New Entry Table (Finally)

This post is for the peeps that I told about my entry table and now I'm finally documenting it. I'm a little sad that I didn't take any pics while I was building this bad boy. (Well, I took one on my phone before I painted it.)

So, here is the story. After moving to St. George, I really, really wanted a new entry table and some new couches. (more to come on the new couches some other time) I checked Craigslist every day, and none of them really stood out to me, or they were WAY overpriced. I didn't know what to do about buying one because they are way to expensive in a furniture store.

One day I was venting to my friend about my entry table dilema to one of my friends who lives here. She said, "I have a friend who builds stuff like this all the time in her garage, and she has all the tools." I talked to girl and she was very willing to help me build my own entry table.

The next step for me was to find a table that I liked. Ana White's blog was the perfect place because she has all the details and plans to tons of different wood projects. I found one that I liked, printed the plans, then headed over to get some help.







After buying the wood at Home Depot, it only took 2 days to build this awesome entry table. I customized it a little bit to make it taller, but other than that, the plans were perfect. Then I spent day after day sanding painting, sanding, painting, glazing, sanding, and painting until it was finally finished. I'm so happy with how it turned out!

Drab to Fab

It all started when I found this ugly door in our serial killer room in Kansas. (If you haven't heard about our serial killer room, it was sweet!) So I asked Caleb if he could take the door part off the window pane part. I wanted to make something cute out of it, and Caleb thought I was crazy, but obliged me.


There was more to it than you might think. It took some time to pry these babies apart, especially since there were about 5 coats of paint sticking them together like glue.


We hauled this ugly window pane with us to St. George. Then I got working on it. I had to knock out the glass, and chip away and the wood pieces holding it in place.


After all that, I sanded, primed (a lot) and painted it. It took many coats of paint since I couldn't sand down all that ugly green. Plus, when I thought I was getting rid of the green, there was all this red paint underneath it.


Here is a pic of my final product. Caleb told me later that he was impressed since he didn't think that ugly thing could turn out looking that great! (that is quite a compliment coming from a guy that doesn't care about decoration stuff at all.)


This is another view of the cute rose wreath I made. I love it! It took about 1 million hours to make, but at least I now have one cute thing hanging in my house.


A close-up of the wreath. Turned out pretty good, eh?

Necklaces, Necklaces, Necklaces!!!

Do any of you out there have a bunch of necklaces, and don't have a very good place to keep them without getting them in a jumbled mess? I know I did, and that is all it took. When I was visiting Idaho this summer, my cute sister-in-law gave me the idea to do a necklace holder (thanks again Audrey). So when we got back home, that is exactly what I did. It was super easy too if any of you wanted to make one yourself.
This is all that you need. (and Mod Podge glue)


First, I sanded my board. I also asked the sweet hubby to drill some holes in it for me after I decided where I wanted to put the pegs. Then I painted it the color I wanted. (I wanted the color to be pretty universal, so I could put it wherever, and it would still match) Then I waited for it to dry. While waiting for it to dry, I measured my paper to the size of the board, and cut it to fit accordingly. Then I just glued the paper down with mod podge. I painted the pegs black, and stuck them in the holes. It was already a tight fit, but you could glue them in if you're worried. Last, I put some hangers things on the back to hang it to the wall. Here is close-up pic.


Here it is: all finished up and looking cute!


I love how it turned out! I could easily put more necklaces on it too. This project only took me a few hours total, and it was easy peasy.

Before and After

I have been wanting to redo my bedroom ever since we bought a new bed 2 years ago. Caleb told me I could get whatever I wanted, but I have never found anything I love enough to spend a lot of money on. Then I went to Pottery Barn Outlet with my sister and found this cute white duvet cover for $30. It seems like those kind of deals never come up for me, so I just went ahead and bought it. I was excited and a little nervous because it was white. When it finally hit me that I could do so many different things with this duvet, my wheels started turning. I went through color schemes over and over again in my head. Finally I came up with pink, black, and green for my colors.

This is the before pictures. Kind of sad I know. I have a queen sized quilt on my Cal. King bed. Looks pretty awesome huh? Now you know why I wanted to redo my bedroom so badly.



This is what it looks like now. I love it!!!





I made the pillow shams, and the decorative pillows to match. It was really fun picking out the fabric for them. My friend helped me with the patterns which was fun cuz then I got some girl talking time in while making them. I also sewed the ribbon on the bottom of the bedskirt. There was no bedskirts out there with fuchsia pink out there, so I bought a cheap one with sage green on it. Then I sewed the pink ribbon on it later to make it match. I think it turned out super cute.