Halloween Wreath

My sister actually made this Halloween wreath.  We decided to have a Halloween Craft Day at my house and I thought it turned out amazing and wanted to give her some credit for her work!! Good job Baby Rach! 

Halloween Figurines

Another Halloween activity my sister and I did was painting figurines we picked up from The Goodwill and garage sales.  And yes, we did paint some Precious Moments figurines, so please don't come for us.  We took our finds home and washed them up.  Let them dry really good.  Then hit them with some black spray paint.  They eyes were either painted with red puffy paint or glow in the dark puffy paint.

I think they turned out creepy and cool!  This little mouse on the pumpkin was so cool.  Hope you like them!!

Antique Buffet

I really wish I would have taken a before picture of the piece.  It was in pretty rough shape, and I was too excited to get this bad boy home and get started on it.  There were chunks missing from it, paint all over it and parts that needed to be glued and clamed to get this piece back up to par.

What a difference sanding made on this buffet.

This was after the second drawer was sanded down.

Sanding. Sanding. Sanding.  This piece took a while.

This is the side of the buffet after a couple coats of stain and the first coat of polyurethane.  It was sanded again after this, and another coat of polyurethane was applied.

She was starting to get there.

And here it is with the final coat of polyurethane on it.  On this piece, I kept the doors off the front for where I used it.  I have the doors still though and they can easily be put back on.  

Antique Dresser

One my favorite things to do is to restore or refinish antique furniture. I personally prefer the ones with straight, clean lines and I love the ones with skeleton key locks and latches. I love taking these from trash to treasure. I would say that I do intend to fix them up and sell them but many times I just love the end result and end up keeping a number of them. Either way it a fun hobby for me and I can’t wait to get going on the next one.

This one in the front was the dresser.  I should have taken better before pictures but the woman I got it from said her husband had it in their garage for over 50 years and there was a dark watermark stain from where her husband put his beer every time he worked in the garage, every year for those 50 years.

This is the dresser all sanded down.

Here it is after the first coat of stain.  You can see the mark from the previous owner's beer can.

Some of the drawers stained.

And here is the final result.  This was the first piece I had refinished, and I accidentally lost one of the wooden handles in the process (which I found much later) so I had opted for brushed nickel knobs that I picked up from my local Home Depot.  I loved the finished look of this piece.