tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30282442166826255502024-03-18T19:56:55.657-07:00The Vintage BenchJust another Mom, with One too many hobbies.Melissa Orsakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929652773258049497noreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028244216682625550.post-29906237359213529702012-02-03T06:02:00.000-08:002012-02-01T09:00:22.563-08:00Single Lady<div align="center">Over at <a href="http://www.kellyskornerblog.com/">Kelly's Korner</a> they are doing a show us your singles day. And I want to add my sister.</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">I thought it would be fun and interesting, not to mention my sister is the best!</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">She's mid 20s, single professional! </div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">Fun, silly, considerate, hard working with a big heart.<br />
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Honestly, she's just tired of meeting the same type of guy, ones that can't hold up their end of a conversation. A man, with a plan of his own, that is wanting someone to tag along. A man, who can be respectful and fun that can enjoy hanging out or going out!<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">E-mail me if intersted <a href="mailto:morsak0106@att.net">morsak0106@att.net</a>!!!</div><div align="center"><br />
</div>Melissa Orsakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929652773258049497noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028244216682625550.post-17836590802972755822011-01-31T09:22:00.000-08:002011-01-31T09:22:03.921-08:00"LIKE" Me<div align="center">To kick off 2011, we are going to do a Giveaway. </div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">I know, I know, they may not be as cool as others, but I was thinking getting my "craft" in someone's actual hands and being able to see how well things are made and the detail that goes in to these items that I list here or on my<a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/morsak0106"> Etsy Shop</a>, You will LOVE them!</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">So here is the deal, LIKE my page on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/The-Vintage-Bench/114719441892210">Facebook</a> and once we reach 100 fans, I will have a contest and pick the winner at random. The winner will get something that I have created!</div><div align="center">If you want to see the prize, you got to play the game!</div><div align="center"><br />
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</div>Melissa Orsakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929652773258049497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028244216682625550.post-6935629858061328852011-01-21T06:10:00.000-08:002011-01-21T06:10:00.448-08:00Mirror Chalkboard<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I purchased a French Provencial dresser for our living room and I was the "bit seperating" deal on CL. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So I got stuck with a tri-fold mirror. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I knew what I was going to do with the center piece, I was going to make a chalkboard.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have been dying for one this large, but refuse to spend the money on one that was already completed. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So here we go:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Tape it off.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Two coat of spray paint chalk. </div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Pulled the tape and then taped the board to paint the frame white.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Tadaaaaaa!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It's new home!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Gave it to me and wanted to see what I could do with it...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I love how it came out.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So much so that I spent a week moving it around my house trying to find it a home.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So I think it might have to go on CL, and I can find it a new home.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.missmustardseed.blogspot.com/"><img alt="Furniture Feature Fridays" height="125" src="http://www.missmustardseed.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/furniture-feature-friday-link.jpg" width="125" /></a></div>Melissa Orsakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929652773258049497noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028244216682625550.post-53749286650478179192011-01-05T04:28:00.000-08:002011-01-05T04:28:01.012-08:00I think I'm in Love...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I drove out to an old shop, that a sweet man was having to close. He was really wanting to get rid of things instead of storing them. I was originally interested in a beautiful dresser for our master bedroom, which in fact did make it to my house.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But I was glancing around checking out other things that he was packing and he allowed me to take it off his hands. I grabbed up an urn, which matches others that we have in our home.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But admired this beauty...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I was not too happy with the brassy look, though. So I pulled out the trusty old spray paint can and got to work.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here she is after one coat.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It only took two coats....</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I love it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I took this lamp off of an old one in a closet, I think I like it. </div>Melissa Orsakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929652773258049497noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028244216682625550.post-71581833418167199392011-01-01T05:42:00.000-08:002011-01-01T05:42:00.264-08:00Happy New Year!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://richardwiseman.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/happy_new_year.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="285" px="true" src="http://richardwiseman.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/happy_new_year.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Melissa Orsakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929652773258049497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028244216682625550.post-55369196254871848282010-12-23T16:34:00.000-08:002010-12-23T16:34:00.218-08:00Time to Rest<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em>We are going to enjoy our Holiday Season.</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://richardwillisuk.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/christmas-scene.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="292" nx="true" src="http://richardwillisuk.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/christmas-scene.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">We hope you do the same.