No More #diyproject

There are blessings and curses of being a stay at home mom and one of those curses are the lovely, pushy sales people who go door knocking for a living.  One too many meat salesmen and tree cutters and I had had my fill.  It was time to look for a no soliciting sign to adorn my front step.

Enter the wonderful world of Etsy......

I searched out no soliciting signs to place outside and discovered a lot of great ones.  Some are funny, like this one, this one and this one.

Some are basic, but pretty, like this one, this one and this one.

I decided to go with this sign and turn it into a little DIY project.  I bought an 11x4 piece of craft wood at Michael's, spray painted it silver and once it was dried, I added a layer of eggplant alcohol ink using a sponge paint brush and once that was dry, I followed the directions on applying the vinyl sign.

I hot glued silver ribbon to the back and made the ribbon long enough that if I wanted to add a wreath outside, I could and you could still see the sign.  Now I need a pretty wreath to adorn my front window area next to my front door.

Day 82

I love re purposing furniture. For a while now, I have needed to find a new way to store toys. Recently, I started searching for new ideas on how to store the toys since they are mainly in my living room. I mentioned my search to my mother-in-law and she mentioned she had a dresser in her garage that may work. It took me a little bit of time to decide, but the price was right, FREE! I even managed to score black paint and poly out of their garage as well. I will need to find new drawer pulls as the ones attached were dated. I forgot to take a picture before I got started, but you can see that it has nine drawers and will be able to store most of the little toys that DRIVE ME CRAZY!!

Day 59

Today is painting day, YEAH!!

Unfortunately, our room was hastily painted with only one coat of Cancun Blue nearly four years ago before we moved in, as I was days from delivering our first child. With the help of many friends and family, most of our bland, beige house was painted. Since then, I have been wanting to paint a couple of more coats to even it out. Move out the bedroom set and hey, let's paint! Coat two is now complete and we will see in a couple of hours if we need coat three.