A Goodwill clock from Drab to Fab!!

 Please forgive the messy blog, the other night while messing around with the HTML I completely lost hours upon hours of work and though I was smart enough to save a backup copy sadly it was a save from a long while back so this is how she will be until I can pay to have her made over :)

I love doing these kind of makeovers, taking something outdated and hideous and making it fabulous with just a little paint and pretty scrapbook paper. It's amazing what you can do!!!

I purchased the clock at Goodwill for a few dollars, I have done several clock makeovers similar but this is by far my favorite!! 

All I did was paint her black, distress the edges ( of course ), add some scrapbook paper and voila, she's so pretty!!! I love love love this scrapbook paper!!

This....

To this!!!! I Love it!! So for a few dollars ( already had the other supplies ) at goodwill I have a Beautiful new clock!!

Hope you all had a Lovely Mothers Day!!!

It's Thrifty Treasure time over at Rhoda's from Southern Hospitality so head on over and see all the goodies everyone found this week!!  

Also stop over at Between Naps on the porch for Met Monday!! Lots of great things so check it out!!!

ToyBox Redo and Finallyyyyyyyy I used my new Cricut!!!

Jen over at Sanctuary Arts is having a Before and After Party!!! Got a before and after project you would love to share? Or just pop over to see what everyone else is working on! Head on over here and check it out!!! 

I have had this toy box forever..I posted about it before when I found it at Goodwill for $4.99. I knew it was worth that. It had lots of markings, tape all over it that was seriously not fun getting off, lots of dings ( I like all the dings, more old looking ), but with all that it's nice and sturdy and I knew I could pretty it up. Well not such an easy task, but my fault. I was lazy with this and didn't take it apart for the painting, I didn't even sand it, I know, I know...I have seriously learned my lesson with this thing, if your going to spend the money whether it's $4 or $50 to buy a piece to redo, then redo it the right way, right? It took seriously like 6 coats of paint since I did not sand it.

I FINALLY used my Cricut and cut the letters out with that. Ok you professional DIY painters and distressers, when you are distressing a piece of furniture with sandpaper and sanding in random spots all over the piece how do you not get these? Can you see them? The little shiny white spots around the area you distressed? Does that make any sense? I totally hate it. What am I doing wrong?

Here is the before once more for you....Though I did not do a fabulous job on this it still looks much better! 

Ok enough with the toy box more about the Cricut. As I told you before husband surprised me with it back in August, well I didn't open it or use it til now as I was waiting for my craft room to be organized, I thought it would motivate me but obviously not. But Anyway Ohhhhhh My Gooooodnesss! If you ever have a chance to get one you must!! All the pretty little projects we all do with shapes and letters and pretty papers this thing is so amazing! I could kick myself for not breaking it out months ago! The cute little party invites you can make with it, soooooooo many possibilities with this thing! Husband got mine from the infomercial as I would never be able to spend all of that upfront, plus buying it from there you get the sought after Potpourri cartridge that is Exclusive to the infomercial, you cannot find it anywhere else. People are selling that cartridge alone on Ebay for $100 to $200. It has a little bit of everything on it.

I will share some more fun cricut creations tomorrow and the pumpkin topiary. I was supposed to share it today but as you see I got sidetracked :) It happens, well It happens a lot here.

Add Cricut to your Christmas wish list, beg for one if you have to, you won't regret it :) Geesh, you'd think I was getting paid to write an ad for provocraft cricut, haha! Have a Wonderful Sunday!!!

A couple of Goodwill redos and a Fall Centerpiece...

I have a another Goodwill redo to show you as well as a fall centerpiece.

Remember this not so pretty jewelry box?

Well I gave it a couple of coats of heirloom white spray paint, and distressed it alot, more than I usually do, but I really like how it turned out. I am not so sure about the toile paper yet. I do love me some toile but I don't feel like it pops enough as well as go with the knobs and I love the little knobs on this. We shall see, I may change the paper.

Gotta love the pretty plastic mini blind background.