</span></em></div>Melissa Orsakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929652773258049497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028244216682625550.post-83733473761948698282010-12-20T05:40:00.000-08:002010-12-20T05:40:00.694-08:00Wreaths Tips and Tricks<div style="text-align: center;">I wanted to throw a few things out there in case you were wondering or needed a little nudge in profecting that holiday wreath.</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">ALWAYS buy more then you need. Yes, it may look like you have enough in your hand, but it's not going to stay in your hand, it seems to get smaller once you start decorating the wreath. I always just turned back before I leave the aisle in the store and grab one more.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Use plenty of wire. It's cheap and you can't even see it, if you use it right. I always do a shake test to make sure all more decorations have been secured onto the wreath. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Whether using a greenry base or a dried vine base, get a good one. Make sure it's a nice circle, I have seen so many that are funny shaped and that just will not make the best base for wreath making. I also tend to visit all my local craft shops just for this reason.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">And when you think you are finished hang it up and take a step back. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">And go ahead and add those few more decorations, even if you think you don't need it. You do.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">They have held up over time and each year seem to come out of the tote I store them in undamaged. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But the wreaths that I have been using I made when I was single and had my own place, and did not have much mone to spend. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I just kinda made it work. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But, now I am able to make fabulous wreaths I have always wanted on my front door.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So in replacing wreaths, or mostly ust re-vamping them. My husband has recruited me to provided wreaths for the new home buyers he has each month. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So I now in my spare time make wreaths for a welcome home package for new home owners.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">What a delight?!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Ok, maybe not for you, but wouldn't have been awesome if you bought your home and as a welcome home, congratulations gift, you got a beautiful wreath.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I think so.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">With the holiday season, here is one, I whipped together....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Merry Christmas!</div>Melissa Orsakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929652773258049497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028244216682625550.post-32129963006500297162010-12-06T07:31:00.000-08:002010-12-06T07:31:00.497-08:00Bathroom Make-Over<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Once again, we are getting the old house ready to go back on the market. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But I came to realize that the new owners may not want this yellow color in their bathroom. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So I ponder the thought, long and hard. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Do I really want to pay someone $500 or so to do this tiny room?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">No, I could so use that money on something else. Right?!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It cost about $150 and three days of work, but I did it at my own pace with two children running around and I think I like it...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You walk in the front door and BAM! you're right in the living room. But, I wanted a piece that you could set your keys, or display pictures, etc. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So here is the change that this area has gone through. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I love the piece lightened up, but I was not liking the plates.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">And I thought the lamps were to modern.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I like this better. Yes, both lamps work.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I did not even realized I only had one on until I uploaded the pictures. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I still like it!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"I can find a better deal then that." </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Some of the time, I don't and later kick myself for not grabbing certain items up when I saw them for $10 cheaper somewhere else.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But that philospie has helped out this past weekend. We were on the way to grocery shop and passed by this gated community. In the six years we have driven by this place, I have never even seen a car go in, but today there was a Garage Sale sign out front. So we had to go.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And I am so glad that I did. I got everything for....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">$5!!! Yes FIVE dollars!</div>Melissa Orsakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929652773258049497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028244216682625550.post-89984023289638661342010-11-05T05:43:00.000-07:002010-11-12T05:27:42.862-08:00Our Lil Man's Room<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So here's the deal, we have a two year old, who you guessed it, is rough on stuff.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">All stuff. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So I wanted good quality furniture for his room that did not break the bank. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The bed was a deal and it has held up wonderfully.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But.... it's black. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And his room has drak walls. It's a little dreary in there for a little boy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So I painted it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Primed.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Nice coverage, with Primer, two coats of blue and a gloss.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The dresser however was another issue.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We bought a huge one, I mean one that was almost the size of his bed. There was no room in there for him, his toys, his bed, his toys, a chair, and his toys.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You get the picture. So I sold his enromous dresser and bought a smaller one that could still hold all of his cloths.</div><br />
