~*A Craft & More Red*~

Happy Friday sweet blogging friends...I honestly don't know where the week has gone. I had planned on starting my spring cleaning this week, but that did not happen...too many places to go and appointments to keep! I hope to start next week!!!

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My dear daughter wanted to give some Valentine goodies to her close friends. I made these little bags. They're the small paper bags that you can find in the craft section of Wal-mart if you're still lucky to have a craft section. I added foam hearts and wrote on the bag with fabric paints. We added the candy and cut out a hole with a heart shaped cutter and added some ribbon. It was very inexpensive to make. The girls all loved them!

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After having this table cloth and placemats on my table for a little while now, I decided I wanted a change...
I found this lace table cloth at Wal-mart on clearance for $7.00.
I've been looking at these placemats for months...finally broke down and got them...aren't they pretty? I just LOVE them!
This was a plain natural colored basket...it needed a little pick me up so I decided to paint it RED...yes, I went from a black obsession to a red obsession...I just can't help myself! My husband had asked me what color was next...lol!

Well, that's all for now...thank you so much for coming to visit me...I appreciate it very, very much! Wishing all of you sweet friends a very

Happy Valentine's Day.

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I also want to thank all of you who visited and commented on my last post..."Tweaking my Tweaking." For those of you who have never tried the Wal-mart candles, I would encourage you to try them...they do smell so wonderful!

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Love, Kim

~*Bathroom Closet Organization*~

Hello dear blogging friends...I finally got around to organizing our bathroom closet. Even though the closet was pretty well organized and we could find everything we needed, I felt it was too cluttered. I needed to take the time to look through the things we had and discard what should be tossed.

Before:

After:


I used a milk glass flower pot for the hair brushes and a milk glass dish for the hair clips.

I used a sugar bowl for cotton balls and a small glass candy dish for the q-tips.
It feels so good to have things cleaned and organized in our bathroom.

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Thanks for stopping by! I always enjoy your visits....Good Night, my friends!

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Visit my other blog for a link to some free desktop wallpaper by Debbie Mumm...it's sweet!

~* New Goodies To Share *~

Good Afternoon dear friends. Thank you all so much for your sweet and kind comments on my bench. I am so thrilled with how it turned out...I wish you all could see it in person!

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I have a few things to show you today. I've been on the lookout for a small black (big surprise, huh?...lol) clock. I found this one at Big Lots for $15.00. I am really liking it alot!

The clock is for the walk-in closet that my dd and share. I'll have to do a post on that some day. Closet space in an old farmhouse is very limited, so we turned our spare room into a walk-in closet.
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While doing some errands today, I decided to stop at Burlington Coat Factory to look for more organizing bins...remember, I showed you one that I got a couple of posts ago? Anyways, I decided to stop there today to see if they had any more...they did so my next project is to get our bathroom closet organized. While I think it's neat and everyone can find what they need, I just hate seeing the stuff out on the shelves. I know, I know, you're all thinking well, isn't that what shelves are for? I hope you'll stay tuned for the reorganization project. Not sure when I'll get it started, but I will take pictures of the before and after.

As always, I appreciate your visits and comments. Have a great day, my friends!

~* More Black...Again!*~

Good Saturday Morning blogging friends! I took pictures of my latest black painting projects and decided to show them to you today...I thank you for putting up with me and my latest love of black paint.

I am amazed how much the shelf shows up on the wall now...I love it, though I'm not 100% sure about what I have on the shelf...we'll see what happens there.

I'm also really pleased how the picture turned out...I think it makes the fern really stand out now!

I'm going to be doing some reorganizing in my bathroom closet. I found the organizing tray at Burlington Coat Factory...I bought two of them for right now, but I believe I may get more...they are really nice and the price is right, too, at $5.99.

Thanks for stopping by...have a wonderful weekend!

~* A Litte Bit of This and That *~

Good morning, dear blogging friends! I'm glad some of you let me know that you signed up for the Gooseberry Patch cookbooklets! I'm excited...how about you? I also appreciate your kind comments on my living room tour. I still have several more pictures of the living room to post. They are pictures of horses and horse figurines. I'll probably post them at the beginning of next week.
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I updated my other blog, "Home Is Where The Heart Is...2". I hope you'll stop over to read what I have to say and to look at my pictures.

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I'm working on painting a couple of more things in my home black.

After I painted the BATH letters black, it seemed as though the picture above, which I got at Goodwill for .99 cents blended into the wall, so I'm painting it black.

I decided to paint this shelf black, too.

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Well, that's all for now...I'm off to bake some Coffee Bars that my friend, Lesa, posted about on her blog...YUMMY!

