OLD TIRED CUPBOARD GETS A WHITE WINTER BRIGHT LICK OF PAINT!

Hi there, welcome to Sweet Tea N' Salty Air where the oranges are at the peak of the season and the weather is a bit chilly at times but mostly superbly perfect. I was taking a long hard look at the oldest of oldest darkly painted cupboard and decided it was time for a brighter change. The paint was the best from Home Depot but came from the Opps! counter and that means no name so I like to call it Vanilla Sugar cookie!

 I have shared this old girl a few times , she has a special story to her.....when my son was a teen he used to clean out sheds for extra money.......in his journey he came across this cupboard road side ready for trash pick up, needless to say She was coming home with me. So we cramed it into the car and off I went. notice I said I ? my boy waited at his grams for me to come back and get him because there was no way I was leaving that piece behind. I decided on a complete paintover with no distressing, so what do you think?

 Here she is now, all prettied up! I added some pretty black and white patterned paper to the back. Little Natalie has her Tea Set on the bottom shelf , she enjoys her American girl Tea Parties.

 I simply gathered some of my favorite items and placed them scattered around on the shelves.

 The cupboard has many dings and pings including a missing window where a garden an old woman sits.

 Two Pottery Barn cups stand before a pretty dish that I found at Cracker Barrel.

 Natalies Tea Party!

 A whiteware dish holds some wooden handled cookie cutters

 Do you have  a piece of tired old furniture just mopping around? Try a lick of paint to give it a new life!   This piece is older than the hills but for sure part of our family! Happy painting! Thanks for stopping by.......Next post I will be sharing another furniture redo so don't forget to come on back!

FROM ENTERTAINMENT CENTER TO KITCHEN BAKING CENTER

Welcome and Happy New Year to you!  I have been a busy bee around here.....packing away Christmas decorations and rearranging , fixing etc... Im sure most can relate. Saying bye to Christmas is bittersweet , hate to see it all go but kind of happy to get things cleaned and putting out some new stuff such as this entertainment center. I was gifted a gift card and I have been on the search for an entertainment center that I could turn in to a baking center. After all my new Kitchen Aid mixer deserves a place to call its own seeing that I will be working it to its beaters. The entertainment center would have to be constructed of all wood and the counter would have to be my height. Finally I came across the perfect one!

We decided to decorate the center for the winter season with a strand of winter berries and white lights also some snowflakes. The mixer fits well and the center also came with an electrical power strip so everything could be plugged  in.  

Spatulas, measuring spoons and cooling racks all have a permanent home.

The best part of this center is when I am done using it I can just close the doors.

Spices towels, pans and an extra micro wave oven for melting chocolate, butter etc.

Stainless steel bowls, funnels, loaf pans etc sit on the upper shelf. I do plan on installing a piece of corrian for the counter top.

A tobacco ladder holds kitchen towels.

These cute bottles were a Tuesday Morning find.

 

The fire place gets a winter do over with candles , snowflakes.

Winter branches stand tall on the fire place.

Closed.......I can hide freshly baked treats until I am ready to serve them!

WELCOME TO SWEET TEA N' SALTY AIR CHRISTMAS WHERE............

Angels sing.....

 

Where joy is overflowing...........

The stove has some down time before the feast is made......

Aprons and tins are sitting idol waiting to be used......

Cookies are made by the dozens................

Santa has a snack waiting of delicious "welcome home Christmas cookies that little Natalie has been working very hard on.....

Its where time just is going by slowly as we wait for Christmas.......

Santa has a special chair to take a long winters rest.......

Its that Holiday feeling!

The dining room is ready to greet guests!

So jolly!

The vintage church plays tunes of Oh Holy Night!

The vintage ladder is bright with Christmas

The snowman will frolic and play the eskimo way

Furry friends settle down for a long winters nap too!

Snowflakes cling to the kitchen window....

Where the red cabinet has some Christmas magic!...

We wish you all a Very Happy Holiday!

OLD WOODEN PICTURE FRAMES INTO RUSTIC STARS

Welcome , happy you could stop by. Santa is doing all his final checks hope your on the very good list like me "wink" "Wink"!   I have had this big pile of broken old wooden picture frame pieces just taking up space in my stash closet so I thought I would craft something for Christmas from them.....this is what I came up with.........

 The frame e were all different woods and thicknesses but it did not matter. After arranging them  all in place I used construction glue to keep them in tack.

 I gave them a coat of watered down white paint seeing that the wall is dark so there would be a bit of contrast.

 Then a bit of sanding to distress it a bit

A bow and some faux pine. These stars can be decorated for every season so I just may use them year round.

Have any broken picture frames around this craft is super easy. One thing though once you glue them with construction glue let them set overnight just to give it enough time to dry. Have fun!

A LITTLE CRAFTED CHRISTMAS FOR THE FRONT IRON GATE

Hello and welcome to Sweet Tea N' Salty Air! Hope you are enjoying the Christmas madness as much as I am. I decided to put a little Christmas on the gate......Everything I used I had on hand even the lights.

 

I had some large pieces of white plastic corrugated sheets that I used to make the snowman....would you believe I used an electric meat cutter to cut it out? worked wonderful , just added some eyes, a carrot nose ,hat, scarf and hat, all-in which I had around.

 

The wreath is a hand crafted grapevine just adding some holly leaves, colorful bulbs , some burlap and a welcome banner completed the wreath.

 The snowman has sprigs of pine for the arms and a string of snowflakes and white lights.

 

I used areal carrot for the nose.......don't laugh, hey we gotta do what we gotta do here in the deep south. Although you wouldn't know it. It's been cold so we've been enjoying hot cocoa by the fire. Trust me there is no swimming going on around these parts. Many family members think I enjoy the beach and sun  n' fun not true, believe me.

 

Thanks so much for stopping by take care and enjoy the holiday season!

 

 

 

 

 

SCRAPS OF WOOD INTO CHALKBOARD BLOCKS

So happy you could stop in today! As I have said in a previous post we have gutted the guest bathroom and that means scraps of wood.

So I decided to paint a bunch of them with some chalkboard paint....

I now have several chalkboard blocks that I could say so many different things and use as many or as little as I want.

Some are tall some short and some long across.

My message says I Love Winter! They would be great for celebrating birthdays etc. Got some scraps of wood around? Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!