Pink & Polka Dot

Before and After Turquoise Dresser

Turquoise dresser
after

before dresser

before

I had to use the same drawer pulls because they are not the standard 2″ or 3″. They are…like 2-3/4″ And I will have to order them online. Until then I just painted them black…not my favorite, but at least my husband can open his drawers. Manly men like turquoise dressers. I sanded it a bit…just enough to scrape it up and then I primed it and put a coat of turquoise paint on it. I think it’s called “garden pot” from Lowes. I distressed it with my sander and put an antique glaze over it. Much better! Have you painted anything turquoise lately?

i heart thrifting


I’m participating in the “i heart thrifting” event this Saturday! Are you? If so, please introduce yourself here in the comments and I can’t wait to meet up with all y’all in real life! My friend, Carrie, and I are going together. Hopefully, we will all find that most perfect treasure!

I’m still looking for a HUGE cow painting similar to these. Please tweet me if you see one while you’re out and about. Use hashtag #ilovethrifting. Go to Mr. Goodwill Hunting’s Blog for a list of participating cities. Happy Thrifting!

Day Trippin’

Beach Thrifting


We took a day trip to go thrifting in Wilmington. We hit Ivy Cottage, Thrill of the Hunt, Shop of Seagate…and a plethora of thrift stores. It was all about the thrifting and the eating…of course. We ate at Dockside for lunch. I had shrimp and grits {my first time}…delish! Guess who else was at Dockside for lunch…


We were total paparazzi geeks! I’m soooo lame!

Then we went to K38 for dinner and I had the yummiest grilled mahi mahi fish tacos! “VitaMama“, who is my friend IRL and a sponsor also went…along with my friend “T.” We had a great day hanging out and would you believe that I came home with only 1 shirt for myself? No furniture! Where do you Day Trip?

Beach Thrifting

Beach Thrifting

This weekend, I went to the beach with my sister for much needed R & R. We went to see a Bon Jovi Tribute Band at The House of Blues. We ate {steak & lobster}. I slept until 10AM. We relaxed at the beach and did our mutual favorite thing…went thrifting. We couldn’t find any great places at first…just lots of consignment stores that were all VERY high priced. Finally I googled goodwill, we called them and B-lined straight over there. We only had about an hour, but we both walked out with something. Me…two powder blue pillow shams for $.99 cents.

See that orange sofa? It was only $5 dollars. It was a prime piece to slipcover! My sister drove, so I couldn’t load it into the back of her Honda Accord…I should have driven that huge earth destroyer of mine, so I could’ve loaded up on some furniture. I saw plenty of great furniture at Goodwill and Habitat for Humanity. What did you score while thrifting this weekend?

My name is Kristi and I have a furniture addiction


I went thrifting with my favorite 2 girlies yesterday…then we went out to eat lunch. It’s amazing how much you appreciate those little things when you’ve been quarantined to your house for almost 2 weeks. At our first stop, I found this table and chairs for $38. Yes! Seriously!

My conversation with the owner:

Me: “you know that table and chairs back there for $38 dollars?”

Owner: “yes”

Me: “it’s only $38 dollars?”

Owner: “yes”

Me: “$38 dollars?”

Owner: “ummm yes”

Me: “wow! i’ll take it.” “i’ll have to go dump my kids off before i can load it into my big fat earth destroying suv.”

Owner: ” i’ll put a sold sign on it.”

Me: “i’ll be back.”

I totally didn’t need it, but it was $38 dollars! So I moved my rectangle dining table upstairs as a studio / sewing table. And I’m rearranging a bunch of other stuff. I’ll post about my studio as soon as it’s done!

I’m working on this today. Can anyone say hoarder’s intervention? There are so many projects in here that need to be done and I will not step foot into another thrift store until this garage is clean. I think.

To Do’s:

  • slipcover set of clubchairs to sell
  • refinish white dresser and chest of drawers to put in master
  • paint pedestal table white and sell along with chairs
  • husband to finish corn hole set
  • chest of drawers to be painted a light gray for master
  • door leaning to the right to be made into headboard for master
  • ride my bike…sometime when it’s not 100 degrees and 200% humidity
  • move elliptical machine to studio {it’s there, i just took this pic before it came in}
  • organize paints and supplies
  • misc…