Help for My Dresser

Hey there readers, bloggers, browsers, and whoever you are!

It seems like decades since I have posted anything on my blog, I have been hanging out at The Married Life Blog as a DIY blogger! Yay me!

So this is what I've been up to:

Fixing up an old beautiful 1930's dresser. I don't have any pictures to share right now because I am too lazy to take them.  But, I hope to finish it soon so I will share ASAP. So, the point of this post is to get your input. (If you are out there) I have decided to paint it white, give it a new top (stained wood), and distress the whole thing. Have a picture of it in your head yet? My question is about knobs. I have found some adorable knobs.

 

Both from Pinterest-Anthropologie

 

Here's the plan, I get two totally cute knobs and four pulls. Any ideas where I could get knobs or pulls that aren't boring? Anybody like these?

 

Let me know what you think(:

 

-xoxo M

 



Cheers to the New Year

Hello readers!

It seems like it has been so long since I was involved in the blogging world. To a point, it has been. Sometimes even your motivation can become boring, right?

Well here is to a new year!

Hello 2013!

January 1st:

I became a DIY blogger for The Married Life Blog! I am so excited about being part of this blog...and for the fact that I have a real excuse to do thousands of DIY projects. You can visit the blog here!

January 2nd:
I get a phone call from a lady named Connie. She tells me about how she purchased some of my products (Products By M) at a craft show that I was at about a month ago. She tells me that she owns a country store nearby and would like to sell some of my products!

I am very excited to say the least.

I have piles of papers and a to-do list about a mile long for the next few days, but I couldn't be happier.

The Lord has blessed me so much in such a short amount of time.

I can't wait to see what He will do next!

 

---->Jeremiah 29:11

Thriftin it up.

So I was inspired by this woman's blog, you can see it here..she takes awful, thrift store, old, out of date clothes and turned them into cute unique finds! I decided that I was going to do that too. I found this awful thing at our friendly local Goodwill....

 

It is floral, it had shoulder pads and it wasn't a dress...it was made into shorts? Ewwww.....but I thought it was perfect for my first up-cycle! With a little work, I ended up with a totally cute dress!

The first thing that I had to do was take out these shoulder pads.

 

Next was fixing the shorts. It was a little bit tricky, but after getting all of the stitching out, it was more like a puzzle.

After getting all of the old stitching out of the way, I pinned the fabric in place to where it would be a skirt. A few stitches were all that it needed after that!

 

Thankfully, the jumpsuit/dress already had ties attached at the back that I was able to tie into a bow and give it a better silhouette. I debated taking the sleeves off, but decided that I had better not do too much...I would probably ruin it. Also, the fabric didn't seem to be right with no sleeves (I know, random reason, I guess I'm just too picky!)

So here we go! I have a cute dress that is unique, cheap, comfy and mine! It looks super duper cute with a jean jacket(:

It cost me a total of $3.68 and about thirty minutes. I think I have just found a new favorite hobby(:

 

PS..I'm sorry about the awful picture color/quality...I need to learn cameras a little better.