Goodwill Treasures

 

The Goodwill Gods were on my side today because even at Goodwill the original price was $49.99 for this glass top console table, but I got lucky and bartered (due to some loose screws) with cashier and she reduced to $24.99! Who knew you could barter at Goodwill:) 

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Ikat Herringbone Design Panels Made From Shower Curtains

 

 

Although I don't mind sewing, I'm not a fan of hemming edges, so my solution was find something already hemmed and draw the design you want. So, I ordered extra long shower curtains from Amazon that only cost me $13 a piece then cut those in half to make two panels each curtain. I measured out the design (which was the part that took the longest) and simply used good old black acrylic paint for the design. I love the end result and my wallet loves it even more!

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Basket Detail

Who knew adding add a little detail to a basket could make such an impact?! At least I think so.

I've had this basket sitting under my console table and felt like it was lacking color. So, I took a paintbrush, some acrylic paint and started painting away... 

Love the outcome, but still feel like it is either missing more paint or if I should add some gold paint and make stripes...Will see, for now I will leave it alone.

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Oversized IKAT Painting

Ikat seems to be the new trend nowadays, but the price tag of oversized paintings is just not for me. So I decided to go ahead and tackle the project on my own with an old whiteboard I had laying around in my garage. Mixing neutral with metallics adds bold impact to any space. It's so fun and easy just squiggle the paint back-and-forth with medium size brush to create effect ( you can even have your kids help).

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Accent Chair Makeover

I've always wanted to reupholster a chair, after seeing the price tags on accent chairs in stores. Opportunity arose when I found two ugly brown chairs on Craigslist for $5 a piece I couldn't pass them up. Now it was time to find some fabric that I loved, but I had no idea how expensive upholstery fabric was. I searched high and low throughout the Internet at many fabric sites. It was either, I couldn't find the right fabric I was looking for or it was just too expensive per yard and I was going to need about 3 yards per chair. So, my chairs sat in my garage for about 3 years until I decided to venture out from upholstery fabric and started looking at drapery curtains. Low and behold Target (My Favorite store) had some curtains on sale in the exact print I was looking for along with the color. Now that the easy part was over, now it was time to actually start taking apart the chair and begin to reupholster. Why is it that everything seems so much easier said than it really actually is? WOW, just in taking all of the nail heads and staples from the chairs was RIDICULOUS!!  Despite the hard work, I am so.... pleased with the end result. And the best part of it all, I not only learned a little more about upholstery, but each chair came with a low price of less than $30 per chair.

Teal Accent Chair

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OWL Art

I bought this owl and ever since have this fascination with OWLS. I then came across a clip art on Pinterest and knew that I had to do something with it. I went to look for a large canvas, but didn't realize how expensive the largest canvas was. So, I settled with a six pack of smaller canvases and decided I would just set them side by side and make a large canvas. I'm happy that I went this route, I love the look of the canvases side by side.

Steps it took to create canvas painting: 

1.) I enlarged my clip art to size of canvas, I just used publisher. 

2.) I taped the over sized clip art of owl together, so it would be one large printout. 

3.) I laid onto canvas for placement and taped onto canvas
4.) Then, took carbon paper placed under my enlarged printout and traced away

5.) Paint inside the lines :) I just used acrylic paints 
6.) Figure what you want your background to be... Solid color or make it abstract. 

7.) Finish with an acrylic top coat

Total cost for the Owl Painting is about $24. 

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