A post worth waiting for!!

Ok sorry everyone. I lost my camera battery charger so I haven't been able to post in a while but I found it and an able to post again. YAY!
I have been keeping busy with projects. Here is the rundown of what I've been doing for the past few weeks. Hope it was worth the wait!!

• I refinished my long dresser-now buffet. Painted bottom black, refinished/re stained the top, and raised it 3 inches.
• Painted big mirror over buffet.
• Accessorized dining room.

• Painted office a blue gray.
• In the process of painting futon (ran out of paint)
  
• Rearranged office furniture.

• Started nursery bedding. Found a Pottery Barn set on Ebay, and I an going to embellish it with more ribbon and make the quilt.- Oh and I got a new sewing machine!! Double yay!
  
• Bought, painted, and glazed end table for nursery. Soo gorgeous!!
  

• In the process of putting beadboard in our family room bookshelves.
  

Phew. So I am going to take this in strides and show you my new dining room/buffet today. :) You'll have lots to look forward to within the next few days.

Now on with the pictures! Before with no bench and a much too big armoire.
Also see(Craigslist table and chairs $50) and (reupholstered chairs)

Before with turquoise dresser. It so was not long enough! (Now it's a pretty changing table.)

Replacement dresser and mirror before I painted them:

Found on Craigslist for$30

Bored of the before's already?! Give me some good pictures!
Drum roll please- here are the afters!

See those legs? Funny story. I raised the buffet 3 inches by adding baseball end caps from the Louisville Slugger baseball museum. They are the leftover wood on the end of the bat after they carve the bat out. They were free and had tons of them- I knew they'd come in handy. :)
Long dresser and mirror fit much better here.
I decided to go a little more sophisticated with the black bottom and stained top.

Made the bench from scratch.
I love to decorate this during holidays.

Anyone up for a pinecone cocktail?
Found this silver tray at Goodwill for $2. Whoot whoot!
Oh and one more thing we use this dining room as my girls coloring/ craft room. The dresser has plenty of drawers and everything was so inexpensive anyways. They hop up on the bench and color away. I LOVE that it is getting used so often.
Oh did I mention that this ENTIRE dining room only cost around $200! Oh yeah.
Stay tuned for a bunch more exciting projects!!
Will it be the office, nursery or beadboard book shelves?

Linking to some of these parties

Monday

http://thepersimmonperch.blogspot.com/

http://www.thegirlcreative.blogspot.com/

http://www.betweennapsontheporch.blogspot.com/

http://asoftplace.net/

http://cottageinstincts.blogspot.com/

http://www.twiceremembered.blogspot.com/

Tuesday

http://todayscreativeblog.blogspot.com/

http://itssoverycheri.com/

http://www.sillylittlesparrow.com/

http://www.tipjunkie.com/

Wednesday

http://www.thethriftyhome.com/

Thursday

http://www.betweennapsontheporch.blogspot.com/

http://www.somewhatsimple.com/

http://www.theshabbychiccottage.net/

Friday

www.Design-aholic.blogspot.com

http://www.remodelaholic.com/

http://www.decormamma.blogspot.com/

http://www.missmustardseed.blogspot.com/

http://www.poppiesatplay.blogspot.com/

http://romantichome.blogspot.com/

Saturday

http://funkyjunkinteriors.blogspot.com/

Sunday

http://shanty2chic.blogspot.com/

http://thediyshowoff.blogspot.com/

Dining Bench Completed!

Here is how I finished it!



It matches quite beautifully.

Here it is before the paint and stain. See this Post
And here's a sneak peek at what we are working on now. Any guesses?

To see the beginning of this project go here. The plans were based on Ana's at Knock Off Wood.

Family Hierloom Refinished

This was my great-grandmother's cherry wood end table. I like the beautiful simple design and the open airy feel. Hubsters sanded it down, as seen in the picture below. Sorry no real before, but it wasn't much different. It was very cracked and raw.


I stained it and then sprayed a flat polyurethane on it. Ahh much better.


The littlest one accidentally spilled a little water on it right after it was in place. But no fear now. Sure enough the poly worked and it beaded right up.

Oh and I found some great thrifty treasures recently. I have some great plans for them- Post coming soon.