<div align="center">Here's the hardware.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Before drawers. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Forgive me, once I get the motivation to start a project there is no turning back, so after I start, I then remember the camera.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Drying.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.missmustardseed.blogspot.com/"><img alt="Furniture Feature Fridays" height="125" src="http://www.missmustardseed.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/furniture-feature-friday-link.jpg" width="125" /></a></div>Melissa Orsakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929652773258049497noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028244216682625550.post-91869476177035098832010-10-28T05:27:00.000-07:002010-10-28T05:27:00.511-07:00Screen Door for the Inside<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">With so many different things coming back into style for decorating again, I thought I would try an idea out. I might have seen this before in a magazine or on a blog, but forgive me I don't recall. Hanging a door yes, but a screen door, not really.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So when I bump into this peach for $2 at an estate sale, I took it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">As I was piling into my car between my two children, it dawned on me, it's kinda old and it might have a smell. Nevertheless, I knew I would not find one for this price again. </div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So I set it in the garage and waited. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Waited for inspiration. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And well for the cobwebs to disappear.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I touched up the paint and painted the screen to cover some rust.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">By this time I had wondered if I had removed the character from the piece. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Once I removed the tape, the paint started to follow and I was a little sad.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Until I took a step back and realized what I had done.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">COTTAGE! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Oh, yes, the style that seems to in, however, mine is a little more challenging then going to the local furniture store and picking out something that looks antique or worn. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I am making it ALL myself. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Ok, when I say, all, I mean the things I can actually make. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Which leads me over to our dining room table. A table which is used. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Used a lot. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We eat all of our meals here, especially since I just sold our kitchen table. My toddle climbs up and eats his morning waffles, his hot dogs for lunch and whatever happens to make it on a plate for dinner. He will even climb up in his chair for his nightly ice cream. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But I am bored with it. I need something to make it more appealing and cottage like. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Table runner it is. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I gathered the drop cloth left overs from the <a href="http://thevintagebench.blogspot.com/b/post-preview?token=9vD8kCkBAAA.PqpPR03pdHK_rdX3JuOBOA.Mz9NBrxyv5vekscxODWHng&postId=7665599050557824728&type=POST">entertainment skirt</a> I made and it just so happened to be a perfect amount for this project.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here it is, the drop cloth, a burlap roll and my ever so wonderful glue gun.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I folded about 5 inches of fabric over to make a nice hem. It was also the size I wanted it after I folded it over. So I just went down each side gluing away.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here I am with my nice glued hem. So much easier for me, I just can't sew to safe my life. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Or any one's for that matter. Something I need to work on.</div><br />
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<div align="center">The burlap is kinda thick for this project, so I folded it in half making a crease and then cutting it in half. </div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">No certain measurements, just whatever looks right. </div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Then glued one side down it the bottom of the hem. The side that will be face down on the table. </div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Then I came back through and glued the other end on top of the already glued side. Making a double edge.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Viola! By doubling it up on the edge it makes it poofy. So it is not completely flat on the table. Also, so there is not too much burlap. I just wanted it to be decorative not overwhelming. </div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">If you can't tell by all the pictures, I sure do like it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Now if I can only keep it clean.</div>Melissa Orsakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929652773258049497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028244216682625550.post-55761689991129703982010-10-15T13:36:00.000-07:002010-10-15T13:36:01.050-07:00Wreaths for Fall<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I really enjoy the fall/winter season. Though, here in Texas that just means it will dip into the low 60s, but yeah, it's better then the 100 degree heat. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">With this change in weather, we all know the season is changing and nothing is more fitting for a season change then the coordinating wreath on your door. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I made one for EVERY season before my husband and I met. Just cute little ones, that I made with cheap things from the dollar store. They have lasted for over 7 years, so I must have done something right. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But now, I want something more fancy. More glamorous. More me.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So here is the first one. Yes, I said first one, I have a few more up my sleeve.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I really like how it all came together at the end. I did not want it too dark, or too orange. So I think I found a happy medium. I also, love the little weed things, forgive I do not know the proper name, but they sure are cute.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">On the door it goes...</div>Melissa Orsakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929652773258049497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028244216682625550.post-76655990505578247282010-10-12T06:33:00.000-07:002010-10-12T06:33:00.398-07:00Drop Cloth Skirt...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Before, I start I want to apologize for the quality of the pictures. It's hard holding a toddler out of the frame and taking the picture at the same time. Whenever I pull the camera out to take a picture of something besides him, he has to be in it. