Dining Table - Autumn Wreath

This has got to be my favourite thing I have done so far to add to my fall decorations (by the way this is the 1st time I have used any fall decorations in my home). I bought the wreath from Hobby Lobby which I found out was a little on the expensive side at $9.99 (I am on a budget :-), I could have got it much cheaper at Michaels or I should have bought it when I had a coupon!!! the picks also came from HL. I was in a rush to get this done, so this needs a little bit more care in placing the picks and putting it all together. The large candle I already had so free. I think this would also look nice with a hurricane vase and candle in the middle, but I had already used the 2 hurricane vases that I owned so this old candle did the trick and amazingly fitted perfectly. Sorry about the bad pics, the sun is shining today and no matter how hard I tried I just could not avoid shadows.

Ingredients Wreath $9.99 Picks Total of $14.62 Candle FREE TOTAL $24.61

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another fall craft project

This was another easy project, I bought a bag of mini pumpkins from the grocery aisle in WM and just simply sprayed them with some silver, gold and copper Krylon spray. The glass bowl was also from WM and was mega cheap too, added some of the dollar store apples and pears and that was it. I am not sure how long these will last since they are real, any ideas?

Apples and Pears

Another small project today, I went to the dollar store and managed to pick up these apples and pears for only 25 cents each, they did have a little hanging loop on them, so I cut that off put them in my cake stand and that was it, talk about cheap.

The start of some fall decorating - Cheap

Just something simple to share with you. I bought some beans from WM layered in the hurricane jars that I already had put the candles inside and pushed them down so the beans came up the side of the jar and around the candles.

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Singer Cabinet Inside

So here we are; the singer cabinet in all its glory before I went to business on it with the sander, I was really surprised at how easy it was to get this cabinet looking decent, I used a fine sandpaper on the sander and after I sanded all of it I wiped it down with a cloth with some old English almond oil.

BEFORE

AFTER

No more flaky varnish, nice and smooth.

The mug rings have gone!!!!

I was really worried about getting the sander on this cabinet, but what did I have to lose, it looked pretty nasty so I thought I would give it a go, I am so glad it did, as it turned out so much better than I thought it would. Tommorow all being well I will share the outside of the cabinet legs and all.

Working on the Singer Cabinet

It was a lovely sunny day sunday so I decided to have a go at trying to do something with the singer cabinet! It is in rough shape but I am hoping with some elbow grease, hard work and time I will be able to improve her looks. I have started sanding the whole cabinet to get rid of the flaky varnish. It has made a big improvement so far, will share some pics soon.

NEWS

HI Bloggers,
Yep, I have been MIA for a while now, well lots has been happening in our household.


I have had flu for a week so have been really ill with that and I am slowly recovering, it is going round my neck of the woods like wild fire.







To add to that the house is going up for sale and we are moving! (once the house sells) Minneapolis here I come! I am excited but at the same time sad too to be moving away from here, I love the home that I currently live in. So if I do not blog in the next few weeks or even months, it is because I am cleaning, decluttering and arranging the house for someone to come and love it as much as I do and hope they buy it. Maybe I will get some crafting done that I can share with you, but at the moment I do not have a minute to spare.

Baking

Well the boys went back to school today, so I am free!!! I just made a loaf of bread and then I am off to the quilting club for some much needed catch up. Maybe one day I will get my 1st quilt finished. I leave you with pics of the bread I baked.

Mini makeover

So here is the reveal of what I have been up to. Like most people, our master bath has the typical builder grade cabinets. I have been wanting to change these for a very long time, but I really have not had the energy to do it. What with Emigrating half way across the world to the US and becoming a student, it does tend to take it out of you and so I haven't really done much to the house since living here. Well my days of being a student are over, I finished my degree in May and since then I can put my energy into redecorating.

A little bit of priming going on.

AFTER

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