Chevron Frame Give Away!

I had so much interest in the chevron frames I made for the barn sale this weekend that I decided to give one away on my blog! All you have to do is become a follower if you're not already, and leave a comment with your preferred color (black, pink, yellow, light gray, red... heck, it can be pretty much any color).

If you post about the giveaway on facebook or your blog, it'll give you extra entries, just make sure you let me know in your comments.

P.S. the frames are 24" x 24". They're HUGE! Good luck, I'll pick the winner on Friday!

* I've gotten a few e-mails saying they can't make a comment on this posting. If you can't, just shoot me an e-mail at nikki_grandy@yahoo.com with your entry*

Barn sale pics

Well, another barn sale has come and gone. I unfortunately came home with more than I went with because I kept buying other peoples stuff! That was hard to explain to my husband ;) It was a huge success, thanks to all that came. Thanks, most of all, for braving the giant Haboob that came through Friday afternoon. Curse that mother nature for sending us a storm!

The next sale will be the first weekend in March. The historical district in Mesa puts on a weekend event called Lehi days complete with a carnival, great food, a rodeo and other activities and we're having it the same weekend! It should be great fun! And more importantly, the weather should be B-E-A utiful!

Here are some pictures of my favorite booths from the sale. I'll let the pictures speak for themselves!

Barn sale inventory

Here is the last sneak peak pictures I'll show you guys before the sale this weekend. But I will tell you I have an antique mantle, huge antique map of Arizona, two coffee tables, an old red door, and more! You'll have to come early Friday to see it all!

Apothecary style dresser. Great for a boys room.


Chevron picture frames in distressed black, light gray, and vintage yellow. Limited number available.

It's a keeper.

So, I went to this cute sale here in Queen Creek the other day put on by the girls over at the me and jilly blog. If you guys haven't read them before, hop on over, they've got some great stuff. I only bought one thing, but it was one AWESOME thing. They had a fun little galvanized bucket that I wanted to turn into a foot rest and sell at the barn sale this weekend.

The only problem is, now I don't want to sell it. So I'm not. Sorry guys, this baby's staying at my house. I guess you guys will just have to find some old buckets and do it yourselves!

Barn sale inventory

Since there was so much interest in the coffee table I made for Sara's apartment project, I decided to make another and sell it at the barn sale.






Hope you guys can make it to the sale. I'll be there all day on Friday. Here's the info again.

Same frame, two ways

I cut out some frames out of scrap wood in my garage the other day. They both started out with a plain square piece of wood with a square hole cut out of the middle like this...


For one of them, I covered the wood with cut out strips of galvanized metal found in the roofing section at Home Depot. I just measured, cut the metal with heavy duty scissors also found at home depot, and then nailed it on.


I left it outside and sprayed a little water on it for a couple days so it would rust up a bit. It was kind of hard to cut out the metal straight but I figured it out in the end.



The second one, I just added some extra molding I had to the middle and painted a chevron print on it in black and white paint.


I sanded the crap out of it and wiped it down with my favorite stain, Provincial from Minwax.




I'm still getting ready for the barn sale and am getting super excited. I have tons of furniture, accessories, and a bed. I'll post pics in a couple days of some of the inventory.

New Camera!

Guess what?!? I got a new camera. I'm not going to name drop, but it's a canon rebel. Oh yeah! I'm super excited, but I have no idea how to use it.

Good thing Chris at Christopher Leigh Studios is doing a workshop. It's on November 15th in Gilbert. And I am so going to be there. Here are the reasons...

1. I think the location, Shenandoah Mill, is really super awesome.

2. It's easily the least expensive workshop I've seen in a long time.

3. He works well with complete idiots like me. (I literally just figured out how to insert the memory card)

4. It's during school so I'd only have to find a sitter for 2 of my offspring.

5. I really need to exercise my brain before it turns to mush.

All my friends in the area who are reading this... assuming any of my friends actually read my blog... come with me. It'll be rad. Here's the link. Use the coupon code CLSTUDIOS at checkout to get it for $59!