Tuesday, March 6, 2012

1 project down, 29837982374 to go!

We have a six car garage that is packed with my little (and big) projects waiting for a coat of paint, a part, a wipe down, a few screws, you name it. So I am so thrilled to announce that I finally finished one of my projects! Although this project has been sitting in my house and turning the corner where it sat into a dark, sad corner. The dark wood of the side table next to the black marble fireplace was just too gloomy. I needed to brighten it up! And the price was mega right. We inherited this table when we moved into our condo so that was $0...cha ching! Its very a high quality table from Crate and Barrel but it has definitely seen better days. The edges were pretty banged up and there's a nice long scratch down the side. 
So what did I do?? I pulled out my spray paint of course and brightened things up!


First I took off the knob and gave this puppy 2 layers of primer since it had a glossy finish. Then I spray painted it with some Rustoleum (my personal fave) in gloss and I painted the shelf in teal that I mixed up from several different colors I had laying around. Then I used denatured alcohol and 0000 steel wool to antique it. After that I lightly glazed it with some black tinted glaze to bring out some of the cracks and crevices. Finally, I covered it with a coat of polyurethane in semi-gloss. 
The final result has me swooning.  

Leave it to me to leave a bright pink computer case in the picture. dangit.

 It bightened up that corner like you would not believe!! 

 This basket was already being used in here to hold my ridiculous amounts of magazines. I just can't help subscribing to every home decor and health magazine out there when its only $3 for a year! (Black Friday deals my friends;)
 Did you want all the details??
I love the dramatic effect of the dark wood showing around the corners and accenting lines.
 I stole this pair of birds from my bro's wedding reception and they have since lived all over my house. They complete this vignette perfectly =)


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Hurrah for checking projects off the list and loving the final product! Next on my list to do with that area, find a different lamp- something a little shorter and maybe round and shiny and black :) and then take down the current picture and replace it with two square colorful pictures. Too bad you can't do everything in one day right??

Anyone else finish some fun/necessary projects over the weekend??

Monday, March 5, 2012

Under Construction


If you have not visited my blog in the past two days you may have clicked on my blog expecting something entirely different than what you are seeing now! Remember this post where I said I wanted to make some changes to my blog to make it more navigateable (pretty sure that's a real word in the inspired dictionary..)? This is all happenin folks. I've been doing some research and turns out its pretty easy to make things just how you want them on this bloggity blog! (I love you google and brilliant techy bloggers!) I'm still learning and ironing out kinks so please be patient with me as I try to make things more easier for me and you. And if you have any suggestions please throw them out there! 
Basically I have labelled all my posts so you can click on the tabs and find posts listed under that category. I hope this makes things easier instead of more confusing. Let me know what you think...thanks!

Saturday, March 3, 2012

Traditiooooon!! Tradition!


Like Tevye, Kiel and I have always felt strongly about the importance of family traditions. We feel that they add a richness and depth to not only life, but the individual family unit. Throughout our marriage some traditions have naturally fallen into place while others we have thought about and tried to implement. Some of our more favorite traditions are buying the kids a new book each Saturday to add variety to their story time selection (we read alot of books around here) and having a crazy hair creation after bath time. That's right folks, crazy hair creations. We love it. Especially the kids. They do crazy dances to go along with their crazy hair and it is indeed a very special traditional moment in the Willmore household.

I give you tonight's crazy hair creations featuring the crazy Caleb and Park Man:

 Not only do we have a terrible camera, we also had terrible lighting :(

Yes, Parker's hair is incredibly long. No, I don't have any plans to cut it. Any other questions??

What important family traditions do you just love?? I seriously do want to know.