Not another quilt!

Yes... I decided to make another quilt, this time I kind of knew what I was doing. ;) I stuck to an easy pattern I made up, and I ran into very little problems this time. It also took me like 1/6th of the amount of time it did with my t-shirt quilt.
At first, I was going to do this quilt in only yellow, grey, and white, but as time went on and I bought more scraps of fabric, I thought some black and turquoise would be cute too. :)

 Keep adding more patterns and squares!

 Here's me just showing you that I actually did sew this. :) I bought all my supplies and fabric from Hobby Lobby (of course) and Joann's. I sewed the set of four squares together first, and then sewed those to the bigger squares.

 She's almost done! Just need to finish the last couple of rows, do the back, and stuff it with batting!

 Voila! This quilt only took me about 3 weeks to finish since I was so excited about it, and I love it! I did the back in just a queen sized sheet cut down to fit, and then tied yarn knots in it every couple of squares to make sure that the batting stays in place.

From "Blah" to "Voila"!

This has got to be one of my favorite projects and also the most difficult and time consuming one that I have ever done. I never thought I would be taking on the task of repainting a dresser, and all the time and effort it would take to do it. I'm so grateful that I was able to do it in the summer, when I had more free time than I do now! Before I found this dresser, I had a long, cheap one, that I've had for several years now. I decided I needed a new one, and was on the search for a couple of months. Thank goodness for Facebook yard sale sites, or else I wouldn't have found this beauty! In the picture below you only see one of the knobs, but I have all of them (which is pretty lucky). My mom was nice enough to help pitch in for buying it, and I believe we paid $70 total. And then I had to buy paint, sandpaper, knobs, wood filler, and some nail tacks. We believe she was made in the 50's or 60's since she is solid wood, and has dove tailed drawers ( this made me fall in love!!). 

 Stripping the paint off was definitely the longest, and hardest task for this project. I had to use a screwdriver, scraper, and also a sander to get the paint off. I probably spent around 3+ hours for two weeks, just scraping off the paint...yeah... I'll never do that again.

 Finally!! I got all the white paint off and it was now time to sand and then paint! I chose to do a black semi glossy paint that I bought at Home Depot. Just for future reference, I would never do a glossy paint on a piece of furniture again, or paint a piece this large black. It's really pretty, but everything sticks to it, and you can see every speck of lint/dust.

 Let the painting begin!

 Done! All I need now is knobs and to put in into my room!

 This is the awful dresser that I had before... thank goodness I got rid of this thing. It was definitely screaming "throw me away and never look back!". You can even see all the dust on top of it..and my earring holder from an earlier post on here! :)

 And now! My room looks much more mature now, and I bought a bookcase to put beside it for all my movies and such. I bought glass knobs, that really match the dresser perfectly. In the picture below I hadn't quite finished the knobs for the top two drawers, but I stuck with the original dresser knobs in white for contrast.
Next time I do a project this big, I definitely will NOT be painting it black, and will never use semi-glossy paint again. :)

Repurposed Crate Box

Katie here! It's been over a year since one of us posted any projects...life gets really busy, so sorry about that.

There are many pluses to working at Hobby Lobby; one being that we have a clearance section once a year that some items get discounted to a ridiculously low price, and then getting my employee discount on top of that. So therefore, I bought this ugly crate because it had great bones (Sorry the quality isn't that great). I believe I spent about $5.00 on it, not including the materials I used to fix it up.

 I decided that the blue was too much and that I wanted to add a little bit of the color from the piece of paper that I bought to cover the design on the back, so I painted the corners white. This was really tedious... I had to use a tiny paint brush because the lines needed to be straight, and I didn't want it to look sloppy. See?! look at those beautiful bones! The white really made it pop, in my opinion.

 Next, I initially was going to try to mod podge the paper into the inside, and decided that the paper I chose wasn't going to work with mod podge really well because it was very thin; almost like wrapper paper. So I used Elmer's tacky spray, and it worked amazingly!

 And she's done! I decided to hang it up in the bathroom that my sister and I share, to put toilet paper in to. It works wonderfully and adds some creativity into our bathroom!