Remember this goodwill basket from quite awhile ago? Well I showed you that I spray painted it with glossy black....

I added some fall berry garland, and a bag of pumpkins that I got at the grocery store for $4.99. Does it look to messy?

What do you think? I hated it at first but I am really starting to like it. It looks nice on the dresser I have in my dining room. I will show you it altogether later. When I have it all prettied up.

Remember this little candle holder thingy?

Well I spray painted it white, then I took an old blue melamine plate that had cracked, sprayed it the heirloom white and glued it on top, then added a pumpkin and one of the glass domes I picked up at Goodwill the other day. Yes? No? Again with the pretty plastic blind backdrop.

Well that's it for now. Remember the gift bag I turned into wall art last week? Well come back later this week and I will show you paper plates turned art. Trust me it's cute.

Sometime this week, I am going to show you the front of my house, I need help with my door and I am hoping you will all give me some ideas, your the greatest for decorating advice! But be warned, my house is hideous on the outside, we have huge ugly flowerbeds out front that are falling down, and they are empty, we have the ugliest cement front steps with hideous wood railing, and we don't have grass. I have never showed you my house but our house was a house, then a salon or shop or something, and now a house again. Well when it was a salon they added blacktop out front and back and yep it's still here. Our house seriously looks like no one lives here. Our neighbors on each side both have lovely homes and yards and then there is ours. But I am braving it and hoping you all can help me with a few quick fixes to spruce it up! And with all that said, I do love our house and it has a pretty stone front that I like.

This week I am participating in Metamorphosis Monday over at Susan's Between Naps on the Porch!! Click the logo above and Go over and check out everyone's projects this week!! Be Prepared to be inspired!

Have a Great Night!!!

A few Goodwill and Michaels Finds...

It's Thrifty Treasure time over  at Rhodas from Southern Hospitality!! Go and check out everyones finds for the week after your done here!

I made a trip to Michaels and Goodwill! Two of my favorite stores! Michaels had TONS of clearance! Even alot of stuff in their dollar isle was clearance at half off, I a few little things...

I got these for .49 a piece, I was very excited to find cheap paper lanterns as I have been wanting some for a project.

These premade garland banner things are cute and I got a few, they were marked down to .49, These are nice to add on to another or redo.

If you use sponge brushes, Michaels has the small ones 20 for $1 right now, today is the last day of the sale and this is an awesome price for these! They are pretty much all I use and are great when you have a small project and need one you can just toss after.

They had lots of cute paper ( yea like I needed more paper ), stickers, and little words on clearance. The words are great repainted and glittered, or decoupaged with pretty paper. I think wish will be cute framed and prettied up for some Christmas decor ( yeahhhhhh Christmas!!! ).

Then at goodwill I found this curtain for a french door and was needing a new one and this matches perfectly!!! I love it! It was marked $6.99 but she charged me half so it must have been on sale.

I got this little metal tray to redo. Cleaned up I actually like it pink, but I have no pink here so I will probably have to repaint it.

I got these little glass domes for .99 each, they will be perfect on some chunky candle things I have with a little pumpkin or something underneath them.

My grandma Jean is in town visiting for a couple of months or so and she loves to garage sale when she is here. She found this for me to use in my crap craft room for paints or something. I love it! I will paint it and make it pretty.

She also brought me this cute little kitchen sign which I like as is. It's white and distressed with black showing through! Thanks Grams!!

So what are your plans for this weekend? The pumpkin festival is going on here in town and we might go there tomorrow, not sure. We have TONS to do at home! I am on a mission this weekend to finish lots of unfinished projects! My gramma wants to come help me organize my craft room this week, so I have to organize before we can organize, make sense? If you saw it, it would.

Have a Great one and don't forget to enter my latest giveaway here!!

More thrifty Goodwill finds...

Edited for Goodwill Goodies Day over at The Dalomba Days! Stop over and check out everyones elses finds!

 

I found this cute shelf at goodwill for $2 something. I love it, I don't even think I will paint it, maybe distress it a bit.

