Sick,Tired, Busy, Weekend....

Ugh... So Friday.. I left work early because I was just out of it. I went to the dr and had some tests done (they took 6 tubes of blood) and I have a bruise from where they took blood - um.. I never get a bruise.. :(

So needless to say, I have not been myself lately!

Though I did try and get some stuff done around the house. Don't get me wrong - I love to be a bum! It's in my nature, but I just had to get something done.

Let me show you first what I got as I came home from the dr's office (after I picked up some chicken soup). Thebride's wedding is coming up (June 13) and I am eagerly waiting for family to come down and stay with us, so I need to get the guest room in tip top shape to better accomodate them. So I was in search of a bedside table and maybe a suitcase holder type thing. So I stopped in one of my favorite stores (thrift store) and did not find anything in my price range to fit the bill, but I did get the following:

Such cute lamp shades... I didn't know what to do with them, but I saw a post on another blog (I believe it was on the Nester's blog) and saw that she did something cute, so I tried it:

You take a candle stick holder and a candlestick, throw that lampshade on top and viola, instant romance! Isn't it just darling!! I will post more pics of where I put them when Kelly gets to that place on the tour!

Ahhhh.. my love affair with frames never ends!! I just love frames. Look at that one on the top left.. just a beauty!
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Well then I had a wild hair and decided that I wanted to redo some lamps that my sister gave me. Here is how they looked when I got them from her:

these are the lamps.. so not my style.. I mean look at those girls! LOL.

So I took the shades off and spray painted them brown.
better pic of the brown.

So then I spray painted the shades because well if I took the paper off the shade, I would loose the shape. Looks like cow hide or something... loving it!
a farther look at the lamps! - Well I was very happy with the outcome that is.. UNTIL I turned them on! Look at this:
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! you can totally see through them! The spray painting did NOT work! ugh... what the heck am I gonna do?? I guess I will just have to find some other shades? Any advice from all of the 3 of you that read my blog???

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Ok.. so after that semi disaster, I tried my hand at spray painting again. This time, I saw a great idea on a bio on my fav website thenest.com. I don't remember the bio, but the idea was to spray paint the builder basic brass door knobs that come with your house that you just can't justify paying money out to buy new ones (just yet). So onward I went:

I went with the least used doorknob in the house (the door to the garage) that way, if it looks bad, I won't be embarrased too much because not many people use it!

Taped all around it and covered the door to avoid getting it prayed. Sprayed it with a metallic silver (to look like the front door knob) and went to town!
Looks good huh?!?! It totally worked and I am in love with the results!! So 1 down 543 more to go!! LOL.. ok maybe not 543, but close! like 19 or something. ugh.. anyway.. I love the end result, so I know it will look good!
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ok.. so one last thing and then I am out, for like a month - I kid, I kid... but I did get a lot done.. even though I was feeling crappy. I guess I just didn't want to sit in front of the tv all day.. ugh.. but I didn't want to go out either.

So you may remember this post where I talked openly about my procastination at it's fullest potential, right??? Well I finally told hubby it was do or die time... So we got this baby:

In case you dont know what it is.. it's this deal called the Point and Paint. Basically, it's suppose to be this awesome product to help you paint a room "in less than an hour" - well... I have to say, it did make our lives easier and I actually liked using it... the only thing is that it did not take us an hour - but more like 2 1/2. It's funny because we did not tape anywhere (trim, etc) except around one in set window that we did not want to fully paint and two of our walls are higher than the other (vaulted) so I am thinking, had it been a regular sized room with no taping at all.. we could have quite possibly finished painting in less than an hour. The hubby used the bigger one and I used the small one and off we went. We turned this:

Into this:
(the blinds are pushed out because our cat Pierre likes to go in there to look at things out of the window and sit in the sun!)
I need ideas for something above the bed! ugh... I have no idea what I want to do? Any suggestions??
These were the old paintings in the room, but I taped them off and using the same paint in the room, painted stripes on them... I really like how they turned out!

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All in all it was a Sick,Tired, Busy, Weekend and I am really happy with how the room turned out, even though I really didn't enjoy it much feeling under the weather...

I didn't even make it to church (hubby did) because I couldn't get out of bed... ugh. not a good feeling!! Hopefully I can get the test results today. That would be great!

Hasta!

Adri.