Giving life to my lampshade

It’s been a busy week for me {and everyone right?} and I’m happy Saturday is HERE! This weekend will be fun since hubs and I are meeting up with some of our good friends today! Eeps 🙂

As you all know, I am giving my craft room/office a little TLC {let me tell ya, it is in dire need of it!}. I’m incredibly thankful that I have a space to call “my own” and in saying that… I need to use my space wisely. In the rest of our home it’s mostly “put together” but my craft room, uh hum, it’s clutter fest and of course I’m the person who claims to HATE clutter. 😉 I’m hoping soon to go room by room in my house and organize sharing the process with you all! Well now that I’ve “confessed”… let’s move on since this post IS on my thrifted lamp & lampshade makeover and NOT on organization. lol. {In my upcoming posts for my craft room makeover there will be organization tips. Stay tuned ;-)}

I found this lamp over a year ago at an antique store in Lafayette but could not find a lampshade to fit nor could I find one I liked. For a “quick fix” I spray painted the lamp and covered the lampshade with some fabric and plopped it in my craft room but it never grew on me. It’s been sitting there for months that way, all dull and boring and I can’t take it another stinkin’ day. It’s time to give my lampshade some LIFE!

Here’s how I did it…

First, I found a lampshade at Goodwill that fit perfectly for only $3.99. {Say whaaaaat?! Yes, $3.99! What a steal right?}

Second, using Frog Tape I taped off stripes on the lampshade.

Third, using one of the “mis-tinted” paints I found on sale at Walmart, I painted over the whole lampshade.

FOURTH, I let it set to dry for approx. 1 hour.

FIFTH, Once it was completely dry, I pulled off the tape and BOOM, stripes!

Can’t wait to share more!

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Have a great weekend!!

Out with the old in with the new…

Well folks, I am stuffed to the gills after eating fair food {again}. Going on Tuesdays to the Indiana State Fair is the best because it only costs $2 to get in and they have $2 “taste of the state fair” at every booth! Hubs and I bought a huge pretzel for only $2! Another booth was offering two sides for $2 so you bet your bottom dollar we were there, buying our sides. Oh yeah, get this… they were selling DONUT HAMBURGERS at the fair. {I feel a gag coming on…}. It seems we have ran out of foods to deep fry so we are turning to donut hamburgers now. I couldn’t get past how many calories had to be in the sandwich so unfortunately I did not try it. Speaking of counting calories, I decided I just couldn’t pass up Dippin’ Dots! 😉

In my last blog post, I mentioned I was on the brink of doing a mini bathroom makeover and by golly, I have been kickin’ booty. My poor hubs mentioned the other day that my daughter and I are on one speed…GO! I started this bathroom makeover and I haven’t taken a break {and i L.O.V.E. it}. I was thinking about posting before and after pics of the whole bathroom mini makeover but I did so many “here and there” projects, I decided to break it down a bit.

First, I had to get rid of those terribly outdated oak cabinets. Don’t get me wrong, they are in perfect condition but just NOT my taste. As always, hubs and I get our thrills off doing makeovers on a budget so instead of buying a new bathroom vanity I sanded and painted that bad boy up and it looks brand new!
Here is the before pic of my luxurious {Uh-hum, let’s rephrase that… “modest” cabinets}.

I started the makeover by taking off the TP holder and nobs. Then I proceeded to sand ALL of the oak completely down to where it was baby butt smoooooth.

Once sanded, I brought out some paint I already had on hand. It was a small can that was actually  in the returned paint section at Walmart and I bought it for approx $2. It’s just your basic brown but turned out awesome once it dried.

{{Ignore the raggedy paint brush. I like to “re-use”. :)}}

I ended up having to paint around three coats for it to look finished. After it was all dry, I screwed on our TP holder and our new nobs. I bought these amazing nobs at hobbylobby.com for 50% off! Check it out!

I stepped back, looked at it and it was perfect, too perfect {weird, I know}. I needed to rough up the edges a little too add a rustic vibe and so glad I did! I’m pumped with the results!

Check out the BEFORE and AFTER pics…

The only thing we still have to do to it  is put a sealer on it aaaaand it’s finished! It’s amazing how much money you can save by just doing a “makeover” instead of purchasing a brand new vanity.

Well, that’s all for now! …Have a good day! :))

P.S. I’m so excited I just have to share that DIYconfessions.com has hit over 100,000 views now! WOOO-HOOOO!! {{Thanks to ALL of you who follow along with me!}}