Hobby Lobby Cowboy Knobs

Hey y'all! So on my last post I showed off Pattons new dresser! There were missing knobs when I bought it, so I made a trip to one of my favorite places in town, Hobby Lobby.. Duh!! Patton's nursery theme is cowboy/cabin like. When I found these adorable boot knobs I grabbed a handful and ran home to screw them on his dresser!! (I paid for them first of course lol.) Look how stinkin cute they are!!

$5.99 may seem like a lot for just one but Hobby Lobby has weekly sales where you can catch certain items 50% off which was what I did. Or you can just use your handy dandy smart phone to pull up a 40% off coupon to put towards any regular priced item.

It is funny to me how much different the color looks just from lighting.. I swear it's moss green y'all.

Patton's Changing Table

Today I wanted to share with y'all something I consider a recent small victory. I consider saving money on anything a small victory, by the way lol. I've been on the look out for a used (of course) short dresser that could double as a changing table for Patton's nursery. I know old dressers are a popular item to buy cheap and redo and sell.. so that is probably why I could never get my hands on one. Well I finally found one after months of searching. It was listed on an online yard sale sight for people in my area. $45, decent condition, & the location was literally right down the road from my house!! So I of course told the seller SOLD and met up with them the next day to exchange my cash for this soon to be beauty! Check it out!

I've never used chalk paint, but I love the matte finish of it.. just not the price. I've seen 8oz jars for over $25, which I am just not willing to pay! I visited the local hobby lobby to find a mossy green color, but they only had two shades of green ($8.99/ bottle). One shade was far too bright and spunky and the other was very dark.. too dark for my nursery. Well the next day we went to go pick up Patton's crib and I found out something really cool.. Walmart actually carries chalk paint. The most beautiful colors of chalk paint I have ever seen, might I add!! So I snatched me up a bottle of moss green. I read its reviews on my way home; there were only 3 that I could find. The first review I read suggested that no one buy this paint. Supposedly it leaves brush strokes, is too thick, and has terrible coverage- all of which I found to be not true! This paint, at $5 & some cents, was perfect. Very smooth, no prep work, no bad brush strokes, oh and the small little 80z bottle covered my whole dresser.. and I still have some left over! (I did about 2/3 coats) Be on the look out for this stuff, people!!

I took off the hardware, and took out each drawer to paint, painted the dresser base, reassembled it, and was done in no time! For a total of $52 dollars, this was my finished product. My sisters dresser/changing table in her son's nursery was over $200.

Wow, I really love it!! It kind of looks blue to me in the pictures, but I promise it is mean, green, and perfect!! I will need to buy a new set of knobs because there are obviously some missing, but besides that, it is good to go! Now to get a start on the rest of the nursery! Ahh I am getting SO excited, y'all!!

Words to Remember

"Try to love yourself as much as you want someone else to." I know for me, this is often a very hard thing to do. These days, we are constantly comparing ourselves to other people. Tearing ourselves down, wishing we weren't how we are. Wishing we weren't how God made us. Yup. Have you ever realized that? When you think badly of yourself, when you think "Dang I'm no where near as talented has her" or "He does is so much more successful than I will ever be", or the very common "They are so beautiful, I wish I looked more like them." You are saying that God didn't make you good enough. God didn't do a good enough job on you. Well he did. We just simply have a hard time accepting ourselves for who we really are. That's why this quote means so much to me. I, myself, have struggled with accepting who I am as a student, as a friend, as a person. I used to always compare myself to other people. I would even try to change myself to be more like them. I thought terrible things about myself. So terrible that I basically killed my own self esteem and confidence, just by comparing myself to others. Recently, I have been improving on this issue in my life. I have summed it up to age. I am now older and understand life a little better than I have in my past years. I don't care what other people think of me as much as before. I have accepted myself for who I am, and by doing that, I have found much more happiness in my days. Once in a while I do still compare myself, it is hard not to sometimes. But overall, I love myself far more than I ever have. What helps me with this is knowing that God himself made me. I was thought of by him, created by him, and he makes no mistakes. I'm perfect to him. He see's me for who I really am and he loves me for me. It's time we all start loving ourselves that much. You are the only one like you. Embrace that and share yourself with the world. Be yourself. Love yourself. Let someone love you for being you.

Hutch Love

When we first moved into our home, there were not many decorations going on. It had nice furniture, but still lacked the life that I was craving in my first home. My sister and I set out a budget of what I would spend to decorate my new home. There is one wall in our den that had an old mobile computer desk (from office depot.. not even one with any kind of antique character.) It also had a side table that houses our router which is important for me. Oh! Have I mentioned that one gets ZERO cell phone reception at my house? Yeah.. AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, doesn't matter! No service. So I depend on my WiFi quite a bit! - I am not complaining, no cell phone service is surprisingly peaceful to me. Anywho, this wall! It needed a table, long dresser, something to satisfy me. & for, as my dad would say, El Cheapo. So my sister and I went out on a quest to find the perfect piece. We visited 3 flea malls. Memories, J&Gs, and Amy's. Memories had nothing, then J&G had a BEAUTIFUL sideboard, but it was $80 over my budget. Amy's Antique and Flea Mall was where we found the winner!! We found an old hutch, that needed no work except for newer knobs. For only $100 ($30 over my budget, but I justified it because I loved it that much) we carried that gorgeous piece of furniture out of the flea mall very satisfied. Here it is!!

Take a look at the hutch in my living room! I feel that the fact the hutch is white really brightens up the room. The floors are brown, walls are brown, and the ceilings are even a light tan color. So the color is perfect to me!

I knew I wanted some cute shelf decorations. Half of this came from my moms house lol. She gave me the tied books, jar of sewing paraphernalia, and wooden bird. I added the succulent, which I am obsessed with now. The "Private Parking Only" was $8 at a local flea market. It feels good to be done with this room!!

The pre-hutch living room