home art: May 2010

The 411 on spray paint

I hope you had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend! I made a little bit of progress on the kitchen, but otherwise we just enjoyed having hubby home for four days straight! School’s out for summer!! ;) Whoohoo! If you’ve read this blog for 2.1 seconds, you know how much I luuurve spray paint. In my humble opinion, there is no cheaper way to transform accessories and furniture. And floor vents.

Giveaway weekend!

I am SO excited about this weekend’s giveaway! If you’ve read this blog for a while, you know how much I love vinyl wall art -- I think it’s a fun, easy, inexpensive way to add a unique look and a touch of whimsy to a room.
Well, my advertiser Single Stone Studios has some fantastic vinyl art you’ll be drooling over! Yippee!
I showed you how I used vinyl from Single Stone Studios in the Bub’s

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A (new!) kitchen sink

OK, if you are a connoisseur of kitchen sinks, you will LOVE this post. If not, well…ummmmm…you won’t need your sleeping pill tonight. Just read ahead. :) I have to say…the installation of the kitchen sink has convinced me that this will be the last sink we ever own – at least in this house. It was a doozy. Remember when I asked your advice on the double or single sink on this post? I had

Garage sale (and beadboard) love

Well hello! I am SO excited about the kitchen progress – whoohoo! I’ll share more on that in a bit, but first I wanted to tell you about a fantastic Web site for you garage sale freaks-who-get-up-at-7a.m. lovahs out there. I first told you about Garage Sale Tracker about a year ago when they were just starting up (here). Their little site has gone and grown up – I’m so impressed! If you are

The kitchen redo: Part two

First of all – some winners! The (random) winner of the Jewelry of Lav is April from CT and the winner of the Wuslu giveaway is NadiaAnac from Nadia’s Nest. Congrats ladies! Email me and I’ll get you connected for your goodies! So I told you last week the fantastically amazing awesome news – I was picked by Amex to promote Membership Reward Points by using them to redo a room in our home –

36 hours in NYC

Well howdy! I hope you had a fantastic weekend! Ours was a whirlwind! My hubby and I took a little “jaunt” to New York City with a few friends for the weekend. Actually, it was a business trip for hubby and some of his coworkers, and I tagged along. A trip to NYC is non-negotiable. This wife is going, every. single. time. :) If you’ve read this blog for a while, you know New York is my

Giveaway weekend!

Hello there and happy-almost-weekend! :)

This weekend I have a cool giveaway for you – the idea behind the Wuslu site is one I’ve not seen before.
Yasmin, the owner of Wuslu, is a buyer in the interior design industry, and is able to negotiate with manufacturers to get home furnishing and décor products at deep discounts. I’m talking well below retail prices here peeps.

The Wuslu site

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Organization bliss

**Edited to add: I got the organizer from Target, in the electronics section. LURVE. While I work on the kitchen redo, I’m still working on things here and there in our office as well . I was reeeeally hoping to share my desk redo tonight, but it’s taking foreva and a day to paint. More on that soon! Add in a trillion trips to Home Depot for the kitchen, and it’s taking even longer. ;) But I’m

What to do with the STUFF?

Well THANK YOU for all of your sweet comments and thoughts on my last post! I’m so excited about the kitchen redo! I’m pretty sure I’ve been to Home Depot nine times in the last three days, so they should know me by name soon. ;) I hope to get our sink and faucet installed this week, but it’s not an easy job I know, so we’ll see. I’m being patient. Being patient. Being patient. (If I keep

A not-so-mini kitchen redo!

Helloooo there! Hope you had a great weekend! I am SO EXCITED to share some fun news with you – I’m talking giddy, I am not worthy, glorious news. I mentioned a few weeks ago that I have been planning a mini redo of our kitchen: It’s usually a bit more dressed up than in this picture, but I had just decluttered, so the extra stuff was outta there that day. :) I think I totally freaked

Giveaway weekend!

Well hello! Hope the start to your weekend is going GREAT! Whoohoo for Fridays!!
The month o’ giveaways continues here at TDC! It wasn’t really meant to be a month of giveaways, but it’s kind of turned into that. ;)
This weekend I'm sharing some positively beautiful jewelry by Jewelry of Lav. Lavender makes some of the prettiest, most delicate pieces I’ve ever seen – and her prices are

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Bloggy Butt

First off – the winner of the Dimples and Dandelions giveaway is Kellie DeMille! Kellie, please email me and I’ll get you in touch with the D&D folks! Congrats!

OK, so I’m not one to obsess about my weight. Most of the time I’m too busy with life to think about it much.

I don’t diet – never have. I just know myself and know what I’m willing to do to keep my weight in check and eating very

DIY drum shade chandelier

Well, if you follow me on Twitter, you know this project has been a doozy. It started with my need for more light in our office/den. I mentioned last week that part of my issue with this space is it’s so dark. I talked to our electrician a while back about installing an overhead light in this room. Because of the way the beams run in the ceiling, it would be a major project I’m not willing to

Before and After Party! (A chair redo)

I thought it was high time I showed you the after of the chair I redid for the IndyStyle show last month! It was quite the transformation – from totally-disgusting-I-can’t-believe-I’m-touching-this to ooh la la, I would totally sit my behind on that! I didn’t take pictures of the whole process but luckily I’ve shown you how to do this before, so I stole pics from this old post. ;) Let’s start

Giveaway weekend!

I hope you are all having a wonderful Mother’s Day weekend! It was crazy cold here today and it’s not going to be much better tomorrow, but at least the sun is supposed to be out! :) I have an awesome giveaway to help brighten up the weekend! My advertiser Dimples and Dandelions is a online children’s boutique with some of the most beautiful child-related clothing and decorative items I’ve ever

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Where do you start?

So basically every. single. time. I finish up a big project, I swear up and down I’m going to take a few weeks and do nothing but finish up little projects around the house. It’s all the little unfinished stuff that no one else notices but me, but it’s also the little stuff that drives me just a teensy bit nutso every time I walk by – molding corners that need to be caulked, holes that need to

Details of an airplane room

First of all – the (randomly drawn) winner of the Lisa Leonard Designs giveaway is Patrizzia from iCreate! Congrats Patrizzia! Email me and I’ll connect you with Lisa. Well, shucks folks. Seriously, I am so thankful for all the comments here, Facebook and Twitter and all of your sweet emails about the Bub’s new room. I really don’t don’t what else to say but that I’m so glad I’ve inspired so

A big boy room reveal!

Well…it’s done! And I am in LURVE. It’s been raining for two days straight, so I was rushing like mad to get pics while it was somewhat bright out earlier today. It’s not all perfect, but who cares. I am in love. :) (Because I am a special kind of crazy, I may retake some of these when we get a sunny day this week.) In my next post I will give you the low down on all the little details, but

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