A new Faux ship lap painted backdrop for my fireplace!

Hi there.......welcome  come on in. Today I am going to share my latest project with you all and it was completely free. We had gotten a huge box delivered to us and it was on a thick piece of wood with thick short  legs attached . If you have seen my new kitchen center...you know the big mirror I used ? well it was from my fireplace......you all know how that goes borrow from one and give to another. So I pulled out my brown paint  and painted the entire piece of wood . Let it dry well. I gathered my painters tape and white paint and began to dry brush faux slats of wood diving them up using painters tape. Just lightly brushing leaving some of the brown to peek through, once done I took a paint scraper and scraped lightly and took off more of the white paint. Lets take a look......

 Simple décor just a wreath and I placed my favorite rooster fella in there. An egg crate with a piece of white wear and just tucked a couple of interesting silver pieces in there.

 I added a bit of lace to decorate the top.

 I  have a little chalk board in the front of the fireplace, a fun way to spread a message.

You can see how I did not paint heavy and left some brown to surface and that's all there is too faux painting .....been doing it for a while takes a bit of practice but once you get it aced its on! you will be able to achieve any look.

 

Got my herd all together! Cows that is!

Hi there, today I  am sharing a cool way to display a herd of collectibles such as mine cows. Some have been gifted some I found thrifting, so its my herd plus a few related cow items and also a black and white garland that I incorporated a bit of my grams tablecloth into.  Grab a beverage and come with me.......

Way back many years ago cows were famous to decorate , my aunt and I had them all over the place now its become popular presented as farmhouse style and you'll note I used the word style because you do not need a real Farm house to carry this décor out, its pretty anywhere you live! Anyway if you have some that your pulling out of storage a nice way to give them a better look is to white wash them as I have done here. Just a tad of white paint and a splash of water mixed a just apply to the piece or not its what ever you like.

 I love a nice full rag garland it really put the icing on the cake so to speak it finishes the farm house touch. I used these two materials and a bit of lace from my grams tablecloth .

 I crafted a cow crossing sign and also placed a rolled up vintage doily my gram made over 100 years ago inside the cow.

 Painted a canning jar pink to bring out the pink cheeks on the ceramic cow

 I took an old book and white washed it and labeled it to go with the theme. I found the old milk bottle at Goodwill.

You can do this with anything like a rooster collection, dishes anything you can group and add some interest to.

So will you be dedicating a shelf to one of your collections? Its a great way to show off what you love and make yourself happy!  Have fun with it is what I always say.........

A new kitchen center made from a little of this and a little of that!

Hi there, so nice of you to stop on in.......I have been working on a kitchen project that I am now ready to share. I have a wall in the kitchen that had the huge big white cabinet with the rooster hanging from it. I decided to put a bigger prep area there seeing that summer is around the corner with summer we do allot of cooking and it will be great for a cold drink station as well....we are so addicted to smoothies! Come lets take a look.....

 

So this is what was on the kitchen wall , I have moved the white cabinet to the dining room and I repurposed this island to the base of my new kitchen work center.

 

 

 Here it is.....I simply took part of an old farm house table and used it for the top a while back I used this with something else, we cut a hole in it so that a large stainless steel bowl would fit so it can be used as a "garbage bowl" , when your cutting on the board and you can just swipe all the strawberry stems into the bowl and discard everything all at once. or it can be filled with ice and a great place to chill some soda cans

 I had this large mirror over my fireplace but I  stole it from there , loved the way it looked with this grouping. I so love the way mirrors bounce light all over the room. My kitchen just has the one window over the sink and that window is actually looks into a bright sunporch so we don't have much natural light in the kitchen.

 This basket hold dish towels and fits snugly in this space.

 I used a tension rod to hang a black and white checked curtain so I could put all my pans etc that I use regularly. Not so pretty so I thought this curtain would be better.

 I crafted this rag garland for the mirror, used an old milk pitcher for décor. A funny story about the dishes that I have hung up........I found then at Good will so they were in a pretty box all taped up and I loved the look of the grapes on the dishes ,Grapes bring back such nice memories from when I was a child. We would go to my grams house for Sunday dinner and she had the nicest grape "Tent" we used to call it, we would sneak out there and find a bench under the grapes and just snack on the sweet fruit for hours, I believe they were for wine!

The shutters were doors from another piece of salvaged furniture

 See......no one wants to see my old pots and pans and trust me we cook at least 6 times a week.

 I put some artificial wear and tear on the the drawers etc. Love to decorate  with my vintage cookie cutters.

I see Easter brunch set up here....

I love to look around and repurpose pieces, taking stuff apart and putting things together. And always ending up with a story to tell.

Thanks so much for stopping on in today!

Look around ...you may have something you can also repurpose and give new life to!

Lisa 

Lisa's been out thrifting, pop on in and see whats new!

Hi there....so nice that you could stop by.The weather has been wonderful here, the type where all you want to do is garden, love digging and planting etc. Natalie and I have been working on a sitting/garden area. She has started the seeds for Tomatoes, peppers and sunflowers.

Natalie loves to garden and cook as well as craft and paint, this is a peek at what we are up to I will share this when we are done, Lowes is having a great sale on mulch 6 bags for 10$ and that includes all different kinds. Here we repurposed some heavy plastic by using it as a liner just poking holes so that the water could have a release during our rainy season but we will for sure not have to weed !

So we have gone out thrifting .....managed to find a few items

 

So I found this rooster for 2.99 @ Goodwill

 found this Pyrex bowl @ Habitat For Humanity for .99 Love the dusty white cloudy surface reminds me of the striking Dusty Miller plant. I will use this for decorating. Cant help to wonder just how many pancake batters were mixed in here.....it certainly has seen its day but wears the badge of kitchen courage.

 This was a GW find for 4.99, the little door does not open but it will be great for towels etc

 These two bunnies were .99 each

 This guy was made at ceramic class but they forgot to give him eyes, we'll fix that though.

 

This is my favorite find, I was looking for a way to have fresh herbs in the kitchen window and I found this for 4.99 @ GW its actually a candle holder that would hang on the wall it has the round pieces of metal that flap down that hold the pots. It will be nice to have Basil and Parsley at my finger tips.  

 

Here is the Rooster after he got a white waxing!

 

And this guy is trying out the Easter basket decoration , crazy lil guy!

I also picked up this bag of raffia at the $ Tree, they had all colors...I will use this for Easter décor.


So what have you found on your Thrift store adventures? Thrifting is a fun way to spend the day
Thanks so much for stopping in and you have a wonderful day!

                                                                       Lisa