Refurbish your tired tables

Hello everyone,
 so before you run out and spend money on new furniture try to do your own DIY.  Go to Lowes or Home Depot  and look around, there is so much DIY products now a days that you can seriously paint  anything (wood/plastic/metal trust me anything). Look at the 3 tables I did  this weekend, I will find old photos of the before later on today so you can see the years of wear and tear the tables went thru for now see below:

this was the stain I used it was a bit pricey but it dries with 30 min and has a great  shine.

this table was in real bad shape I sanded it down to the bare wood and gave it 2 coats and at that time I realized the wood was still pretty rough so I sanded down with a 1000 grit sand paper and gave it 2 more coats. Make sure you wipe it down with a slightly damp cloth before putting the final coat. Once dry pass your hand over the whole table if you feel any rough spots you can do the 1000 grit paper in between coats as many times as you want.

see the shine  

the 2 white tables I also sanded down to the bare wood and gave it 2 coats of white paint and once dried I took the same poly and just dry brushed the whole table just enough to give it the shabby look

VINTAGE DESK - this was and old tired desk I did the same finish as my dining room table - this desk has one coat all around and 3 coats on top

minion cut out for birtday parties

MINION CUT OUT - HE IS LIKE 3' TALL

 

Minions Movie -is coming out this year

so for anyone having a minions party for your kids party, this is so easy to make here are the steps:

big box /aluminum foil /black pipe cleaners/ black buttons/black construction paper/spray paint/extra extra large pair of jeans (got mine at Goodwill for $2.00)/black strap or ribbon ( I also bought a large black belt at Goodwill for $1.00)/HOT GLUE GUN

 

 

STEPS; CUT OUT A U SHAPE FROM THE BOX go outside and paint it yellow. To get this rich yellow  it took me 1 hour because the card board soaks in a lot of paint.  I would wait till it dried and spray it again, the final time I  left it to dry overnight. Next I cut out a round circle for the eye and covered it in aluminum foil, cut out the blue eye with construction paper also the mouth.The hair I started to glue it individually and they would not stay, so I glued a bunch to a small square piece of card board and hot glued all of them together and I pressed it against the back of the head. I cut the jeans as in the picture and HOT GLUED THE ENTIRE THING.
Disregard the red sign on the overalls I made this for a cubicle chair competition at my job and this little guy won me $50.00 buckaroos -- lol  

background for birthday party

here is my latest creation for a birthday background. I will take you step by step on how to make one

the Princess back ground in the picture above is actually a little girls sleeping bag and here is how to make one:

1. small sleeping bag
2. feathers
3. stables
4. hot glue
5. scissors 
6. fake broken jewelry (I used an old bracelet)
7. butterflies
8. glitter glue
9. rhinestones

you will need a small sleeping bag as above they are approximate $29 but I got mine at Goodwill for $2.00

you will need 6 wooden pieces as above  about 3x3. You need to make a wooden frame as  tall as necessary, remember  to leave the legs longer than the sleeping bag so you can stand it behind the table.






NEXT STEP IS TO STAPLE THE BAG TO THE WOODEN FRAME. FOR MINE I ACTUALLY CUT OFF THE ENTIRE ZIPPER BECAUSE IT WAS BROKEN SO I HAD NO NEED FOR IT

THE LAST STEP IS TO HOT GLUE DECORATIONS TO TH E PICTURE
ON MINE I ADDED A FEATHER BOA from the Dollar Tree, BUTTERFLIES AND any RHINESTONES, PEARLS ETC

and there I am dressed as Snow White - lol

Santa's framed picture for under $5.00

 Santa picture frame   they sold during Christmas time at many stores but the only problem was they sold for like $100.00, so I decided to make it for as little as possible.    here is my framed Santa picture I made for around $5.00

see step by step below how I made it:

• a wooden frame as below/shop thrift stores/garage sale/I got mine from my sister she was going to throw it away.

• Christmas card stock paper as below got mine at Hobby Lobby

• Christmas gift boxes see below --YES THE SANTA IN MY FRAME IS A REGULAR CHRISTMAS GIFT BOX JUST LIKE THE ONES BELOW BUT I LOOKED FOR ONE WITH A PICTURE OF SANTA from Dollar Tree

• foam school project card board as below from Dollar Tree

FOLLOW STEPS BELOW

1. CUT FOAM TO THE SIZE OF THE PICTURE FRAME
2. HOT GLUE THE STOCK PAPER TO THE FOAM - it took 3 pages
3. PICK YOUR FAVORITE PICTURE FROM YOUR GIFT BOXES -- you will only need the picture throw away the white bottom part of the box
4. HOT GLUE THE WHOLE THING TO THE BACK OF THE FRAME
5. DECORATE WITH ANYTHING YOU LIKE (ribbon, bows, Christmas signs, etc) 

and THERE IT IS MY IMITATION PICTURE FOR UNDER $ 5.00 SEE BELOW

3 import FYI's : the red border is a ribbon I hot glued to the border, I also hot glued a red and gold border to the outside of frame and the last FYI is that all the gift box and the project board is from the Dollar Tree