Distressed Footstool with Handmade Pillow

Readers,

While putting together our guest bedroom, thought I would add this cute footstool, long forgotten in the storage room.  This footstool needed  a quick fix and a little paint.  I distressed the furniture using latex flat paint a combination of both white and off-white and distressed with fine sandpaper.  After drying I added Ann Sloan Wax.  The pillow is made of linen, my favorite fabric for  decor projects and  hot glued rosettes (tutorial here).  This cute footstool is at the end of the bed for now, but I might move it as time goes by.  Take a look at some pics of my low budget foot stool makeover...It probably cost about $5.00 to redo.  Hopefully this will inspire you all to take out an old piece of furniture and make it your own work of art.

Linen rosettes at the foot of the bed

Distressed footstool with ballet slipper ties

I linked up this project with Simply Inspired Blog and that do it yourself Party~link up with her today aswell.  Have a lovely weekend, hope it is great!

Thanks for reading friends

XOXO

SK

Thrift It Challenge

Readers,

I recently read of a" thrift it" challenge on one of my favorite blogs.  Liz Marie blog.
She challenged her readers to redo a thrifted piece.   Thought I would share with you my thrifted piece, a vanity stool.  So here is the before and after pictures.

The Before Image of the vanity with gold fabric.



The gold fabric was in good condition, however it didn't work with my homes color scheme, so I reupholstered in linen fabric and hot glued this rosette (tutorial on this is here).  Here is my thrifted piece after a little work.

Here is another version using small rosettes.

As always thanks for reading this blog and hope this inspires you to thrift a piece and make it a reflection of you.

XOXO

SK