Lace Dresser & Night Stand

One of my most ambitious projects from Pinterest has to be the dresser and nightstand that I just finished for my guest room. I combined several different ideas from different pins and prayed! The pins I looked at were: Painting Laminate Furniture, Spray Painting Furniture, and Adding Lace. Let me preface this by saying that I just looked at the picture for adding lace and took the description of the pin and ran with it. After getting into my project, I went to the blog and found out that she did not add lace to her dresser, she used paintable wallpaper with texture! Oh well, I was committed by that point.

To start, I bought a nightstand from a thrift store for $15 (solid wood) and a dresser for $5 at a yard sale. Here are the starting projects:

These were very loved items, they showed their wear and tear and even had a resident - EEK!

First step was sanding the furniture, even the laminate. I didn't worry about it too much, just roughed it up a bit. Next was adding two coats of primer. I went ahead and used the primer that was recommended and it worked great! It was Zinsser Cover Stain.

Next was adding the lace. I bought a yard of lace at Hobby Lobby for around $5.00. This let me cut enough strips for 3 drawers on the nightstand and 5 drawers of the dresser.

Once they were ready, I grabbed the Mod Podge... I put a layer of Mod Podge down and then placed the lace on top of it. I followed up with putting another layer of Mod Podge over the top of the lace as a glue/sealer and trimmed any excess on the side. I let it dry overnight.



Next was the painting. I am so glad that I took the advice of the blogger and bought a spray nozzle for my spray paint. It was around $3.00 and worked great! I sprayed the drawers with a steel gray spray. It took 3 coats to cover the lace and the sides of the drawers. I then sprayed the dressers with white.

I added hardware that I got at Lowe's on sale for around $25.00. and put them together. I love the way they turned out!

Since my husband is not crazy about having gray, white, and yellow in our bedroom decor, I decided to do it with the guest room. These are the first things I have finished for the room. Now I am trying to get my courage up to make a quilt! Thank goodness for my mom who is willing to help me...

Cupcake Pizzas

As soon as the kids got home from school today (yes, they are still in school for a couple more days - love year round school!), J started asking what was for dinner and if we could have pizza. I happened to have just seen something on Pinterest (original link cupcake mold pizzas). I had everything to make these babies, except the pizza dough and needed to run to Target to get some cabinet locks to keep C out of the drawers...

The Target that I went to was kind of small, and didn't have Pillsbury Pizza Dough. The only thing they had was crescent rolls, so I decided to go with it!

I preheated the oven to 375 degrees and sprayed my silicone pan with Pam. Supposedly you don't have to, but I was scared...

I only ended up using one package of crescent rolls and got 12 cupcakes worth of pizza. I just pushed the wide part of the dough into the bottom of the pan and then remove the excess. After doing that with 2 of them, I was able to combine the extra parts and make a third crust.

Next was a spoon of pizza sauce. My kids aren't huge fans of sauce, so I just did a little bit. Added cheese and pepperoni to only mine (again, the kids aren't fans). Baked for 15 minutes and they were delish!!! Very easy for a weeknight meal. Between myself and 4 kids, we ate all 12 of them (they are fairly small).

All in all, my kids seemed to like them. They weren't the favorite pizza thing I had made, but they worked in a pinch... Plus we had fun with Callie trying to use a fork.

Pinterest Addict

My name is Aimee and I am a Pinterest addict, and I have no desire to change. Since my sister-in-law introduced me, I have come up with so many ideas, recipes, projects, etc. My husband believes it is costing him a lot of money, and he is probably right. Good thing he loves me!

Although I haven't blogged in awhile, I have been very busy. I have found raising 4 kids with a husband who travels Monday - Friday keeps me hopping, but projects have been saving my sanity. And cooking is the only form of legal child abuse that I am capable of! My kids may not like it, but it is saving money and hopefully better nutrition. I am going to start putting down my various projects, whether cooking, sewing, crafting, painting, etc... because trust me, some funny stuff has happened along the way!