To Control What I Can...

When I get stressed I like to control my surroundings. With so many things out of my control lately, I've felt the need to rearrange. Again. Thanks to Pintrest my wannabe creative side is very juicy! I didn't do a before, but for this little shelf at my stairs, it was empty. Here's the after:

Looking up the stairs.

From the landing looking up.

From the high steps looking straight on.

Leaning around the landing.

From the high steps down.

From the top down.

The second part of my re-do was my 'office' My husband is vacating his office space (previously my prayer room) in June. I've been using the back of our kitchen, but my back has been acting up and I was told to no loner use the bar stool against the cabinets. So until June, I came up with this little corner of my living room. Again, no before, but it was an empty corner. The table was previously in the entryway, but I have another idea for that space.

I'm loving being by the window.

Thrifty Thrifterson

My mess.

So our little town has a great new facebook page. It's called Trash and Treasure. I think it should be called Trash to Treasure, but whatever. It's basically an online yard sale. I've sold some stuff and bought a few things. I've given away a lot as well. The other day I bought two small brown mirrors. I covered the glass with packing tape as my blue tape was missing, again. I spray painted them and made a huge mess of my hands. They turned out really cute!

Before

After.

After

 I've been in search of Mason jars of all sizes for a few projects. A friend gave me a few and this is what I came up with.

Before.

During

After

 I'm into fabrics right now. I've been installing them into wood hoops. I have plans to embroider the edges and make them a bit cooler, but for now, they just hang like this.

 I found a few cute mini-hat boxes at a yard sale today. I like the way they look.

Shane also found a big puffy Redskins jacket. I'm bummed he was with me, it so would have been a Christmas present :)

I got a table and chairs for $30.00 on the fun site! I broke it down to $6.00 bucks a piece. The chairs match what we already had. Two of our chairs were being used in the school room, so now we have enough chairs at the table for everyone to eat at the same time. I used the table and the two extra chairs in our school room. I figure it would be good for projects that are bigger than the desks. Also, it's made a nice gathering place for Johnny and I, we're kind of hidden in there! :)

I posted an "in search of" post for this bowl. My mom has one and won't part with it. It was quite funny, after the post about 4 other ladies said their mothers had similar bowls and also wouldn't let them be passed down.