adventures of a diy headboard...

i'm not really a big fan of diy things, i'm just not creative and it generally wouldn't come out how it supposed to. but i did see a barn board headboard on pinterest eons ago and knew that i wanted it for our bedroom. i mean, a couple boards put together, seems easy enough. seeing as we've been here 2 months now, i was kind of wondering where exactly we were going to get this barn board from. enter: my mom. someone she works with lives on 32 acres and has a dilapidated barn and said we could come on over and take anything we liked. finally, we found a day to go and we're now one step closer to having a headboard.

funny thing, on the ride there with my mom, dylan didn't know that my mom worked with the woman whose house were going to. he thought my mom just asked every patient when they came up to the desk, "hey, do you have barn board?!" lol silly dylan.

disapproving looks from me.

in case you thought i just stood around and let the men do the work, let me prove you wrong! i took out a nail, dammit, and it was hard work!

 we've got our boards!

 peek-a-boo

oh ya, there's also bees on the farm..

1 hard worker, and 1 onlooker who pointed out good boards.

the husband was even nice enough to cut the board to size for us, and give it a wash to get the dirt and dust off. i really hope this works out, and in the next few days, we can get this headboard made!

for the first time ever, i spray painted; & no one got hurt...update on my frames

my frame/photo collage DIY is still a work in progress...i'm gettin' there! you can see my inspiration for what i want to do here and the frames that i got at garage sales here if you missed it!

anyway, dylan is house sitting/dog sitting for his uncle this week, and their backyard backs onto a field, so it was a perfect place to do my spray painting. since i've never spray painted anything before, i didn't know whether i would make a mess or if something would unintentionally be turned black! so, lets take a look at my progress, shall we?

first things first, the handsome spooner.

the first pile of frames to get done..

isn't this such a well matched outfit?? ;) i wore old stuff in case i sprayed myself...

time to set up! 

woo look at me go. i think this is actually my favorite frame of the group. 

actually having fun! haha

 my roots are quite evident in these pics..shhh

and one more of the dog!

i think i've still got 3 or 4 frames left to do. then up next is finding pictures i want to put in! i see that taking a while...i'll have to rummage through my computer and see if i find anything that catches my eye. and i think dylan and i are going to go around toronto with a camera too sometime and take pictures at the Lawrence market perhaps. i think we might try and come up with some theme to base the photos around..just not sure what that is yet.

keep you posted at the next step!

i light the fire...

on saturday morning, dylan and i woke up a little early. me about 7:45am and him 8 (after me turning on the lights and ripping the blankets off him). shortly after that we were on the road looking for garage sales. we had looked the night before and found a site where you can search by area and there were 270 listed for just this weekend(!!!) i thought i would try garage sales on saturday before going to the flea market on sunday. good thing too. (if you missed it, this is what i plan on doing with the frames)

total # of garage sales visited: 21
frames bought: 11
total $$ spent: i think 3.50..$4.50 at the most..what what!
$6 for spray paint
=quite a success
oh and can't forget the dozen donuts we picked up on the way home *my parents were having company that night, not all for us*

it might look like chicken, but it's apple fritters on the left! nom nom nom

all of my purchases! soon to be made sleek and black.

see the picture in the top right with the lady dancing? i might actually keep that picture in there. the rest, well that's my  next task; finding pictures i like and fitting them to the right size. most likely sepia or black and white. and also see the light switch plate? that was .25 cents! i definitely needed a new once, since i still have my old on one, which is purple and sparkly! i was looking forward to starting to spray paint the frames right when we got home, but of course, it started raining. and it's since rained sunday and monday too. this weekend is supposed to be sunny, so i should be able to work on my project then! yay! pretty sure this is my first DIY..go me!

let me upgrade you...

my room at my parents place is in the process of getting an upgrade. even though i'm typically only here a couple nights a month during the school year, my parents basically gave the whole house a make over and since they offered to include my room, i couldn't turn it down. the walls were a pastel-ish purple with a blue comforter that faded to aqua and lime green bed skirt and curtains. yes, i had it like that for along time! it was time for a change.

my walls are now a dark gray; dark brown wood flooring has replaced rose colored carpet, and my bed set is now almost like a burlap color with black patterned swirls on it. my dad painted my 3 small wall shelves black and i also just got a tall black bookshelf to replace my overcrowded small bookshelf.

since that description of my bed sounded terrible, here's a picture; the walls are a tad darker in real life..

now, i need all new pictures to put up and haven't had any luck finding anything i like/want/something that catches me eye. then it just came to me..i've been seeing picture frame collages around the web and i love it. so that is now my plan for above my bed. something similar to these 2 photos below.

via apartment therapy

via apartment therapy- you may want to click that link to see the rest of the house-seriously amazing.

as long as the weather is decent on sunday morning, i think i'm going to head on over to the flea market again and look for a bunch of frames. my plan is to paint/spray paint them all black, but depending on what i find, that may change. and hopefully they will all be in the $2-$3 price range, because i will be needing quite a few.

anyways, it's another friday already and i can't believe it. enjoy the weekend!
♥