Before/Afters

We have been doing a lot of projects around here and it is about time we post some pictures.

We found a thrift store that is way better than the D.I. in Provo. On Monday's EVERYTHING is 25% off. The first time we went we found a rocking chair.  I had been wanting a rocking chair since before Benson was born, but our apartment in Provo just couldn't handle it.  We bought it for $11. When we got it, it was a medium brown wood, with this horrible camo/hunting seat and back cushion.  We spent a lot of time getting that all off and digging out the staples.  This chair was made in the 50's (it still had the tag on) and was in pretty rough shape.  After a good sanding and paint job we like how it turned out! (notice none of these have before pictures. It really would be better if i had some..)

 Our room is reallly big. About the size of our old apartment. We don't have much furniture so we decided to find a desk. After a lot of looking on craigslist, and in stores, and not finding anything, we were about to give up.  Until a miracle happened.  We helped clean the church one saturday morning and on our way home tried to find a yard sale. It was a little rainy, so we think they canceled it, but luckily that neighborhood was doing a bulk item pick-up and everyone had trash on their yards. One house had a massive desk in the front yard. We asked if we could take it and he was happy to see it go.  We took it apart and loaded it in the car.  In the meantime Riley and I each got 10 mosquito bites... But we got it home, stained the top and attached different legs.  This is how it turned out! We LOVE it.

On our second trip to Value Village (the thrift store) we bought 11 items for $30.  Impressive, right?  I LOVE these canisters and they were each only a couple of dollars, still had their ikea tags on them. The wire basket behind it was $2 and there were two of them!

 Then we found this beauty.... a gun box. We have been looking for some way to plant some herbs on our deck and this is perfect! I bought some potting soil and soon we will have an herb garden. yum.

 They even had a pillow form with new tags on it.  I made case and now the pillows are complete! The blue pillow has a darling pattern on it but you can't see it here...

Lastly, they had this chair for $4. It had a HORRIBLE seat cover, so I took it off and re-covered it with this! It is the perfect chair to go with our desk.

Thank you, Value Village. Thank you.

p.s. I registered the car this morning!! finally it worked.