Whew! ...Latest projects

My sister's & friends back at home are always asking to see what we've been working on...because we always seem to have some kind of project going on around here.

So the first two are to catch up.

I made this car seat cover for my best friend's sister (who found out she was pregnant when she was SIX months along, lucky, who's actually giving birth today!). This is the second one I made and I love the colors. They are so fun and bright for a baby girl born in the summer.

Instead of doing double flannel I did one side flannel and one a light cotton, to hopefully let it be a little more breathable for the summer heat.

You can't really tell, unless you click to enlarge the picture, but I used such a fun stitch. It's a flower stitch, it took forever, but turned out SO cute!
I can't seem to find the picture of the whole thing.Second on the list,
We had this cradle we used with Luke, before it was cream with cream bedding.
Our good friends here, are having their first baby girl any day now and we wanted to give them a nice present because they've been such great friends to us.

So, I repainted it black and made the bedding.

I think my favorite thing about it is the tulle ties.

I LOVE ORDER!

And to organize things.
The last two are much more recent. The past week I've spent a lot of time in our garage painting, painting and painting. Thankfully Matt did the harder work (I think), sanding. Thanks baby!

So as we were on our way home from picking up a FREE metal 2-drawer filling cabinet (to organize all our papers & documents...nerdy, I know).
I spotted this beauty on the tree-lawn a few blocks away. We did a drive by and figured no one was home and figured out a way to get it home, on our little car...this is what we came up with.

We are so ghetto.
The best part is that Luke was buckled in his car seat...somewhere in there.

I painted it black (3 coats), with this really crappy paint we have, and then I had to go over it a few more times with polyurethane.

Matt has needed a dresser ever since he moved here (3 yrs ago!). The past year or so he's been using some plastic bins (see them off to the side?). So we kept the ugly handles...because we are lame & don't want to buy any right now, but it's functional, works great and makes me feel good to have his clothes put away!
We didn't do our best on it, but it turned out just fine!

Total for this project: $10 for the polyurethane.

I think what I was most excited for about this project is that I got the bins he was using for my FABRIC!!!! YAYAYA.
Yes, I am pathetic. I looked forward to organizing my fabric for two days.

This six-drawer stack will be moved to the porch soon, but here she is in all her glory.
My tower of fabric.
Ahhhh.

My "baby" drawer.
I have a problem where I LOVE to buy fabric, but I'm not that quick at actually sewing it. I just love to have it. I must be turning into my m-in-law, who practically has a fabric store in her basement.

And my most favorite, latest project...

This is the baby changing table/dresser we had for Luke before. It was sturdy, worked great and free (someone gave it to us), but it took up a lot of space and didn't hold a whole lot.

So, we replaced it with this dresser, that someone gave us too! I love free things & tree-lawn finds! I wish I would have taken a before picture, but I forgot. It sat in our garage for 2 1/2 months and we finally found time to sand it down and repaint it (4 times).

One drawer was broken, so we fixed that too. It had stickers, pen marks and was an off-white color...but I saw past all of that. I fell in love with it the moment I saw it.

I'm aware that the picture looks a little small and lame now...I'll have to make some changes.

I think it would go PeRfEcT in a little girls room.

It had some flimsy, old handles and we got rid of those and we don't really want to buy new ones at the moment, so I improvised and used some fabric that I am planning on using to make a quilt for Luke, when he's in his "big boy" bed. It didn't turn out as cute as I thought it would, but it works for now.

Oh, and it's so nice because the drawers work, hold more and it doesn't take up so much room, AND it matches his crib.
Total for project: $23
-had the paint
-had the fabric (thanks to my awesome m-in-law)
The $20 was because we "invested" in an electric sander.
And $3 for the wood glue to fix the drawer.
So it was a very inexpensive project, thank goodness!