tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68203413146692269372024-03-18T20:59:57.001-06:00Cobblestones & IvyLindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11012943664478860097noreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6820341314669226937.post-80430055989157021012014-08-01T13:28:00.000-06:002014-08-01T13:28:01.590-06:00updated TV console<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
One of my first posts on this blog was a dresser I refinished and turned into a TV console. You can see that post <a href="http://cobblestonesandivy.blogspot.com/2011/10/dresser-turned-tv-console.html">here</a>. This is what it looked like when I was finished:</div>
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More recently I showed this wall with the shelf added above the TV:</div>
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The handles I used had kind of a bronze look that you could see up close:</div>
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But as you can see in the pictures above, they just looked black from a distance. I had been thinking for awhile about painting them and finally went for it a few weeks ago.</div>
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Now they are Krylon Caramel Latte:</div>
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It's kind of a metallic beige and I love it!</div>
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It took about an hour to take the handles off, spray paint them, and put them back on. I already had the paint, so it was a quick, free project and I absolutely love the result!</div>
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It's always amazing what a little bit of paint can do! </div>
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It's a small change that makes a big difference in the room. When I'm sitting on the couch watching TV (like Jimmy Fallon here :) ), I sometimes get a little bit distracted by how much I love this dresser. I still can't believe I only paid $20 for it!</div>
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This isn't the first time you've seen Krylon Caramel Latte on this blog, and I'm sure it won't be the last. I used it on the handles of my <a href="http://cobblestonesandivy.blogspot.com/2013/06/roadside-rescue-refinished-desk.html">free desk</a> too! </div>
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I haven't been able to jump on the return-of-brass bandwagon, and this is the perfect color for me. It's slightly gold, but not at all brassy. If you're like me and feel like you just finished getting rid of all the brass in your life just in time for it to come back, give this color a try!</div>
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Have you heard of Waterlogue? It's been all over the blog world recently so you probably have, but if not, you really need to check it out! It's an app that turns any picture into a water color, and I'm kind of obsessed with it. For $2.99 plus the cost of printing, you get a personal piece of art!</div>
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I used Waterlogue and the Shutterfly app to create this wall in my living room:</div>
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These are all pictures I've taken on various trips. Kauai, Cancun, Paris, London, Ireland, and Venice are all represented. I love that <i>I</i> took each of them, and now they're such a cool part of my living room. This wall is the first thing you see when you walk in the front door, and it makes me so happy every time I see it.</div>
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For the past 7 years, that wall has looked like this:</div>
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I liked the mirror and sconces, but it was time for a change.</div>
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I love the bright white frames and the addition of more color in the room. I'm trying to get away from having a specific color for each room (it was purple in this one, and I'm slowly getting away from every accessory being purple), and this has made a big difference.</div>
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I ordered 4x4 prints from Shutterfly for $.15 each, and these frames were $1 each at Michaels!</div>
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They're the unfinished ones that you can paint however you want. I spray painted mine white, but you could do any color, or a variety of colors, to coordinate with your home.</div>
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I love how the white frames make the colors in the pictures really stand out. This church in Ireland is one of my favorites!</div>
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This is my very favorite of all the pictures I've used Waterlogue on though.</div>
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It's a beach in Kauai, and I love everything about the way it looks as a water color. So I ordered an 8x10 print of this one, and (for now) it's sitting on the table next to the couch.</div>
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If you haven't tried Waterlogue yet, what are you waiting for?! It's so fun to see your pictures transform into water colors, and I love using pictures I've taken in my travels to create amazing and unique decor in my home. It's the only app I've ever paid for, and it's so worth it. I'm so excited about this new wall!</div>
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I've made a few other changes in my living room lately as the weather has started to warm up. I'm not sure I love this mantel, but what I do love about it is the addition of the flowers and grass in the vase (from Kauai!):</div>
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I've never been a big fan of fake plants before because I always thought they looked too...well, fake. You really can find some that are pretty real looking now though, and I'm loving the feeling of bringing nature and spring inside (I also love Ellen :) ).</div>
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This is what that wall looked like last spring:</div>
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The mantel decor is more simple now, and in December I added the shelf above the TV. It's a beautiful slab of wood with the bark still on the edges, and I just sealed it with polyurethane to keep the natural look.</div>
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Between the mantel, the shelf, and the vase next to the TV, I've added a lot of green plants and it gives the room such a happy, springy feeling. </div>
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I've got one other change in this room coming up soon! It involves the mirror that used to be above the couch...</div>
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I just had a fabulous fall weekend. On Saturday I made some homemade apple sauce in the crockpot that turned out amazing. I don't have any pictures or even a recipe, but basically you just peel, core, and chop about 10-12 apples, put them in the crockpot, and sprinkle about 1/4 cup of sugar and 1 teaspoon of cinnamon over the top. Of course you can adjust the measurements depending on how sweet you want the applesauce to be and how strong you want the cinnamon flavor to be. Then just cook everything on high for 4 hours. If you like your applesauce smooth with no lumps, you may want to put it in the blender for a minute, but I like chunks of apple so I just stirred mine. Delicious!</div>
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Sunday afternoon I went for a drive not knowing exactly where I would end up. I just knew I wanted to see the changing leaves. On my way...</div>
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Getting closer to where I finally stopped...this picture doesn't show the fiery oranges and reds I was looking for, but I love all the different shades of green along the road.</div>
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I ended up at a park with a mountainside walking/bike trail near my house, and my walk started on a bridge over this little stream.</div>
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Starting out on the trail. All I could hear was nature sounds, and occasionally another person. So calming.</div>
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The leaves were just starting to change and I think in a couple more weeks there will be a lot more color, but I loved seeing hints of the bright colors that are coming.</div>
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It was the perfect day to be out enjoying fall before the long, cold winter hits. I love how bright blue the sky is in this shot behind the gorgeous yellow, orange, and red of the leaves.</div>
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These next two are a little creepy if you're a spider hater like me. There was a group of 3 trees that were completely covered in thick spider webs. I'm just glad I couldn't see the spiders, because the webs alone gave me chills. </div>
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I love that one tree that just couldn't wait to turn fiery red</div>
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Back at the stream at the bottom</div>
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I would have gone farther and faster if it hadn't been for this...</div>
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but really it was just nice to relax and breath in the mountain air. No rush to get to the top, no worries about getting home at any specific time.</div>
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Along the way I picked up some of branches and brought them home to display in my house. This one I stuck in a vase with some pine cones. </div>