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">Ok, a skirt. Well a skirt for my entertainment center. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">I have been staring at this piece for weeks, thinking man, I just don't want to spend the money to get another one, when most likely we will be doing something different with this set-up once we move. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">I sure don't want to get the paint out either. My hard labor does not come cheap these days. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">I knew there must be something I can do, to make me happy and avoid spending a ton of money that will also give me a solution to the thing that has been plaguing me. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">Drop cloth. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">I purchased two large ones, last week for a chair I am working on. Post to come later. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">And I remember seeing other fellow bloggers using "skirts" to hide storage under their desks or tables and I thought, well I can hide the darkness just as easy. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">Here's the darkness.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I laid out the drop cloth and took measurements.</span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I added a few inches to the top so that I would be able to fold it. I cannot sew, so this is the easy fix for me. </span></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Cut it by a chalk line that I made. I just used chalk I had lying around the house. You can barely see it and once I made the fold, you can't see it at all.</span></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Then I tacked the two ends with furniture tacks, to hold them in place and let the center fabric hang loose so that I could place a crease in the middle. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">I gathered the fabric in the center folding on each side and then joining them in the middle to make one nice fold. </span></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Then placed a tack to hold in the center. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">I did not completely place the tacks on the ends until I was sure that I liked the fold in the center. I also had my hubby there to help hold and to give more cloth in the center to adjust the fold to my desire. </span></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I really like it and think that it fulfills my request to down play the darkness of the room. </span></div>Melissa Orsakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929652773258049497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028244216682625550.post-36934892685053697142010-10-04T06:40:00.000-07:002010-10-04T06:40:00.752-07:00Entry Make-Over<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I finally got the entry area the way I want it.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Well for now anyway.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">So this is what I had. I grab this piece while I was out of town with the in-laws and loved it. However it drowned out on this huge wall I had it up against. So it had to go. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Into another room, not the trash. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">My toddler is showing me what a great baragain I got it for and how well made it is.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Then, I went to this. I sold a piece. Then bought this piece. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">The boldness of this sideboard, is wonderful for this spot. Except it has one flaw...</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">It's black. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">And if you have been listening, I need light colors. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">(Don't worry the star was only there long enough to take a picture and see what it looked like, I did not leave it there.)</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">So into the garage it went, with a coat of primer, two coats of my favorite blue/gray/off white paint I own. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Out with the lamps and anything remotely dark.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">A few trips to IKEA, HL and some more paint. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">And this is what is there now....</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">What do you think?</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">A lot better I think.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Melissa Orsakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929652773258049497noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028244216682625550.post-27303540462871335122010-09-26T07:29:00.000-07:002010-09-26T07:29:00.162-07:00Picture This...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">With all the fab wall decals that are available in stores and online, there are a ton of options for new and inventive, even sentimental ways to "write" what you want on your wall. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">And then move it around. With the adhesive that is used you can casually take it down and move it into another room or another spot if it's not exactly where you want it. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Which makes these things all the more appealing.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">However, with a plans to move in the near future, I still want to use the decals, I just don't want to leave them. Nor do I want to defer prospective buyers from making an offer because they don't like it.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">So I came up with, making a picture.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Yes, a picture.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">There is a Garden Ridge less than five miles from my house and I bet if you went into 95% of the home within a twenty miles radius you would see some version of this picture. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">I own four. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So I covered it up.</span></div><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Then I slapped two coats of the green paint I had.</span> </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Inside, we went. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Way too hot outside.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Here is the decal. A little Halloween-ish but I think the green will liven it up. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">If I change my mind the decal peels right off, too!</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieKDDTK_E-12pkmNGvcTErqC1Xd4YqIK0rZQhQGdKUbdNmC1Ck19c3rvOmRWbyuXHR5dT6rsHNtE6gt1maRzf3QEhRg4anNGmtiHuO9SUtOhWL6Ah35tp-I9SgfKQZtu7foD6B4sPHprmJ/s1600/005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieKDDTK_E-12pkmNGvcTErqC1Xd4YqIK0rZQhQGdKUbdNmC1Ck19c3rvOmRWbyuXHR5dT6rsHNtE6gt1maRzf3QEhRg4anNGmtiHuO9SUtOhWL6Ah35tp-I9SgfKQZtu7foD6B4sPHprmJ/s320/005.