More Corn and Projects I've Been Busy with!!

Or, more like. . . what was I thinking??!! :)

Yeah, I went back and purchased another 2 cases ~ 14 1/2 dozen ears of Michigan bi-color corn, shucked it, cleaned off the silks, blanched it, cut it off of the cob and froze it for winter. I'm DONE. No more corn!! I'm sure we'll all be savoring this wonderful bi-color corn come January around here. . . but for now. . . I don't want to freeze any more!! While cutting the corn off the cob. . . it splatters everywhere. Our youngest daughter was way at the other side of the kitchen at the table doing homework. While I was finishing this project she yelled "Mom, you're hitting me with kernels of corn over here!" Yeah, poor kid. I had an entire kitchen to clean and scrub ~ counters, back splash, floors, the daughter :)

Anyways, I've been a hit and miss blogger lately. This is why: My Projects!!!

I found this little vintage gem at the thrift store last week. I sanded it, primed it and painted it black (my new favorite paint color for furniture) for my master bedroom redo. I'm thinking black toile behind the glass doors (hides my junk that way :) ).

This is the before picture (darn, I need to start getting better about taking pictures before I finish my projects!) of a great little sleigh bed I purchased from Craigslist.com. I love it. It was not in the best shape when I got it. . . but I'm transforming it (see next photo).


This is the beginning of my transformation. This is the foot board. I couldn't get the photo of the head board because no one was home to hold the foot board out of the way for me!!! It's hiding behind the foot board draped with a old white blanket I use to protect things. I found these wonderful wooden appliques at Home Depot and used Liquid Nails to apply.

So far, what do you think? I'll be showing this sleigh bed when it's in our master bedroom. I'm painting our master bedroom this weekend so it should be in there shortly.

And lastly, I picked up this little beauty. Another Craigslist.com find. I'm going to attempt to recover this myself with a black and white toile fabric for my bedroom redo. I love Cindy's blog, http://romantichome.blogspot.com/ and she has inspired to me attempt this myself. I saw what she was doing with a chair and I thought. . . "maybe I can do that too!" Thanks Cindy!!

And lastly, I'm so excited because today at a garage sale I found a router. It was $15. I'm going to attempt to route out the back of moulding to cover our standard, builder bathroom mirror. You know, those little plastic mirror holders that stick out to hold the mirror to the wall? I'm thinking I may be able to route a notch out of the backside of moulding and attached them. Now, if I can just figure out how to use the router and the mitre saw!!!

Blessings. . . until next time (and thanks for stopping in!!),