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And this one I just laid across the table next to my couch. </div>
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I love the touch of nature in the house, and the reminder of my little hike (can you call it a hike if you're wearing flip flops?) that took me away from the world for an hour and helped me clear my head a little bit. I can't wait to go back in a couple of weeks (in better shoes!) and see how the canyon has transformed as the leaves continue to change colors. Fall is, without a doubt, my favorite time of year!</div>
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I put out some fall stuff a few weeks ago and I'm finally getting around to posting some pictures. I love this time of year, and after the brutal summer we had this fall is especially welcome. I love adding orange to my living room and kitchen. Opening my box of fall decorations is always so fun, and when you add in pumpkin, cinnamon, and a Leaves candle from Bath & Body Works...I'm in heaven.</div>
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For the last 2 years, my fall mantel has looked like this</div>
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I loved it and wanted to keep some of it the same, but I did want to change it up a little bit so this year I made a couple of small changes. Nothing is new, just moved around which is always fun. I'm very traditional when it comes to holiday decorating, and for me part of that is using the same stuff from year to year. I love to add in a few new things each year or use the old stuff in a different way, but for the most part I like to find things I love and stick with them. There's something so comforting and familiar about pulling them out of the box and surrounding myself with things I love.</div>
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My <a href="http://cobblestonesandivy.blogspot.com/2011/10/leaf-wreath.html">leaf wreath</a>, <a href="http://cobblestonesandivy.blogspot.com/2011/10/fall.html">fall letters</a>, and <a href="http://cobblestonesandivy.blogspot.com/2011/10/fall-mantle.html">leaf garland</a> all made it back this year, and I still love them all.</div>
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Instead of the candles on the left, I filled a lantern with some little pumpkins and gourds</div>
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And on the right I used this ceramic pumpkin instead of the "give thanks" sign.</div>
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I love how festive it is!</div>
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Besides my mantel, I put out a few other fall things around the living room and kitchen, including my <a href="http://cobblestonesandivy.blogspot.com/2012/09/fall-yarn-wreath.html">fall yarn wreath</a></div>
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This is on a table next to the couch. That platter will come down when I have some fall treats to put on it, but for now I'm loving it here.</div>
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Some cute pumpkin towels in the kitchen</div>
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And one of my favorite fall things are these leaf goblets. I bought 6 of them at the dollar store a couple of years ago and I love them. I was so excited to take them out of the cupboard where I keep my holiday dishes. They're just more fun to drink from than a regular glass.</div>
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I've talked about my travels a little bit on this blog, but always kind of in passing as I mention that I got a bowl in Italy or a shirt I'm wearing in Dublin. I have some travel room updates coming soon (and I'll explain why I call it that), but I wanted to do something a little bit different and put together a round-up of some of my favorite pictures from my world wandering. Some are just pretty to look at and some have a story behind them, but they all represent the incredible experiences I've had and lots of amazing memories.<br />
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I have another blog where I post all the details of each trip and I just love going back through those posts and remembering all the things I've done and the amazing places I've seen. As I was putting this post together, it really hit me how lucky I am to have been to all of these incredible places. This world really is an unbelievable place and I want to see it all! So fasten your seatbelt, put your seat back and tray table in their full upright positions, and enjoy this little trip around the world with me!<br />
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My first international trip was to Spain the summer after 8th grade. I went with a group of 15 girls, and we cared more about shopping than actually taking in the sights and culture of Spain. I would love to go back now that I'm older and can appreciate shopping <b>and </b>culture. Unfortunately, that trip was way before digital cameras so I don't have pictures to share here. My 2 semesters in Hawaii during college were also pre-digital, but that is where I really fell in love with other cultures and wanted to see the world and learn everything I could about how other people live. It's so fascinating to me. So we're starting here with my first trip with a digital camera.<br />
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<u><span style="font-size: large;">Italy</span></u></div>
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Vatican Museum ~ every inch of every surface was covered with paintings, mosaics, tapestries, and sculptures. Beautiful.</div>
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Grand Canal in Venice ~ I didn't know until I went to Venice that it's <i>all </i>canals. There are no streets, no cars, nothing with wheels basically. Just walkways and canals. Pretty impressive.<br />
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We were in the audience for a taping of the Late Show and it was such a fun thing to do!</div>
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View from the top of the Empire State Building<br />
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Big Ben ~ I heard they renamed it, but to me it will always be Big Ben<br />
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Westminster Abbey (hands down, best abbey I've ever seen)<br />
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Windsor Castle - the queen's second home. I loved this day. We took a train out of London a little bit to get here and I loved the little town of Windsor with its cobblestone streets lined with cafes, and this castle was unbelievable. It's so much bigger than what you see in the picture. Our tour took a few hours and we barely saw a little section of it. The life of a queen doesn't seem so bad.<br />
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The Eiffel Tower at night<br />
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Standing on top of the Arc de Triomphe with the Eiffel Tower in the background. We climbed a never-ending spiral staircase to get up there and my legs felt like mush by the time we finally made it, but the view from the top was pretty amazing.<br />
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Funny how a little bit of paint made these guys at Tulum seem a lot less naked</div>
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Parasailing in Mexico is pretty ghetto. It this picture I'm sitting on a rolled up towel hooked with rope to a tarp. It was fun though!</div>
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Our resort. We stayed in the white building on the left, and just past that you can see the ocean. Take-your-breath-away beautiful. I spent my 30th birthday here and it was the perfect way to turn the page on a new decade.<br />
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Karlstejn Castle ~ we had a hilarious guide and loved our tour of this castle, even though it's not heated and it could not have been more than 20° in there.<br />
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Still Karlstejn ~ that box on the side of the castle was the king's bathroom and it was just open on the bottom. If you're feeling sorry for the king who had to use an open bathroom in the winter, think about the poor soul whose job it was to go out and clean up the ground every day.<br />
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Great Wall of China ~ our guide told us anyone who climbs to the top is considered a "true Chinese hero," so you may refer to me as such :)</div>
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The Chinese people at the Great Wall acted like they had never seen a white person before and kept asking to take pictures with us. We felt like celebrities!</div>
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This was one of the most amazing things I've ever done. We road in this rickshaw pulled by a man on a bike through the hutong (an old part of Beijing where the streets are less than 9 steps across) and ended up at the house below. The woman who lives there cooked a homemade meal for us that was <i>delicious. </i>It was so amazing to talk to her and see how her family lives. An <i>incredible </i>experience.</div>
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Yu Garden in Shanghai ~ right in the middle of the bustling city of Shanghai, this garden is quiet, peaceful, and so beautiful.</div>
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This trip to Ireland started with a day in New York with my friend and travel buddy Rikki. Sadly, she was not able to go to Ireland with me because she was pregnant and had some complications, but her doctor said a day in New York would be okay. We had seen Wicked before in London and were so excited to see it again!</div>
