The Journey of the vanity/Desk

Oh this Journey starts at a  lonely yardsale where I saw this piece all sad setting in the dampened grass all by its lonesome . It spoke to me with it' sad poutiness  and said please take me home!!

I agreed and took this old dainty lady home where she sat for a few weeks while I finished another piece.Finally not wanting her to think I had forgotten about her I got her out and dusted her off, and brainstormed for a while. I loved her curves and that as old as she was she still had a figure and wanted to make sure to accentuate that. I decided to do her silver. So I went to town painted her up silver and when done she was pretty, but thought that it was just a little to flashy for a lady of her class and stature soI got our the antiquing glase and hours and hours and I do mean hours later she became this


I love her curves  she's sexy if I do say so myslef

And I fancied up her insides a bit too :)

Whatcha think is this old lady purdy or what ?

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Coffe table redo take 100!!!!

We'll atleast if feels that way. I canged my mind on what I wanted to do to this coffee table to many times to count.. Forthose of you..who think its perfect as is........ turn your heads cause its not staying this way






first I wanted to strip it and stain it black,Well once I got it stripped I loved the woodgrain and thought about  rubbing some teak oil and calling it a day, but finally I decided on black enamel paint.I know I ruined the beautiful grain but for the wear and tear it will get and  the look I wanted this is what I chose
I taped up the drawer and spray painted it a nickel color .It stuck out like a sore thumb so I brsushed some black paint on and wiped it off to dull it down........ and I spraypainted the hardware black to match.......
finished it with a coat of varnish just look at those details shine!!!! 
Cost
-$7.00 for table...9.00 for stain stripper.....$.99 for black spraypaint.....$4.00 for silver spray paint......already had black enamel paint......9.00 for polyurethane=29.99

and really the silver spray paint and polyurethane and black spray paint have been used on three projects since them so not to bad!!!!


Whatcha think ....?

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A Hoot of a deal!!!

O.k the tittle is soooo cheesy I know,but it was a awesome deal I got this bad boy for $4.00 and it has a story it came out of the guys I bought it froms ,grandfathers 100 year old house that they we're about to tear down. O.k was that hard to follow? Anywho it came from a really really old house. its dated Im thinking 50's to 70's personally but it could be older.
Anywho I loved that it was owl's . Have you noticed owl stuff is coming back in.... Anywhooo( i know more cheesiness)I loved that it had three owl's for my small family of three and thought it was oober cute but not in it's current state...Warning warning the following words and pictures may horrify antique loves and metal artist around the world. You we're warned...........I spray painted it!!!!!! I know I know shame on me ,but now its so darn cute!! See!!!
I had the perfect place above the dresser.......notice the princess coloring on her dresser I think its a perfect match!!!!!


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Sharing my faith!!!

Last night i got the amazing oppurtunity to hear grace Taylor (uga gymdog) share her testimony and it spoke to me to see her using what God had given her to share her faith, so God layed it on my heart for me to share mine with whoever chooses to read this today.

I'll start at Birth  I was born without the ability to suck. For three days doctors tried night and day to get me to suck and nothing worked they were about to put a feeding tube in me when my daddy( a southern baptist preacher) hit the floor and started praying and we all know how powerful prayer is well now that i'm a parent I understand the prayer from a parent is a mighty mighty prayer, anyways back to my dad on his knees. The Lord layed it on his heart to go get a goat bottle ( i know crazy right those nipples are huge ) well he got the bottle and filled it with formula stuck it down my thoat till i gagged a little then i went to town on that baby!!! Skip forward a few years to age 5. I was swimming in our pool and  got this really wierd feeling and ended up throwing up over the side of the pool , little did we know that this incident was the beginning of a long nightmare. After that incident I started having this problem to where my salavatory glands would overact for an hour and at the end of the hour I would throw up. this happened every other hour. We traveled all over the u.s I was poked proded looked at like a lab rat, taken out of school( obviously) and  pretty much lived in my room with a nintendo and  puke pan) when i wasnt on 1 and two week hiatuses in hospitals. By age 8 I barely weighed thirty pounds and was having to take trips to the hospital to get iv's of pure fat lipids . We made one last stich effort to get into a clinic to see a doctor in atlanta we'd heard great storied about. The only problem was he was strictly an adult doctor and had never made any acceptions to take kids, that was untill me, It turned out he was a christian and he said God told him to take my case. We tried a few meds with no result then he put me on a med called dialantin( i think i spelled that right) and it helped but didnt fix the problem so he decided to add tegretol and  it worked!!!! God had brought me through yet another hurdle in my young life. A couple weeks after we had found the cure!! I was laying in my bed next to my parents bed( i still slept in there for a few months just incase there was a  return seizure) anyways I was laying in bed  and what comes next you'd only understand if your raised in a small southern church that preaches hell brimstone and fire but I sware its what happened. I was laying in bed and started picturing devils and Hell on the back of the couch and I knew in my heart it was Jesus speaking to me. I felt him saying Now Tara I have rought you through so much in your little life already and you still dont trust in me. I ddint bring you through all this so you could spend eternity in hell. That was all I needed to hear I yelled for momma and daddy and they came running thinking I was having a seizure and instead they were met by i need Jesus help me Daddy So my momma and daddy knelt beside my bed and I prayed a prayer something like this " Lord I know I've done allota bad things in my life  and I want you to forgive me for that I believe you dided on the cross for me and your alive and in heaven today . your so amazing to have brought me through what you have please come into my heart and be my lord and savior" thats was it as simple as that I was a child of the king bound for heaven.....needless to say I don't live a perfect live ... I stumble and fall with the best of em', but I know my Lord and Savior is there by my side in the Good and the Bad and he loves me through and through

If someone today reads this as misspelled and unpunctuated as it is and  it touches their heart  know this GOd doesnt care what you've done,where you've been or how unworthy you think you are. He loves you and he wants you to accept him as your Lord and Savior so he can be with you in heaven.There is no sin to big for God to forgive!!!!!!   

 In christ,
Tara

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Dresser makeover

So I've had this dresser that a friend of ours gave to us for over a year,and have been pondering what to do with it. It wasn't real wood but I loved the shape and it had character it just needed a little TLC. I have been seeing alot of shabby chic redo's in antique stores and loving it so I figured I'd give it a a try. It came with some really cool knobs but was missing one so I decided to take them all off and save them for another makeover:) I'd show you a before pic, but your's truly forgot to put the memorycard in the camera before I took the before pics .lol You have no idea how mad I am about that. It was a whitewashed partical board dresser.  Idecided to paint it pink and  paint the drawers with chalk paint so reagan can have some fun!!!


It was cute but I saw potential for so much more..........




Total cost of make over $44.00 That was for pink paint,chalkboard paint, and the adorable knobs I got at Aunt B's Antiques in Downtown Winder!!

So what do you think. Did I ruin it or is did I get it right? I am never more relaxed then when I'm painting so this was like therapy for me. I think I'm a gonna go hit up some yardsales this weekend to see if I can find me another Piece.

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