Fall Throw Pillow Giveaway

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I've got a fun fall throw pillow giveaway for you today...however, it's not the only giveaway in this post! The Thrifty Style Team members each have a giveaway for you...and they're all about FALL! Enter to win this fall throw pillow I made for you below...and then head to their blogs to enter their giveaways, too. And just FYI, I hope YOU win this fall throw pillow, friend.

I love a good, seasonal, throw pillow...especially a fall throw pillow. I made this one just for this giveaway. And, in the spirit of the Thrifty Style Team sisterhood, it's kept thrifty because I used fabric from a previous project that I had in my stash. Enter to win this fall throw pillow giveaway below.

Thrifted Blue and White Planter Decor

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It's Thrifty Style Team Day, y'all. I'm sharing my Thrifted Blue and White Planter Decor that I just added to our dining room. If you love a good blue and white planter, check out my finds below.

Man, I love a nice, ceramic blue and white planter. I've dreamed of the gorgeous Blue & White Chinoiserie Planter from Ballard Designs forever, but at $200 a piece, I'm not that anxious to jump on it. However, at Goodwill last week, I stumbled onto three ceramic planters in the perfect hues...and for the perfect price! Check out my fun finds below.

Vintage Guest Bedroom Ideas

I'm sharing my vintage guest bedroom ideas today...all surrounding our new (very) blue room. I am really pleased with how this room came together. Besides the bedding and bed itself, everything in this room was thrifted, handed down, or found at an estate sale. Check out these fun and funky (and frugal!) guest bedroom ideas below.

When we bought this house, we loved this space. Originally, we had thought my parents would be moving into this room and its den that is right next door to it. There is also a large, handicapped accessible bathroom attached to this bedroom...making it an ideal spot for them. However, their health needs and situation have somewhat shifted, and we're not completely sure it will all play out like we originally thought. Instead of leaving it in its blank state, we went ahead and fluffed it up a bit for our guests who use this room...now it reflects our own tastes a bit more. I'm sharing my favorite guest bedroom ideas to make a spot for your people that is both functional and budget-friendly (and vintage!).

DIY Weathered Chevron Canvas {with tutorial}

This Weathered Chevron Canvas has been my little side project for a while now. If you follow my Instagram Feed, you know my recent quest to find out if I could weather canvas. And the verdict is in. YES, YES and YES. Canvas can be weathered {by hand}. You can all breathe a sigh of relief...I know you've been on pins and needles waiting to know. Well, at least my mom has been. 

This was actually a fairly simple project...just needs some considerable drying time between each step. Annnnnd...it only cost me $6 total. 

I often purchase canvases at my Goodwill. Then I just paint over them and do my own thang. Canvases at art stores can be quite pricey...why spend that much when a coat of white paint can make an old one new again? The above was what this looked like when I #PoppedSomeTags {yes, sadly, I kind of like that song...only because it's about my favorite pastime. I don't love the language. But I do like that he bought a broken keyboard. And I did invent that hashtag back in April. It's a thing now. At least, in my mind it is}.

I digress. 

After coating it with just one coat of white acrylic paint, I measured out and lightly penciled lines across it. There was no rhythm to this. I totally stink at any mathematical equation, so I'm not much help there. But I own a crazy awesome art ruler from the one year I was an art major in 1996. It's the one thing I took away from that year that I still use. And it helped me measure these out and space them to work well for the pattern I wanted. 

I used a double width of painters' tape to create my chevron. Then I smoothed my tape out like crazy.  

In order to prevent that annoying seepage, I used my fail-proof trick that I've shown you before. I went back over my tape with more of my white base coat to seal the tape down. Works like a charm. Every. Single. Time. 

{Let's not talk about the fact that I slightly messed up the pattern a bit on this edge in the above photo...I sanded it out later and weathered it up as best I could. Weathering covers a multitude of sins.}

All sealed up. 

After letting the "sealing" paint dry overnight, I used my black acrylic paint on the top to paint the actual chevron on. I accidentally used my gloss kind of acrylic here...it was what I reached for and, honestly, didn't even realize I had it. But, I'm actually pretty okay with the results. The different textures are kind of interesting.

 Peeling the layers is my FAVE.

After peeling all of the tape, I did the thing I thought I couldn't. I sanded canvas, y'all. And it flippin' worked. Like a boss, it did. 

The only regret is not sanding even more. I just took off a bit of paint here and there. And roughed up the edges quite a bit.  

To give it more of an aged look, I brushed some stain all over the canvas and let it sit for ten minutes or so.

Then I wiped it off, just to give it a slightly dirtied up look. 

It's easiest to keep using the same paper towel and wadding and re-wadding it. Once it's nice and soft and somewhat stain-soaked, it's really easy to work the stain around with.  

Super happy with the way it turned out. 

Details, details. 

I'm about to redo the hallway where my kids' bedrooms are located and plan to put this up in there, along with a gallery wall {that's been a long time coming} on the opposite wall.

What are your favorite things to makeover from thrift stores?

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{Guest Post: Meegan from What Meegan Makes} Distressing a Frame

Good Morning all of you I Should Be Mopping The Floor readers!! I am Meegan from What Meegan Makes and I am honored to be guest posting for Kristi today! Isn't she great? I just love her!!

   

 I am a vintage loving, grand baby kissing, beach going, shell finding, paint hungry kind of woman, and I love to blog about all of these things-sometimes even combined!   Today I would like to share a small and simple project with a big impact. This is my living room.

