Aimless Tangents

AKA, I finally finished the headboard that should have been done last week.  I’m thrilled with it! Before: After: I have been wanting a headboard for a very long time.  However, the Hubs and I own a Versa and a Maxima.  Granted I can get a lot of stuff in my hatchback Versa but a [...]

Does your paint tray look like this? Poor thing didn’t get cleaned and then got left outside for a while.  It is grimy and doesn’t want to come clean.  So what is a girl to do when she wants to paint Right Now but wouldn’t put the paint in something so grimy and grubby? Grocery [...]

Oklahoma had an unexpected warm weekend.  Friday was near 70 degrees and Saturday was near 77 for the high.  Beautiful blue, cloudless skies with just a little wind blowing.  Perfect weather, especially in dreary January.  Knowing that more dreary, cold, nasty January weather was on its way I forced the Hubs outside with me and [...]

A while back I found two ugly pictures at a thrift store.  I thought I took a before picture but I can’t seem to find it in my archives.  Trust me, they were beyond ugly.  But the shape of the frames were nice so I brought them home and painted them with some custom mixed [...]

Earlier this week, on a mission to find new nightstands for the bedroom I went into a smaller, for-profit thrift store.  I didn’t find nightstands.  But in a way, what I did find was so much better. I found this: Good bones, nice shape, real wood, only $25, but a bad color for the bedroom.  [...]

I found this table at Salvation Army a few weeks ago for $14.99: One of the drawers has all three of the knobs missing and a second drawer has one of the knobs off, but that knob was in the drawer waiting to be reattached.  I’ve been looking for an accent table for the small [...]

My mantle was feeling a little bare to me. Who am I kidding? It was bare except for when Christmas came around and I had holiday decorations on it. Also would have stuff on it when it occasionally had no home and we’d stick it on the mantle ‘just because’. The holly berry garland is [...]

I’ve wanted a compost bin for a while now. The willow tree in our back yard sheds leaves like you wouldn’t believe. And as I hate bagging leaves it seemed like a good idea to have a place to rake to so that they may decompose into something the plants will love. Thanks to the [...]

I take after my paternal grandfather, Pawpaw. The one that used to go dump diving. The very one that would come home with lonely hammer heads and weld a length of pipe onto them to make a functional hammer because there was no use wasting a perfectly good hammer head. Pawpaw died several years ago [...]