Recycling Baby's Breath

Hello! It's been 9 days since Valentine's Day and if you happened to get flowers they might be on their last leg soon. Don't fret, you can still use your Baby's Breath in a few pretty ways around your home!

1. Cut a bunch short and fill up a plain mug. This would be cute in a guest bedroom, bathroom, end table or the kitchen! I like mine in the kitchen - I don't have much space for flowers, but a small mug of Baby's Breath is still nice to look at :)

2. Fill a tiny vase nice and full and add it to a group of other decorative items, or on top of a stack of books, (I use old baby food jars with a hold punctured through the lid).

3. Fill a bunch of tiny vases with just one branch or so of Baby's Breath and group them together. In this example I have them surrounding a large hurricane candle vase as our dining table centerpiece.

An old picture of my girl, Shire, checking out Momma's handiwork.

I hope this helps you enjoy your flowers a bit longer! Do you have any cool ideas of how to 'stretch' a bouquet?

I finished painting the farm table today! My first go with chalk paint :) Tomorrow I'll be adding a couple layers of wax and distressing. I can't wait to show you! Thank you for stopping by!



Heavy Hauler

Much to the dismay of Husband, I will move pretty much anything with my own two hands. If I can so much as inch a piece along, I will do so as far as necessary! Today was about getting a big ol' farm table from my van to the Garage, (TWO very LARGE men loaded it into the van for me). For a little visual, I'm 5'2" and this table is about as heavy as I am. It took every ounce of strength, but I finally got it in a good spot to get working. It needed a little construction just in attaching the legs and getting them nice and tight. The leaf was a little tricky but Husband helped me right it and set the whole thing upright this evening. Tomorrow I'll be painting!

Turned over without legs. I pulled 19 staples from the underside of the tabletop that were unnecessary and added a few more screws to help keep the legs on.

This thing felt like an extension of my arm today!

Legs on and ready to be flipped back over.

Enjoying some nice weather and good beats from the Bose before stepping inside....because I know when I do there will be 3 little ones awake from their naps and ready to play! :)

Featured Piece - Cream and White Coffee Table

Hello! Well I am floating on a cloud today after having a very positive meeting with a lovely woman who is interested in my work! She is an interior designer who co-owns an antique shop and has several connections with other antique shops in our area. She is very interested in getting my finished pieces into some of these shops as well as giving me raw pieces to refinish for the shops and various design jobs she has. She was just the sweetest woman and a connection I am very grateful to have!

She practically melted over this beautiful coffee table which happens to be one of my favorite transformations. Shame on me for not having a before picture, but it was all just natural wood and untouched brown wicker. I removed the inset glass and spray painted the wicker white and then brush painted the rest in cream. It was a lot of fun to distress as it is such a multi-dimensional piece!

38x38, 17.5H

(still available, email if interested!)

When I finished and stepped back it looked like something I might see in Pottery Barn. This one is a gem as it is a classic piece that you'll never again see anywhere else!

Tomorrow afternoon we'll be picking up a large farm table which I think might just be the perfect piece to try my new Annie Sloan Chalk Paint on! I will be sure to take before, during, and after photos of the transformation!

Thank you for stopping by and especially thank you to those who sent me some encouraging words before this morning's meeting! They meant so much to me :)