Before & After Thrift Find

Meet Mary Jane!

One Saturday a good friend of mine Kaye and I set off to Goodwill to find some thrifty finds for her brand new house that she had built and just moved into. 

She had ask me to help her decorate her place and I was super excited to accept the challenge. 

I laid my eyes on this Shabby piece for 12.00

When I saw it I said, wow...My friend Kaye said ......UH~REALLY (with  a look of horror) what are we going to do with that?

I laughed :)  because all she saw was this ugly piece of furniture with runny gold paint and no top.

I said ............oh this will be awesome, trust me.

She said ........OK.......(sigh) .......I trust you .......let's get it.!

She had no top as you can see above but she did have doors ...............................

I was so excited about the redo that I forgot to take pictures before I took the doors off.

The great thing is this piece was solid wood, however she was in rough shape and needed a good sanding to remove some gold spray paint that someone had attempted to spray on.

Kaye and I took to our project sanding off all the mess.

Oh I forgot to mention Mary Jane had these old gold caster wheels which we removed.

Like any good DIY'er I saved those casters for another project down the road.

I had Mr. CIS to cut me some pallet boards to make a top for this piece, I had a vision and was hoping that it would all come together in the end.

I ask her what color she wanted on Mary Jane

.................. she said what do you think?

so their I stood trying to figure out the perfect color for her new thrift find.

She had a multi color rug in her foryer and it had one of the colors I thought would be perfect.

This turquoise has been one of my favorite go to colors this year.

So we painted Mary Jane and immediately she had new life in her.

I told my friend, now we need to distress her a little and age her with some glaze.

At this point before the distressing and glazing my friend was falling in love with her now found thrift find.  :)

We stained the top boards before they were attached......

we stained the center board for contrast as well as the inside shelf.

Oh did I mention Mary Jane had STORAGE!!

Once we finished the glazing and distressing we spray painted the hardware with oil brushed bronze and put her all back together.

Now she was all dressed up and perfectly ready for her new found home.

Into the Foryer she went......

The pretty wood tulips sitting here we picked up at goodwill that day as well.

what do ya think of our Mirror we found the same day at goodwill?

Oh my our heart went pitter-patter when we saw this.

I knew it would be a great match to hang over Mary Jane in the foryer.

So what do you think of Mary Jane?  My friend loves, loves her new thrift find sitting in her new found home.

Until next time,

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Spotlight on Mr. DIY

I had an important meeting today and the grocery shopping needed tending to so my faithful husband that does most of our grocery shopping hit the store to grab some items I needed to make a yummy homemade lasagna for my dads birthday dinner I am having on Sunday.

When I returned home many hours later he was back with all the groceries put away and had out the OLD sewing machine.

That's right people the sewing machine.

Can you tell the intensity~~~~~he is in the Zone

This guy can use a sewing machine like a power tool.

Now you may ask what was he doing with the sewing machine?

Well he is a Self Defense karate instructor and owner of Concord Kenpo Karate and my Gi needed a patch added.

This is a service he gives to all his students for a very small fee to sew on patches to their Gi.

 I being his beloved wife and faithful student needed my name patch sewn on so he decided to sew it on for me of course for freeeeeee.

He is just amazing!

Im a lucky girl

So I just had to grab a few shots, (lighting is bad, sorry) not to mention my outdated camera :(

yes, I made him pose for the shot, I said baby it's for the blog and he said OH of course honey.

See all those patches, thanks to my Mr. DIY or DIFYW "do it for your wife" :) :) I have all my patches to spruce up my Gi ready for Monday's class.

I so think this is comment worthy.  Don't you?

DO tell and share your DIFYW "do it for your wife" moments so we can all oo and ah over our husbands thoughtful acts of kindness.

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Until next time,

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