Going Green

So, when we moved, The Girl got a MUCH larger room and I no longer had a use for my (larger) bedroom furniture. As such, she got my stuff. But we had to make it "hers," so we decided to paint the dresser. Bright Green.

I knew I was going to want to distress it AND that I'd want some of the original black to show through the distressed areas, so I went with Glidden's paint and primer in one so I wouldn't have to sand the black away, but neither would it show through where it WASN'T distressed. It didn't negate the need to sand ENTIRELY since I needed to get rid of the finish, but there was a lot LESS sanding this way.

Emma chose New Grass Green as the color and we got it in an eggshell finish.

Here it is in place:

Hippie Swagaliciousness

So I made this thing. Outta stuff. I can't even begin to know what to call it. The inspiration came from this, though: 

It's a hippie thing. You wouldn't get it.

I went to Big Lots and picked up a few "curiosities" and added them to some costume jewelry and other randomness from around the craft room. 

Beads and other hippie stuff

Somehow, the other photos of the randomness from around the house and me putting it together have been lost to some nameless abyss. Basically, the other stuff included: a stick stolen from The Boy, chain necklaces and earrings that we never wore anymore (or to begin with, you know how it goes!), and loose charms plus a bunch of pompoms made from a few of my brightest yarns added to the pile o' junk (I mean, really, it kinda was).

The construction was pretty uncomplicated, albeit tedious. I just removed the clasps and things from the chain jewelry so I was left with lots of different lengths of lots of different chains. I strung them with fishing line from the stick (alternately, you could use those tiny screw eyes...I wanted to, but The Boy's head was already close to exploding as it was, so I didn't want to damage the stick) in a mostly random manner and then began attaching the curiosities in the same mostly random manner. The beads and charms I just attached with jump rings and the pompoms I attached with safety pins that ACTED like jump rings, ya dig? So the final result was something like this:

Harry and Niall REALLY love pompoms

I say "something like" because the actual final result is with the longest chain shortened and a charm or pompom missing. Evidently, it was too much temptation for the cats. The novelty has since worn off, though, and I think it's finally finalized now ;)