2010 November | Beneath My Heart

It’s time to announce the winners of the…

Red Letter Words Christmas Print and Candle

AND

$25.00 Gift Certificate to Leen the Graphics Queen

click HERE to see the winners!

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS!

and Thank You to everyone who participated!

and Thank You to Dee and Leen for such great giveaways!

I am so pumped about the project I am sharing today!!!

I LOVE it when I get something for really cheap!!!

And I LOVE it even more when it is really ugly, and I make it look really beautiful!!!

This is what I did with this $3.00 brassy beauty from the Habitat store…

I know, I know… you are awestruck by its beauty!

I saw this thing hanging in all its glory, and I immediately saw it had potential.

It had the shape I was looking for. The shape for the pendant light I wanted in our laundry/mud room.

You’ve seen them before. Sort of like these from Pottery Barn magazine…

Or these I found these when I googled “pendant lights”…

Or like this one that reminded me the most of my brassy beauty…

I found it at a place online called Hinkley Light priced at a mere $418.00!!! Holy Cow!!!

Well, my little $3.00 treasure was on its way to an extreme makeover!

Say goodbye to old, dated, brassy yuckiness…

Say hello to new, classy, Pottery Barn-style “va-va-voomness!”…

Oh, yeah baby!! Are you feeling me?!!!

Don-cha just love it?

Seriously.

For $3.00! Get out of here!

(Can you tell how excited I am?)

It is exactly the “look” I was after.

All I needed was a can of Valspar flat black spray paint and a hack saw.

Sorry I didn’t get a picture of it, but see those ugly little curlycues on the top of the light. I didn’t want them there. I think it would still have looked pretty if I had kept them, but it was a little too dressy for my laundry room. I wanted a more simple look.

So I sawed them off with a hack saw. It took about 10 seconds per curlycue.

Then I disassembled the light so I could paint it. Sorry I didn’t take a picture of that either.

Things happen quickly around here!

But I gave it two good coats of flat black spray paint and I was done!

My hubby hung it in our laundry/mud room.

I cleaned the glass globe and assembled it back together.

Wha-la!

Here are a few more pics…

(laundry room is not completely finished)

laundry room mud room

Here she is all lit up…(I guess you can see we decided to paint the bead board ceiling white!) :)

Isn’t she a beaut, Clark? :)

So for a total of about $6.00 or $7.00 (pendant light + spray paint), I now have a beautiful light for my laundry room. Woohoo!!!

Here is a before and after shot…

From Brassy to Classy!

I hope you like it as much as I do!

I will be sharing more about our laundry/mud room makeover this week. :)

Have a blessed day.

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Happy Black Friday!

It’s been an interesting 24 hours for me.

Thanksgiving Day, on the way home from my aunt’s house, we were rear ended by another car!

It was dark, rainy, and wet. A fender bender had just happened in front of us, so my husband slowed down to a stop. As we sat there, he noticed the car behind us kept driving quickly toward our car and wasn’t stopping. He said, “This car is about to his us!” And WHAM! It did.

It pushed our car forward quite a bit and scared my boys to death. There was a lot of screaming and crying as we tried to calm everyone down.

Thankfully, no one was hurt in either car. It totaled the car behind us, and they had to get a tow truck to haul it off. But our big honkin’ suburban just got the bumper messed up. We sat in our car for an hour waiting for the police to arrive and finally write up the report.

Anywhoo, we made it home safely.

But I didn’t let that stop me…I took off from the house around 10:30 pm for Black Friday shopping. Let’s just say I shopped til I dropped. :) I love the madness. I’m never in a hurry, so it all makes me laugh. I didn’t get in until 8:00 am this morning! Seriously. It’s the first time I’ve stayed out all night like that. I got some good deals, but nothing amazing. The best part was the “snow globe” snow that came pouring down around 1:00 am. It was magical!

So I have gotten a couple hours of sleep now, and I am ready to announce this great giveaway!

Leen the Graphics Queen is giving away

a $25.00 Gift Certificate to her online store!!!!

Have you visited her online store before? It is full of beautiful and unique vinyl wall decals and sayings. Here are a few of my favorite…

She has several Christmas designs to chose from… Merry Christmas with Scroll Work Vinyl Wall Decal

I love this one because it makes me think of my four little monkeys… No More Monkeys Jumping on the Bed Vinyl Wall Decal

You can get custom made numbers just like Leen made for Layla at The Lettered Cottage….

Custom Letter Number Decal as seen on The Lettered Cottage

This is one of Leen’s new designs…

Trust in the Lord Proverbs 3:5 Vinyl Wall Decal

And who, of course, doesn’t love a little chalkboard action? Isn’t this one adorable?…

Scalloped Oval Frame Chalkboard Decal Wall Friendly

Now how excited are you?

Here’s how to enter:

1. Stop by Leen’s online store and take a look at her great stuff, tell me in a comment what you would use your gift certificate for.

2. Tweet about this giveaway, and tell me in a separate comment. (You can just click the “tweet” button at the bottom of the post, if you’d like.)

3. Share this giveaway on facebook and leave me a separate comment about it.

That’s three chances to win!!!

Leen is having an amazing Black Friday-Cyber Monday sale right now too. Everything in her store is 25% off! So you may want to do some Christmas shopping while you are there!

Check out the sale HERE.

This giveaway ends at midnight on Sunday, November 28th. I will announce the winner on Monday. Goodluck!

Also, don’t forget to enter my Red Letter Words Giveaway HERE.

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