beads bangles and bands

These are some of the cutest watch bands I have seen! Go check out their blog!
I will be hosting a party starting next week. So watch for the button.

Chaa Ching Part II

The chairs that came with this little table are really unsteady, but, will work for now. I plan on ordering some from Ikea soon.
My son is super excited about this tool bench. Boy is it built for kids. My husband just layed it in the trailer and half way home it blew out onto the road. When we went to pick it up there wasn't a scratch on it!!! Thank you Little Tykes :)
This lovely lady is in dyer need of a make over. I am going to use the slip cover on it as a pattern for a darling fabric I have picked out. The rocker legs are coming off and being replaced with new feet from Home Depot. She will be a new woman and for only about $30!!
These shelves are beasty and need some new paint. The white cubbies are 100% out. However, I am not sure about loosing the red. I am going to paint the entire thing black and wait on the red ones until the end. If I like the way it looks, they will stay. Will see I even thought about doing the entire back red and the rest black. I'm not sure yet, so we shall see.
Gotta love FREE!!!

ChaChing!!!

They gym I work at is closing the kids area and today all the employees from the "kids world" were able to get together and sort out what we wanted to take with us. Yes ladies, I mean FREE! I scored big time!!! puzzles, trucks, books, movies, interactive table, child's table, Hero's action figures, soccer ball, basket ball, shopping cart, some assorited baby toys, side walk chald, games, plus some more that I can't think of right now and my favoirtes...Pottery Barn style rocking chair and a huge shelving unit!!! Woot, woot! Plus I got a couch my mom is going to take. I was able to take the smaller items with me and the big tickets I will pick up on Saturday!! The rocking chair is in for a big make over. When I some of the girls asked me what I was going to do with such an ugly hunk of junk. I told them my plans and they all were bummed they didn't think of that. Aaawww how I love this trash to treasure hunt. It's so invegerating
I cleaned and sanitized the heck out of all the toys, added some batteries and Voila!!!

today's tjmaxx trip

I went into TJmaxx today just to get a kettle bell (for working out 9.99 instead of 49.99) I had found the day before. Got it and a girl can never go in there for one thing and leave without looking. I found these awesome looking candlesticks on clearance for 2 bucks a piece, a jar to hold my tea bags in for 2 bucks, a white tear drop shaped dish that will sit on my stove top for spoons while I cook for a dollar and a cool looking key mirror for 5 bucks. Another sucessful day! Woot woot!

another fun give away

Click here to enter for a darling black/white bench and a $25 gift card to TJ Maxx. woot woot.

fab fleur de lis give away

I heart these and they would go awesome in my dinning room. Click on the pic above and check them out. Deadline is October 18th at 11 pm pacific time.

dresser going entry way table...

I found this lovely dresser in a garbage pile on someones drive way. My poor husband (and brother for that matter) is starting to feel the effects of me turning thrifty crafty, but is a trooper. The house was vacant so I jumped at the chance to take her home. Side note: on a Sunday afternoon in the pouring rain. I didn't have my camera with me to show where we rescued her from. Now I know to carry it with me every where, and not just everywhere I have my kids.

I am not sure what to do with the top, as she has a big piece cut out. Do any of you smart, creative ladies have any ideas? I could use some help with this one.

my 1st thrifie day

made a trip to the DI on Wednesday and found a few keepers. I have been wanting a spoon and fork set to hang in my kitchen for years. Have only stumbled across a few sets and all were too expensive. Well, not today...these ceramic lovlies were sitting on a bottom shelf and only marked at $2. These little ladies will no longer be sporting their brown drab dresses. The perfect "little black dress" was waiting at home. The bowl which has the Target label on the bottom was a whopping 1 buck! which I saw the exact same one later that day while at Target for $14.99. woot woot! Darling little ceramic vase was $1.50 and the children's books were 50 cents and $1. I also found a trash bag filled with brand new yarn I picked up for my mom for $2.00. She met me in town to pick it up before I went home she was that excited about it. Needless to say I didn't get her home to make the shot. Oh, well some finds are just too good to wait for.
In my excitement to get the spoon and fork changed I didn't get an alone before, so this will have to do.

After:

kids table and chairs

Before:
These darling little chairs I picked up at a local flea market for 5 bucks including the table pictured below. Because they are for my little boy the flowers had to go. I spray painted them to match my dinning chairs.



After:

gold mirror

Head on over to check out some amazing transformations and creations.

Before:




After:

This is my first before and after for this blog.
I was given this mirror by my mother in law a few years ago. I didn't know what I was going to do with this awful looking piece. However, I loved the shape and the details, just not the color. Well, years later, during one of my crafty runs I took out the mirror and added some black spray paint.
I think she turned out lovely.