Mississippi Girl Misplaced: My newest project!

I just wanted to show everyone my most recent projects/crafts and a new one I've just added (as if I need any more).

My first (small) project is this little picture frame. It was a muted pink that I bought for a few bucks at TJ Maxx back when I had a pink thing going on in my room. Well now it just looked out of place so I decided to spray paint. Which is really pretty much all I did.

I wanted it to match this frame.

Which it did perfectly. I want to transfer the pictures to black and white and put them back in the frames. However, the frame looked a bit too....polished. So I decided to distress it a little bit. I just took a sanding block and did the edges a bit.

Perfect.

Now I have another (more interesting) project I worked on. Last night, (again at 2 AM) I decided to go on a whim and do a craft I had seen in a pin.

Take a cheapie dollar store lamp shade and personalize it!

Step 1. Draw a monogram (or make one on the computer) and Exact-o Knife it out. I freehanded mine from a pad of paper I had.

Helpful hint: Leave all the little pieces on and cut them out one at a time.

Then tape them on individually. It should look like this before and this:

after.

Another helpful hint:

Take down small edges and corner's down to make a more exact stencil.

Step 2. Pick your paint color. I used the color from my room to make the stencil. It worked out really well because I didn't have to do a second coat.

Time to start!

Its kind of hard to see, but it goes pretty well with the walls! It has a few mistakes, but I'm pretty pleased with it!

And lastly, I have my, by far, the biggest project of my summer!

This little beauty! I picked him up on the side of the road by my house. Someone was about to throw him away when he just needed some TLC! I don't anticipate it being a huge project. It needs a bit of sanding, maybe some nails to sturdy him up! I've been pinning some pictures of dressers for inspiration!