The Nightstand Project

Nightstand - Before

Drawers primed. 

Diamonds measured & drawn as perfectly as I could make them.

Taped off and spray painted Cream

Pulling the tape off the diamonds...

Re-taping the outline so I can hand paint the detail...

All done... Well... Almost!

Antique Gold vs. Gold

 Time to re-tape for more detailing...

And you actually thought I was going to let you see the after already!?
 I have to keep some surprises for the final Bedroom reveal!

-- A Victorian Cowgirl

The Pages of Inspiration...

Here's a sneak peak of my nightstand inspiration. 

 

(Have to find the magazine...)

I am searching my thumb drive for the rest of this project's photos

and will post as soon as I find them all!!

 (House of Turquoise)

 Dresser inspiration, furniture and art layout inspiration...

Thank you again Jennifer for my beautiful blue dresser.

It's all I could have ever asked for and more!!

(Photo from Pinterest)

  (Have to find the magazine... AGAIN...)

Color Scheme: Cream, Irish Coffee, with Turquoise & Purple/Magenta accents

-- A Victorian Cowgirl

Creamy, Glitzy, Deliciousness!!

I bought several new hats while I was staying in Colorado, and this one has become part of the inspiration for the redesign of my bedroom.

I absolutely LOVE the feathers on this hat! My father calls it my Robin Hood cap. lol. I'm thinking my walls are screaming PAINT ME! What do you think?

-- A Victorian Cowgirl

PS: Much thanks to Jennifer Creviston of The Creviston Nest for her guest post on my dresser, and for all the hard work she put into it!!! It's amazing what beautiful people you meet in life, and a line from one of my favorite movies comes to mind, "Good trade!" - Dances With Wolves

Guest Post: Victoria's Dresser

Hi,

I am Jennifer of The Creviston Nest.

I have been lucky enough to be able to meet some of the best people in the world doing what I love; faux finishing furniture!

I was able to meet Victoria though her wonderful Mom, Sallie. I have faux finished several pieces for Sallie. Recently while she was dropping off a dresser, I was able to meet Victoria!

Victoria is just one of the most amazing people I have ever met. It has really been a blessing getting to know her and her wonderful family.

Victoria asked me some advice on refinishing a dresser she had purchased. While giving her advice on what seemed may be a difficult refinish, we came up with a plan. Victoria would do some sewing I needed done (yes, I can sew but not much more then a line it may not even be straight) in exchange for me faux finishing her dresser!

Before

This is the dresser Victoria brought over, a very CUTE solid wood antique dresser. It had a lot of potential, hiding under that terrible, TERRIBLE paint job. White, with a dry brush of green... and the infamous red knobs.

Victoria sent me several inspiration pictures of what she was looking for. After my process of sanding, primer, paint (Benjamin Moore), glaze and sealing it... here is the finished product.

Before and After

Thank you for reading my blog post and thank you Victoria for allowing me to do my very first guest post!

-- Jennifer Creviston

Up-cycled Napkins

In June I did a tutorial on up-cycling a vintage/antique linen into the pincushion on a Mason Jar sewing kit... but I never said what I did with the beautiful lace cornered scraps from the linen.

 

Well, I turned them into pretty little napkins! When I made the sewing kit, all I did was cut the "P" out of an antique monogrammed linen. When I was finished, I had a near-perfect condition linen - with a 4x4 square cut out of its center - left over... and beautiful lace trim on it's corners!

To make the napkins, all I had to do now was to cut off the excess center strip (an act I didn't feel bad about because it was slightly damaged with moth holes anyways), roll and pin the hem...

... and stitch them on just ONE side. It only took me about 30 minutes to trim, pin, and hem both scraps.

It was SOOOOOOOOOOOO simple, and I got beautiful napkins without wasting a thing!

What have you up-cycled lately?

-- A Victorian Cowgirl <3

Time for a (Bedroom) Make-over!!

I came home from 3 months spent with my Oma and Opa in Colorado to find my room bare of all artistic life. I forgot that I had taken down most things before leaving. And though my little brother was told that he could take over my room while I was gone, that never happened because my dad said he didn't want my room to smell like "boys" when I came back home...lol. 

At any rate, I didn't want my things to get broken... so just in case, I packed most of my stuff away in my closet. I didn't really think much about it until Mary, whom I love dearly and is my cousin Joshua's wife, walked in to my room and said "WOW! This is not what I would have expected YOUR room to look like!" Mary is an artsy girl just like me so I knew I better hop on turning my room into something that yells VICTORIA LIVES HERE!! as soon as they see it...

So I took out my sketch pad and started drawing and this is what I came up with:

It's in the works as we speak, and though my ideas (and rooms) have changed since I originally sketched this, I'll be sure to keep you posted about the Decor snags and successes along the way.

-- A Victorian Cowgirl

What do you think??

My pretty headband from my Best Friend Sophia <3

(Forever21)

My new haircut!! Holiday season 2011

Another pretty headband from Sophia <3

(Charlotte Russe)

This one I've had for about a year (or two by now) but never really worn too often, even though I LOVE it. I THINK I got it at Rue21??? lol.