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This friendly Irish wolf hound guarded the door to the first castle we stayed in. So perfect.</div>
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Our Nissan Micra with everything on the other side. That took some getting used to and I was nervous at first, but it ended up being kind of fun once I got the hang of it.</div>
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The second castle we stayed in was haunted. Don't believe me? Look at the picture of our bathroom wall below.</div>
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It was seriously a creepy place.</div>
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Waimea Falls ~ this picture has been on my desktop since we got back. That's how much I love it.</div>
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Something beautiful to see everywhere you look</div>
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This is a picture of a picture so it's not the best, but my brothers and I took a ride in that helicopter over the island. I maintain that it was amazing and totally worth it...even though I got to taste my lunch a second time during the ride. Motion and I are not friends.<br />
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La Fortuna Waterfall ~ we hiked down (and then back up) millions of steps to get here and swam in the pool. Cold, but so fun.</div>
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Click on this one to enlarge it. We were <i>so close </i>to this tree full of howler monkeys. So amazing.</div>
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Tabacon ~ an all natural hot springs, and as you can see, absolutely beautiful.</div>
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Lake Arenal ~ we did 2 different sets of zip lines and this was the view from one of the platforms.<br />
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As you can imagine, I have tons more pictures from all of these places, each with a memory attached. This has been such a fun post for me to write, and I hope you enjoyed a look at a few of my favorites! I'll end with my favorite quote (that you've seen <a href="http://cobblestonesandivy.blogspot.com/2012/02/travel-mantel.html">here</a>):<br />
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"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page"<br />
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Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11012943664478860097noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6820341314669226937.post-38862582860489665702013-07-08T16:19:00.001-06:002013-07-15T11:35:56.472-06:00framed scrapbook paper<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
If you've been here in the last few weeks, you know I have recently fallen in love. With a color. </div>
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It's Sherwin Williams Grays Harbor, and I want it to take over my house. </div>
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In my ongoing quest to surround myself with Grays Harbor, I did a simple little project to add a little bit of it to my living room. </div>
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I painted a frame I had laying around and put some scrapbook paper inside. I just happened to already have this paper, and it's so perfect in the frame. It's like it was meant to be.</div>
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I'm loving lime green with the navy/grey color that is my new love, and I'm loving this cute and simple addition to my living room decor.</div>
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This isn't the first time I've framed scrapbook paper. These frames in my bedroom are also filled with paper. Such an easy and inexpensive way to add color to your home!</div>
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This will be the last bathroom post for the foreseeable future. There are still things I would like to do in both bathrooms, but they're as done as they're going to get for awhile. </div>
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When I started this bathroom rehab project, my master bathroom looked like <a href="http://cobblestonesandivy.blogspot.com/2013/01/bathroom-rehab-before-pics.html">this</a>.</div>
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Not much going on, and those shower doors were hiding a lot of secrets.</div>
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The red towels and rug had always been there, but when I took out the shower doors and added the shower curtain it was just a lot of red. I knew some of it needed to go. </div>
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First I bought some grey towels and a grey rug, but when I got them home I didn't like how the color looked in the bathroom. So they went back and I bought these brown ones. I like the color much better.</div>
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Especially how they look below the painted silk picture I got in China a couple of years ago.</div>
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I thought for awhile about using the brown towels but keeping the red rug, but in the end I think I like it better with the brown rug. It makes everything more neutral with the shower curtain being the main feature of the bathroom. In such a tiny space I think it needs to be mostly neutral.</div>
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I forgot to take a before picture of the vanity, but you can see part of it here (and it looked exactly like the <a href="http://cobblestonesandivy.blogspot.com/2013/01/bathroom-rehab-painted-guest-vanity.html">guest bathroom vanity</a> before it got painted)</div>
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I was originally planning to paint it bright white like the other one, but when I went to paint it I was out of white paint. So I ended up using the same off-white color I used on my <a href="http://cobblestonesandivy.blogspot.com/2013/06/kitchen-update.html">kitchen cabinets</a> and <a href="http://cobblestonesandivy.blogspot.com/2011/10/dresser-turned-tv-console.html">TV console</a>. It's just white with a little bit of the wall color from the living room and kitchen mixed in. The wall color in my master bedroom and bathroom is also a mixture of that same wall color and white, it just has more of the brown mixed in so it's obviously beige while the cabinet color is a subtle off-white. Because it's all just different shades of the same color, I knew it would work and I love it. I love how it brightens up this tiny bathroom.</div>
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I've kind of struggled with the colors in this bathroom because I have felt for a long time like I needed to add more grey to my house. For a long time every house you saw on every blog was grey, and part of me felt like I needed to follow along. If you look at my <a href="http://cobblestonesandivy.blogspot.com/2013/06/home-tour.html">home tour</a> though, you won't see a speck of grey anywhere. As much as I like the color (especially clothes, I have lots of grey clothes) it's just not the color that speaks to me when it comes to decorating my house. Then everyone started painting their walls white. For me, I need color on the walls. I think it's important to recognize your own style and the colors that make your house feel like home, even if no one else is using them. I still love beige, so I'm still going to use it. </div>
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And here's one little update in the guest bathroom</div>
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My mom gave me this shelf that she wasn't using anymore and I painted it and hung it in my bathroom</div>
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It's a light aqua color that goes perfectly with the shower curtain and towels, and I sprayed the metal part with my favorite Krylon Caramel Latte.</div>
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I haven't gotten it completely decorated yet, but for now it's holding my little <a href="http://cobblestonesandivy.blogspot.com/2013/07/thrifty-finds.html">thrifty find</a> jar filled with Q-tips.</div>
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It might be hard to tell with the horrible lighting in my house, but the colors go really well together. The whole bathroom is light and bright, but calming at the same time.</div>
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So that's it for bathroom updates for awhile. It has been a lot of work to get these bathrooms looking the way they do, so even though they aren't completely where I would like them to be yet, I'm happy with the progress I've made.</div>
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I recently discovered a thrift store in my area that has been around for awhile but just moved about a minute from my house about 6 weeks ago. I went in the other day to check it out and came home with some pretty good stuff. I was looking for neutral decorative items for my mantel, the top of my kitchen cabinets, and shelves...and this is what I ended up buying~</div>
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This is probably my favorite of the things I bought. I love milk glass and I think this urn is so perfect for the top of my kitchen cabinets. I just need to find a plant to put in it and it will be going up there. It was the only thing I bought that had a price on it so I'm not sure how much I paid for the other 3 items, but since I paid $30 total I would say it was a pretty good deal!</div>
