overwhelmed by junk geniuses

OMG! This must be what insanity feels like!   Since being "let go" from

Work in January 2010 I have spent a lot of time in the crafter's, and home improvement blogs and spheres.  Any thing is possible out there~ no matter  your level of creative genius! 

I BELIEVE OH I BELIEVE!!

They are all truly inspiring and start with nothing except an idea that they need a piece of furniture or home décor.  Of course they are all pinching penny's so they acquire used and or random ingredients they find at yard sales or flea markets.

So….I believe (d) ~still slightly undecided about my own ability!  Awesome ideas have stirred action here in my own house! 

Projects: 

This picture looks "finished" and it has taken me alot to get to this point!   Many, Many hours up on a ladder stripping wallpaper, washing, and priming but I do love my new breakfast nook!  We found the chairs at a Home Depot Outlet for $25 dollars each! The outlet has since closed! damn

Paint the kitchen cabinets! Done (well except for the second coat on the base boards, the under neath of the upper cabinets, the doors don’t shut right so they will have to be dremeled, and the upper part of the  5 windows, and the pantry)

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Of course you cannot tell it unless you look really hard, but the front door white trim is primer! and the last shudder is different than the rest! but the holly bushes that they had planted under every single window are gone! I actually like to pull in the drive way now and call this place my home!

Paint the outside trim of our house:  Ok so we hired an absolute angel to paint everything we couldn’t reach, and repair a couple of "squirrel holes".  He did a FANTASTIC JOB!! Even brought us some slightly used shutters to paint and use instead of the horrible broken ones we bought with the house.  Still need to paint one more garage door, 9 feet of gutter over back door, and the entire front door only has primer on it!

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Landscape:  I have done an encredible job on the yard!  Took down bushes that had hidden our house for over 7 years, trimmed trees and even took on the poison ivy in the side and back yard!  Still needs mulch (the bags are laid right where we want them we just havent raked and cut down the back bushes)

 We actually got this area all cleaned up! and almost entirely usable!  I will get an updated picture, but we hung little white lights out there, and bought 4 plastic Adirondack chairs from walmart.  We sat outside more this summer than we have the entire 7 years we have lived here!

A stack of shutters that I want to use to paint and put in the yard as "blinders" between our house and the 2 behind us

Oh and back inside again:

The sun room (also known as the cats room) had about 8 shades of chocolate brown tested on the walls (the color the young adult girls of the house wanted~ NOT ME)  So I did get primer on it but that is as far as it has gotten.

Several, about 20, various pictures and frames that need to be put together.

Guest powder room has vanity and door and window painted with primer, with a couple of  goodwill treasures hanging and laying in it.

Wetbar/bill pay center is HUGE eye soar.

2 out of 5 of our bedrooms are "storage centers". 

I think that is it.  So every morning I wake up and look around me and think, "wonder if I can make a high score on bejeweled" and do nothing.  Often at night I will wander thru the halls of etsy's "handmade" items, or venture out at the "junk" queens' .  I have found a very elite group of ladies that truly can take the absolute NOTHINGS and turn them into such beautiful unique pieces.  They are wearing me out!

This piece was $25 from goodwill, little sanding, primer, and left over sample paint! taadum!

Course you cannot tell it unless you look really hard, but the front door white trim is primer! and the last shudder is different than the rest! but the holly bushes that they had planted under every single window are gone! I actually like to pull in the drive way now and call this place my home!

Today, today I must focus just a bit…but perhaps before I do I will just see if my niece has beat my bejeweled score on facebook!!