A Small Pink Valentine Vignette

Normally I love red and black at Valentine's and I have lots of it, but I do have a few pink things so I decided to make a sweet little vignette in our master bedroom.  I don't normally decorate will frilly foo-foo in our bedroom, but it's not much! :)

I gathered all my pink items and then added a few things from my dressing table. So sweet!

I found the big shiny pink ball and the little lidded jar at one of our local thrift shops and grabbed them up!  The pink ball holds a tea light and its perched on top of another pink candy scented candle.

This sweet little guy, I've had forever. He's been in so many of my decorating scenes he could be considered a star by now! Chenille bears...everyone needs one or two!

Here's a few pieces of my heart jewelry and a little perfume bottle with a pink butterfly.  Perfect!  It's all sitting on a vintage hankie and some of my crocheted dollies I've collected over the years.

Lastly, one of my vintage china plates with a Valentine XO in pink polka dot vinyl.  You can find it HERE in my Etsy shop along with a few other Valentine items.

It doesn't have to be done all at once.  It is a slow process in the works! C-ya next time!

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Sunday
Under the Table and Dreaming by Stephanie Lynn
The Self Sufficient Home Acre 
The Chicken Chick,  Sew Can Do
Monday
Craft-O-Maniac, 
Between Naps on the Porch
DIY Home Sweet Home
Keeping it  Simple 
The Dedicated House
Skip to my Lou
Home Coming
Tuesday
Not Just a Housewife
My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia
Sugar Bee Crafts 
New Nostalgia 
It's your Life
BeBetsy
Fluster Buster   
Confessions of a Plate Addict
A Stroll Thru Life
Wednesday
Clean and Scentsible
Lady Behind the Curtain
Family Home and Life
Ducks n a Row
VMG206
Herrban Momma 
Family Home & Life
Oh My! Creative
Thursday  
Bloom
The Taylor House
52 Mantels
Domesblissity
4 You With Love
Sweet Haute
Artsy Fartsy Mama
From My Front Porch To Yours
Friday 
Lil’ Luna
Tatertots and Jello
Five Simple Things
Craftionary
Diana Rambles
I Heart Nap Time
Crafts a la mode
Saturday 
Angels Homestead
Positively Splendid,
Or So She Says
Your Homebased Mom
What's Cooking with Ruthie
Made From Pinterest

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From Trash To Treasure - A Stool Makeover

You know its your lucky day when you find an old junky stool on the side of the road! Oh yeah, we were lucky like that! We literally took someone elses trash and made it into a sweet little treasure...for free, well almost!

Just a little paint and a piece of fabric and we've got a new stool to use in our bedroom.  It's best for putting on your shoes.

This is how it looked when we found it. Sad little beat up stool.  It was begging for a makeover! So.....

The top was all ripped up and stained with nail polish.  I'm sure it was well used by the looks of the poor ole thing!

I went to Walmart and got a little bit of fabric and a small can of paint to match our room.  Blues and browns.

First I took off the seat and painted the wood with the pretty blue paint and then aged it a bit with some stain.  I love doing that!

Next I took the sad little seat and covered it with the new fabric.  I added a layer of batting for some extra cushion.  I simply folded the fabric over the seat and used a staple gun to hold it in place.

Next I reattached the seat to the legs and it was ready to make an entrance into our room!

This whole little project only cost us about $8.  What a bargain for a sweet little stool to lend a "leg" when we put on our shoes!

It doesn't have to be done all at once.  It is a slow process in the works! C-ya next time!

I'm Linking to:

Sunday
Under the Table and Dreaming by Stephanie Lynn, The Self Sufficient Home Acre , The Chicken Chick,  Sew Can Do 

Monday
Craft-O-Maniac, Between Naps on the Porch, DIY Home Sweet Home , Keeping it  Simple , The Dedicated House, Skip to my Lou
Married Filing Jointly,  Home Coming,  The Princess and Her Cowboys

Tuesday
Not Just a Housewife, My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia,  Sugar Bee Crafts,  New Nostalgia,  It's your Life,    Get Your Crap Together  ,  BeBetsy,  Fluster Buster

Wednesday
Clean and Scentsible, Lady Behind the Curtain.  Family Home and Life,  Ducks n a Row,  VMG206.  Herrban Momma

Thursday
Bloom,  Two Yellow Birds Decor,  The Busy B's,  The Taylor House.  52 Mantels,  Domesblissity,  Redfly Creations,   4 You With Love,  Sweet Haute

Friday 
Lil’ Luna,,  Tatertots and Jello,  Five Simple Things,  Craftionary,  Diana Rambles

Saturday 
Angels Homestead,  Positively Splendid,  I Heart Nap Time,  Or So She Says ,  Your Homebased Mom ,  What's Cooking with Ruthie 

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Bedroom Lamp Makeover

We've been looking for the perfect sized pair of lamps for our bedroom at thrift stores and yard sales for a long time with no success. Finally I found a pair at an estate sale and I grabbed them up for $5 each! YAY!

 

Right now our room is in shades of blue with a beachy-sea kinda theme, but that could change at any time (cuz that's how I roll) so we needed a color that would always "go" with whatever the theme happens to be.  We chose Rustoleum's oil rubbed bronze (ORB) because it matched the other light fixtures in our room and bathroom.

 

This is the lamps before.  I love red and would totally have red everything in my house, but the other people who live here don't share the same passion for red as I do.  What?  Yeah!  It was a little on the hard side to paint these, but I did and I'm so glad I did now!

First I taped off the light bulb receptacle and the cord so they didn't receive any unneeded paint.  I just used blue painters tape as you can see here.  NOTE: Before I painted the lamps I cleaned them really good with Windex to make sure they were dirt free to assure a good paint adhesion. Next I used a primer to give me a good base for my paint. Sorry I didn't snap pictures of those steps! Oooopsie!

Tah Dah!  The final results!  This is the lamp on my Honey's side of the bed.  His vintage Italian crucifix lives on the shade when he's not wearing it.....love how it looks there!  I'm still trying to decide if I want to stencil the shades? Any suggestions?

It doesn't have to be done all at once.  It is a slow process in the works! C-ya next time!

I'm Linking to:

Sunday
Under the Table and Dreaming by Stephanie Lynn
 
Monday
Craft-O-Maniac
Between Naps on the Porch
DIY Home Sweet Home
Keeping it Simple

Tuesday
Not Just a Housewife
My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia

Wednesday
Lil’ Luna
Clean and Scentsible

Thursday
Bloom
Two Yellow Birds Decor

Friday
Joyful Stamper
Craftionary

Saturday
Positively Splendid
I Heart Nap Time

Green Eggs and Goats

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