My KITCHEN Island Makeover!!!

Hey guys,
I'm so excited about this post!!! For about a year now I've been trying to gather the guts needed to paint my wood cabinetry in my kitchen. Every time I'd get close to doing it something would change my mind....... well after long consideration I finally decided to makeover my kitchen island:) Thanks to pinterest I realized that I could paint my kitchen Island one "color" and just leave the rest of my cabinetry for later ( give me more time to get the nerve to do it!) So I wanted to share this with you guys !!
p.s. please note that I tend to take shortcuts and experiment A LOT lol ....... My "recipe" is almost never done the same way twice;)

 

      So the wheels in my mind started turning rite after the Angel Sale when I bought a coffee table that I fell in love with! A big plus was finding out that it was Aunt Ronda who had "revamped" this piece which meant I could get a  really good tutorial right?? :)  When I brought it home and got it in place I knew this was the exact style I wanted!!! It was bright and had a little hint of aged beauty!! Here's a peek at it........


    Cozy right?? Kaiden seems to think so:) He was sound asleep :)


So here's what we started with.............

 

 

Not so bad right?? But my mission is to brighten things up a bit:)

 

Off I went to Lowe's while leaving the sanding to my old reliable:) ( Rusty, as if you all didn't know right?) He actually started out being my assistant sander but due to the rapidly growing anger i felt while sanding he decided to just do it for me!!! i was fine with it of course;)

I bought a slightly different color from the coffee table and some "wiping" stain and got to it....

Okay so maybe you guys noticed that the stain in the above pic isn't a "wiping" stain............

I sort of had to improvise........ (told you I like to experiment;)

That tiny little can of stain actually has a great little story.... It's one of those things that "certain" husbands probably get fussed at when they say "keep it, you never know we may need it" Guilty as charged girls!! I was that wife .....

I learned that my wiping stain was an epic fail.....because i bought mahogany stain...... everybody knows mahogany is red-ish right???? I'm not sure how i messed that up, but any who I did!! so unwilling to return to Lowe's I start thinking...... I'll bet I can just "wipe" regular stain on my cabinetry and all will be fine........now I just needed some stain....Rusty reminded me of that little can of stain that was bought over three years ago to repair a drawer in the first home we bought together:)...... I tried it and it WORKED!!!!! I'm in love with how the island turned out and even my kiddos are still making comments of how much brighter things are looking in the house!!! Now that I've started with this not so small project and completed it I can  sort of see  a few other things I'd like to change..... starting with my deep red wall...... I think I want it almost as light as the island!!!! I'm going to share a few---- who am I kidding, it'll be a lot of photos!!

I hope you like the transformation as much as we do!!!

With the new color added!!

 

 

Starting the sanding to give it that aged beauty I was talking about earlier!!

 

 

Sanding is sort of tedious but well worth it!!

 

The above pic shows the deeper colors the rest sort of look a bit white to me.....

 

 

Oh how I wish I had taken a before pic of this angle:(

Please disregard the mess and take focus on the sleeping baby in the background;) I guess this is what pinterest won't show you lol

 

Before...........

 

 

After!!!!

 

 

 

Before........

 

After!!!!!!!!

 

 

I LOVE IT!!! CAN'T WAIT TO PAINT THAT WALL! .....I REALIZE I'LL REGRET SAYING THAT FOR A BIT:)

 

 

 

 

DIY project gone completely WRONG!!!!

Good Tuesday morning to you all!!! Thank God for another one and be blessed :) Today I'd like for you to allow me to ramble a "bit" about something that has been on my heart lately.This has definitely , at one time or another, been a huge deal in my own life and figure I'm not alone in this:) So I started this DIY project some time ago and forgot to complete one very crucial step, I didn't really mean to but I just got so caught up in it that I didn't think I'd need to follow every step, besides my way was much faster and would probably yield the same results.......So yeah I got this right????? WRONG. Let him lead guys.....




We as a whole, as a body, as a church have lived with our hurt so long that it becomes a part of who we are, even though we want "out" even when we've had enough and realize what we're doing is not God's will for us. All we can think about is the need to almost ..protect the hurt or the sin that we are in ... sometimes it's the only consistent thing in our lives..... so our blinders are on and we don't yet realize it. We've all been in a place of regret or in need of forgiveness at least a time or two in our lives and eventually reach the point of letting go but the cloud of condemnation still looms over our heads.... before to long we don't even realize we're held captive by a hurt or our own sin by our own choice... because we said we forgave that person orrrr we've said God forgive me (and he HAS!!! ) then we start thinking about all these things we can do to be free (we already are).... So it becomes our very own DIY project, that's ( Do It Yourself). So we try to sand off the edges slap a new coat of paint on and smile right?? But that feeling of hurt comes back with a vengeance- because we have been protecting it and haven't forgiven ourselves or that person ..... what would we do if the hurt wasn't there anymore... if  it went away... would we have anything to keep us company?? Sounds weird huh but all to often if we don't have "drama" in our lives we are just bored..... harsh I know.... preaching to myself :). Then we start feeling a bit like a broken record.. So we might try a bit more but like the Americans we are we get impatient and want that "fast food, dollar menu" fix..... Thinking " why can't "I" shake this....... Why is it that "I" can do all these amazing things for people helping to lead them to the cross or just helping them in general but every hour I'm having to remind myself that God loves me just the way I am...... That I'm the apple of his eye , that I'm made in his likeness and made for a purpose..... that there is therefore now no condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus........... AND I can do all things through CHRIST who strengthens me.... Not through Teresa, through him!!!! Oh yeahhhh now I get it......  Ok now we're in his grace and feel miles better...... But then ...... That feeling creeps up again saying...... " hey you're not good enough....... Why are you even trying........ Come on just give up, you know you've wronged God to many times..... He'll never love you he created you to fail....... All these things creep up daily, or monthly if things are going ok......This time you turn your ear to that voice a bit more..... Without knowing it you're slipping back in ...... You can't see Gods grace and love for you through all fogginess of doubt and regret..... The fact of the matter is God knew us before we entered this world, he ALSO knew we would mess it up with all our DIY projects:) He loves us and wants us to "take his hand" and FOLLOW him. I like to think of it this way. I'm a pretty good navigator ..... I really am :) so you and I we're setting out on a long journey, one that I've walked before.  You have no clue where we are heading but you "say" that you trust me right?? RIGHT:) So you're going to follow me..... every step I take, you're on my heals. Every turn I take, you turn too..... Until we reach our destination. Why????? Because before we ever left you decided that you trusted me, and that by following me you'd get to your destination..... there may have been some bumps in the road or some long detours that got on our nerves a bit... But one thing is for sure..... If I turned, you didn't question me you turned with me..... If we as a church could grasp that concept and apply it to our walk with God saying ,God I lay down the map I've drawn up for my life and I will FOLLOW you lord, we would start to see this amazing world we live in through the eyes of the one who created it!!! The freedom we have in Christ is soooooo much more powerful than the chains that bind us ...... once we realize that those chains are truly gone we can trade those chains for the eyes and the heart of Christ.... Don't skip the first step in the DIY project that is your life.......

STEP 1: NEVER TRY THIS ALONE!!!!!!!!!!!! JUST FOLLOW YOUR CREATOR