This is the BEFORE picture - but not really as before as I would have liked! I didn't think to take one when it was still an UGLY piece of $5 yardsale trash! This was taken after the primer was applied.

TA DAAAAAA! This is my finished product! I saw the idea in one of my country decorating magazines and I just loved it! So . . . 2 bottles of paint and 2 bottles of glaze . . . this darling little table cost me about $12.65! You BET I love it!

      I like to be creative in many, MANY different ways! I get very bored if I do the same thing all the time. People frequently see my things and the first thing they say is "OH! You should make these to SELL!". Or, "You should have your own shop!". Well, of course, I LOVE the compliments -- but I have found that everytime I do something to SELL, I don't enjoy it! Also, I think if you're going to sell things they should be original - and most of my things are copied from what I see in magazines, or else from patterns. So, I do it for fun, and I do it for GIFTS, but I very rarely do it for money. Here is one of those items that some think should be sold.

This is Miss Bear. She sits in the entrance way as you come in -- well, you MUST have seen her! You practically have to trip over her to get in the door!


       
                                            And these are a few more of my little darlings. The two on the
                                            left were made for gifts, but the other two still live with me!
                                            Yea. Right in this living room.

      And speaking of the living room -- I guess if we're going on a tour you probably would like to see WHERE we're going! But just the lower level nickel tour okay? I haven't made the beds yet!  (I know . . . I'm bad!)  Okay, Here it is!

MY LIVING ROOM
     
View 1                                                 View 2
Dennis made the mirror over the couch.                                                       

View 3

      Do you like it? Oh, Thank you! My sister-in-law, Nancy, says it's like walking into a flag! I love it! Okay, I just wanna show you a couple other little things in here and then we can move on to other things!

Did you notice by the fireplace was a little shadowbox? It looks like this:---------------------------------------->

Yea, that one. Well, I made the little buildings on top! I made THEM all by myself! Dennis didn't even cut them out -- I did it! YAY ME! Also, my friend Terri made the red, white and blue flower arrangement for me. She does BEAUTIFUL work! If you would like to see a close-up of the little buildings you may click the picture. Don't forget to click "BACK" on your browser to come back to me.

      Okay. Just ONE more thing I want to show you. This is my first EVER attempt at a quilt! It's going to be for my first Grandchild that I thought would be here by now - back when Amanda first got married. I wasn't READY to be a Grandma then -- but now I've adjusted to the idea - so of course, she's NOT pregnant! At any rate, THIS quilt will be for that baby, whenever it finally comes, and in the meantime, it will hang on this navy blue wall behind this couch ---- IF I ever get it finished! (Good thing no baby has come - huh?)

See all the little hearts I embroidered in there? That's all the LOVE in the quilt! All for that little someday-baby!

      I guess that's about it in here. I mean there's lots of other little stuff, but you don't wanna see it ALL! How's your tea? Do you need a warmer-upper? Let's head into the kitchen.

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