Cha-Ching

One of my favorite things to do while Jack is napping is browse through the pages of Craigslist.  I search for anything that looks like it could be redone, remade, or repainted to look fabulous.  I rarely find anything, but this past week I found an old dresser.  I should mention here that my main criteria is price -simply because I don't want to spend a ton of money on something that I could quite possibly (and very likely) ruin beyond repair.  

So, here's what I started with:

Then, the real fun began.  It actually sat in our garage for about 36 hours (a record!! for this impatient girl) until I decided what I wanted to do with it.  A few trips to Hobby Lobby, a few close calls on quasi-hyperventillating (from pure excitement!),  a few paint jobs and knob choices later, and here's what I had:

Oh yeah, I can't forget the inside of the drawers.  They were pretty bad.  And when I say bad, I mean cheap.  I'm pretty sure they were MDF.  I don't really know what that is, but I've heard my handy hubby use that word when describing the stuff, so I use it too to sound more with-it :)   So, I knew I definitely had to cover (and cuten) them up.  

That's flocked paper in there... so stinkin' cute!

I really can't describe how freakishly nutty I become when working on a project like this.  I absolutely love it.  Like a fat-kid-loves-cake kinda love.  It's the kinda thing that I'd love to do and be able to make money doing, simply because it doesn't feel like work to me.  

So, there was the next dilemma.  Should I post this thing on CL with some ridiculous price tag and see what happens?  Why not.

  

Can you believe I sold it to the first person
who emailed me about it? 

Woohooo!!!  Now, on to the next purchase :0