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...but right now it's a simple center piece on my kitchen table on top of the mango wood place mat I bought in Costa Rica and filled with some bright, summery flowers.</div>
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I have a recipe for cinnamon syrup that has to be what they eat in heaven, and I thought this little pitcher would be a cute way to serve it.</div>
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And this little jar had a purpose from the moment I saw it.</div>
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It's full of Q-tips on a shelf I just finished painting in my guest bathroom. I'm not sure what else will go on that shelf yet so right now it's a little bare, but I think this little jar is the perfect start.</div>
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I'm so excited to have found this thrift store!</div>
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Before I start this post, I have to apologize for the picture quality you're about to see. Between the lack of natural light in my condo and trying to take pictures of a light with my simple camera and limited photography skills, it's not great. I know, and I'm sorry...</div>
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My bedroom has no ceiling light and one of the outlets in the room is supposed to work with the light switch, but none of them do. So I have to switch lamps on by hand at night, and most of the time I end up using other nearby lights because it's just easier. Not ideal, but I've never bothered to have an electrician figure out which outlet should be connected to the light switch and fix it. Maybe one of these days...</div>
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Anyway, I've had this floor lamp in my bedroom for years. When I bought it I thought I was going to use a lot of this brushed silver look, but at some point I changed my mind and I have nothing else like it anywhere in my house. The color and style of the lamp really stuck out in my bedroom and I knew I needed to change it.</div>
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Here it is outside before I started the makeover.</div>
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I took off the plastic shade and taped off all the electrical stuff, then I spray painted it with oil rubbed bronze. </div>
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Changing the silver made a big difference, and I also wanted to do something with the shade since the old one didn't go with the style of my room. I bought this drum shade with the intention of covering it with fabric, but once I got started on that I wasn't loving it and I actually really like the color and texture of the original shade, so I decided to just leave it as is.</div>
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The best and easiest part of this makeover was "installing" the new shade. I literally just plopped in down right over the top of the old one.</div>
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Here it is back in my bedroom. I know it's hard to see, but hopefully you can get an idea of how much better it goes with the rest of the room.</div>
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Here it is in better light</div>
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I would still love to add something to bulk up that long pole, but for a quick and inexpensive makeover I think it's good for now.</div>
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This is another one of those things that I lived with for years even though I didn't love it (like the <a href="http://cobblestonesandivy.blogspot.com/2013/06/painted-knife-block.html">knife block</a> I painted last week), and now that I spent 5 minutes fixing it up a little bit I wonder why I didn't do it earlier. It isn't perfect, but it's so much better than it was before!</div>
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Last week I showed you <a href="http://cobblestonesandivy.blogspot.com/2013/06/roadside-rescue-refinished-desk.html">this desk</a> that I found on the side of the road and refinished.</div>
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I am so in love with that paint color (Sherwin Williams Grays Harbor) and have been thinking about other places to use it in my house. I want to paint everything with it. No paintable surface is safe.</div>
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My first victim was the knife block in my kitchen that you can see next to the fridge in this picture.</div>
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The same honey color as every knife block in every kitchen.</div>
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And here it is painted! </div>
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It was bugging me that you can still see the original wood color in the knife slots, but once the knives are in there you can't even tell (missing a few that are in the dishwasher).</div>
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It looks brighter in this picture than it really is, but I love that I'm adding a little bit more blue to my kitchen. I bought that bowl on the right side of this picture a few years ago in Italy, and until now it has been the only blue thing in my kitchen.</div>
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It's funny how you live with something you don't like even though changing it is so simple. I never liked the color of the knife block but didn't think to paint it until recently, and once I decided what color to use it only took a few minutes to transform it. I don't know how much you can<i> love </i>a knife block, but I do love the added color in my kitchen!</div>
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Some things have changed recently in my kitchen, so I thought I would do an update and show you the progress over the last 6 years that I have lived in my condo. </div>
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When I bought it 6 years ago the kitchen looked like this</div>
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Before I moved in, I made the first set of changes and this is how it looked for about 4 years.</div>
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New paint color, darker cabinets, and tile on the floor</div>
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Then about 2 years ago I needed a change and did this</div>
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Painting the cabinets and adding handles made such a big difference! My kitchen feels so much brighter now, and 2 years later I still love it.</div>
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But...the lighter cabinets made these awful appliances look even worse.</div>
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The off-white color on the cabinets made them stand out and I was reminded every day that they were 20 years old and so ugly.</div>
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Only 3 of the burners on the stove worked, and I can't tell you how much I hate coil burners. Cleaning under them was one of my least favorite chores.</div>
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This microwave was a beast. For how huge the whole unit was, the inside was barely big enough to fit a dinner plate and it didn't have a turn table. It was so heavy that it took 2 people to carry it outside when I finally replaced it.</div>
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This year I used my tax refund to pay for a trip to Costa Rica and still had enough left over to buy new appliances. Definitely my favorite tax refund yet. It has been a few months since the kitchen looked like this, and looking at these older pictures I can say with total confidence that I do not miss those appliances one bit.</div>
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<b>So much better!</b></div>
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I love my glass top stove and do not miss the coil burners one bit</div>
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And this microwave is such a huge improvement, both in looks and function. I love it!</div>
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Now for the keeping it real portion of this post ~ that 2 inch strip below the microwave was there for about 3 months. The old microwave used to cover it, and since I got the new one I had been meaning to paint it but just hadn't gotten around to it. Taking these pictures was just the motivation I needed though, because after I took them I finally got the paint out and just did it! No new picture, but it's finally done. And it took a whole 5 minutes :) </div>
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One last before and after, because they're fun :)</div>
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I live in a small 1000 square foot condo that I bought 6 years ago, and today I'm going to take you on a tour! It's just a living room, kitchen, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and a laundry/utility room, so it won't take long.</div>
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This is what you see when you walk in the front door </div>
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Before I moved in, I had all the carpet replaced, put tile in the kitchen, painted the living room and kitchen, and refinished the kitchen cabinets. There are a few before shots below.</div>
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To the right is the living room, and through the glass door you can see my only outdoor space ~ a tiny balcony. There's no furniture or anything out there, because it's the only place I have to paint so I need the space.</div>
