Dress: Torn Ronny Kobo
Jacket: Addison
Bag: Rebecca Minkoff
Shoes: Asos
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Bob. Ross.
Today I realized how awesome Bob Ross is.
Bob Ross ... painter ... PBS ... white man fro ... happy little trees ... you know.
Most of these quotes are referring to or during painting, but either way they apply to life.
Or they're just funny.
"We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents."
"There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend."
"You can do anything you want to do. This is your world."
"We want happy paintings. Happy paintings. If you want sad things, watch the news."
"We tell people sometimes: we're like drug dealers, come into town and get everybody absolutely addicted to painting. It doesn't take much to get you addicted."
"The secret to doing anything is believing that you can do it. Anything that you believe you can do strong enough, you can do. Anything. As long as you believe."
"That's a crooked tree. We'll send him to Washington."
"Oh, green water... oh that's pretty. Boy, I like that, just alive with algae."
"Clouds are very, very free."
"Any time ya learn, ya gain."
"We don't know where it goes. We don't really care."
Monday, February 18, 2013
Top Yourself
In my recent downtime I decided to try my first furniture makeover/redo project.
I used 2 dressers that were given to my boyfriend when he was born.
That means these dressers were 23 years old but in relatively good shape.
The project took 3-4 days and I got help from Ron with sanding and polishing.
These are what I started with.
I had already removed the drawers to carry them down the stairs, but they were in the same condition as the rest of the structure. As you can see, the tops were in awful condition. The outer wood was some kind of laminant, making it VERY hard to sand. Especially without a power sander.
Meanwhile, I had some Ron slave labor going on.
After easily removing the very, very, very tarnished drawer pulls with a screw driver, I soaked them in Brasso for a few hours. Then Ron & I scrubbed foreverrrr. This was probably the hardest part of the whole project. I forgot to take a before picture of the handles, but they came out very shiny.
I used 2 dressers that were given to my boyfriend when he was born.
That means these dressers were 23 years old but in relatively good shape.
The project took 3-4 days and I got help from Ron with sanding and polishing.
These are what I started with.
I had already removed the drawers to carry them down the stairs, but they were in the same condition as the rest of the structure. As you can see, the tops were in awful condition. The outer wood was some kind of laminant, making it VERY hard to sand. Especially without a power sander.
Like I said, the sanding didn't go too well.
So, I used a regular white paint and a roller and brush and gave each dresser and the drawers 3 coats so that they would have some sort of a base. This picture was done after 2 coats, you can see that it was still very blotchy and streaky.
Meanwhile, I had some Ron slave labor going on.
After easily removing the very, very, very tarnished drawer pulls with a screw driver, I soaked them in Brasso for a few hours. Then Ron & I scrubbed foreverrrr. This was probably the hardest part of the whole project. I forgot to take a before picture of the handles, but they came out very shiny.
The patterned drawers were the result of a happy accident.
I had bought 4 cans of white semi-gloss spray paint, which was used on everything.
1 can of neon day-glow pink, and one can of brightest royal blue spray paint.
The blue was a semi-gloss, but the pink was only available in matte so I got 1 can of a shiny clear spray paint.
I was planning on painting the drawers solid pink & blue, but I ran out of the pink paint before I was done so I improvised by adding white in some places. And then I did the same with the blue. It definitely ended up being way cooler this way anyway.
And here are the finished products!
I love them so much!
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Offering
Hope you like!
Play: All for yall
If you don't have Spotify (get it), here is a list of songs.
Happy Rappy - Das Racist
Dance, Dance Dance - Lykki Li
Resurrection Fern - Iron and Wine
California Sunrise - Dirty Gold
Powa - Tune Yards
So Fast, So Maybe - K.Flay
Walkaway - The Wood Brothers
Light My Fire - Ananda Shankar
Skinny Love (Das Kapital Rerub) - Bon Iver
Wedding Song - Anias Mitchell, Justin Vernon
Unbroken Chain (Studio Acoustic Demo) - The Grateful Dead
Valerie (Version Revisited) - Mark Ronson featuring Amy Winehouse
The Time Has Come - Pretty Lights
Offering - The Avett Brothers
Came Out Of A Lady - Rubblebucket
Orange Sky - Alexi Murdoch
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