And this, love these. This one was high at $5.99 but I still got it as I love them. It's already painted and drying.

I bought these, there was a bag of them with all the different signs for the different months and more blocks, I have no idea how this thing goes but I just bought it for the blocks anywho. It was $1 something.

This wilton pumpkin pan was $2 something, I can't wait to use it! I was picked to do a HouseParty.com party sponsored by I can't Believe it's Not Butter, So I will probably use this at my baking party.

This little tub and fall berries was FREE, my grams sent me home the other night with a bunch of goodies...Love her. Oh and the sponge, she thinks it's nuts I don't use sponges and insisted, lol.

And she gave me these little candlesticks, they are already painted white...

And a topiary she gave me that I am redoing...

And a birdhouse she gave me that I have already painted white...

And she gave me this cute little bird's nest with eggs...

And this cute little jar she didn't want...

She also sent me home with some fall flowers...I only made one trip to Goodwill and as you can see, they just didn't have much. :) We were also rushed as they were getting ready to close.

Here are some scores from Old Navy that I didn't show you a couple of weeks ago. I managed to score a coupon for $45 off a $100 purchase from oldnavyweekly.com and I got this lovely....

You have no idea how much this coat excites me! I DON'T wear coats, we live in IL and the winters are cold yet still I walk around in a hoodie. I hate coats, I hate the bulkiness, they make me look 50 pounds heavier, the sleeves are always to short, and I can never ever find one that fits me right. Well when we went in to use my ON coupon I got this one and I LOVE it! It fits perfect, not to heavy, sleeves are super short, and I love love love the color! So no more freezing this winter! For $80 we got my coat, me 2 pairs of pants, my husband new khakis for work, my oldest a shirt, flip flops, and a shirt for me, all for only $80! I think that's great considering the coat alone was $60! I want another coupon this week as they had some cute boots I wanted and I need a new hoodie, for back up, haha! Plus I'd like to get the kids coats early.

Have you entered my giveaways? I have 3 going right now. One here for $66 worth of Gold Canyon candles, one here for a cuteeee clutch purse and matching key fob, and one here for the cutest vintage looking print from the ever so lovely Melaine from My Sweet Savannah!

My first Frugal Friday Post....Goodwill Redos!

It's Frugal Friday over at the Shabby Nest!! This is my first time participating and I'm so excited! I have been a follower of The Shabby Nest since I started blogging at the beginning of the year, and just love her blog! Make sure and go over and check out everyones posts for the party!!

Do you remember this? I found this at goodwill for a few dollars awhile back, the doors open and it holds cds or something. Well I knew I could use it for something in my craft room, and I love little cubbies and boxes and anything really that has little doors....Sooo....

Here she is now...I LOVE how it turned out! I gave it a coat of heirloom white spray paint, and added some pretty scrapbook paper in the doors and she is much prettier now. At first I was going to scrap it as the spray paint bubbled up in some areas but that just made it easier to distress!

What do you think?

I bought a bunch of these in the Walgreens summer clearance for a quarter a piece, I knew I could use them for something....

I spray painted a bunch of them heirloom white and this is one that I have finished, I just stenciled a number in black on it. I was sure if I would like it but I do.

Remember this clock? I bought 2 of these at Goodwill for a few dollars and knew I could redo them, well let me tell you I have had a time with them and these should be the easiest things ever! Everything just pops right out, but nope they have been such a pain.

I hate it! I love the bottom part but I have to repaint the clock part, it dried a hideous shade of red. Well it's not really hideous just doesn't go. But for now here it is...

And again....If I could just cut the top half off, lol.

Well that's my makeovers for today! Be creative, it's amazing what you can do with a little spray paint and scrapbook paper! You can turn something ewww into something you love for so little and enjoy it for years to come! Then when your tired of it, you can always pull out the spray paint!

Have a Great Day! Don't forget to enter my awesome giveaways here, here, and here!! Check back later as I add a couple more!