The Kid's Old Bedrooms

The house we lived in before we moved to PA was 4 bedrooms, it was NICE, here are some pictures of what we did in their rooms

This is Amy Brown Art that I painted onto a small canvas

     Jarid's room, this was a fun room to do

Doll Making

I love rag dolls. I had some Raggedy Ann dolls when I was little (no clue where they are now). So I decided to make some dolls for all the little girls in my life. At the time there were 8 that number has gotten larger over the years. Here was the first set of dolls I made back in 2003

The pattern was photo-copied for my by one of my co-workers.

Then in 2005 I found this website

And I made this

I need to find my other dolls, to this day I have made about 20 of these dolls for gifts. Time to make some for me!

Doll Wardrobe

I was at my favorite place in our new town....Good Will! 

They had this really ugly little doll wardrobe, which I assume someone used for makeup or jewelry. I have no before picture but you can imagine wood and not the pretty color, but more of a yellowish color. Here is the only before picture I have its after I painted the wood white.

Here is what I did with some Mod Podge and scrapbook paper

Now all I need are some doll clothes hangers and my girls will have a place to throw all of their dolls clothes on !

(because we all know that they will rarely if ever hang them on the hangers!)

My first ever link up party! I am posting this at

Our local thrift store!

Since moving here to PA I have discovered an AMAZING thrift store, it is packed to the rafters, literally!

The place is called Little Hearts they don't have a website so I linked a map to their name. There is also a phone number. Anyway I have gotten some cool stuff there like this.

Well I wanted to share what I got there a couple weeks ago and how much I spent.

(because I am a dork like that)

So thats 4 pairs of shoes a bunch of pants, outfits, shirts a skirt and some PJs all for 50$!!!! Having three girls is expensive so I am thrilled with this store!

I also found this there for 20$ with 20% off!! It was stuffed with furniture and 4 dolls!!

Santa will be giving this to one of the girls for Christmas!

(not the actual picture of it, its upstairs hidden away)

More Projects

So having recently moved to this area, I have found that the Goodwill here is WAY cheaper than the one that was closest to me back in NC. So I go there often.

Here are a few things I have found along the way

To this

Of course they aren't completely done yet, I need to cut some circles for the openings and maybe do a monogram. Haven't gotten that far yet. 

You can't tell (or maybe you can) but these are plastic and they were UGLY! I of course didn't get a good before pic because I was too excited to make them pretty. 

Cost: 1.99

This and this

 

To this!!

and a closer look

These were 4.99 at gw and then the cost of paint

Total cost : $12.00

(although I am having a slight issue with the paint not sticking, its the Krylon plastic paint and it just scrapes off, any tips would be great!)

More to come soon!

Projects

So since reading all these blogs and seeing the amazing things that people are doing with furniture, I decided to jump on the DIY band wagon. I have always done these types of things, but there was never a name for it. 

Here is one of my favorite finds so far

Our local thrift store has a TON of stuff, I found this very cute hutch kid size for $40, but then it was 20% off so I got it for $32!!!! 

Before

After

This thing is REAL wood people. I know, I kinda cringed when I decided to paint it and not stain it, but little girls don't like wood colors, they want PINK!