 

I really like how everything pulled together. BUT, I wanted a frame around the book page wreath.   While out thrifting one day...

I found a frame!!

Yep, $7 and BRAND new!!

 

To prepare my new frame I mixed various green craft paints and antique white.

After "semi" painting the frame (meaning I didn't cover it perfectly-many areas are an uneven thickness of paint), I sanded it with Medium 100 grit sand paper. I am SO excited!!

After sanding, I hung my new "pretty" in our living room!! It is just how I pictured!!

Yay!! Not too shabby, wouldn't you say??? I think she completes this wall. Don't you love when that happens??? Me, too!!

Thanks for letting me share my new treasure with you! It has been a real pleasure to be with you today. Thanks again, Kristi!! It has been a BLAST!!

I hope you will visit me sometime over at What Meegan Makes. I am also on Pinterest, Facebook, Hometalk and Stumble Upon. I would love for join me.

Make it a great day!!

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Meegan is one of my favorite friends in the bloggy world. I'm so honored to have her here today... literally just a few days after her son's wedding {I wish I could bottle her energy}. She always has such sweet things to share and kind comments to leave everywhere. She's one of those people who I just know we'd be BFFs in real life if we lived closer. 

Be sure to stop by What Meegan Makes and check out her awesomeness for yourself. Some of my favorite "Meegan Projects" include:

{Stenciled, Refreshed Rug}

{Easy to Make Moss Wreath}

{Caprese Salad}

Thanks so much for being here today, Meegan! Now go take a nap after your wild weekend!

 

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Salado Inspiration

What a fabulous weekend I was able to enjoy with my sweet buddy, Bethany!

We tore it up, y'all. From flea marketing to foo-foo...we shopped them all. The pocketbooks came back empty and the trunk came back full...which to me means a good haul. 

We spent the majority of our time in beautiful Salado, Texas. I'm proud to say I live within a 20-minute drive of this adorable little town. If you're ever in central Texas and need to get your foo-foo/antique fix, Salado is your place. The streets are lined with dozens of adorable village-like shops filled to the brim with everything you can think of!

Keep in mind, I used my phone for these photos, so the quality leaves a lot to be desired. 

We parked the car and stumbled into this outdoor craft fair. Definitely bought our fair share of Scentsy and crocheted hair things. Good stuff.

Then we made our way into the cuteness. I'm totally inspired by the paint/stain combo of the above table. That red is yummy.

This beautiful buffet was in my most favorite Salado shop, Horsefeathers. It's a must-shop if you're in town. Love the detail on the mirrored doors! And that gray is so lovely. And don't even get me started on the amazingness that is that mirror. Holla.

I thought this was a sweet little sign...also in Horsefeathers.

Beautiful holiday tabletop inspiration. Loving the shimmery mirrors everywhere...can you imagine the bling-a-ding-ding once the candles are all lit? Yum.

The kitchen area in Horsefeathers is inspiration galore. I'd love a cute cottage-y kitchen like this one! The finish on the cabinets is so chippy and great.

On to more...this was at Bee's Antiques. Bethany had a thang for that antique sled. I could totally see it adorned with some greenery for the holidays and hanging over a fireplace.

The side stash at Bee's. Don't get me started on the huge stacks of old screen doors that were around back...wowzer.


Quite the contrast from the foo-foo...we also hit up a flea market and got our junk on. Loving all the chairs at this one... even more that weren't pictured. I'm in search of new dining room chairs...but I need six of them...which are hard to come by.

While it may look like a whole lot of junk {with a tragic lamp}, there were so many treasures in the Ramirez House of Glass at the flea market. Milk glass, Spode, transferware and more. I probably could have spent a huge chunk of time just digging through this place. I'm a china/glassware addict. If I bring home yet another set of china, I will probably not be allowed in the door.

More in the Ramirez House of Glass. This was a part of an adorable set of milk glass tea cups and saucers. I think I need to start collecting milk glass. Need.


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Foil, Modpodge & Paint on a Lamp Base

This poor lamp has been through the wringer with me. I just can't settle on a "look" for it. I purchased it in the spring from Goodwill for next to nothing. I originally just did THIS to it last year. But, I was itching to change it up...again.

In all her glory.

(Not sure if I love the black on it, but it may grow on me. My husband said it was interesting. That's a loaded word when used as an aesthetic opinion.)

This was how she looked when I started a couple of days ago. 

I used foil, mod podge and some black craft paint that I'll show you in a bit.

I started by cutting my foil into (roughly) 3"x3" squares. It really didn't take much foil...didn't come close to using the 200 feet in the box I bought.

Then I just started modging & podging (I did use a brush for most of this...pictured above is some bubble rubbing). The foil is applied with the shiny side down. The edges were a bit trickier and I had to go over them with my fingers a few times. I gave it two more coats of Mod Podge after all the foil was on. 

Sort of wished I left her like this without the paint. That's okay. I'll learn 

This was the paint I used.

I worked in small sections. Paint on and rub off...probably immediately. I left mine on a wee bit long.

The top area is rubbed already...leaving the paint in all the grooves and ridges.

Tada!!

There you have it! Avery inexpensive and fast change (took two afternoons...a lot of which involved drying time).

What are your thoughts on the black paint? I'm planning to use the same technique on a sofa table I have...not sure if I should do the black paint again. 

Have a fabulous weekend, y'all!








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