I'm BACK!!!!

Hi ladies! (if anyone reads this at all) I'm excited to announce that I have SUCCESSFULLY finished 2 Big projects! I have about 5 other projects I'm working on, it's just hard to get them done since we don't have a craft store in town. I have to be REALLY innovative and research my options. I have learned a LOT and it has been so much fun! So, let me show you what I've done! First I had this OLD dresser. I didn't take a before picture (I forget so often!) But...I knew we got it as a wedding present 7.5 years ago and it came from Wal-Mart. So off to Walmart.com I went to find a picture. Here is what it looked like 7.5 years ago before 3 kids and 5 moves. (Thank you Walmart.com for not suing me for using a picture that isn't mine).


It was starting to fall apart and Wayne and I have talked about throwing it out for YEARS. That is until I started reading Becca's Blog HERE and getting fabulous ideas about refurbishing! I LOVE IT! Here is the dresser after!


I re-tightened everything. Put some shelving in the inside and made a cute little unit for my soon to be born girl's room. (sorry the picture isn't that great. My camera gave out so all the pictures are off my cell phone...which also isn't great).


Then I went to a garage sale. LOVE garage sales! I saw this old yucky changing table and didn't even stop to think much of it. I've had 3 other kids without a changing table why would I need one now. Especially this nasty looking one. My husband pointed it out and I rolled my eyes like..."sure honey, You want that disgusting piece of junk in our house?" But THEN.....My friend Jess said, "now what would Becca do?" (being Becca over at Blue Cricket Design) So I took a closer look and thought, sure I'll try something with it. What could it hurt? So home it went with us. Here is a picture of it before. (again, sorry bad picture...cell phone camera).


It had this AWFUL plastic cover all over it that was torn and stained. I hummed and hawed for a few days as to what to do with that. I wanted to buy a staple gun and just staple new fabric all over it, but I really didn't want to spend a lot of money (since we're buying a house...(that post soon to come). Plus, if I went the staple gun way I'd have to do a LOT of sewing and I'd need to buy a rivet gun and remove an old rivet and it would have just been a bigger pain since I don't have those tools. BUT then it his me...MOD PODGE! You can mod podge ANYTHING!!!!!! I tore out all that nasty old stuff and mod podged some beauty back into the changing table. I also had to take the whole thing apart and spray paint on a new color. Can I just tell you I fell in LOVE with Fusion Plastic spray paint! It works SO well and dries SO fast and isn't sticky AT ALL! I'm sold and will use it for most if not all of my projects! Here are a few pictures of the after project...

I also sewed this removable cover onto the old nasty changing pad. Isn't is so much better?
Old Changing pad....

New Changing pad....

And the whole thing folds up into a nice small space (which is an added bonus for those with small homes!)


Now...if this baby turns out to be a Boy....I'm going to be one UNHAPPY crafter!!!!!