completion of two oustanding projects...

the dresser has been finished & now is full of junk. lol.







i made my sister a purse for her birthday back in August. didn't want to post until she received it. =)

relaxing saturday

this about sums up my Saturday (so far).

MORE projects...(catching you up)

to begin with catching you all up on the dresser...here is the picture of the painted "dresser". i'm still working on painting the drawers, and i've gotten two coats of yellow on both of them. i need them to dry so i can paint the inside brown.



monday, i found an "antique" table top & two legs outside by the curb. well, someone else's trash is someone else's treasure, right?
problem is: the table only had two legs, weird, huh? so i had to figure out what to do with it to make it stand up. well i didn't need another tall table, so i decided that i would have mi padre cut the two legs in half, and i would create a coffee table. sweet =)

here is the table top with 4 legs.
well - let me just show you what the living room looked like as i was working on this project...

lets just say - that is THE hardest wood i have ever dealt with. screws would not even go into it. i had to gorilla glue the base together so that i could screw the legs to the base. that's still a work in progress.

more to come as i finish up some things, hopefully this week...

a little paint can go a long way

so i read other peoples blogs pretty religiously & i happened upon a post that showed rachel, from heart of light renovating an old 2-drawer dresser. well i, in fact, have a rather ugly dresser that i decided i would also paint. i did not think to take a picture before i began the renovation process, but i borrowed rachel's picture of hers because mine looks very similar. (i hope she does not mind...)
see here -

i have chosen yellow as the main color of the dresser & will probably follow rachel's lead & paint the insides of the drawer some equally bright color. i have finished putting two coats of paint on the main part of the dresser & will post a picture later tonight. the drawers will take some more time as i like the color of the handles, so i need to take a smaller paint brush & paint with the yellow around the detailing. final pictures to come at some point...

dreamin'

my Flickr photos

the link to my new "photostream" of landscape pictures i've created at Flickr is right here.

Enjoy =)

failure

as you can see - i failed after one day of posting a personal life lesson...maybe I just needed to vent about money & that was it. I'm sure I learn some lessons every day but I don't know if I even realize it.

see - here's one I didn't even think about - not every story told by someone else must have a comment made in return by me stating how I've been there/done that/that's happened to me, etc.
bottom line - - it's not all about me.

hellooo revelation! ha - just kidding. I know that it isn't just about me. I think.