Yard Sale Find Flipped to a Colonial Antebellum Home Inspired Dresser

Welcome everyone to my Colonial Antebellum inspired Dresser Flip. It began with this $20 dresser yard sale find. This 10 drawer find I thought was in fairly good condition aside from some deep scratches on the top that needed to be sanded out or filled. They were even kind enough to deliver it.

Once I got it home and out of their grass...  I could see the work I had in store for me. The above image shows how much cosmetic work was needed to be done to the side of the footings and moldings. Most of it I was able salvage after removing 6 nails and 4 screws, all of them were driven in from the outside of the piece and were visible. The molding was in 3 pieces in the front and missing the back foot.

Repairs were made and she was brought back to life... Possibly even a grander life then she had before with the addition of the shutters to her mirror and new hardware. This dresser was inspired by the Colonial Antebellum architecture found frequently here in the south. I am in love with all the history around here that comes with being on the east coast.

Meet Mrs. Hayward

I will admit I felt like this project was never going to end. Rebuilding, repairs, patching and sanding. It so far was the largest rehab I have done. Her Body is finished with Alamo White antiqued with Black ReVax, sealed with Sheer Vax.

Her top is Licorice (black) with Black Revax as a sealer.

Here is one full look at the before and after of what Shabby Paints can do for any piece of furniture! If you love it please make sure to take a second to comment below or Pin it to your favorite furniture board on Pinterest.

This beauty was sold in 4.5 hrs after I walked out of the store I set her up in. She is a stunning piece and I am sure going to be well admired once again. 

Want to know where to get Shabby Paints? I am happy to let you know I am now a Shabby Paint's Stylist. Currently I am taking pre-orders as I await my first shipment of inventory to arrive. You can message me and flip through the colors I will have in stock on my Facebook Page: Uniquely Grace.

These items will arrive by and be ready to ship to all you fantastic people June 1st-15th! These colors are on their way so pre-orders are being accepted!We can ship APO!!!
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I soon will have an online store where you will be able to shop and order off of FB. If you have any questions on how much to order or how to complete a project I am always here to help. Message me at Uniquely Grace on FB and I will be happy to walk you though it.

Hop you have a fantastic Memorial Day weekend!



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Unique Book page Snowman and Winter window display at the bookstore, Books on Broad

Isn't he just so adorable? This cute 12" tall Snowman is in Books on Broad awaiting purchase so he can go to his new home this holiday season!

He sets atop a silver metal tray with fin feathers around the bottom to mimic a new dusting of the fantastic white powder we call snow. Adorned with holly leaves and berries and his scarf and top hat he is one dapper dude for a snowman.

2014 Book Page Holiday Creations:

• Poinsettia Book Page Ornament for your Christmas Tree
• Child Book Page Ornament Tutorial 
• Glass Book Page Square Shaker Ornament 
• Book Page Snowman
• Angel Wing Christmas Tree Ornament
• Table Top Christmas Trees
• Golden Star Book Page Christmas Tree Ornament

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Minecraft 3D Box Birthday Party Invitations - Custom Handmade Cards

Well my wonderful readers, it's that time of year again, my son's:

Birthday Party Time!!!

The theme this year is: MINECRAFT

Minecraft 3D Box Birthday Party Invitations (click to enlarge)

In a new state we were able to scale down the amount of invitations to only 20 this year! That is huge for this Mama, who is used to inviting upwards of 40 kids! Can you imagine? I think we even had our Harry Potter party where we allowed siblings to attend as well with almost 50 kids in attendance. YIKES!

After a very chilled out BFF only party last year my son is ready to host a bash again this year. So he choose his theme of Minecraft. If you have a child in you life who likes video games I am sure you know what this is. It reverts back to the old 16-bit graphics and is wildly popular with the gaming crowd. I don't mind him playing this game because of many reasons but my favorite thing about it is that it uses creativity. My son will sit here and build a home from the bottom up or a roller coaster or something crazy. Yup, the creativity in this game is what sold me on it.

Enough about that lets get on with the 3D Invitations! Let me know what you think in the comments below.

Minecraft 3D Box Birthday Party Invitations (click to enlarge)

As seen in the image above we used clear 6.5" square envelopes to hand out these cards. They could be mailed also they fold up so thin! How cool is that? Both the back and front of the card is the TNT graphic.

Minecraft TNT Exterior, card flattens for mailing (click to enlarge)

How does it work? Check out this 2 min video where my son, the birthday boy shows you how it works, push play and watch it in action:

Since these are double sided you can always opt to "unfold" one side relieving the inside of the box a bit more while the card is inside the envelope. But we didn't do this... thought it would be more fun to have the 3D surprise in the box when they opened it.