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The living room from another angle. I got that dresser for $20 online, sanded it down, and painted it the same off-white color as the kitchen cabinets. That's the front door you see there on the right.</div>
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This is what the living room looked like when I bought it ~ dirty old carpet, yellow walls, and awful vertical blinds.</div>
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To the left of the front door is the kitchen</div>
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Six years later I still LOVE this tile. There used to be carpet under the table (why?), so this is a huge improvement!</div>
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New tile, paint, and stained cabinets</div>
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After about 4 years with the dark cabinets I was ready for a change and painted them this off-white color (white with a little bit of the wall color mixed in). The kitchen feels so much brighter now!</div>
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I recently replaced the 20 year old appliances with these and I can't believe how long I lived with the old ones! So much better.</div>
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As you go down the hall, the first door on the right is my travel/craft room. Right now it looks like this ~</div>
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The first door on the left in the hallway is the laundry/utility room which I don't have any pictures of. It's awful and there's really nothing I can do about it, so I just keep the door closed unless I'm in there doing laundry.</div>
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The next door on the left is the guest bathroom</div>
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I recently did a lot of work in this bathroom, and it's not done yet! (Check out the horrifying before pictures <a href="http://cobblestonesandivy.blogspot.com/2013/01/bathroom-rehab-before-pics.html">here</a>)</div>
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And finally we have the master bedroom and bathroom</div>
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The door on the left goes out to the hallway, and on the right there are closets on either side as you walk into the master bathroom.</div>
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This bathroom has also had some recent changes, and there are more coming soon.</div>
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And that's it! It's a small space, but I love it. I have put a lot of work into making it mine, and even though there is always more to do, <i>it's home</i>.</div>
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It's been awhile since I posted an update about my bathroom, and that's because things pretty much came to a screeching halt (in there) when I went back to work after my Christmas break. But, I have done a little bit more than the last post I did about the bathroom, so here are a few pictures of where things are now.</div>
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I installed a new towel bar because the old one was very cheap plastic, and it wasn't hung straight which drove me crazy.</div>
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I bought some new towels that are so perfect. I love the light aqua color and it matches the shower curtain so well, and the swirly stuff ties in the beige of the floor and the new rug.</div>
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There wasn't anything here to hold a hand towel, so that ring is new too.</div>
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I love that paisley shower curtain and how all the colors work together.</div>
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The old toilet paper holder was also cheap plastic, so I installed a new one of those too.</div>
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Now, down to the uglier side of things. There are still things I want or need to do in there, including the most obvious ~ a new light fixture. I took the fan cover down to clean it, and you can see how far I got with that. (Sorry about the dark picture. It's hard to take a picture of a light.)</div>
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Then there's this. Looking at the pretty shower curtain you would never know that this mess is behind it. I haven't gotten around to cleaning the grout or re-calking yet, so I just close the curtain and pretend it's not there. One of these days...</div>
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I would also like to replace the floor, counter, and sink someday, but for now I'm just happy to have another functioning toilet. My goal in this bathroom was to make it cleaner, lighter, and brighter...and I think I have accomplished that so far.</div>
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Sometimes when you're looking for a new desk you go to the store and buy one. Sometimes you look on Craigslist and find a good deal. And sometimes you're driving to your grandma's house for a Memorial Day BBQ and you see a desk on someone's driveway with a sign saying it's<b> free</b>.</div>
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That's what happened here, and I really can't believe how lucky I got with this desk. It has some scratches, but it's really heavy solid wood and nothing is broken or falling apart anywhere on the desk. It's in really good condition, and I was going to sand it down and paint it anyway, so the scratches didn't matter.</div>
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The drawers all open on rollers so it's really smooth and easy, and they open all the way. Don't you hate it when drawers don't open all the way and you can't see what's in the back? My silverware drawer in the kitchen does that and it drives me crazy.</div>
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I even like the handles, which doesn't usually happen.</div>
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Some scratches, but nothing a little sanding can't handle.</div>
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And here it is all finished!</div>
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That paint color is Sherwin Williams Grays Harbor and I love it. It's the perfect mix of navy and grey. I spray painted the handles with Krylon Caramel Latte, and I am totally in love with the combination of the paint color and the handles.</div>
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No more scratches</div>
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Now let's back up a little and get a good look at this disaster of a room. There used to be a wobbly table in there that had my sewing machine and craft stuff on it, so a lot of what you're seeing here is that stuff moved to the floor while I switched the table for the new desk. But this room has some major problems overall, starting with the paint color on the walls. I have never liked it but haven't taken the time to get rid of it. Now that I'm seeing how awful the desk looks against the wall, it will be getting painted ASAP. Pictures of that and the rest of the {clean and reorganized} room coming soon!</div>
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Remember how this desk was free? I had everything I needed to refinish it except the Grays Harbor paint, and I bought a $5 sample first to make sure it was the right color. It was, and painting the desk only used up about half of the sample. Amazing $5 desk? I'll take it!</div>
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<a href="http://cobblestonesandivy.blogspot.com/2013/01/bathroom-rehab-before-pics.html">The last time I posted about my guest bathroom</a> it still had quite a bit of work that needed to be done, but I'm happy to report that I've made some good progress. It's not all done, but close. I painted over the circus tent stripes, I filled in the nail holes on the baseboards and painted them, and I refinished the vanity! Changing the vanity really made a big difference in the bathroom.</div>
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Here's what it used to look like</div>
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And here it is now!</div>
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I sanded, primed, painted it a bright glossy white, and added these knobs.</div>
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While I was waiting for paint to dry, I started on the bathtub cleanup by pulling off that nasty strip of plastic someone had stuck along the edge of the tub. I'm baffled by it. You would think the purpose would be to keep water out of the gap between the tub and the tile, but then they also put caulk along the bottom edge. I have no idea. And it obviously did not seal the edge because you can see that there's mold under it.</div>
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All I know is NASTY. That mold is what was peaking out from under the strip. It was easy to pull off, but now I see a lot of scraping and bleach in my near future. I'm hoping with the mold gone and some new caulk it will look clean again.</div>
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But for now, the vanity is looking good and it gives the bathroom such a clean and bright feeling. I'll leave you with this pretty picture so you can get the moldy one out of your mind.</div>
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Continuing on with the progress in my bathrooms, today I'm going to show you how things are looking in the guest bathroom. You can see the before pictures <a href="http://cobblestonesandivy.blogspot.com/2013/01/bathroom-rehab-before-pics.html">here</a> and the changes I made to the master shower <a href="http://cobblestonesandivy.blogspot.com/2013/01/bathroom-rehab-master-shower.html">here</a>. </div>
