Thursday, November 1, 2012

Before & After




 While my mom was here we put her to work. She rearranged the furniture in the baby room, painted a dresser, recovered the glider, and made the crib bedding. We forgot to take a before picture of the glider but i just happened to have the pictures of the dresser on my phone. I have been looking for a cheap dresser on Craigs list  for a while but CL in Scranton is very under utilized, and I gave up. Smitty spent July in Erie, PA and I went up to see him for a weekend. My friend Rachel, who also searches CL for a great deal had ust picked up this dresser to put in her craft room. Lucky for me she called a couple weeks later and told me it wasn't going to work out for her, but I could buy it from her. A couple coats of whipped strawberry by valspar (Valspar is not good for painting furniture FYI) and a stencil down the front and its perfect!! Thanks mom






A couple of years ago my brother called me to say that mom was getting rid of stuff in the attic. He wanted to tattle on her for getting rid of this pumpkin costume. My siblings and I all wore this for out first Halloween. We were all almost a year old when we wore it so I added some elastic to the bottom and tucked the hat in so it could fit her. I kind of like the bow better though, and the smile!