In My Life: Projects

Its tough being home all day every day, wanting to update and decorate our house when our budget is a little tighter and we shouldn't be buying any new things right now. The obvious answer is for me to get a job. Instead, I've been doing this:

First the night stand. The story that I've heard is that Mom M. and/or Oma found it at a garage sale for cheap many years ago and gave it to Scott with the suggestion of refinishing it. Well the refinishing never happened and it got dusty and stained (maybe it was stained before - I don't know). Anyway, it wasn't so pretty and definitely did not fit in with the awesome new paint and fabulous duvet that Scott just loves (not!). So we found some minwax and borrowed Mom and Dad M.'s belt sander and on a nice Saturday I sanded and stained away.
I forgot to take a before picture but here's a during - this was actually the second coat which was done on election day. I also did a plant stand that I've had for awhile to match it.

Sitting on that old night stand was a white lamp. I don't know the story behind it, and it wasn't particularly ugly, just a little boring. So I taped off some stripes and found "Prowler Purple" spray paint at the hobby shop and sprayed to my hearts content. Seriously it took about 12 coats.

I love it! Our bedroom looks much more adult and less college apartment, although the new carpet will help even more. No word on when that will happen but I think soon. Again with the tight budget and holidays and all.... But the carpet needs to come before Jan. 4th when who knows how many women will be coming over for Jen's baby shower. We'll need to use the basement to fit everyone and the carpet down there is NOT presentable. But Scott has done a lot of work already towards making our basement livable (I guess I should take pictures of his work too but later) so the carpet should follow soon.

The latest projects have been a long time coming. One is a design that has been floating around my head for a couple years, and the other is a design that Scott and I came up with a couple weeks ago. I don't own a lot of jewelry (I swear that's not a hint, Scott...) but what I do have has been just sitting out on my dresser due to a lack of somewhere to put it. I didn't want a large or fancy box since there isn't that much and I'm just not really a fancy person. And of course being who I am, there was also a lot of random other stuff sitting out on my dresser.