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There were angels singing in the heavens when these first 2 pictures were taken. Split pea soup was not meant to be a wall color, and they know it. It was so exciting to get rid of it! This is just the first coat of primer, but primed walls are a gigantic improvement over the mess they were before. It took quite a bit of primer to cover it, but once that was done it only took one coat of paint, so it was worth taking the time to make sure the green was completely covered before painting.</div>
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I missed a step in my picture taking, but at this point the ceiling has been painted white to cover all the green that never should have been there, the walls have been painted Gray Beige,</div>
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and I've measured, leveled, and taped some stripes.</div>
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And here's where things went wrong. I bought the Gray Beige in flat and glossy thinking it would make stripes that would be subtle enough to not overpower the small bathroom. The problem is the glossy paint dries very yellow in comparison to the flat which definitely has more grey tones to it. </div>
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I hate it. It's not <i>at all </i>the look I was going for and I just see a circus tent when I look at it, so now I have to paint over the stripes with the flat paint again. I normally wouldn't use flat paint since it's not very cleanable, but it is what it is.</div>
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These are the new baseboards I picked out. They are about an inch taller than the old ones were and I love them. Getting a taller size was for functional reasons because there was a lot of patching that needed to be done where the wall was moldy and crumbled when the old baseboard was removed, but I would love to have tall baseboards all over the house and was happy to have a reason to need them here.</div>
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So, that's where things are right now. Honestly, after all the hours of scraping, priming, painting, changing water valves, baseboard installation, and toilet replacing...I'm losing my steam. But last night I had some time to kill and went to Home Goods. I bought some fun stuff to decorate this bathroom and I'm hoping it's the motivation I need to power through and get the rest done.</div>
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Here's what I still need to do in this bathroom:</div>
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paint over the stripes</div>
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fill in the nail holes and along the tops of the baseboards and paint them</div>
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clean the bathtub/shower, use Grout Refresh to brighten up the grout, and re-caulk</div>
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sand and refinish the vanity</div>
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It's still a lot, but I think I can have it done by the end of this month. That's the goal anyway!</div>
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Last week I showed you the before pictures of my 2 bathrooms (you can see that post <a href="http://cobblestonesandivy.blogspot.com/2013/01/bathroom-rehab-before-pics.html">here</a>), and now that you have had a few days to recover from them I want to show you what I did to clean and update the master shower. I have to warn you that picture quality in this post is not going to be good. My bathrooms get no natural light and when you're taking a picture of white tile with white grout it's kind of hard to see. My apologies in advance.</div>
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The first thing I did was scrape out all the old caulk. It wasn't a fun job and was pretty gross, but I knew it would make a big difference and be totally worth it. Next, I took out the shower doors and removed the track. I wasn't sure if I was going to clean them and put them back up, or if I would leave them off completely. That question was answered when I saw this:</div>
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I had started scraping away the mold on the right side but you can see that there was a solid line of it under the door track. As soon as I saw that I knew there was no way they were going back on. It took lots of scrubbing and lots of bleach to get rid of it, but it's so nice to know my bathroom is now mold free.</div>
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The next thing I did was brighten up the grout using this stuff</div>
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It goes on with a toothbrush, and after a few minutes you go back and wipe off any that got on the tile. The application part goes very quickly and you can cover a pretty big section in just a few minutes. The wiping part takes quite a big longer though (I would call it scrubbing, not wiping), and I ended up spending about 12 hours on the grout in this shower. It wasn't fun and I was so relieved to be done, but the end result is amazing and definitely worth it.</div>
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On this tile the grout lines on the bottom and right side were done, and the lines on the top and left were not.</div>
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Once I was done with the grout, I applied new caulk on all the edges of the shower, and I was amazed at how clean and bright white everything looked. I'm so happy with how the grout looks, and I'm hoping it will last a long time.</div>
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I'm sure at some point I will buy new doors for the shower, but for now I'm using a shower curtain and I'm completely fine with it. It looks much better than the doors and gives me a chance to add some color to the bathroom. This is how it looks right now. The towel and rug have always been there, and the curtain I've had for years but it was hanging in the guest bathroom before. I just moved the curtain rod and everything into this bathroom. I still love this curtain, and it goes with the colors in my master bedroom. My plan is to buy new towels and a new rug so everything isn't all the same color. </div>
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I have 2 bathrooms in my house and both of them were in need of some updating/cleaning/overall rehab. I had been dreading it for a long time and finally decided my Christmas break from work was the perfect time to finally tackle them since it's the only time I will have 11 consecutive days at home. Today I'm going to show you the before pictures, and all I ask is that you remember 2 things: 1) the bathrooms do not look like this anymore, and 2) I am a clean person. Really. These pictures are kind of embarrassing and I can't believe I lived with them in this state for so long. So here we go...</div>
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This is the master bathroom. I realize there is nothing "master" about it, unless you count the fact that it's about 3 inches bigger than the guest bathroom. It's small and cramped with very little storage, but that wasn't my concern for this break. My concern was that shower. </div>
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It doesn't look so bad in those first 2 pictures, but let's look a little closer. This corner was missing caulk and was growing something completely uncleanable, but you can also see to the right of that corner that even in places where there was caulk, there was still mold under it. I don't know if whoever put it in didn't do a good job, or if it just wore away over time and started letting water under it. Either way, gross.</div>
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This is the track the door slides on with uncleanable mold and grossness on it and inside the shower (on the right side), and on the left someone put gobs of caulk that pretty much served no purpose. </div>
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I know it's hard to tell what this picture is, but at the bottom is the tile ledge the door track sits on, the track, and the bottom part of one of the doors. There is a grey strip that goes around the door and seals it so water doesn't get inside, but there was a gap about 4 or 5 inches long where there was no grey seal on this door and every morning when I took a shower it would fill up with water. I would get as much out as I could after my shower, but it was pretty much a breeding ground for nasty things that should not be living in the same space as humans. It makes me cringe just thinking about it.</div>
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Again, it doesn't look that bad until we look closer. I'm realizing I should have taken a better picture of it, but can you see that there are 2 boards around the top of the bathroom? One goes wall to wall in front of the shower curtain rod, and the other goes above the toilet and vanity making a box of sorts that holds the light.</div>
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You can kind of see the light more here</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Moving on to the most hideous shade of green there ever was. It closely resembles the color of split pea soup and I can't imagine why anyone would ever use it intentionally. The only thing I can think is that it was supposed to be a different shade of green and when it came out this horrid sickly color the previous owner didn't want to deal with getting a new can of paint so they just went with it.</span></div>
