More fun projects...

I really need to stop looking around the blogosphere and finding projects that I want to do, because, honestly, I think at this point, I probably have enough projects to keep me busy through several years!

Nevertheless, some of my latest finds:

Recycled Book Art

Re-upholstery Project: Chair

Lamp Re-Vamp

 Subway Art

Glazed Washer Necklaces or Stamped Washer Necklaces
 Infinity Dress

Plans for the weekend include hitting up some of the local thrift stores to see what fun items I can find and repurpose! Here's hoping I find some bed side tables!

Re-Design Ideas

The bedroom redesign will hopefully be happening in small steps, but there probably won't be much ground until we actually buy a house -- at least a year down the road. However, here is at least one project I would like to do when we do start the redesign:

Modern Bed Skirt

(The only problem will be that our dog likes to sleep under our bed, so it will be pretty hard to keep dog hair off the bed skirt!)

Also, these prints are pretty much the exact color scheme that I would go with: blue, gray, and brown. Plus, I love the fluffy part of dandelions, so these would be great to hang on the wall:
Seeds of Freedom Print Set 

Updates: Posting, Bedroom, Giveaway

First of all, this is my 70th blog post! Wow! I can't believe I've posted that many so far. I am definitely trying to still figure out my "voice", but I am enjoying using some of my creativity here in a virtual space!

Secondly, I am realizing that we need a "big kid" bedroom makeover (on little to no budget, but that's just details). We have what my supervisor calls the "post-American grad student" decor: stacked plastic crates, an unpainted and fairly beat up MDF dresser, no side tables, and a ton of stuff on the floor. Part of it is due to the fact that we are renting, so we can't build extra storage space, but a lot of it is just because we don't have the additional pieces of furniture that would pull the room together.

So, this is my thought: over the next couple months, I am hoping to hit up some of the local thrift stores, the Habitat ReStore and maybe Craigslist to find some pieces of bedroom furniture. We really need another dresser (or to figure out how to better use the one we have), and I would like some bedside tables and a headboard (which I am hoping to use an old door to create). My main thought is that, even if the pieces we end up with don't match completely, I would paint them all the same color to bring some cohesiveness to the room.

Which brings me to the giveaway (although not mine!): The lovely folks over at Fashionable Academics have partnered with CSN to do a $70 giftcard giveaway! What a great opportunity to get a piece of furniture to start my bedroom redesign! You can bet that I've already entered once (and this post will serve as my second entry), but I would be excited if someone else I knew won, as well. So head on over to enter the giveaway!