A Little Of This And That Today

I did some early morning garage saleing this morning.(of course I did I am an addict)  I didn't find a ton of stuff, it is getting colder outside and the garage sales are getting few and far between.  I found a really cute wooden tray for a buck, I think I will put some decorative balls in there and place on the dining room table.  I got another little black metal basket for a quarter.  I got my son a brand new pair of crocs for seventy five cents.  I also got a cute cowboy boot glass and girl bootie glass.  I collect glasses from the eighties, and remember these when I was a kid.  I will show my collection later.  Here are my finds.

  Have a great weekend.

Bench Makeover

I went garage saleing last weekend and saw this bench.  I thought this would fit perfectly in my living room entryway.  I paid $10.00 for it and happily carried it to my car.  I guess I have no sense of space at all.  I thought it would fit in my trunk perfectly. (nope, not even close)  Then I thought it would fit in my front seat. (ummm no)  I was about to freak, when my friend Kim was like, "Heather is that you?"  I was so happy, because one I hadn't seen Kim in awhile, and two her car could easily fit this bench, it was "fate".

It started out looking like this.

I got so excited and involved I started priming without taking a good before.  It was pretty beat up. So here is the bench primed up.

Alright so here is the finished project.

Can I just say I love that fabric.  Anyway, so the bench was done and Tom brought it in to see how it would look, and it looked terrible.  It wasn't the bench itself, it was just too big.  I instantly knew I didn't like it.  I have no other place to put it, so it was a big ol waste of time.  I will be selling it at my garage sale, but I am taking that fabric off, and making a pillow.  I have some spare fabric I will recover the bench  in.  That fabric was expensive and I love it, so I will be keeping that.  Oh well.

News Flash:

Sold the bench at our garage sale for $35, not to bad.

Your Childs Best Halloween

Alright, so here is the costume that I guarantee will make your child's Halloween totally unforgettable!  My son Adam wanted to be R2D2 a couple years ago, and I wasn't really thrilled with the store bought costumes so I decided to make my own.  I did some research online, and took a little bit of ideas from all the R2D2 costumes I saw.  I bought a garbage can and sawed out holes for the arms.  I then used duct tape and blue tape to go around the holes, and taped down the flippy thing where trash went.  I also bought some blue foam for decorating along with a black marker for some design.  I got some lights to make it pow! 
Adam wore this costume and was a complete hit!  I even took him to the Prudential mall in Boston for an early trick or treating showoff, and let me tell you everyone in the mall was pointing and mentioning how much they loved it.  He was even waving at people.  He will never forget it.  Adam wants to do it again, but I think we need to move on.  Here are some pics.  The lights don't show up very well in the pictures, but they seriously made the costume.

Adam was R2D2 two years in a row.  I was of course Darth Vader.  Adam and I have done a lot of theme Halloweens together.

Adam: Scooby Doo

Me: Thelma

Adam: Thomas the Train

Me: Sir Topin Hat

And of course our Star Wars theme

This year we may have another good one.  I will show pics when complete.

Goodwill n Michaels Trip

I was hoping to take a nap earlier this morning, but the little one wouldn't hear of it (ughhhhhhhhhhhh).  So off to McDicks and some mild thrifting.  I first went to Michael's I needed some magnets for a project I am working on, but I couldn't help but look around.  I found this cute wicker light ball that I love!!  It was $5.99 which in my world is like $100.00, but I had to have it. Here is the pic.

It's hard to take a good pic of the way it lights, it is like a little round piece of Christmas.  My fourteen month old will not keep his little paws away from it.  The best thing is that it is plugged into an outlet that is activated from a switch on the wall, love when that happens!

I also went to Goodwill which is always an adventure.  I want to make one of those candles with the sweater wrapped around it.  I got the idea here http://www.bystephanielynn.com/2010/09/more-recycled-sweater-vases-easy-simple.html.  So I looked for a cable sweater at Goodwill and found one.  It appeared to have a stain on the front of it, but I didn't care because I was using the arms of the sweater mostly and it was only $2.50.  When I went to check out the clerk was like did you see that stain, I was like yea I don't care because I am using it for a project.  The nice lady only charged me 99 cents.  When I got home I was showing Tom the sweater and he was like what is that, I was like it's a stain but then I looked at it a little further and realized it was a bird.  Hmmmm weird.  I also got a pair of cute boots, I found another "pair" I would of liked better they were a nice black tall leather boot, well the sad part was I only found one.  I looked everywhere for the other one.  I was not happy.  Here is the pic of the sweater that will soon be covering some vases.

New Hallway doors

I am currently in the middle of projects.  I will show the pics when I am done.  I never posted pictures of a past project that Tom had done in the house.  The doors in the hallway used to be luan hollow doors, and we decided to put in solid wood doors, major improvement.  These are the before and after on those.

These are the afters.  Oh while we are here look above at my sons fabulous school picture last year. (He may be your future president.)

The doors just came as one slab, and Tom drilled all the hinges and door knob stuff on his own.