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But there is absolutely no explanation for the paint job. Seriously, anyone who has ever held a paint brush can manage to keep it off the ceiling. And anyone who is holding a paint brush for the first time can wipe the paint off the ceiling if a mistake happens, so I have no theories about how this mess came to be.</div>
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This is the board in front of the shower curtain rod, and it looks like at some point there was a wallpaper border on it, but rather than remove it someone just painted over it. Lovely.</div>
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In a stroke of DIY brilliance, someone put this strip of plastic around the bathtub in place of caulk. It manages to accomplish nothing but growing mold and looking atrocious. </div>
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Here we have the results of water damage, although not from a leak inside the wall. This is just from water being allowed to puddle outside the bathtub without being wiped up. Bleach will clean the floor, but the water soaked baseboard expanded and became the fat ugliness you see here.</div>
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And what in the world is going on with the white paint? It's like they got some white paint on the green wall, and rather than fixing the mistake they just painted a white strip along the top of the baseboard. Or maybe they were trying to make the baseboard look taller by painting above it, but if that was the intention I can't imagine why on earth they didn't use something to make a straight edge. This is clearly free handed, and anything but straight.</div>
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Here we have a toilet that is just a toilet, except for the fact that it made so much noise that it would wake me up in the night. This resulted in me turning it off, which resulted in any guests at my house being forced to walk through my bedroom and use the master bathroom. Not ideal.</div>
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And even if guests were allowed to use the guest bathroom, this is what they would have seen inside the toilet. Believe me, I have tried to clean it and nothing works. Nothing like making your guests think you're disgusting and germy.</div>
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You can relax now, we have come to the end of the repulsiveness. These last few pictures are just a few more shots of the bathroom. You will see nothing else that makes you think I'm disgusting and germy.</div>
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The counter and sink ~ not pretty, but not awful</div>
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And this has a good sanding and painting in its near future</div>
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So there you have it ~ 2 of the worst bathrooms known to man. I actually forgot how bad they were until I went back and looked through these pictures as I was posting them. It really looks so much better now, and I can't wait to show you the transformation! I'm going to start with the master shower, so check back early next week for that!</div>
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I had more Christmas crafts and projects I wanted to do this year, but once I got my tree up and my mantel decorated, I kind of felt done. Last year I went all out and used every Christmas decoration I have, and it felt like too much. My house felt cluttered and it drove me crazy all of December. So much, in fact, that I couldn't wait to take everything down after Christmas. That's unusual for me, because usually I wait until New Year's and even then I'm sad to pack it all away for another year.</div>
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So this year, I decided to simplify. I love my tree and mantel, and I only have a few other Christmas things here and there. It feels like the perfect amount. That means some of the things I wanted to do or mentioned here and said I would post later aren't going to happen, and I'm okay with that. Maybe next year.</div>
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You can see my <a href="http://cobblestonesandivy.blogspot.com/2012/11/christmas-mantel.html">mantel</a> and <a href="http://cobblestonesandivy.blogspot.com/2012/11/christmas-tree.html">tree</a> here if you missed them.</div>
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Today I'm going back through some of my most visited posts, starting with my top 3 of all time:</div>
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#3 my <a href="http://cobblestonesandivy.blogspot.com/2012/04/no-sew-curtains-diy-curtain-rod.html">no-sew curtains and $5 diy curtain rod</a></div>
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#2 my <a href="http://cobblestonesandivy.blogspot.com/2011/11/ruffle-shirt.html">ruffle shirt</a></div>
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And #1 my <a href="http://cobblestonesandivy.blogspot.com/2011/12/1-sweater-3-crafts-part-3.html">glass block snowman</a> {you guys really love this one!}</div>
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From that list, the only one that I posted in 2012 was the curtains and curtain rod, so I'm also going to list the top 3 from 2012 {besides the curtains}:</div>
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#3 my <a href="http://cobblestonesandivy.blogspot.com/2012/01/valentines-day-mantel.html">Valentine's Day mantel</a></div>
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#2 my <a href="http://cobblestonesandivy.blogspot.com/2012/01/chevron-pattern-crocheted-blanket.html">chevron pattern crocheted blanket</a></div>
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And #1 my <a href="http://cobblestonesandivy.blogspot.com/2012/01/3-tiered-serving-tray.html">3 tiered serving tray</a></div>
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I hope you all have a wonderful holiday! I will be spending my 11 days off work {YAY!} doing some much needed work in my bathrooms. Check back next year for pictures of that {you won't believe the before pictures!}, and another year of fun crafts, recipes, and diy projects!</div>
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For this year's Christmas mantel I used the trees I made that I showed you <a href="http://cobblestonesandivy.blogspot.com/2012/11/forest-of-handmade-trees-part-1.html">here</a> and <a href="http://cobblestonesandivy.blogspot.com/2012/11/forest-of-handmade-trees-part-2.html">here</a>. It took a lot of rearranging to finally get the end result, but I LOVE how it turned out!</div>
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This sparkly reindeer is new this year and I think it might be my favorite part of the mantel.</div>
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I already had the garland and the pine cone and berry picks I added in to fill it out a little more, and since I made all the trees, the whole thing came together pretty inexpensively. I love using things I already have in a different way than how I've used them before.</div>
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Do you do one crazy deck-the-halls day, or take your time and do things slowly like I am? I've done both, and even though the mess of doing it slowly is driving me a little bit crazy, I kind of like it this way. In past years I have just used all the same stuff with a few additions each year so I pretty much just put everything where I had put it before, but this year I'm changing things up quite a bit so it's taking more time to figure out where I want it all. I'm having so much fun with it!</div>
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Earlier this week I showed you how I decorated my <a href="http://cobblestonesandivy.blogspot.com/2012/11/christmas-tree.html">rustic Christmas tree</a> this year. I made a lot of the ornaments and I love how everything came together. After seeing all the things made out of toilet paper rolls on Pinterest, I knew I wanted to try some ornaments. The cardboard is perfect for my rustic theme this year, and they cost very little to make! Today I'm going to show you how I made these ~</div>
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I started saving rolls awhile ago not knowing exactly how many I would need {or even exactly what I was going to do}, and with about 10 or 12 rolls I ended up with 9 ornaments. The first thing I did was spray the outsides with Krylon Caramel Latte to cover up the marks from where the paper is glued to the roll. It's the perfect shimmery caramel color and it's my new favorite spray paint color. Then I cut each roll into rings that are about 1 inch wide. The roll got bent and creased as I cut it, and that was perfect for what I had in mind.</div>
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Then I started to assemble my ornaments. Originally I was just going to make the snowflake ones below, but as I was arranging the rings I noticed that some had randomly fallen into place like this ~</div>
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I loved it and decided it looked like a bunch of hanging pine cones. For those I just hot glued the rings together in each spot where they meet, and I glued some brown ribbon between the top 2 rings to form a loop to hang the ornament.</div>
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To finish them off, I bought some berry picks from Hobby Lobby and glued them on. I'm so happy with how they turned out!</div>
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For the snowflake ones, it was pretty much the same process of gluing the rings together where they meet and adding ribbon to hang them.</div>