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Cut it in half.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">I measured. The tree is tilting, not my cutting.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">PLace it on there, one side at a time. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Finished project!!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0w_0HVjlTNyAum8g6SIHxS5Lq1W0wbhSwdEQmCxaGb26GwHTpov_hi6J34hPW0pLQhrG187Ea0Z08Ohob-yMW58UhD4OGth_XGIgx1I1LnkZR8vCjftH4KfibErlBmPrsk6N15nNZe_WH/s1600/009.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0w_0HVjlTNyAum8g6SIHxS5Lq1W0wbhSwdEQmCxaGb26GwHTpov_hi6J34hPW0pLQhrG187Ea0Z08Ohob-yMW58UhD4OGth_XGIgx1I1LnkZR8vCjftH4KfibErlBmPrsk6N15nNZe_WH/s320/009.JPG" width="240" /></a></div>Melissa Orsakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929652773258049497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028244216682625550.post-51044869664505768172010-09-18T07:56:00.000-07:002010-09-18T07:56:00.308-07:00Project Brighten Up: Family Room<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">If you haven't notice, I am obsessed with brightening up my home. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">First, we are having a ton of people over for my littlest one's 1st birthday and second, because I want out of this house and into a new one. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">My goal is to make our home welcoming, where someone will want to call it their home one day. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">So I have been focusing on the entertainment unit. It is the main part of the area, besides our enormous couch, which is a light latte color. Our entertainment center we made ourselves. We just bought a few shelves and a dresser from IKEA and put it together to make one. It sounds weird but it works and we like it. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">But it's dark. Really dark. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">I have been placing white, only white, things on the shelves but have run out of things. There are eight total shelves and I only have two left. I refuse to purchase something.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">So I am using my brain power and coming up with something from around the house. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Intro to this project. Books.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I completely ripped the covers off, and then placed twine around them. They are still readable so no real damage was done. But I think they are super cute. </span></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">If you are paying attention you would have counted 5 books, three for the shelve and the other two for the end table with only a poor little lamp. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">As I was dismantling the fifth book, it did not work, I could not get the cover off with out damaging the entire thing. So I came up with something else. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Burlap. </span></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I hot glued the burlap to the back and then again along the edge to keep it tight and then again when I wrapped it around.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Easy.</span></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Its not too much but just a little.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">I like it.</span></div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuRMZ7St8Mj4em_o7OKBU_8SndofAshsa3VUcgcG1rG6vrd89trrHgJTUfW90spl47k3i_tcXkxM5KQT-zMDc1MRtNG5KOEWuDoGXRU_EZj78PXj6ryqkOeK0YkXwwviUqOcAdSMAOIalx/s1600/015.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuRMZ7St8Mj4em_o7OKBU_8SndofAshsa3VUcgcG1rG6vrd89trrHgJTUfW90spl47k3i_tcXkxM5KQT-zMDc1MRtNG5KOEWuDoGXRU_EZj78PXj6ryqkOeK0YkXwwviUqOcAdSMAOIalx/s320/015.JPG" width="240" /></a></div>Melissa Orsakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929652773258049497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028244216682625550.post-38042778993674557642010-09-16T05:21:00.000-07:002010-09-16T05:21:36.551-07:00The Vintage Pearl Giveaway!<a href="http://thevintagepearl.blogspot.com/2010/09/vintage-silver-pendants-necklace.html">Click Here</a> to leave a comment and you are entered to win a new necklace they just designed!!!Melissa Orsakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929652773258049497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028244216682625550.post-49801836297823347052010-09-10T06:09:00.000-07:002010-10-01T05:30:46.367-07:00Green with Envy<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, I hope that's the way you feel after you see my latest transformation of furniture. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I wanted to add a little color, not to brighten it up but to change the simple colors, I always choose green.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">But the hubby gives me a big, fat VETO, before I even get in the car to get the paint. But I had an idea, I would "tone down" the green before he saw it.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Wish me luck!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Here is my $20 Craigslist purchase.</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes, $20 for the set.</span> </div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I primed right on top, now roughing it up for me. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Remember, I have to surprise the hubby.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">With fingers crossed, of course.</span></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Second coat of green paint. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think the green is on the relaxed side, but still kinda bright for my placement in our living room.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBaThfn84yh7S9uY8eaQaBs0g7mEokXGTHtrVLEcWhsXxPMUikYhhmBDiATJVkHaOk5kZjcDJ-FXNAidyXXLUUyEcDRKqBh0cTUplGRtkkZhq5cUw4J8PeQ3JA7T0K3mGl07c3skQ4C-cU/s1600/004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBaThfn84yh7S9uY8eaQaBs0g7mEokXGTHtrVLEcWhsXxPMUikYhhmBDiATJVkHaOk5kZjcDJ-FXNAidyXXLUUyEcDRKqBh0cTUplGRtkkZhq5cUw4J8PeQ3JA7T0K3mGl07c3skQ4C-cU/s320/004.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I slathered on a very generous layer of dark walnut stain.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Mostly, because I like it.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">And, because I don't want to do it twice. </span></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After about 10 minutes, I normally wait the longest possible, because again I only wanted to stain it once, but I use a large amount so I did not wait this time. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I wiped it off slightly, and still did not think the green was aged. It looked more covered up to me. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">So, I rubbed some more. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">And then a little more. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">That is the best thing about the stain, you make it the color or aged look you want. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">So I stopped rubbing.