Wordless Wednesday: Dancing in the Rain

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Decorate Your Drawers

I got some great storage drawers from a friendo the other day, and though I loved them with all my heart and couldn’t wait to fill them with treasure, I couldn’t bare to look at them:

I know, I know, yer probably thinking “those are divine little drawers.” Just kidding, who says ‘divine’ anymore? Well, I needed these drawers to be more exciting. So check out what I did- this little design would look divine great on any old piece of furniture that needs sprucing up, and as usual, it is EASSSYYYYY.

First I painted a branch up the side and leaning onto the front of the drawers. For some tips on painting branches, check out this tutorial.

Then I mixed up a bit of paint on my new (old) plate I just bought.

A.D.D. side note: I have only ever had plain white Corelle dishes. That’s what my mom had, and that’s what I have… I’ve been looking for the perfect dish set for 11 years and have never found it! BUT thanks to my pal secret lover Pinterest, I have started a glorious collection! Check out this great idea!!!! So, whenever I’m at a thriftstore, I check out the dish section and if any plates catch my eye, I snap em up. In a few months I’ll have myself a perfect mis-matched dish set!

ANYWAYYYYYYYS…

So, I took a rounded paint brush and dabbed it like so to form some petals.

And then I dabbed some more.

Finally, I painted some gold into the center of the flowers, and voila! An easy and quick way to spruce up anything really…like a bookshelf, or a dresser, or a blenderrrr…the sky’s the limit 😉

This needed something to finish it off though…

There. A little tea set. Well with that and the cherry blossoms, I feel like I’m in Japan. Now I have a hankering to go eat sushi whilst enjoying this little number!

Happy sprucing, or “spruce-upping” as they called it back at Princeton.

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Rainbow Dash…Buttonized

Here is a quick post to show off my latest creation:

It’s Rainbow Dash for a very special gal on her birthday 😀 I’ll have to do this button frame thing more! It was so fun and simple! Heck you could add a button frame to any old thing you have kicking around!

Notice the http://www.bustedbutton.com ‘watermark’? Well, I have no idea how to make an actual watermark, and I’m annoyed that I had to- but some stinking peeps from Asia Pinterest etc. have been snagging my photos and taking the credit.  I guess that means I’ve hit the big time right? LOL. Justtt kiddding. Pretty flattering in one sense, but these people really just need to check out one of my tutorials, so they can create their own fun button art!

Happy button-framing and pony-taming 🙂

UPDATE: Someone kindly informed me that my ‘watermark’ could be erased in a millisecond. Bahaha! Note to self- a watermark over a white background= pointless. HAHA. Oops. Well, I’ll try again- thanks for going on this watermarking journey with me LOL!

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