My first spray painting project...sprayed again!

Greetings!  I hope you enjoyed your weekend.

A couple of weeks ago I spoke of some spray painting that I did.  Well the fun didn't stop with just the pots.  I actually sprayed four things that day...two pots, a side table and a lamp.  Today I'm going to talk about the side table.

This side table was the first piece of furniture that I ever spray painted.  I did it when I was 18 and updating my room since I was out of high school and thought I was grown :)  The table was one that my Mom had and wasn't using so I asked if I could have it and she said sure.  The legs on the table were originally brass, but at that time of my life I loved silver, so that's what I sprayed it.  There it is on the right of the picture.

Here's a close up right before I got to work on it.

I had a fresh bottle of gold spray paint that was ready to go!  I love how it turned out.

Those images were taken out on the patio right after it finished drying.  I loved how it looked on the rug out there, but its home is inside.  Here it is in its normal location.

The gold pops out so much better especially since it's against a grey background.  The silver blended right in with the couch, so it was barely noticeable.

What was your first spray painting project and do you still have it?  If so, has it undergone another transformation?

A Gold Leafing Mini Makeover

Yes, I confess, my gold leafing pen is one of my favorite things.  I'm in the process of prettying up my office and my desk has been changing slightly.  I was using a cute plastic cup to hold my writing utensils but I wanted to find something else.  While I was at Lowe's I checked out their bathroom decor section (they always seem to have things on clearance in that area) and I came across a toothbrush holder on clearance for four bucks.  Since the colors for my office are going to be gold, black, pink and white I snatched it up.

The only issue was the silver detail.  I decided to gold leaf it and this is the result.

This was one of the quickest makeovers I've ever done :)

Enjoy the weekend!

A Green Thumb Kinda Day

Yesterday I mentioned getting my green thumb on over the weekend.  On Saturday I got the urge to buy succulents, basil and house plants (probably because I still had gift cards for Lowe's).  Last year I got some succulents and somehow managed to kill them all :(  I was also growing basil, mint and oregano last year.  The basil did great, the oregano survived the winter and is thriving now, and the mint...well, I managed to kill that, too.

I needed more pots, so I bought a few from Lowe's and spray painted them.  I love spray paint if you haven't noticed :)

Here are all of the plants and pots-

 

Here's the oregano last month (I'm still shocked that it made it through the winter!).

Here it is now after a little (a lot of) TLC.

I am especially loving the house plants.  When I saw the pink on the leaves I had to get them!  Right now the gold and black pot resides on my desk in my office and the pink and gold pot resides in the great room.  It's nice having plants indoors.  The best thing about that plant is that it requires little light and little water...perfect!  I have a feeling that I might become addicted to house plants really soon especially since they're so inexpensive.

How about you?  Any plans on doing some spring "gardening"?

iPhone or Android...Your Thoughts?

Hi guys!  I hope your weekend went well.  Mine was great; it was full of getting my green thumb on and rearranging my office.

Today's topic is one of the greatest debates known to mankind...iPhone vs Android.  The time has come for me to buy a new phone.  Luckily Simon's previous phone has held me over for a few months, but now that T-Mobile carries the iPhone I have some serious decisions to make.  The current phone that I have is an Android.  I enjoy that it is Google based because I use a lot of Google applications.  It's great having all of the Google things already on my phone, and I can log into my Google account and see what's going on with my phone.  As far as iPhones, I have heard many people say they love them and many say that they hate them.

I know a lot of you have iPhones, so I'm opening this post up to you!

- Do you love or hate your iPhone?
- Did you formerly have an iPhone then switched to an Android and were glad you did or vise versa?
- Does the iPhone 5 have a swype keyboard? (this is a necessity for me...like, if it doesn't have it the debate is over)
- Do you ever have technical issues?

I'm so confused!  I'm either going to get the iPhone 5 or the Samsung Galaxy SIII.

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The iPhone is only $30 more, so no biggie in the price difference.  iPhones have cuter cases (yeah, I'm superficial in that a major part of me picking a phone is the vast variety of cute cases) and I can even design my own case!  Both phones have excellent cameras which is a HUGE deal to me.  iPhones seem to have better apps...but I don't like that you have to have an iTunes account in order to do any and everything.  I also don't like that iPhones don't play Flash websites.  Again...I'm so confused!


Help?

A Styling Course: Bookcase and Bed

My styling course has officially ended...boooo :(  But I definitely learned a lot and look forward to applying what I've learned to other areas of my home (and maybe others' homes!).  The last two projects were styling bookcases and the bed.  Here are the before and afters.

Bookcase before:

Bookcase after:

Next project-

Bed before:

Bed after:

Taking this course has really motivated me to get cracking on all of the spring design projects that I have lined up especially now that I have attained a little styling knowledge :)