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Jennifer Allwood
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A Gorgeous Black China Cabinet
My friend Samantha purchased this gorgeous stained hutch off of Craigslist.
*This post may contain affiliate links for products I used & loved in this furniture makeover.
(before)
But, she got it home and felt like it looked like a
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Is it possible to talk about running and bedazzling in the same post??
Some of my favorite girls and I recently ran the Kansas City Marathon on a relay team. We each ran a leg of the total 26.2 miles.
We were running on behalf of my church, The Rock of KC…
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Glaze that WHITE fireplace!!!!!
One of the simplest, yet most dramatic, changes we make to many family rooms is painting fireplaces……
We just worked on this fireplace last week. We changed it from boring white…
to a warm glazed beauty……
Ahhhhhhhhhh…..What a difference a …
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An Easy Way to Modernize Blocky, Bulky Furniture with Furniture Feet
This may have been the world’s ugliest end table. So ugly in fact, that these are the only “Before” shots that I can find of it.
My darling husband found it at a thrift store for me for $2.99. He …
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Adding architectural interest to your cabinets
Do you ever see things like this at Home Depot/Lowes and wonder what you could use them for?
Or things like these rectangle trim pieces?
Or these architectural pieces?
Or even these wooden medallions?
They are all usually found …
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You can have gaudy, gold pumpkins too!
Last year, I did this post on how I gold leafed some pumpkins for fall. They were so pretty, but they just took too much time.
So this year, I decided to take a short cut and bought a can …
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20 signs you might live to 100
Random blog post not having ANYTHING to do with paint, but I thought was so interesting.
20 signs you might live to 100:
- You eat purple food.
- You have been a college freshman.
- You have a drama-free marriage.
- You enjoy
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The WallHog trim is painted and glazed and Momma got a new pair of jeans!
(My WallHog before being trimmed)
(My WallHog after trim)
I painted it to match the boy’s bathroom vanity.
Can I tell you the mistakes I made so that you don’t do the same?
My darling husband and I had what …
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Have I lost my mind getting help from strangers?
Both my husband and my decorator friend said I needed to trim out the WallHog poster I put in my boy’s bathroom.
The idea was lovely, but I needed trim cut on clean 45 degree angles and don’t have the …
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