Another Project Finished!!

This is our latest project that we have been working on. We are working to get Caelyn's new room finished and part of that was going to be to redo the dresser we had in that room. As you can see we had painted it a light cream color and that really wasn't going to match all the painting I have been doing in her room. The piece on top was a find we made on the side of the road. Someone had decided it wasn't worth keeping and tossed it out - maybe because the mirror was broken in pieces. I saw it on my way home for lunch one day and mentioned to Angela that there was a cool piece with lots of potential on the side of the road. We checked it out and carried it back to our house.

Here are the two pieces together for a before shot.

This is our find from the side of the road - below you see the poor condition it was in.

After sanding them down and applying a light pink paint we decided to use a product recommended to us by a good friend of ours, who had recently refinished her own find from the side of the road. So we added a glaze to "antique" the two pieces. Then we went to F&M Fabrics in search of some nice fabric for a good price. Angela was sure I was going to fast and wasn't 100% sure how she felt about the fabrics all going together...but in the end we are extremely satisfied with how the piece turned out. We used padding on the drawers and then wrapped them with fabric.

Next we painted little wooden knobs to go on top of the fabric. We also used padded fabric where the mirror would normally go. Angela thought it would be nice to add ribbon so Caelyn can display pictures and cards and such.

We also added little hooks where the ribbon meets so that Caelyn can hang her necklaces on it...sometime in the future when she has necklaces!

Just last night it was the cutest thing to see as Angela picked up Penny (out of Angela's chair) and brought her to me. She was so relaxed and was purring and even closing her eyes. Penny is a great cat and very good with Caelyn but she is only snugly when she wants to be.

And sadly we have been having difficulty with our fridge. Supposedly they have ordered a part and are waiting for it to get in. Our fridge is set on 45 degrees and most of time is actually below freezing. We have been dealing with frozen eggs and juice although it helps bread not to mold! We ended up having to take out some shelves to see where water was coming from and a plastic piece that takes water to the dispenser had cracked from being frozen!! Luckily our ice maker water comes from a different area but for now - no getting water out of the fridge without making a pool in the bottom!