9 months

It has been almost 8 months since my last post... there is a reason for that.


I hope to be back in this space again soon- ish. Due date is February 6th... I'll let ya know.

Shelf Re-Do

As many of you know I enjoy a good thrift store. It seems I don't often buy clothes, but usually stuff to decorate or organize our apartment. So when Claire and I were browsing around a shop in Fort Collins and I saw this I began to think about its bathroom potential.


Our bathroom doesn't have any extra storage it, besides the vanity, and there are somethings I prefer to leave out so I thought the $4 shelf might be a good investment. As you can tell from the photos is it s bit beat up, but I like the interesting detail of the front - I'm almost certain this shelf started out as shiny gold in the early '70's.


All of our bathroom stuff is a mis-match of bright colors so I decided that a sunny yellow would look quite nice. And after all, if I don't like it I'll just spray paint over it!

I wiped it down and hammered out some the dents and then did one coat of the spray paint. And voila! About $7 later I had this cute shelf hanging in my bathroom.

Mustachio

Finished these up awhile back, but never got them posted. They seemed to fit best in our guest bathroom... it was either that or the hallway. I suppose now when our guests trim their facial hair they will have various examples to choose from.


I picked these frames up in Illinois for $5 when we were home for Christmas . They came with some strange prints of angels and flowers in them, but I was able to get those out and just use the cute frames. I am super happy with how they turned out. This was my first venture into cross-stitch... I don't think I'll be doing it again any time soon, but I'm considering selling the PDF pattern for these 'staches in my Etsy shop.