Happy Thanksgiving

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

 

My Free Faux Deer Head

Good morning everybody.

 I've come to the conclusion that Pinterest

is the best (AND worse) website that I've found.

 Let me explain ...

 I see a picture like this

 

or

 

And then all of a sudden it's all I think about.

 I MUST have a faux deer head.

 But, I'm not gonna shell out the money to buy one.

So what's a girl to do?

 Why make one of course.

 I was given a wire lighted deer from my mom

 that worked but was REALLY rusted.

  A perfect victim.

 No money spent : )

I started by removing the lights then the head.

Have You Been Pinned?

Are you as addicted to Pinterest as I am?

 I use to play on Twitter all day, 

 now I waste  spend the day looking for inspiration

on Pinterest.

 Have you ever wondered if any of YOUR pictures were pinned?

 I did.

Did ya know that you could find out?

 Wanna know how?

This is an actual screen shot of things I've done pinned by others

  

Peaked your interest?

 Ok, here's what ya do ..

 In your web browser, type http://pinterest.com/source/ and then add your blog address info.

So it mine looked like this ...

 http://pinterest.com/source/deannario.com/

 This will let you see every pin pinned from your blog. 

 Cool huh?

 I LOVE seeing what floats everyone's boat.

 If you wanna see my boards and possibly follow me (I'll follow you back)

 you can find me here.

**Note** I saw someone else do a similar post on finding your pins on Pinterest 

 and I couldn't remember where I saw it so I did some digging. Thank you to

 The Speckled Dog for showing me how to do it.

 I wanted to share it with all of you guys : )

 

A Sleek Upgrade & My First Palette Project

Good Morning, all you beautiful people.

I have been a lil' MIA lately but I've been a lil' busy.

 In the past couple weeks I had a garage sale,

 which I did VERY well, 

 my oldest daughter moved back home

 and I found out that I'm going to be a grandma

 for the first time.

 So, I've been trying to turn our office into a bedroom.

 I think I will have to tackle it head on after Christmas.

 I've also been trying to paint.

 Do you remember this monster tv?

 Well, we upgraded : )

Do you see in the reflection where I need to paint the wall?

 Those are hole patches, lol.

Oh yeah, see the light next to the tv?

 I picked it up at a garage sale for $2. They sell it at Home Depot for $33.

 I wired it so it's not hard wired, it plugs in.

 The piece coming down holds the cord. It's a small plastic tube that 

 I spray painted to match the lamp. It looks SO good at night

 and doesn't reflect off the tv.

I like it so much better.

 I also wanted to share with you something cool I made.

 Yep, I jumped on the palette bandwagon.

 I picked up one of these goodies a couple weeks ago.

 Let me tell ya, I drive a Miata convertable

 and I had this puppy on top with the top down

so, yeah I look like Sanford, lol.

 I originally picked it up to use as a seat for a bench I'm making

 but I thought I would make a shelf first instead.

 You can actually see where I removed part of the top and a board.

 This is what I made ...

My $2 Step Stool Updated

Hiya guys, how's your week going so far?

 Mine, welp a lil' hectic but ain't it always?

 I was really excited to share with you a lil' trick I learned.

 Did you know that you can clean chrome with

aluminum foil?

 Yup, you heard me right.

 I bought this amazing step stool a few months ago

for $2 at my local ReStore.

 It was ROUGH. 

 I wasn't sure just how I was going to clean the base.

 I thought about painting the base white then the wood a different color

 but I wasn't sure just how it would turn out.

 So, I did a lil' research and found that I could 

clean the chrome with aluminum foil.

 Out came the foil. Free is GOOD.

 All I did was ball up a piece of foil, wet it a lil' bit and rubbed away.

 Note: if you do this, WEAR GLOVES.

 My nails looked like I had worked on a car : (

 Anyhoo, after about an hour, it looked like this