I heart Spray Paint

So, I've been "out of work" for a couple months now and am basically bored to death. I've never been one to deal well with boredom. My Mother always told me to be weary of an idle mind. In her words, "an idle mind is the devil's playground". However, in this case.....an "idle mind is Pinterest's playground". When I'm not spending hours upon hours applying for jobs online (a tedious and torturous process mind you), I can most certainly be found on Pinterest. Of course, this is after my wifely duties have been completed around the house. Cough cough.

Now, I've always been pretty resourceful. Even before the magical world of Pinterest existed, I loved refurbishing furniture, making bows, garage saling, etc. As you can imagine, Pinterest has opened up a whole new world for me. A world of magical possibilities. I believe I can fly.

Without a job to put my millions of little brain cells to work each day, and to keep my idle mind safe the devil (lol), I have been quite busy with projects around the house. I've painted a couple rooms, refurbished a few pieces of furniture, switched some rooms around, decorated to my heart's content, and last but not least......I've been busy spray painting!! You simply have no idea how much you can spray paint until you start rummaging. My son says he loves the smell of it so we all win here....

I went to the feed store up the road and purchased myself a few cans of paint, then came home and literally walked around my house looking for stuff I could paint. Imagine me walking through my house holding half a dozen vases and jars making my way to the basement. That's precisely what happened.

This is what I came up with.

Here you have a standard mason jar.

 

Now, you have a cool flat black mason jar with a festive bow and some greenery and cattails. I have a thing for cattails....

 

Lovely.

 

Here we have a standard old milk jar. Cute, but could be cuter.

 

Now it's a cute pen/pencil holder on my desk. I also painted this flat black.

 

Another once ordinary mason jar.

Looks swell on the bookshelf doesn't it?

 

I forgot to take a before picture of this one. I was so excited. I thought I was done painting for the day, until this caught the corner of my eye in my living room. It was metal. Just plain ol' metal.

Now it's a satin ivory. Beautiful.

 

 

I am also quite into refurbishing ugly furniture. I do that when I'm spray painting jars and vases.

 

Here's a few furniture pieces I've done recently.

 

I got this desk in the trash. True story. Someone was throwing this gem away. After I politely knocked on their door (it was sitting at their curb) to verify that it was indeed free (seemed hard to believe I guess). They responded with a sarcastic "if you can load it, you can have it". I merrily skipped back to the truck to tell my husband of the great news! We quickly found out why they spoke with such a tone. It's a beast. I still to this day don't know how the two of us successfully loaded it in the back of the pickup. I'm certain they watched us from behind their blinds, their ribs just splitting with laughter.

 

But who's laughing now?! Muahahahaha. Me. I am. That was me laughing. Look at this beauty. It took me FOREVER to refurbish this puppy, but the hard work was worth it. She's glorious.

 

I had a before picture of this dresser, just don't where it went. I picked this dresser up at a barn sale for $30 a couple months ago. We got er painted and spray painted (naturally) the hardware. It's in my daughter's room now. What a beaut.

 

Sadly, I don't have any other pictures to bore....I mean share with you today.

 

I hope you enjoyed yet another blog post about Pinterest. If there's anything I know for certain in this world.....it's that there aren't enough blogs about Pinterest.

 

The end.

 

Be on your way.