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Here I was trying to capture the difference between the regular cardboard on the inside of the rings and the caramel latte on the outside. It's hard to see in pictures, but I love the combination.</div>
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For the front I just gathered pieces of lace in the middle to form circles and glued them on with rhinestones in the middle.</div>
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I love how the lace softens the look of these ones and the sparkle of the rhinestones on the tree.</div>
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When I started making these ornaments I wasn't sure how they would look or if I would like them, but I'm so happy with how they turned out!</div>
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They are so perfect on my rustic tree!</div>
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I haven't quite finished putting up all my Christmas decorations yet, but today I'm going to show you my tree! I bought a new pre-lit artificial tree this year and I am loving it. My old one was not pre-lit and it was short and fat compared to my new one. It's funny how even artificial tree styles change. When my mom bought my old tree years ago {and then gave it to me when she switched to pre-lit} all the trees looked like it. Now they are all taller and skinnier. I always felt like the old one took up half of my living room, so this one is better in every way!</div>
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I made a bunch of new ornaments this year too. My tree is completely different than last year and I really love how it turned out. I'll show you more about these later, but I made them out of toilet paper rolls. They're supposed to look like a bunch of pine cones hanging with leaves and berries.</div>
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These snowflakes are also from toilet paper rolls</div>
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Here is one of my lantern ornaments that I showed you <a href="http://cobblestonesandivy.blogspot.com/2012/11/canning-jar-lantern-ornaments.html">here</a></div>
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And of course I still had to use the ornaments I have bought in my travels. This one is new this year.</div>
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This is one of twelve and they're not new this year, but I love how they look with the rest of my tree this year. They're from Prague.</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">This close-up shot shows you all the things I love about my tree this year ~ burlap, twine, lace, pine cones, a little bit of red, and snowflakes.</span></div>
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I usually change out my purple curtains for red ones in December, but my HOA doesn't like it because they aren't white on the back {lame}. I haven't decided if I'm going to buy white fabric and line them, or just hang them how they are and let the HOA be mad for a month. The purple has to go though.</div>
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This past weekend I went to St George for a mini-vacation with my friend Rikki. We shopped, ate good food, saw Taken 2, had lunch with my grandma who lives there in the winter, and had Christmas Cooking Day. It's something we used to do in high school but have only done a few times since then because we don't live close to each other. We would spend the day making all the Christmas treats we wanted to try, then that night we would have our friends come over and eat them. It was a great way to try lots of things but not eat them all ourselves.</div>
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This is Rikki's kitchen in the middle of the disaster. We had several recipes going at a time and cleaning up seemed pointless. All part of the fun, right?</div>
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And here are the finished treats!</div>
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Rikki's daughters wanted to be in a picture</div>
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If it was closer to Christmas we would have taken plates of our treats to friends and neighbors, but we thought that would seem weird since it's not even Thanksgiving yet so this was just a practice run. Not giving away those brownie cookies is a good/bad thing. They are going to make me a bigger person. </div>
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We had so much fun this weekend and now I can't wait for Thanksgiving!</div>
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A few days ago I showed you these three trees that I made. You can see that post <a href="http://cobblestonesandivy.blogspot.com/2012/11/forest-of-handmade-trees-part-1.html">here</a> if you missed it.</div>
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Today I'm going to show you three more!</div>
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First, the ruffled fabric tree ~ I love this one. I've had this fabric for years {I made a quilt and <i>way</i> overestimated how much fabric I would need} so it was fun to dig it out and find another use for it. All I did was cut some strips and then folded them over to make ruffles as I wrapped them around the cone. I didn't measure how wide the strips are, but I would say about an inch. I left the raw edges because I think as it starts to fray it will add even more character. I just used pins to attach the fabric to the styrofoam.</div>
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I think it turned out so cute!</div>
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Next, the furry tree ~ I have mixed feelings about this one. It's made out of scraps from a blanket I cut up and I think it's cute, but I'm not sure if I <i>love </i>it. What do you think?</div>
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I added some beads for a little bling and I think that made a big difference. On its own it might not be the cutest one, but I do think it fits very well with the rest when they're all together.</div>
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This is where the scraps came from. I bought this blanket because it was the softest thing I have ever touched and it was on sale, but it really wasn't that warm when I got it home. So I cut it up and made pajama pants out of it! These are the most comfortable thing I have ever worn and I'm so in love with them. Definitely better than the blanket.</div>
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And finally, the lace tree ~ I love this one too, and it took about 3 minutes to make. I just wrapped strips of lace around the cone and secured them on the back side with pins.</div>
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This picture is kind of blurry so it's hard to see the detail of the lace, but it's really pretty and I love the feminine touch it adds to my forest of rustic trees.</div>
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And here are all six of my trees together! This picture makes me so happy and I can't wait to see them all on my finished mantel! </div>
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I've been working on some fun trees to add to my Christmas decor this year, and today I'm going to show you the first three I made. All of these are fast and easy, and they use supplies you probably already have in your craft stash!</div>
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First, the yarn tree. This one took all of 5 minutes to do. I had this chunky off-white yard left over from a previous crochet project and was happy to have another use for it. All I did was hot glue the end of the yarn to the tip of the tree and start winding. When I got to the bottom I put glue all around the bottom edge of the cone so the yarn wouldn't fall off. </div>
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If you don't like the slouchy look it has you could use dots of glue here and there as you wind, but I kind of like it this way. I didn't mean for it to turn out slouchy, but I think it was a happy mistake :)
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I used a hollow cardboard cone for this one and I thought if you wanted it to have a trunk you could use a candlestick turned upside down.</div>
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Very cute, and it would add some height if you need it.</div>
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Second, the fabric tree. For this one I cut two circles out of fabric and pinned them to the top and bottom of the cone (I used a styrofoam cone this time so it has a flat top and bottom that I wanted to cover). I used some leftover fabric from my <a href="http://cobblestonesandivy.blogspot.com/2012/11/christmas-card-pinboard.html">Christmas card pinboard</a>. Next I cut 2 inch strips of the same fabric, folded them in half, and started wrapping from the top down. I just used pins at the beginning and end of each strip to attach it to the cone. I didn't really keep track of how long this one took, but I would say probably about 15 minutes.</div>
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And third, the twine tree. This one is similar to the yarn tree except I used a styrofoam cone so I needed to cover the flat top. I just started wrapping the twine in a spiral to make a flat little disk that I glued to the top of the cone. Then I just kept wrapping all the way down and used glue around the bottom of the cone to hold the twine in place. This one took about 10 minutes to make.</div>
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In about half an hour I had the beginning of my own little forest that I can't wait to see all put together with the rest of my rustic Christmas decor!</div>
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