Option 2 on flattening the card (click to enlarge)

Once you open the card it unfolds into a box and the side flaps come down revealing the party info and characters like these here: Steve, Enderdragon, Enderman, Slime and a Zombie Pigman.

Minecraft 3D Box Birthday Party Invitations (click to enlarge)

My son helped me fussy cut out all the characters, we averaged about 100 total. Here are some close ups of the characters inside the box card. The cool thing about this is each card was different. No card had the exact same characters, which left the kids chatting about it after they were handed out. Who got what inside their invitations!

Close up #1: Enderdragon, Villager, Creeper, Blaze and Steve

Minecraft 3D Box Birthday Party Invitations (click to enlarge)

Close up #2: Enderdragon, Steve, Pig, Cow, Creeper and Ghast

Minecraft 3D Box Birthday Party Invitations (click to enlarge)

I hope you found this an interesting post. We had tons of fun making these and handing them out. There will be more post to come about the party decor, games and food.

Minecraft 3D Box Birthday Party Invitations (click to enlarge)

 Here is a list of more of my Birthday Party Invitations:

Boy Birthday Invitations:
- Harry Potter Hogwarts Invites
- Lego Bionicle Mask of Light

- Lego Starwars Light Sabers

- Iron Man Mask Brithday Party  Invites

Girl's Birthday Invitations:

- Fashion-ista Pink and Black Designer Purse

- Angelina Ballerina Birthday Party Invitations

Thank you for viewing my post today. Please leave me a comment below if you like what you see.

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Halloween Glam, a Romantic Twist on the Traditional Holiday Decor

Good day everyone!
It has been a while for me to post and today I am very excited to share with you some of my favorite Halloween decor for this season. Halloween Glam is a romantic twist on the holiday replacing orange with reds and adding chrome type silvers. A more romantic flair on the traditional Halloween decor. Here are my Halloween Glam Projects... enjoy.

One of my Skeleton Fairies. My mother in law was in town while I was crafting this window up and she helped out so much. Thank you! She actually made these wings... Fantastic aren't they!

This is just part of my display but the drunk skeletons give me a giggle.

Here I am up in the window, organizing and placing things and then showing off the fantastic colors of the parasol.

All projects were created with Helmar Adhesives.

CHA Chairty Wings Crafty Dress designed for Elena

Hello everyone and welcome!

Today is a quick photo post of my dress I made for Elena over at Charity Wings. She is waring it for the second day of Live from CHA! To see more projects with more of these types of flowers then check out my other blog post about my sister's wedding.

All hand sewn onto a base tank dress from Walmart...  Shhhh don't tell Elena... LOL!

As always got to give props to my HELMAR adhesive! LOVE this stuff... All the flowers and embellishments were attached with these glues...

Close up of the crown and wings stitched with DMC floss.

To see how I made these flower check out this tutorial I posted on Helmar's blog.

Thanks so much for viewing. Leave a comment below with your thoughts.

#LIVEfromCHA #chashow

Moss and Book page hanging wall art - Decorating on a Dollar

Hello everyone,

I am still wrapping up all the "homework" I have from CHA I have been having some creative fun this past week. Moving into spring and starting to gear up for Easter how about you? Us crafty types start early... got to leave time to make those fantastic projects, right?

Today I bring you a very large, yet simple and sweet, wall art project.



Here was my favorite part... moss is messy but I found this Super Moss Mat (a flat roll) at my local craft store and when you use Helmar 450 (click for tutorial post) with it... OH MY GOODNESS, it was SO EASY AND FAST!



Here is a close up. You can see the "N" is one of the 3D letters and the "E" and "S" are chipboard and are flat.


I actually went through and curled all the page corners forward to give it some playfulness and then I was done.



I hope you have enjoyed this post. Please feel free to let me know your thoughts in the comments below or if you are working on any spring projects I would love to see them.

Have a Happy Scrappy Day!


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Mini - Mini Mouse Cake Melia's Second Birthday

Hello readers!
I am going to share with you a quick post about a cake I made last week and today in the (hopefully sunny natural sun light) get some great photos of my new projects and pieces I was working on this past week. Until then though here is the birthday cake.

Here is a Mini- Mini Mouse cake I made for Melia who turned two. There was not much room for writing and this was a late night, quick put together and don't have time to freeze the cake prior to icing, run out of powder sugar while the hubby is out of town and cant run to the store in the middle of the night to get more cause the kids are sleeping, kinda cake and it really isn't my best work. Here is my inspiration from this post about this Mini Mouse First birthday cake.... http://blog.sowhipped.co.za/2011/09/2-tier-mini-mouse-1st-birthday-cake.html.

 This is Melia blowing out her candles... HAPPY BIRTHDAY MELIA!

 
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