The Jones Journal

30 April 2012

My love affair with furniture.

I love furniture. And even more, I love transforming furniture to my taste and style.

I found this lovely chest of drawers on Craigslist Saturday and the second he emailed me back with "Come on over", I dragged my sweet husband out the door and we skedaddled to pick this beauty up.

Here is the before photo:

I wanted to paint it, but wasn't sure what color. I debating on doing a trendy color such as a soft yellow (the walls in our bedroom are gray and everyone knows the hot color combo is grey and yellow!) but ultimately decided to go traditional so that I could always use this piece whever we live in the future.

I found a whole gallon of mis-tint at Home Depot for $5 buckaroos and it was the perfect Antique White (in fact, that was the name of the color!)

Sanded her down, applied a coat of primer, and did two coats of Antique White.

Here's the result:

(Of course, the day I wanted to take some great photos, it's rainy and cloudy...my apologies for the grainy photos)

I am in love.

The soft white and creamy grey make me smile.

Wanna know the best part?

Don't mind the pile of dirty laundry in the corner. hehe! ;)

Now, off to find another Craigslist makeover!

Love,

Kait

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29 April 2012

Strawberries and Craigslist.

Good Morning, y'all! I hope you had a great weekend!

Mine was full of fun adventures and lots of baking/cleaning.

Hubby is currently right smack in the middle of law school exams so he's not around much...that means I have the weekend to do what I want ;) ...here's a glimpse of what I did to entertain myself.

1. Started off the weekend a tad early with Craft Night at Katie's house. We made DIY mason jar vases that we painted blue and made a lid for them. I LOVE how it turned out:

Gorgeous, if you ask me! I plan on making some more without the lids as a centerpiece for my dining room table.

She also let me borrow some great magazines! I spent hours on Saturday flipping through them.

My garden is also coming right along, (well, the second garden, that is. ) Wanna know what happened to my first one? Click here.

Any excuse for me to dig in the dirt is good for me! I planted a beautiful peony that my mother-in-law gave me for Easter and I can't wait to see it bloom. It's my very favorite flower. And hydrangeas.

I also learned a very random fact about strawberries. I was making MORE strawberry bread today and read somewhere online that the smaller the strawberries are, the more tasty they are.

I had no idea! Everytime I go to the store, I would always look for the big ones thinking they were the juiciest. SO NOT TRUE! See below:

Now the berry on the right is one from Kroger. The berry on the left is from a local berry farm..aka right off the plant. Even though they are the same size, the one on the left is WAY tastier/jucier/better because it doesn't have that white part in the center...see it? The white part is practically tasteless and no good. The smaller the berry, the less white center. So from now on, buy small!

It also wants to make me ALWAYS buy berries local and fresh. The ones from the bigger grocery stores don't taste NEAR as great as the ones from the farm. Maybe I'll go buy a years supply and freeze them. ;) Just kidding. Kind of.

And now..for the most exciting part of my weekend:

Our craigslist adventure!

I have been searching for a certain type of dresser/chest of drawers for our bedroom for like 8-9 months. No joke!! I had JUST gotten out of the shower on Saturday and decided to look on CL. Well someone posted this dresser ten minutes prior and I immediately emailed him saying "PLEASE let me come buy this from you!" hehe...he said he was on his way out the door but would wait for us if we left right then. So with wet hair and all, I hopped out the door with hubby and we started on our adventure: