Procrastination...

Sometimes I just feel
like kicking my own butt...
but then I realize that
that will take some dangerous moves
that I'm not willing to try anymore...

The point is that it took me
6 years to work on this...

6 years!!!

I finally got my act together,
got to work
and only....

it was finished... and ready to be taken to Country Roads.

4 Hours!!!
How many of these could I have made in 6 years???
Too many to count...
Enough to depress me even more!

"A year from now you may wish you had started today"
~Karen Lamb~


I wish I would have read this quote before!!!!

HAPPY WHITE WEDNESDAY, GIRLS!

White Wednesday

"From France with Amour"

Don't you miss getting letters in the mail?

Hand written letters.
Beautiful, curvy writing, just waiting to be read....

French Writing.

That was my inspiration to make this little metal table top...

into something a little more special...

Tres chic...or not tres chic????

Oui, oui!! Tres chic!!!

Lots of wonderful whites at Faded Charm...
don't miss them!!!

White Wednesday

I started this project with no plan at all...
no idea of what I was going to make.

But I thought that 2 rows of fluff looked good...

and knew that 3 were even better...

The fourth one got me thinking...

and by the fifth one I couldn't stop...

The sixth one just proved it to me!

So much wonderful fluffiness out of one vintage drape panel...

Things sometimes create and evolve into something else all by themselves....

and I'm just glad to be around to help them do it.

Thank you Kathleen for hosting another fun White Wednesday.

I'm also linking to Cheap Chic Home's "Fabric Fun Thursday"

UPDATE:
SOLD!

About finishing projects...

Our quest for an empty, clean garage continues...

This time windows were found...

Burlap, wood, chicken wire, paint...

One done...

Two more to go...

"There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today"
~Mignon McLaughlin~

For lots of finished projects or the inspiration needed to get them done, visit:
FADED CHARM and all the White Wednesday participants!

LINKED TO:
THE SHABBY NEST

Audrey and I...

What to do when you find a killer beveled mirror with a delicate etching on the top,

reduced to $4.99 at Ikea?

That's easy...you call a talented, wonderful chic woman to help you make it even better...

yeah...Audrey and I go waaayyyy back....
we are so close, you can't photograph her without getting me!...

She looks lovely with her hair up and vintage jewelry...

She is definitely the "Queen of Chic"...
don't you think?

"Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come...
The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future"
~Audrey Hepburn~

Gotta love her!!!!

Busy morning...

My Wednesday didn't start very well...

My Daughter needed to be in school earlier that usual...(we are not a morning family)
My Husband asked me to take her...(not my job)
I mumbled some bad words in Spanish (don't know why, everybody understands Spanish in this house) and accepted.

Not before checking out my White Wednesdays Girls.

And...HELLO!!...there is Joan from Anything Goes Here brightening up my day with her French Eggs.
Pure Inspiration.

On my way from the school, still in my pajama bottoms, I stopped at Walmart and came home with these...

and by 9:30 am in the morning I have made these for my house...

and these for the Country Roads space...

It was 9:30 in the morning and I had not had any breakfast, the beds were not made and the laundry and my morning shower were waiting, but sometimes you have to be flexible in order to have some fun.

Thank you for the inspiration Joan!!

LINKED TO:
THE SHABBY NEST

White Wednesday

When you are in this crazy world of buying and selling furniture, sometimes you need a plan B...or C...

When we bought this cute coffee table a couple of years ago at the Long Beach Flea Market it had the original pink paint distressed to perfection. Before we got to the parking lot, 3 people wanted to buy it...
3!!
Of course, we didn't sell it.
We took it to the store and worked in a beautiful display featuring our new treasure.

We don't have pictures of the pink finish, but trust us...it was dreamy!
After a few months, we realized that NOBODY was interested in a pink coffee table...where are those 3 people now???? Not in our store!!!

Here's when plan B was put in motion...
a coat of 2 of white paint...

and back to the store...

long enough to know that NOBODY wants to buy coffee tables anymore...or at least not THIS coffee table!
Back to the garage.

After months of table seclusion, a little voice whispered in our ear..."3's a charm"
It's time for Plan C.
3 inch foam...

a cover and trim...

same wonderful details...

and our vintage coffee table....ottoman is ready to be adopted...

In the meantime, we'll think of Plan D just in case!

"When you are through changing, you are through"
~Bruce Barton~

If you need a Plan B, don't miss
Faded Charm
The Shabby Chic Cottage

lots of inspiration awaits!