Quick Frame Fix

I hope everyone had a lovely Easter weekend and got to spend lots of time with loved ones. The hubs and I did, and I got to spend some extra time crafting. This post is just a real simple quick fix that I came up with to help remedy an empty frame that was hanging out at the house, but I did not have a picture that size to fit it.

I bought about a dozen of these black frames in a couple different sizes from the dollar store to use at our wedding reception. Since then, they have just been scattered through my house, some painted and used on a gallery wall, gave some to my parents with the wedding pictures, and so on. Anyways I recently moved around and updated some pictures, but that left this 5x7 frame empty.

So, since I didn't have a photo or a matte I decided to just take a piece of scrapbook paper and make my own little matter. I used the back to trace the size and cut it out.

Then I just centered my picture on the paper, and voila..it's not perfect but it works and makes it a little cuter!

Sorry the pictures are so blurry, I took them with my iPhone Sunday morning while I was doing some Easter cleaning!

Thanks for reading! :)

Dresser Upgrade - A Touch of Teal

A while back I shared this dresser that I picked up off of Craigslist for a cool $25 bucks, well after begging and pleading my husband to go get it after work one day it finally made its way to our garage... where it sat and sat and waited to be brought back to life. Here is what it looked like when I picked it up.

It had great bones, but as you could tell it was not in the best of shape. But I loved the feet and I loved the curves of the piece. I hated the chipped gold and the color, I even hated the pulls, and it had definitely become a drawing board for a kid or two in its lifetime.

So while the hubs was away at a bachelor party this weekend I enlisted the help of my mom, to help give me some motivation to get it done...you would think the fact that the hubs and I were dresser-less would motivate me more..but sadly it did not. So my mom gave me a quick kick in the rear and said lets just get it done...and so we did...

We went to home depot and picked out a paint color, there is a bit of teal in our new duvet set so I thought it would be fun to go that route. We picked out Pacific Teal by Behr.

It's fabulous!

We got home and went to work. I worked on sanding down the dresser, while she took off the pulls and sanded down the drawers.

After the sanding was complete, we went ahead and primed the entire dresser and let it dry for a couple hours. In the meantime we did some shopping, took the pups to the park and on a walk and picked up some frozen yogurt and just had a fun girls day! After all that we came home around 5 pm and painted the first coat! Then I had collapsed before 7 pm, all that pollen in the air and sanding really got to me..so a benadryll was calling my name.

The next morning my mom came over bright and early and we painted the second coat. With the 2 of us painting it did not take more than 30 minutes it was awesome, so much easier than when I did the hutch myself, read about that here.

We went and bought some groceries and went into Ross where I found some cute, owl paintings to hang in our room..yes I have the owl craze, see. But the colors were just too perfect I couldn't pass them up.

 

After killing a few hours, we came home to dry paint. My mom is so smart, she talked to me into keeping the original pulls, and she was right! They are perfect for the piece. We did not have to do anything to them but just clean them up a bit. So we reassembled the dresser just in time for the hubs arrival to move that bad boy upstairs!

Here's a closer look at the piece, before and after!

Hard to believe these are the same pulls and there has not been anything done to change them?!

I love the little claw foot on it, so pretty!!

Here is the duvet, that I bough a couple months back as a jumping off point for the room! You can see the blues in it! They match perfect, I cant wait to get the bedroom painted and have it all put together!

Thanks for reading! :)

Duke Basketball Gallery Wall

Well in case you haven't heard my husband is a DIE HARD Duke basketball fan! I seriously don't think he has missed watching a game in over 3 or 4 years, he is that intense. But it is fun to watch them with him, especially when they are winning, and it has transformed me into a Duke fan. I mean seriously how could all of Coach K's and Dukes accomplishments not be inspiring?!
If you don't know basketball or watch it, then you wouldn't know that Duke lost the ACC tournament this weekend and it was a little bit of a blow. So in order to lift the hubs spirits on this big loss and in order to send some good Duke joujou out there, I created a Duke Basketball gallery wall for the hubs man room. This is his room and I normally do not involve myself in decorating it, because he says this is the one space that he has control over...and he's right...but he was obviously all in with this idea.

I found images online and printed them, and then we went to the dollar store and bought almost 20 frames, but since they were all a $1 whats the big deal right?! So this project cost us about 20 bucks and a little bit of time.

Here are some pictures of how it turned out....

 This is my favorite sign!! Duke fans are known as the Cameron crazies so I absolutely loved this and we made this the center of the gallery wall.

I bought this stoplight a couple years ago for Christmas, it is really cool!

It was so easy and cheap and you really could do it with any team. So here's an idea for your man if he is a die hard sports fan and has his own little man cave!

Thanks for reading! :)