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Cassie’s Door Hanging Message Boards Featuring DecoArt and Canvas Corp

by Cassie May 16, 2012

I was so excited to try out DecoArt chalkboard coating and knew exactly what I was going to use it on! I had purchased some of these fun shaped wooden plaques from an online craft deal shop, and they were perfect to make into little message boards. I gathered up the plaques, paint, and medium. I [...]

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Cassie’s Yellow Milk Paint Desk

by Cassie May 15, 2012

A few weeks ago I found this adorable desk at a yard sale. It wasn’t bad to begin with, but I wanted to warm it up a bit. I removed the hardware, lightly sanded it, and primed it. With milk paint primer isn’t needed, but because I was painting over existing paint, I wanted to [...]

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Cassie’s Vintage Sheet Wreath Featuring Styrofoam

by Cassie May 14, 2012

Hi. My name is Cassie and I am a hoarder. I love anything vintage. Vintage books. Vintage linens. Vintage owl figurines. Vintage brass items. Vintage furniture. It’s becoming a problem, and it’s time to do something about it…. I recently discovered I had a large stack of vintage sheets. I had been collecting more than [...]

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Cassie’s Minty Dresser Featuring Rockler

by Cassie May 8, 2012

I am at it again with Rockler’s awesome Golden Oak Briwax! LOVE this stuff! And for those of you who have asked, there will be a post coming in the next month all about WAX. This time I used it on a dresser I found at Goodwill. I loved the details and hardware on this [...]

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Cassie’s Gray Weathered Table Featuring Rockler

by Cassie May 3, 2012

A few weeks ago my mother-in-law was visiting and I am fairly certain she brought with her some thrifting mojo, because I had really good luck that weekend! One of the pieces I found was this round table at Goodwill. I just loved the shape of it! Apparently Emmy thought it was a force to [...]

Cassie’s Spring Placemats featuring Canvas Corp

by Cassie April 25, 2012

If you follow me, you know I love woodland critters and toadstools. I had these fabulous plain canvas placemats from canvas corp just waiting to be updated with a fun new look! The placemats were just plain rectangular canvas pieces hemmed on all sides and ready to be decorated. They are perfect for me, because [...]

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Styrofoam Projects

by Cheri April 22, 2012

Making projects from styrofoam gives you a light weight project making it great for wall art, craft projects, decorating ideas… the possibilities go on and on. There are lots of fun things you can do with styrofoam products. DecoArt makes a great product for Styrofoam called MagiKote. You paint it on to the styrofoam, let [...]

Cassie’s French Sideboard Featuring Rockler

by Cassie April 19, 2012

Over Spring break a couple weeks ago, I took my kids with me to the Salvation Army. Luckily, they have inherited my love for thrifting so to them it was a fun adventure. We found some books for them, and I found this awesome French sideboard. I sanded it thoroughly on the top for a very [...]

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Cassie’s Toadstool Jars featuring Styrofoam

by Cassie April 11, 2012

I love anything vintagey-woodsy. How can you not love cute little deer, foxes, bunnies, gnomes? Recently I saw this adorable idea on pinterest featuring toadstools and I knew I could make my own version. Here is the original (which came from etsy, but I could not find the original source) Is that not the cutest! [...]

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Cassie’s Funky Blue Desk featuring Rockler

by Cassie April 10, 2012

I recently purchased a uniquely shaped desk off craigslist. I always love finding pieces that are unlike others I have seen before. Here it is before I painted it…. Because of its unique shape I wanted to give it more of a funky antiqued look. I sanded it thoroughly and then painted it with General [...]

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Easter

by Cheri April 8, 2012

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Cassie’s Funky Green Dresser featuring Rockler

by Cassie April 3, 2012

I was lucky enough to score this awesome dresser off my local freecycle…. Ok, so it was pretty touch, dirty, and the hardware was painted on, but there was some real potential there. I removed the old hardware and filled the interior hardware holes. Then I sanded the entire piece and painted it all over [...]

Cassie’s Spring Paper Mini Bunting featuring Styrofoam and Canvas Corp

by Cassie March 29, 2012

I wanted to create a Spring craft for our technical entryway. I call it the technical entryway, because most people use the side door that leads to our kitchen. Anyhow, I wasn’t sure what was going to do, so I went digging through my supplies and at first I unearthed these supplies…. You can see [...]

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Cassie’s Black Vintage Desk

by Cassie March 20, 2012

I found this awesome vintage desk for a steal at my local Goodwill! It was in great shape aside from some minor veneer issues which were fixable with woodfiller. And it featured awesome original details and hardware. I filled the veneer damage as much as I could with filler and then gave the desk a [...]

Cassie’s Striped Dresser Featuring Rockler

by Cassie March 13, 2012

Last week I picked up this OOOOOLD dresser. I would guess its era is mid 1800′s due to the construction. It’s ridiculously heavy and I thought I might die trying to get it into my car (even with help!). As you can see it was missing its original carved wood handles, thus leaving three holes [...]

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Shazamalicious Box Featuring DecoArt & Rockler

by Cassie March 11, 2012

A month or so ago, a blog friend, Jaime of That’s My Letter received some adorable fabric from a vendor friend of hers. She wanted to pay it forward and create something for my daughter, Emmy. the fabric, which featured toadstools, immediately made her think of Emmy. She made her the most adorable little pouch….. [...]

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Cassie’s Vintage Chalkboard Tray Featuring DiscHangers

by Cassie March 4, 2012

A fre weeks ago, I found this vintage green and yellow daffodil tray at the Salvation Army for fifty cents. I didn’t know what I was going to do with it, but for fifty cents I knew I could use it somehow! I finalyl decided to turn it into a chalkboard. I sanded the flat [...]

Cassie’s Two Must Have Supplies for Furniture Refinishing

by Cassie February 26, 2012

The other day on my blog I shared a fun ombre dresser I did for a friend of mine who has a new baby. Here it is: It wasn’t always this cute and fun! It started out life like this… It had fantastic bones, and was made of solid maple, which is fabulous hard [...]

Painted Canvas Corp Table Runner

by Cassie February 15, 2012

This is a project I actually did back in early December and gave to my mother for Christmas. It was pretty easy. All I needed was some red paint, textile medium, painters tape, a stencil and a premade canvas runner from Canvas Corp. I began by designing the runner. I knew I wanted the ends [...]

A Shimmering Painted Heart Pillow by Cassie

by Cassie February 8, 2012

We have slowly begun to work on our master bedroom. I have a design plan, but this is a project that will definitely take several baby steps. I recently gold leafed my nightstands and the room itself is headed in a rustic glam kind of direction. The pillows we had on the bed were a little [...]

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