or when we are going to have a little one, etc. 

And then I realize I am a mental case.

So I have been learning to slow down, enjoy life, and let things work out the way Heavenly Father wants them to.

That being said, we have accumulated a whole lot of CRAP in the last few months. By crap I mean ugly furniture that has great potential to be beautiful.

I don't have pictures of all of our crap, but I have been trying to keep things updated on the blog so that everyone knows how ugly furniture isn't just ugly furniture!! And how super easy it is to paint things up and get it looking beautiful. I promise--me and my husband are not talented at all. We like to have "projects" so we keep buying crap. But anyone can do this stuff for sure!! If you ever have questions, please ask!!  I really love doing projects so I am super willing to help with anything too. :)

Okay let's see what pics I've got on the camera that I can update....

"Unnamed"

I am super excited about this find. :) She came from a garage sale last saturday for $30. It's one of the things we've spent the most on with our projects, but I was in love with all the detail so we will see how things go...

I really don't know what I am going to do with her yet though... Any ideas??? I would love some suggestions, because I don't have a vision AT ALL for her.

 Pink Lady

Mike basically did this entire project. The staple gun and I never became friends so he did almost all of it. Good job to him huh? His mom is helping us with the cushion so that will be replaced shortly. :) I bought the chair for $10 and the fabric ended up costing about $50 so the chair total is maybe going to be about $70 with the pins. See??? Cheap! And that's one of our most expensive projects!!

Little Red 

Mike has been a champ on this project too. I got this at a thrift store for $5.99. We bought a few cans of paint, did some glazing, and covered it in polyurethane and that was that!! Probably took about 2 hours total...if that. Oh and we repainted the handles and put them back on, but I didn't get a picture of that. Oops. 

Ralphy

This little guy was also a pick up from the thrift store. $4.99 was the price. I don't really know why I liked it but for some reason I just thought he was so cute. I forgot to take a before picture but it was just an ugly brown color. The glare on the camera sort of takes away the color in the picture, but Ralphy is bright blue and super cute. I have no idea what we are going to do with it right now, but we'll find a place.

Penelope

This was one of my favorite projects. Reason being: I had NO IDEA what to do with it and just made something up. I found this gal at a yard sale for $5. Yes only $5!!! I didn't plan on purchasing anything of this sort, but I fell in love so I had to have it. :)

So we got a little green paint....

Did some glaze....painted the drawers white....painted the handles...and....

I still have to replace the handle on the other drawer, but not bad eh? I have a vision for this one. :) We'll see how it goes.

And last but not least...

The Twins

I have been wanting to find two matching night stands to go in our room for my bedroom makeover, and I finally found them!! For a great price too! $4.99 a piece!! I am real excited for these two. :) I will keep you updated.