Snow day!!

No work tomorrow! Woo hoo! I'm snuggled up in a blanket, enjoying the lovely fire. I was going to make some hot chocolate, but now we're snowed in with no milk! (Sad face) I'm going to spend the evening de-cluttering the craft room so I can spend all day tomorrow making pretties! If you're in the Greenville area I hope you enjoy your snow day, too!

PS

I just realized that I posted pictures of the mural I painted without having told what it was. DUH! I painted a mural on the nursery wall of my sister's boyfriend's cousin (6 degrees of hawleywood...try it out). She had seen a picture in a magazine of some celebrity's nursery that had a similar mural, only the celebrity's tree was not nearly as cute as mine (if I do say so myself). I didn't get any close-ups, unfortunately, but hopefully I can get some soon. The tree has small pink leaves, blossoms, and a butterfly and a dragonfly zooming around in the branches. The client also requested that I paint her daughter's name with a green ribbon around it, a la another picture she'd seen in a magazine. The whole room is just adorable, and I'm so excited for them!

I also made a fabulous new necklace for hawleywood, and I'll be crafting, mailing orders (because PS I totally sold another ring!), and adding some items to my Etsy store.

HOLLER!

Finally!

Here are the pictures of the finished projects! The first is of that ugly yellow-green-brown table that is now a lovely shade of grey. It's the perfect size to fit in between our ginormous overstuffed yard sale furniture. The lamp is also a redo--it was beige with some 70s gold accents. Not cute. I painted it and added a nice drum shade, and VOILA! Gorgeous.


Below is the cabinet-cum-nightstand, with its new coats of paint. Love it! It's the perfect size for my huge CD player alarm clock (which stays until I get an iPod alarm clock), Pottery Barn outlet lamp (love it!), and of course my 8 billion candles that I cannot live without. Plus my tissues since I'm constantly sick and a huge sand dollar that Nick gave me.


The best part is that I also use it as a linen closet!!! Now we actually have room in our bathroom closet for our towels. YESSSS!! Please notice the lovely cream shade (called Innocence--best name ever) on the interior of the nightstand/linen closet. The knobs are also pretty sweet--they were 99 cents at Home Depot and they have this great texture on them. Fab.


I took a picture of the interior of the top drawer just for fun. Plus to show off all the storage! Yes, I do keep needlework in my bedside table. I'm like a grandma. It's fine.

I hope you enjoyed my furniture UPGRADES!!

Mural: Completed

And here it is!

It's a little fuzzy in this picture, but you get the gist...

Here's the other wall:

Treasure! Arrrggghh!!

I was just featured in a treasury for the first time! Yay me! Well, not really me, but a necklace I made. You can see the treasury here, and my shop here. Also, I sold a ring this week, so that brings my total sales up to 5. Woo hoo! I've also been working on some new pieces and putting together a bead order, so more lovelies will be posted soon.

Off I go...time to work on a mural for a nursery wall. I'll post pics when it's done.

As promised...pics from my entry into Apartment Therapy's JUST DO IT!

These are just the "before" pictures. I haven't gotten home in time to have enough daylight left to get good pics of the "after," but trust me, they're coming!

Anyhooters, I just found out my FAVORITE cousin is on Twitter and she has the best name ever! Mindtheunitard. Love it.

Without further ado, here are the before pics:

and

Pretty heinous, I know, but just you wait! They are beautimous now! After pics are coming, I promise!

Hodgepodge!

I am so inspired by neawear's beautiful and kitschy wall wear that I have decided to start doing hand embroidery again! I have always loved fabric arts, and lately I've been getting back into sewing and knitting. I cast them aside for jewelry, and I'm ready to try my hand at them again. I love embroidery for so many reasons, but one is because it's so much more portable than jewelry--you can pop your hoop (as long as it's smallish), needle, and floss in your purse and go! I'll be listing the fruits of my efforts in my new Etsy shop, sew sharp very soon, so please tune in there!

I have also added some new lovelies to hawleywood, my OG Etsy shop! I am growing the Hodgepodge series, which utilizes vintage and new items to create beautiful new pieces of jewelry with serious street cred. That's the tag line I'm using. You like?

Nick invited his parents over for dinner this weekend, which is great because I love his parents, but TERRIBLE because the house seriously looks like a tornado hit it. PS we don't have a vacuum right now, and the carpets are looking unbelievably scuzzy. We'll probably have to lug my dad's gigantic-ass Filter Queen down to the house tomorrow so we can clean up this wretched mess. It's one of the old-fashioned 1980s brown vacuums that has a big round base on casters (that weighs about 80 pounds), and a long hose connected to an equally monstrous sucky part. I don't know what that part's called. It kind of takes away from the story, I know, but it's not like it was a great story anyway.

I'm still obsessed with design*sponge, and How About Orange, and now I'm checking knack like it's my job, hoping desperately for some updates. I went to Barb's booth at Antiques on Augusta (in Greenville, where I live), and I loved seeing her stuff up close. I just wish there was more of it on display. I want to go to the next First Friday, which is when all the local artists open their studios to the public, including knack! PS there were some hot tranny messes up in Antiques on Augusta, but I guess money doesn't buy taste.

Have a great weekend!