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is what I got.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I like it.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">And so does the hubby. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="center">Hope you had a fabulous Lado Day!</div>Melissa Orsakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929652773258049497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028244216682625550.post-2847571550183357732010-09-02T07:21:00.000-07:002010-09-17T05:46:41.188-07:00Entry Piece Re-Do<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">When you enter my home, you walk smack dab into the middle of it. No lie.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Our entry/living room/dining area is just one huge area. Though we like the openeness, it sure is hard to decorate. You can't tell where the living area begins and ends, or where the dining room ends and begins, as well as how the entry way is really the entry way, when you really have already entered into the home and there is no other way. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">It's difficult. But I do know that a little lighting up won't hurt. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">So here is my entry cabinet/side board/buffet piece. I sold a piece on Craigslist that I had re-finished and it sold for the exact amount this piece was listed for. <br />
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SCORE!<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Now, don't get me wrong, I love the piece, we even prefer it in black. But the owners before us, used a gold paint pen to accent it. I mean accent everything and it was totally free hand. I just could not walk by this every day knowing this. </span></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I am just trying out the green star, my hubby does not like it. So it most likely will not be there later. I was also testing a rubbing method of painting to see how it turned out, just FYI!</span></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The primer coat. It covered very well, since the piece was black I was afraid I was going to have to put four coats on it. But it soaked it right up.</span></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">First coat of paint. Just on the side there, that's why it looks odd. I wanted to make sure it was covering well and that I would not change my mind about the color. </span></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Clear coat, brushed on. I think it looks very "light."</span></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Now, back inside near the ol' whatever- you -want- to -call- it! </span></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I purchased some cute lamps from IKEA, they were having a huge sale, but I wanted a more adult look. So cute wasn't going to work. Though, these were more then I normally spend on lamps and expensive for IKEA, I think they were worth it and really tie everything together. </span></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Detail of the knobs, I think the black really hide this. With the lighter color it really exposes it more. </span></div><br />
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</div><a href="http://www.bystephanielynn.com/2010/04/sunday-showcase-party-starting-this.html" target="_blank"><img alt="UndertheTableandDreaming" border="0" src="http://i693.photobucket.com/albums/vv298/theliebertfamily/party.png" /></a>Melissa Orsakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02929652773258049497noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028244216682625550.post-35326532511968151032010-08-24T09:33:00.000-07:002010-08-24T09:33:00.383-07:00More Balls Needed!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Still basking in this brighting the house idea. I am totally enjoying this new table cloth I got. But with the new table cloth had to come this new center piece basket/bowel. Well, there was not really anything there before and I have been looking for awhile. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">With a $7 tag on it the basket was the way to go. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I placed the leftover decorative balls, is that what they are called? If you know the proper term tell me, or just let me keep calling them that, I don't care. But I think the basket is over powering the decorations and I am feeling empty with the lack of this centerpiece. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I must get some more, right? Well then I had this overwhelming idea, there has to be something that I have read or seen that can help me with this dilemna, so I don't go out and spend money. Right?! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">There is, in the dozens of blogs I read daily and gather ideas and thoughts from I knew there had to be some ideas about this. And there were.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">There are tons, so please forgive me. I just don't have the time to tag or give credit here. As each one's idea is different and I kinda just made mine up as I went along. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">But each one that I did read, used something different, did use hot glue or did not. Used burlap, instead of yarn, used jute instead of something else, you get the picture. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">But if you would like me to tag you, give me the link and I will be glad to.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">So here is where I begin, I scowered the house and toy boxes for balls, a few easter eggs and one lonely ball left over from our poor ball pit that never made it through the 1st week in our house. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Some hot glue, because I love it, I think it might be better than duct tape!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Two kinds of yarn and some jute.</span></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first one, I just started wrapping, nicely. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I mean straight lines, straight here, straight everywhere. </span></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was taking forever!</span></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I just started wrapping and wrapping. As if I was transferring one spool to another. That seemed to speed the process and I think give it a little charm.</span></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next ball, the dog's ball. Now don't worry for some reason he only plays with the big balls outside, so this one will not be missed!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">LOL!</span></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I used a thinner yarn. More string like, but with some puff. I liked out it turned out.</span></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then my last one, a textured kind of yarn that is two toned. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I heaaart this one, too.</span></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They have moved into their new home nicely and<em> </em>I think livened the place up.</span></div><br />
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