DIY: Table Remix

Hello. I'm back. Quite a hiatus I know. As usual I will ignore it and just go about showing you a cool project :) So my auntie likes to give me pretties for my apartment that she no longer has use for…like this Ethan Allen table. Unfortunately it had an accident involving nail polish remover, a cotton ball, and a napkin and lets just leave it at that. Obvi, I don't want to scrap this table. It's Ethan Allen first of all and it's the perfect size/height. I came up with the idea to just paint over top my faux pas as a solution and I used a hand carved stamp purchased from Etsy to create a cutesy pattern. I have to say, it looks much better and I def salvaged it for now but I have a few ideas to tweak it further. Like, I feel it needs more cherries and I'd like to "shabby-chic" it with some sand paper and use a wax on the top to stain it a bit. My mom even threw out the intriguing suggestion of painting the base a high gloss cherry red. idk. I will update this post later on but until then here is how I got the table to point A. 

A. Acquire busted piece of adored furniture and supplies.

B. Paint over bonehead mistake and use tape so you don't make it worse. 

C. Stamp, Stamp, Stamp.

D. Let it dry and then stack your crap back on it!

Thanks for reading!

Life Update

It was my birthday. I celebrated. It was swell.

My camera is busted. I will hopefully have a new one in a few weeks. This has been a major bummer for me though. 

my insomnia is back and I get the feeling its looking for revenge or something. I haven't been sleeping much at all these days. I have sadly watched the sunrise too many times. I have been coping by doing a lot of work from the couch. My view looks a lot like this these days...

I also got around to painting this cruddy ol' dresser. Now its a pretty new dresser. I'm not fully done arranging things in my room but I'm happy its finally painted and for the extra storage. 

before...

after...

While I was in the project spirit I managed to complete a few Pinterest projects. I always feel super bad ass if I actually get around to doing one of the things I pinned because lets be honest do any of us really have the time?

I had these cheap Ikea end tables laying around and I had seen a few chalkboard projects on Pinterest, one being a coffee table and so I coated the tops of these with chalk board paint. Now they have gone to live at my friends' coffee shop.

While I had the chalkboard paint out I painted a few wine bottles like these I saw on Pinterest 

I also tried filling my scentsy warmer with Downy unstopables and 

it worked and made my whole apartment smell like fresh laundry. Thank you Pinterest!

My mom and I decided to have yet another garage sale so I spent a good chunk of time going through all of my stuff one more time. I pulled out a good chunk and got it marked, bagged, and transported to my mom's garage already. I am getting less sentimental about things as I get older. I used to save every little scrap of paper but pretty soon I'm going to have like four things left. Not including my shoes of course. 

<3 K

Apartment Drama

Yeah so my apartment flooded. It totally sucked. There a was a leak that I was totally clueless about in my hall closet. It had been slowly dripping and rendering the carpet completely sodden. I didn't notice it until one afternoon I was walking back to my bedroom to change and -squoosh!- stepped in a puddle. It was rather jarring I have to admit. At first I thought my bunny Sammy had an accident but after I begrudgingly got a rag and the Nature's Miracle to clean it up I realized it was less of a puddle and more of a small pond. Definitely not rabbit sized. So after two and half weeks of dealing with the property management, getting my ceiling ripped out and replaced, having a HUGE hole in my floor, and several other headache inducing scenarios, I finally got a brand new pretty tile floor yay!

I'm so loving it. My Mom scored the giant braided rug for a mere $50 bucks. I love how perfectly it coordinates. The new tile makes it look so much brighter and cleaner and the rug helps keep it cozy. So even though I had a three week long headache I'm kind of glad the flood happened because it resulted in this prettiness.