~*More Black Projects*~

Thank you for your sweet comments about my last post. I'm having so much fun painting things black...I hope you all don't tire of seeing my black projects because I have a few more. I'm not really sure what this wooden thing is, but I've been using it as a disguise on my washer to hide the ugly hoses. Of course, I do have to look at the hoses when I'm washing clothes, but at least they can be hidden should we have guests that need to use the powder rom.

I put this basket of pipberries there, too.
Here is a picture of the cupboard in my powderroom. As you can see, the black tiles I recently painted are on the middle shelf. Now that I'm looking at this picture the basket in the lower right corner looks a little out of place...or is it just me??? Do you think I should paint it black, too?

I purchased black plate holders at Wal-mart to lift them up a bit. I didn't like the look of how all three black items on the shelf were the same level...it needed some height variation and the plate holders solved that problem.On the top shelf is a sign that says "HOME". I made this myself. The frame was from a yard sale. It cost me .25 cents. The frame was light green and I painted it black. I used scrapbooking materials, but I'm not sure I'm satisfied with the look of it...I mean it's okay, but I think it needs some embellishment.

This frame was a thrift store find. It was gold, and then I had painted it white, which didn't work for me so I painted it black and added the scrapbooking materials. It did have a small picture of a bird in it, but I wanted something different.

Thank you for stopping by to look at my latest projects...have a blessed day, my friends!

~*Another Project Using Black Paint*~

Hello blogging friends...hope you all are doing well today! I've been busy looking for things to paint black and this is one of my recent projects. I found these metal tiles at Wal-mart in the clearance section last year. Again, I never did anything with them. Was thinking that they be great with old pictures mounted on them and that is just what I did. I figured that painting them black would work better with my decor so I slapped on a coat of paint (I found two tiles).

They're nice in white, but much better in black!

I scanned two old pictures of my dh and his brothers and mounted them on scrapbooking paper. Next I mounted them on the tiles. I'm really happy with the results. Sorry that the pictures are a little dark...I was trying to get a closeup.

This last picture shows them on a shelf in a cupboard that is in our powderroom.

Thanks for stopping by...I love the company. And, if you want to see the bench I'm thinking of painting, then go to my other blog to see the picture I posted. Have a great weekend!

~* Black Paint, Dishes, & A Pumpkin *~

Good Saturday morning to all of you! I wanted to show you something else I've painted black. I found candle holders at a yard sale and never did anything with them until last week. They were originally taupe colored and just didn't do anything for me. Once they were painted black I knew I had made the right decision. I've seen many of you display things on top of the candle holders instead of candles so I decided to put my little Amish girl and boy from Home Interiors that I got when my dh and I were first married on them.

I have them on my windowsill above my kitchen sink.

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Another thing I wanted to show you is the dishes I picked up at Walmart. I found them in the clearance section. I got two boxes of them (4 place settings each). The name of them is Amber Field. I found them online, too, but the funny thing is it says they are only available online and not in the stores. They were cheaper in the store though...go figure...I guess it was my lucky day...well, I really shouldn't say luck...I don't believe in luck...things happen the way they are to happen...not by chance.

Hmmm...now I think I need new placemats!

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I found this resin pumpkin at Walmart, too. It was only $9.99.

Thanks for stopping by for a visit...as always, I enjoy your company...have a blessed weekend!

~*I've Been Bitten By The Black Bug*~

...the black painting bug that is...I bought these letters last year at Target. They were white. They didn't look bad, but they blended in with the wall too much. I love how they now "pop" on the wall.

Same thing with these pictures...I picked them up at a thrift store a good while ago. The frames were gold and I quickly got rid of that and painted them taupe. They were ok, but definitely needed something better...black paint was the answer. Now I need to decide where I'm going to hang them in the bathroom. There are a few other things around my home that I'm itching to paint black...stay tuned!

~* My New Candle Holders *~

I found these great little canning jars for .25 cents each several weeks ago at a yard sale. I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with them, then it hit me...make them into candle holders!

I found primitive looking candles and pip berry candle rings with rusty stars and ta da...just what I've always wanted!

As always, thanks for stopping by and for all of your sweet comments on my last post!

~* House Number Sign *~

I saw a house number sign in one of my older issues of Country Sampler and I really liked it. I decided to make one on my own. I bought the board in the craft section of Wal-mart, purchased two stars and wooden numbers. I painted the board barn red, added weathering medium, painted yellow on top for a crackled finish. The stars were already the color I wanted them. I painted the numbers black and distressed them and then added everything to the board. I love how it turned out!
Thanks for stopping by and taking a look...I hope you'll come back again soon!
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As always, thank you for taking the time to leave me a comment. I appreciate each and every one of them!