Super cool old door turned into a coffee table~

My incredibly nice neighbor and friend Emmie asked me if I'd like to have an old door that she found as she was cleaning out of  her family's garage. I was WAY excited of course because I have been searching for a good old hardwood door for some time now.  I wanted to turn it into a coffee table for the front room. It's big and will work for puzzles, games and make a good foot rest for a lot of people. Plus I just think it looks cool:)  

I had the door sitting in the garage for a week trying to figure out a good way to make a base. I have a few different styles of legs that I've salvaged from other tables, but the styles didn't seem to match the door. When it came down to it, I decided I wanted something similar to the base that was already on my other coffee table...only longer so it wouldn't look weird.  I was thinking about ways to re-create it when I noticed that the base actually comes apart and the middle board is just a 2X4 with a few cuts in the end of it.  SA-WEET!!  I could just replace it with a longer 2X4!!! Way less work than I was anticipating, especially since The Joe made the cuts on the 2X4 for me:) Thanks Love.

I unscrewed the top and took the base apart.

Painted the new, longer 2X4 black to match and put it back together.

This is a pic with the smaller base. My son and Nephews helped me take the hinges off of the door. They love taking things apart. 

I wanted to add a little bit of a personal touch so I created a vinyl stencil.

I sanded off quite a bit of the paint to age it.

I LOVE the hardware on the door!!

I'm so excited and The Joe has mentioned a few times how much he loves it as well. 

Thanks so much for the door Emmie!! You are the best!

Garage sale picture frame~

I of course love a good garage sale find as much as the next gal, but I can't compete with The Joe when it comes to the love of garage sales. He is addicted.  He has to have cash on hand when Saturday rolls around so he can head out in the morning and find some screamin deals.  The cutest thing is that he always comes home with things that he thinks I will like.  He found this picture frame for me a couple of weeks ago.

I didn't sand the frame because I really like the dark brown under the white.

While I was painting, The Joe kindly cut out a piece of bead board to fit inside the frame.

The bead board was a quarter from the scrap bin at Home Depot.

I wanted to make a sign with a word in each of the slats of the bead board with a picture in the corner.

Since the picture ran across the beads, I cut the bird to match so the vinyl wouldn't peel off.

Spanish Olive by Glidden is one of my favorite greens.

We have a really cool tool that shoots those little metal things that you find in the back of framed pictures. It works really well to hold the bead board in place. 

I hope you've been having a lot of love and laughter in your homes this summer! We have sure been enjoying spending time together. We just got back from a family vacation to San Francisco. We had such a great time!! I love having my children and hubby and all crammed in our van together. No one can escape!!! WAHAHAHA. I was really impressed{{and shocked}} that there was very little fighting. We had lots of treats, lots of potty breaks and I'm pretty sure I have the movie "Tangled" memorized now. Last night as we were driving, Mira kept telling all of us that we are her best friends. It was the sweetest thing I've ever heard. They are my best friends and I hope we can always stay that way!!!

Summery display

I hope everyone had a wonderful 4th yesterday!

I couldn't have imagined a more beautiful day!

We spent the afternoon and evening with a majority of The Joe's fam playing softball, eating delicious food and watching fireworks! The firework show was amazing!! I love that we were allowed to have huge, shoot em off the ground explosions this year! Wow! So much fun!!

I was in the mood to change things up a little bit this morning. Not that I was sick of patriotic decor, I was actually enjoying it quite a bit. I was mostly just in the mood to make something so I created a sign and rounded up a few accents for a summery display. 

I flipped my 4th of July sign over and made a lemonade sign on the back of it. A lot of my signs are double sided. Saves on material and I don't have to store as many decorations.

 I loaded it up with dishes. The Joe looked at this display and said..."hmmm, so the 4th is over, it's time for lemonade huh?"  I guess so honey, I guess so. 

Have an enjoyable 5th of July.