$12 Hairspray

I bought $12 hairspray.

I don't really know where I'm going to go with this, but I know I wanted to blog about it.

My hair has been so staticy....SO staticy....I posted on facebook and my friend Amy told me to get a boar brush (the word boar concerned me at first) and some bumble and bumble hairspray. Well....I went to Ulta last weekend, and I know they don't have bumble and bumble but I thought I'd look around at what they DO have.....though I would like to meander (yea, I think I just used that word) over to Sephora and get some of this awesome bumble and bumble stuff to try. Anyhoo....back to my adventure at Ulta......so leaving hubby in the car, I spent forever trying to find the perfect, yet inexpensive boar brush. I bought one that was half boar/half ...normal, and it was pink, and once I got to the register turns out it was on sale too. Woo.....Then I stared at a million different hairsprays.....

In my life, the most expensive hairspray I've ever bought was probably ....$3.99? I don't use hairspray that often because I don't like it....well turns out there's a reason I don't like it....the stuff I've been buying was crap!

But overwhelmed with the amount of hairsprays and concerned to go from a $3.99 bottle to a $25 bottle, I settled on a rando bottle of Iso Daily Finish Hair Spray for $12.

My hair was fluffy!!! :)

This hairspray has been life changing! lol.....maybe it's because I grew up with just my dad and my brother and even though I think I'm girly, there are things I.just.don't.get.

I love this hairspray but it brings up so many questions.....why have I been wasting my money on cheapo products? What other awesomeness is out there (well apparently bumble and bumble)? What other cheapo products can I switch out to awesomeness? What other girly secrets don't I know because I guarantee that most girls/women know this kind of awesomeness....

Anyway, put me in the mood to go shopping....for something cute....something else I don't worry about too much but I NEED TO!

I heart my new dress, I want to wear it everydayyy

Other new outfit!

Sigh of relief

Springgggggggggggggg......almost...still a little chilly but my flowers have finally bloomed. I'll let them live for a couple weeks that they do live and then we're digging everything up, mulching, planting....CAN'T WAIT! See the pretty blooms that I snuck out in my pj's to take this morning.......(will get better pics when they bloom a little more and i'm not in my pj's)

And see the row of them with the random bush that we plan to rip out in the coming weeks.....what a weird placement of a bush right??

And look, the hostas that we chopped down are trying to grow back. But we are definitely digging those up, they look like death by late summer.

Can't wait to landscape...considering we have no idea what we are doing, should be interesting! Since we've only rented before now I'm really excited to plant something IN the ground as opposed to some planter. :)

Hopeful

I'm gettting excited...today is March 6th....and exactly two weeks from now last year I was posting this exciting post about Spring!

I just snapped this picture outside in the rain, if it wasn't raining I would have shown you the whole row of tulips (or maybe daffodils, I can't tell) that are sprouting in our yard!

But here's at least a sneak peek. And day light savings is next Sunday! Not that I'm particularly excited to be waking up an hour earlier but that does mean darker later and that warm weather is coming!

Will keep you updated with these hopefully pretty little sprouts in our yard! :)

Mail Sorter

Like I had said in the previous post, I bought a mail sorter from goodwill for $2.96...it was a little scuffed so I quickly went over it with some white spray paint I already had. I printed incoming and outgoing with my SCAL and Cricut. I started to cut this little design and a P (for our last name) for the middle (for random stuff) but it just didn't look good.

Then I remembered Graphic's Fairy would definitely have something mail related so I searched her blog for something that I could use and found a perfect vintage postcard. I was going to print and mod podge but then I was searching everywhere HOPING I had some full page sticker paper (LOVE THAT STUFF!!) leftover from my wedding. I found ONE sheet and I already had printed on half the paper. So I worked around in paint trying to print on the "good side" and it took a couple tries but I got it!! lol and the postcard looks great on this.

Only downfall to this whole thing it's the netflix envelope doesn't fit...sad face.

