Monday, August 27, 2012

Dip Dye


Earlier this summer I got a wild hair and decided we needed to give our cabinets a new coat of paint.  They were redish/brown and frankly I was sick of them.  Our kitchen is straight out of the 70's complete with mustard yellow countertops.  What goes with mustard color countertops!? Not much unfortunately.  But we finally settled on light gray- which looks fine...But now that the cabinets are done our kitchen is feeling a little too blah. Not nearly enough color!! So without telling my boyfriend I decided I would give our kitchen a little pop of color.  For those of you who know Cameron, you know he is not a fan of bright colors. Which is why I didn't tell him that I did this:


















(Oh god. Please ignore the messiness!)

I saw some tutorials on Pinterest on dip dying and I thought it would be an easy way to incorprate yellow into our boring kitchen!  It was such an easy craft, and cheap too.  All I needed was the rit dye since I already had the curtains on hand. The dye went too far up for my liking which was completely my fault since I was talking to my mom on the phone while I was dipping, which probably wasn't the best idea, but cest le vie.
- Lauren

Sunday, August 26, 2012

First

So here it is: my first (and probably last) attempt at blogging. I decided that with my obsession in Pinterest and crafting, why not write about it!?! And BONUS this will give me a chance to use my fancy schmancy camera that I got for Christmas on a regular basis! Hooray!


Pinterest has made me fall in love with furniture upcycling. So when I spoted this old, beat up sewing table -I immediately saw the cuteness potential- and I had to have it! My boyfriend said that I shouldn't waste my 16$ on it- but when have I ever listened to him?


So here it is before (after I sanded the hell out of it)
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and after! Isn't it adorbs?? I am so in love with it. Now I need to learn how to sew.

Pinspiration for the drawers:

 
                                                                                                                                           - Lauren