it's been a week?

This may be the longest span of time that I haven't posted.

My apologies. I don't know what I was doing. Taking care of sick kids. (They're all well now, thank God.) Driving The Taxi. Cleaning. LAUNDRY! (Seriously, I have been the Laundry Queen!) Reading lots and lots of home design blogs. And even a book every now and then. But really, I have no excuse! Not much different than a normal week.

Except, I have been doing one thing... spray painting! Everything that isn't nailed down. Seriously, if you come to my house, don't sit down. You need to stay on your feet and keep moving. Or I will. Spray paint you.

I think the checkout guy at Home Depot thinks I'm a huffer. Nope. Just a woman in need of a change or two.

I have two little dressers like this one, that I picked up from the curb a few years ago. They were in the boys room which is blue. But now, one is in the girls room and Shout wanted it painted pink.



So here it is right now. One can of spray paint really does not go very far. I had to make a run back to Home Depot (and dodge the substance abuse counselor they had waiting for me) and get some more. Then it needs some pretty glass knobs. And SOMEONE to weed through Shout's clothes and purge like half of them so they will all fit in this little thing.



Next up is this little side table. I bought this right after I moved into my very own place after college at an antiques store. It's not an antique, but it looks like it's from the 20s or 30s and could have been in my grandmother's house. It was nicely finished, but now it's sporting some kid-inflicted wear and tear. (I also don't quite know what to DO with this table. It's too small for a lamp or anything fragile. It mostly gets used by the kids to put their toy cash register on.)



And looking at this picture, I realize how very out of proportion it is with that big chair. Ack.

Anyway, a can of blue/gray spray paint and a little distressing later and here it is





This is actually my first distressing job. Not too bad. I thought Laundry Dad was going to croak, but I think even he likes it now.


Next up, I've had this birdcage in my living room for years. It's from Target. Nothing fancy, but I like it. But after I saw Melissa's painted birdcage on The Inspired Room, I realized that mine was really kind of vanishing into the background of the room.



So here it is now. (It's hard to tell in the pictures, but it's a brighter blue than the table.)



I LOVE this change. It's much more cheery and punchy.

Here's another project. I picked up several things at a yard sale last week (post on that to come) and I was eyeing this magazine rack, but didn't pick it up. My neighbor threw it in as a freebie since I bought so much other stuff.



It's not my style, but I did have a vision.



This is a bright aqua. It needs some distressing. I was going to resell it, but Bounce (mGal) wants it to stick her Tiger Beat magazines in. We'll see. (I also need to clean it because I forgot to DUST it before I spray painted it, and I didn't notice how dusty it was on the bottom, but WHOA, it was dusty. Now that all the cobwebs are aqua, they are QUITE noticeable. And they are stuck to the underside, so it's going to take some brush or something to get them off. (Note to self, DUST FIRST.)

I've got a few more projects up my sleeve for this fall. (And no... the armoire is not done yet. I have hit a snag which can only be fixed by my iron and a hot glue gun. I need to get working on that.)

Two of them, I'm planning to do when Laundry Dad is out of town. *puts on her very innocent face* I want to SURPRISE him. (AND? I'm pretty sure he will like these projects when they are done. In-process, perhaps not so much.)

The other one requires a trip to Michaels and their more extensive collection of spray paint colors. (And perhaps I can avoid the huffing police.)

What have YOU been up to?