What fun I had working on Rosi this weekend! It has been a while since we were able to get out to Rosi so I had a list of projects I was hoping to get done...and I was able to complete all of them! Three of the projects were fun ones that I was looking forward to and there was one that I was not really looking forward to...giving everything inside another coat of paint. I am so glad I got the painting done. She looks SO much better inside with the paint touched up!
The project I started with this weekend was prettying up Rosi's countertop. When we bought her, she had a white laminate countertop. It was not totally glued down and was bubbling up. The trim was beat up and did not go around the entire counter. It really bothered me!
I bought some pretty iridescent tiles a couple of years ago and never used them. I had just enough to cover the counter and go around the side as a sort of trim. I also had some white grout left over from a mosaic project. I decided white was just too plain for Rosi so I mixed some food color in the water I used to mix the grout. I was able to create a pale turquoise grout...turns out it almost perfectly matches the wall.
I absolutely love the new countertop. Rosi deserves pretty, shiny, sparkly things & I definitely gave her that in the new countertop!
The next project I tackled was making our medicine cabinet more unique. Years ago, we bought a new medicine cabinet on clearance from Lowes for a couple of dollars. We never used it. My husband found it in his shed still in its original box. It fit perfectly over the stove. We installed this a while back.
The cabinet was plain white laminate...kind of plain and boring. Well, Rosi needs unique items, not something run of the mill. I decided to decoupage some of our old ticket stubs on the outside and inside. Friends suggested I photocopy the stubs so I could keep the originals. I am glad I followed their advice as the paper was thinner than the original tickets and worked very well. I love looking at the old tickets and remembering old shows. I think this project gives Rosi a bit of a hippie feel which is perfect as we plan to bring Rosi to lots of music festivals in the years to come!
The last project was a fun no sew curtain. I found some old pink fabric scraps I had laying around and tore them as well as some new pink fabric I purchased into thin pieces. Next I cut a branch off of one of my Crape Myrtles to serve as the curtain rod. I tied the fabric to the branch. I looked around the house to see if I had something I could hang the branch from. I found silver screen door knobs. They worked perfectly! I love my new cute little curtain.
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