Finishing up some projects

I spent a majority of the weekend finishing up a few projects that I had started and hadn't quite got finished.

The first one was this old couch that was given to me from our old neighbor.  It had been in an abandoned house on their property and they found it right before they started demolition on the house.  They had no problem with me hauling it off for them.  =)  It had hideous, nasty cushions that we immediately took off and took to the dump.  I knew that I wanted to paint and distress it, but with it being only a few days before we moved into the farm house, it quickly got put on the back burner on my things-to-do list.

Fast forward to this weekend... I decided it was time to get that thing finished up.  I had a beautiful turquoise paint I'd gotten from Lowe's last summer that I thought would work great on it.  Since I actually like the look of chipped paint on furniture I decided that I wouldn't sand it beforehand; I just applied a thin coat and I was done!  Eventually I want to go back and distress it with the sander and some stain, but I'm trying to get the house unpacked/organized/decorated before this weekend when I'll be throwing Graham a birthday dinner with his family.   

 

I found some bright outdoor cushions at walmart that happened to be on summer clearance (score!) to dress it up a bit.  I think it turned out great and it looks perfect on our front porch!

Kayla ran to Roswell for us last week to pick up a few more yards of fabric.  So Saturday evening I got busy finishing up my Halloween rag wreath that I started last weekend.  I got the idea from one of the many wreaths floating around on Pinterest.  We initially started out with half a yard of each color of fabric.  Kayla picked up another half yard each when she went back to Hobby Lobby, but it actually ended up being a little too much.  It ended up being really full though, so I love it.  I also found some little letters to spell "eek" that I painted with a bright green and topped it with some silver, glittery paint.  I superglued a bobby pin to each letter and attached it to the fabric. 

 

I'm so happy with the way it turned out!