Category archives: Projects
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9 months ago
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Getting ready for work the other morning I looked around and realized that I had ugly things like hair products out .... and pretty things like costume jewellery, in drawers. So I decided I would fix it. What I needed was containers or dishes to help me display it. I picked up dishes and a two pack of giraffes at the dollar store and needed only glue (I used crazy glue) and spray paint to f[...]
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10 months ago
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I made some fun (and very easy!) holiday decor pillows last week...and even though they are a Christmas gift for someone special (Dad - don't spill the beans!) I just had to share them. If you're still hunting for a great gift, these took about 30 minutes each to make (once you had all your supplies) and are so unique! I had four old pillows, which I used as the stuffing. A trip to Va[...]
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11 months ago
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I just finished a super fun (and easy art project) for a friend and I am hesitant to let it go, I love it so much! A few weeks ago while out to lunch with my friend Isabelle, she asked me if I was up for a project. Naturally, my answer was YES!! When Isabelle bought her house, she found this Mona Lisa print in her basement. When I started to pull apart the frame, matting, and print, I discove[...]
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12 months ago
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Remember when I said I was thinking of painting our living room Jazzleberry Jam pink? well...I DID IT! It's pretty fabulous. And by pretty fabulous, I mean it's SUPER pretty and SUPER fabulous:) ! To appreciate the fabulousness, here is the boring 'sell my house beige' living room before.... ...and then the fun began:) I put the furniture back the way it was, but took the oppor[...]
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1 year ago
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Our guest room is lovely. But as I mentioned in my PARA Paints #ParaBlogCrew application video, the one thing our guest room lacked was attractive lighting. My mom gave us this chandelier, which came out of her former dressing room before a renovation, but I never really loved the brushed nickel. So I pulled out a can of gold spray paint and got to work:) I swapped out the old tube thi[...]
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1 year ago
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Remember the fabulous mirror I found on the side of the road last weekend? I knew as soon as I found it I had found my bathroom mirror, so I couldn't wait to get going. I finally found the time today, and I'm super pleased. This is the bathroom the way it was before I swapped the mirror out. I love the old claw foot tub with its gold claws, and of course the original 1898 hardwood floors.[...]
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1 year ago
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The way my handbags were organized was not organized. A heaping mess that regularly shifted and occasionally launched items at your head. It made swapping out my handbags annoying. Not that it stopped me, it was simply annoying. They were all just piled up on the top shelf of the middle of our 3 unit wardrobe. They started out in a neat little row, but with each removal and swap it got progr[...]
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1 year ago
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Our hallway evolved a bit more this weekend. A beautiful sunny afternoon, a few hours to myself, and some paint generally mean change is afoot. Such was the case Saturday afternoon. Let's back track a bit though. When we first moved in, the only item in the hallway was a painting. Then we inherited this fabulous sewing table, so it landed there. Once I painted the hallway, I moved the [...]
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2 years ago
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I’ve been on a bit of a purge lately. Getting rid of things we don’t use is not only very therapeutic, it is also very effective for keeping things clean and tidy. One thing I know I won’t part with, but also find odd to keep squirrelled away in a box, are the cards DH and I have exchanged over the years. Some of them are very touching, others are ridiculously funny. To give them a home, I d[...]
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2 years ago
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Last winter I painted the hallway. And by hallway I mean the entire first floor main entrance, the staircase up to the second floor, and the entire second floor hallway. Basically, every ‘common’ area that isn’t a room. I’ll share some pics of that project later, because it was quite the process. I’m a bit pressed for time this week because I leave for Japan on Saturday! JAPAN! So excited. More to[...]
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2 years ago
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Our guestroom was the first room I did anything to. The rest of the house (except the main powder room) was a colour I like to call “sell my house beige”. Boooooring. But the guestroom, well ….. it was something special. It was this. (yes, that’s about four loads of laundry waiting to be folded) I am not sure what redeeming quality anyone ever saw in this wallpaper ….ever, but wow. It w[...]
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2 years ago
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We have the cutest little powder room on our main floor. It’s got the crazy high ceilings the rest of our main floor has, but the brown paint the previous owner had put in there really didn’t make it feel this way. It had so much potential. Plus it had one very annoying trait, which I and I alone ever noticed. But it drove me bonkers. The shelf/cupboard thingy above the toilet was neither cente[...]
