My Inexpensive Bedside Tables

We recently had the flooring redone on our second floor.  We LOVE how it turned out.  We had horrible forest green carpet (except for a couple of rooms) throughout the house when we bought it.  We removed it from the first floor almost right away, but the second floor just wasn't in the financial cards.  There aren't a lot of colors to use to decorate when you have dark green floors.  Our master bedroom had been decorated with a maroonish-red since we bought the house in '04.  Now if you know me, you also know that I like CHANGE!  I was SO excited to change the color in our room.  I asked my mom if she and dad would get us new bedding for Christmas...they got us an area rug too.

I wanted knew bedside tables, but didn't really want to spend too much money.  One day while visiting my parents last fall, mom and I hit a resale shop.  I found a cute little solid oak drop-leaf end table for $22.  It's nice and heavy.  We bought it and took it home to Dad.  Now if you know my Dad, he is a traditionalist when it comes to furniture.  The thought of painting what he considers to be a nice piece of furniture might just put him over the edge...lol.  Did I mention that my Dad refinished furniture???  He even taught himself to hand cane chairs. 

I wasn't quite to sure what my Dad would say when I asked him to saw a perfectly good table in half.  LOL!  He just looked and me and said...OK.  He did a beautiful job!!!  He even commented that if I ever wanted it put back together again it wouldn't be too hard because it was such a clean cut.

So...here are our matching bedside tables...

I bought a couple of L-brackets to mount the now two-legged
tables to the wall.  Yes, I am lying on the floor to get
this photo.  LOL

And just because I think it's TOTALLY AWESOME...
our new ceiling fan.  We got it at Lowes.

Valentine's Day Gifts

I got my craft on for fun little Valentine's Day gifts for Lily's teachers and aide.  I think they turned out kind of cute.

I saw some Hershey's kiss "long-stem roses" somewhere on the internet.  They seemed easy enough to make and kind of fun.  I used Valentine's Day pencils instead of wooden skewers, but this tutorial should give you an idea of how to make the flowers.  I bought the cute little buckets at Target...in the $1 bins.  Love, love, love Target's dollar bins.  I used some floral foam in the buckets.

Charity's Fundraiser

We interrupt my usual craftiness to bring you this post...

Many of you may remember when I was helping a friend of mine raise money for their adoption, about a year ago.  Rob and Deanna brought Lucy home last summer.  She's flourishing in her new home!!!

Lucy Maria

This past Christmas, Rob and Deanna decided to answer God's call once again.  They hope to bring home their second adopted daughter this summer.  Sweet Charity is such a doll!!!

"Charity"

The Sader family needs to raise another $16,000 in order to ransom Charity.  It's so sad that it costs so much to save a child, but it's a fact.  It costs approximately $25,000 to adopt from the country where Charity is.

The Saders have an awesome fundraiser going on right now.  You can visit Deanna's blog to read all about it.  But here's a hint...VACATION!!!!

Incidently, I'm helping Deanna keep track of the donators.  So if you aren't one to comment on blogs, you can let me know how much you donated and I can enter you in the giveaway.  You can email me at scrapbookercathy@yahoo.com.

Oh...and if you don't want to use Paypal, you can send a check to Reece's Rainbow.  Be sure to include Sader/Charity Adoption on the memo line!!!

The address is:

Reece's Rainbow
PO Box 4024
Gaithersburg, MD 20885

This happy family of 4 will soon be a family of 5!!!!