Hallway makeover and a bonus!!!

People may think I'm nuts, but I love when my husband leaves on business trips...that's when I GET STUFF DONE!!! Ha ha, but really, when he leaves I can do whatever I want, how ever I want and quickly too. On his latest trip I decided to redo our hallway, finally.  Wallpaper - floor to ceiling - on top of plaster, grrr. I really wanted to do wainscoting to match the bathroom and choose to stick with the same colors also.  After texturing, sanding, painting, cutting and loving using the nail gun, my whole hallway project was around 100 bucks. I was pretty pleased!

Eventually, I would love to get chandeliers, but I just spray painted the existing light fixtures for now. I love that my fish tank fit snug into that awkward cubby and I even painted the drawers a fun turquoise!


Here is my bonus project. With the left over wainscoting pieces, I made chalkboards. The back is a panel from an old door that fell apart and the chalk holder is a Scrabble easel.

Look Whoo's Having A Girl!

I was so happy to throw a

baby shower

for my sister-in-law, who is due in October to have a

sweet little girl.

We decided to have the shower on a Saturday night with

drinks and desserts! Yummy,

who could say no to that...well, the mom to be, but it was partly her idea!

Mason Jar Chandelier

This cute little project

was a custom order for a wedding. A good friend of mine called and asked if I could make her something similar to a picture she showed me, but

 *on a budget.*

I said I would try, but no guarantees. And here is the final result.  Finding reasonable chandelier crystals or a chandelier with crystals is not easy task. In the end,

~I loved it~

and decided I need one hanging in my front porch, so I'm keeping my eyes peeled!

Thrifting in Spokane

 A few days ago, I listed my dining set for sale on facebook and a good friend of mine, Windie, bought it. I decided to deliver it to Cheney for her so that I would have an excuse to go shopping. I was so excited to visit all of my favorite thrift stores and a few new ones I had never been to. I wanted to go to PINK, which is a newer store downtown, but they were closed, sad day.  My next stop was at ROOST, on main, and I saw tons of things I loved. #1 Painted chandelier light fixtures- the brighter the color, the better they are!, #2 The adorable barn pillow-if I had a little boys room, this would be in it and #3 A wall of corrugated metal-I have been wanting to do this in our house for sooo long.  My next stop was to the International District on Sprague, where they gave me this handy-dandy little map. I found a store I had never been to and was so pleased...Vintage Warehouse! They had everything from vintage clothes to over sized neon letters (and very affordable). I proceeded to hit up a few more thrift stores and then finished the day off with a mini Cinabon, um mm!





Here are a few of the treasures I picked up to makeover; orange chair, chandelier, two matching lamps with crystals (they desperately need new shades), mirror, and not pictured is my favorite purchase, a fake tinsel log fireplace-the orange light bulb gives off such a warm glow...hahaha

A Guy Cake

You know how a lot of the cake decorating ideas you see would be great for a girl's cake, well here is a sweet guy's cake. I made this cupcake cake quite a long time ago for my older brother's birthday but I thought I'd post the pictures. He loves playing pool so this was perfect and really easy to do. I even had a que ball with some blue chalk marks on it (looks like it didn't make it in the picture).

Busy, Busy Photobooth

The Amazing Traveling Photobooth!

As I mentioned earlier, this lovely little photobooth is for rent for you upcoming event. It is great for weddings, birthdays, graduations, family reunions, anniversarys and so much more. It can be customized to your hearts content and it provides hours of fun!

Happy Customer

Check out what a creative customer of ours did with the lockers she purchased at the Farm Chicks Show.  I had a hard time parting with these lockers because they were soo my style, (you know brown, rusty, vintage...all the things I love) but I am happy to see they went to a good home!

Be sure to check out her blog www.barnchixx.blogspot.com

My 1964 Aloha...whoot whoot!!

Super excited to be the very proud owner of this little 12ft fixer-upper! I have been wanting a vintage camper for way too long and I finally got one. My husband thinks I'm crazy, what's new, but I can not wait to dive in. It's got a little water damage, a few bee's nests and a lot of work ahead of it. At the Farm Chicks Show earlier this month, I bought some vintage bark cloth from the fabric booth in Bay 1 for curtains, throw pillows and who knows what else. I'm hooked on looking at other vintage campers online and the Vintage Bag Lady of Cheney has some great pictures...Looks SOO fun! Check out her blog. http://cheneybaglady.blogspot.com/2011/06/farm-chicks-weekend.html
Hopefully I'll get this project started soon so I can post more pictures. Happy Camping!

FARM CHICKS: PART 2

Here are some pictures of other booths that I just LOVED!  As you can probably tell from the pictures, put a plant in anything and I am sold! Garden Party had an amazing set-up, very botanical and dreamy.  The one thing that I loved and am mad I didn't get a picture of is Funky Junk's pick-up bed shelf, but I did snag me a t-shirt with a vintage camper on it.


Black, White, Yellow...Looking good ROOST...Love their store!

This is a table my husband wanted me to buy but we missed out, sad.

LOVE the bike sign

The Farm Chicks 2012

BU2ful and Farmhouse Charm had an AMAZING time at The Farm Chicks Show in Spokane, WA this past weekend!

I have never seen so many people in my life, the crowd was record breaking on Saturday with over 6,000 shoppers walking through the doors!

Our booth # ended up being 79 93 (sorry about that), a BIG thank you to all of our friends and family who stopped by to say hi.  We were also blessed to have amazing neighbors ( http://www.forgetmenotdreams.blogspot.com/ )beside and across from us. Here are a few snaps of our booth, we had to remodel on the second day and I ended up liking the bike display the best.