Goodwill treasures

Went a brought a ton of stuff to goodwill yesterday and decided to stop in to see if there was anything good! And it turned out to be a good trip. You've already seen my ugly gold lamp. Sometimes I wonder if the cashier realizes that I'm going to paint the lamp or if she thinks I'm just going to use it like it is, shadeless and all.

I also got this great red candlestick, it's a little chipped but I love the bright red!! 96 cents

I got this great green glass! I love this!! $2.96

I got this little silver tray which I decided to spray white for now....$2.96

And lastly, I got this mail sorter...You have no idea how long I've wanted want of these....you can see what I did with it in my next post! Nothing fancy but I love! $2.96

Lamp Makeovers

I love a good lamp makeover, lol cheesy but true.

I had bought this lamp from Home goods and I really like it but I thought it would look better white, so I decided to paint it white! I love it but I don't think the shade goes as well now....I think I may just try to cover the brown ribbon white a lighter ribbon and that will help.

Second lamp makeover I really like! I bought this ugly, ugly gold lamp from Goodwill yesterday....$8. Painted it with Rustoleum Sage Green and picked up a $15 shade from target....it looks perfect, I love it! And now I have light in a much needed corner in the living room!

Shoe Box Storage

After finishing my table Friday, I was desperate to not put all my junk back on the bottom shelf....reason why I hate that table because there is no storage. So I decided I need some sort of basket and it was too late to go get one and I'm an instant gratification type of person so I remembered seeing some posts where people were making baskets/bins out of diaper boxes. Well no diapers for me yet but I remembered I had an old shoe box of Chance's. Then I was at a stand still because all of my fabric that I have was not cute to put in my living room! But THEN I remembered I had leftovers from my Ikea curtains that I hemmed.....turns out it was the PERFECT amount to cover this box. Then I cut out a white square from some fabric I had for the inside bottom. Wrapped it with the burlap roll and finally used this little fabric flower, which happens to be the first fabric flower I made (didn't turn out like it should, reason why it's been sitting around for months, but it was perfect for this)

Not many pictures, not good pictures but here you go! Completely free, completely cute, completely useful....yay!

Snapped this right before I came down to post so you can see I left the box uncovered at the bottom

Here is a tutorial from 'My Pink Life' that will be much more helpful than my non-existent one! :)

http://aimee-weaver.blogspot.com/2011/02/burlap-covered-storage-box-tutorial.html

P.s. look at my cat....she does this every morning...am I the only one this happens to? :-\

Blue Table

So first off....I hate this table....no storage, but I decided to give it a second chance...

We first bought this table like 6 years ago when we were in the apartment...it was pine colored, we painted it black right away and put the fish tank on it, behind the couch (not the smartest idea)...we were lucky it didn't fall and flood the apartment below....

I hate this table because it doesn't provide me any storage and I need it!! So I've been searching and searching for a buffet table, dresser, console with storage to redo....but I have been searching and not found it yet. So after seeing multiple people paint many different furniture pieces different colors and thinking I would never do that...to me, furniture should be black, brown or white.....omg I'm a furniture racist.....well not anymore! I've seen the error in my ways! :) I was watching Parenthood the other night (btw, best show ever......love love, yeah I even linked to it to make sure you click on it and see the awesomeness).....and they had a blue/teal console/buffet like table and a red bookshelf in the same room and as crazy as all the color combos were, it looked so amazing.....so Friday I decided that I wanted to paint my horrible little table blue and then maybe i'd let it stick around longer.....

I went to Home Depot on my lunch break hoping to find the perfect blue already premade but no such luck so I picked out a quart of Behr's 'Gulf Winds' and started painting the second I got home. p.s. I could have literally painted this table with a sample instead of a quart, i barely dug into that paint....wonder what else I can paint blue?! :)

I looooove it.

Before

After

Now I'm trying every opportunity to make the rest of the room brighter in other ways because this area is so bright it makes the rest of the room look dark. I think a good balance would be to get either lighter chair covers for the dining room or new chairs...hmmm

Oh, and a used sandpaper to scuff up the sides a little to make it look more...rustic? :)

*P.s. little do you know, you are also looking at two future posts in one picture above! Spoiler alert! ;)

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