Thrifty Thursday and Gifts from Mom

I went to the thrift store the other day after dropping off a few things.  I had some items to donate that have been in our closet for who knows how long.  I thought that if I haven’t touched them in over a year then I don’t really need them.  So, I packed up the car and dropped off the items.  It was nice to have the extra room in the closet.  I was just happy to be at the thrift store so I decided to go in and check things out.  I didn’t really find anything except this picture.  Oh My…. it totally isn’t my taste at all, but I loved the frame.  I thought if I took out the picture and the glass then I would have a prim perfect frame to use.  I still need to sand it a little bit, but I think it will be perfect when I am done with it.  What do you think?

I love the wood and once I get it sanded a little bit then it will look even better.  That was all that I found there, but at least I found something.

Now it is time to share a few things with you.  Do you remember that little box I was going to hide my phone in.  Well, it was a little bit too bright for me.  This is what it looked like before.

I thought that I would apply some stain to it and darken it a little bit.  I was planning on putting it on my kitchen countertops and I knew that it didn’t match my cabinets at all.  So, once I applied the stain…. it looked alot better.  Here is a picture of it now.

Great place to hide all of those hideous looking cords.  Wouldn’t you agree?   Now I just need to work on covering up those outlets.  Oh…those stark white outlets are driving me crazy!!

Do you remember me mentioning to you in a previous post about Mom giving me some items that were in her basement?  Well, I was able to get the other cabinet home the other night and thought I would share a picture with you today.  So, are you all ready to see it?  I absolutely love love love this cabinet.  It looks a little yellow in the picture, but I think it is from the lighting in my home.  It is actually a buttermilk color.  Well, here is the picture of it.

Ok, well that is just part of it.  Here is the rest ☺

Don’t you love it?  Yep, I am in love with it.  I would really like to have it out in my family room, but to be honest….. I have no more stinking room for it.  I also thought about my kitchen and using it as a small pantry, but then I thought that would just be wasteful to not fill it up with prim goodies and have them on display – right?  So, I am thinking that once I get our bedroom re-finished that I will have it in there, but I am still not sure.  So, it will just stay in the spare room for right now until I figure it out.  Do you ♥ it or what? 

So, I am thinking about re-finishing my bedroom.  I really want to move our bedroom back downstairs, but I hate to be on a different floor from Cameron?  Our home does actually have a first floor master, but when Cameron was born, we moved our room upstairs into the spare room and now the spare room is the master.  Does that make sense?  Anyway, I am wanting to re-finish my master bedroom and move back downstairs.  Do you all think that would be ok?  I want to paint my room, put up some bead board and make some wood shutters.  I really want to make it prim plus I would love to have all of the toys on one floor and that room being upstairs.  I am just not sure about the room move.  I guess when I have conflicting thoughts then I just don’t do it.  Should I wait til he is a little older?  Should I re-paint the room upstairs or what do you all think I should do?

Well, I better run for now.  I have a little boy that is driving me absolutely crazy today.  I guess you could say that the Horrendous 3’s have arrived and they are awful to say the least.

Until Next Time ~ Blessings, Lisa