I love flowers, Sweet Friends. In fact, if I could wear flowers in my hair every day I probably would. I love having flowers in my home, so much so, I do at times, settle for faux. Are you a flower lover?

I love real flowers and faux flowers and I love incorporating them into my home decor. In today’s post I am going to show you one way to add flowers into your home decor.

Trash to Treasure Furniture Makeover!

Trash to treasure furniture makeover’s are my favorite and this dresser was such a mess. The picture above really doesn’t give the mess justice, but if you can imagine an old wood dresser that has been alive for probably 50 years, I am sure you understand what I mean.

Incorporating painted flowers on a dresser is the perfect way to include flowers in your home. Bringing flowers in from the garden is always bliss but if you don’t have a garden you may need to find other solutions.

Now, in years past when our home had a huge garden I spent most of my time out there. I’d plant sunflowers and peonies and dahlia’s and iris’s and morning glories and flowers in every color of the rainbow. I really love planting bulbs, as watching them emerge from the ground is always a fun and surprising thing.

With this furniture makeover, I originally painted it a two toned look where I left the drawers the wood color. I loved how it looked but then.

Then I got inspired by Josie and Sally, the Iron Orchid Designs Sisters to take it a step further.

You can watch how I completed this project on my You Tube Channel here.

Sallie and Josie inspired me with a project that they worked on. I thought that the dresser would look so beautiful with a vase full of flowers on the front of it.

On this project I used Iron Orchid Designs Air Dry Clay, Decor Stamps and Decor Transfers to create an image that looked like a vase full of flowers. I also used DIY Paint on the project. Here is the dresser at TreasureFest last year.

I hope this project has inspired you to go out and create something you love. Make it a Great Week!

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Treasurefest in San Francisco, California!

This month I’ll be at TreasureFest and I’m looking forward to seeing all of you. Stop by my booth for a free gift.

If you aren’t familiar with the Art Festival you can watch a video about it here.

Art Festival in San Francisco, California

I look forward to seeing you all there.

San Francisco, California – TreasureFestSF

The store is also open, so if you can’t make it over to Treasure Island to the TreasureFest, stop by the “Create With Cynthia Store” in Redwood City.

Did you see my latest You Tube Video on what’s in the Create With Cynthia Store?  If you missed it you can watch it here.

Make it a great weekend!

Cynthia

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I hope you’ll stop by and do some shopping!

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Furniture Make-Overs on Transformation Tuesday!

Today on the blog I’m sharing with you about my move back to town.  I left the Woods in Northern California at the beginning of June and moved back to town.  I spilled the beans about the move on the “Furniture Chest Make-over for my Bedroom” post.  The video is on You Tube here.

Upcycling Furniture for your Home!

When I finally settled into the new place I decided to stop buying new furniture pieces to make-over and focus on what’s in my home.  It was hard leaving the amazing beautiful redwoods that I woke up to each morning, but the view out my bedroom window is a little similar.

And Sofy loves siting on the chest looking out.

The new place is nice and spacious and the boys are happy to be close to their school! I’m excited about starting fresh in a new space and working on my projects!  I talked about my project list a couple weeks ago here.  I’ve been true to my word and still have not purchased any new furniture pieces!

I’m excited about working on the Rocking Chair above that sits on my patio.

In the post on “Time Blocking” I showed off some of my finished home projects, like the desk below.

This week I’m hoping to work on the Rocking Chair, the Chest above or the Sewing Cabinet turned Desk below.

Make it a great day!

Cynthia

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Vehicle for Moving Furniture

If you’re in the furniture painting business…

If you’re in the furniture-anything business..

you need a vehicle that will haul your furniture.

Van for Furniture Hauling

My old Van….. well it was old.

It wasn’t just my previous Van.  Most likely it had many previous owners.

The Van was over 20 years old and had over 200,000 miles on it. The Van was tired and last Thanksgiving it was really ready to take a rest. But I decided to keep on pushing it until the day before Treasurefest in March 2019.  And that, my Sweet Friends, cost me a little more than I had hoped for.

The Old Van Story

On Thanksgiving 2018, the Van was heading home to the Woods and when it got home, it could not make it up the dirt driveway.  As you all know, I live out in the woods and in November, it was a big muddy mess.  Not the type of adventure I had hoped for…the Van slide right down the driveway into the tree.

I don’t think the Van really liked the Woods.  It had multiple mishaps out in the Woods.  But Thanksgiving was the biggest mishap!  As I’m traveling up the driveway, it stopped, the back tires were spinning, but the Van wasn’t moving, and then it just start sliding backwards and then it got wedged between the tress!  (it = a human being trying to assist)

Poor Van, not just lost it’s passenger side mirror, but the back tire needed repair and the side door was damaged.

Well the picture above is what happens when you allow a friend to assist.

Of course, this was just the beginning of the Van mishaps, the story continues.

It was the day before March Treasurefest 2019.  I drove to the store to load the Van, with a feeling in my heart that she was done being pushed.  It was an ordinary day, I was just trying to get business done.  I knew I was pushing the Van to keep going, but I just really wanted to make it to TreasureFest.  After loading up at the store, I headed home to the Woods.   During the drive home the Van had two huge temper tantrums.  I could try an explain what a Van Temper Tantrum is but i’m not really sure.

Believe me this, that old Van was not going to TreasureFest.  As soon as I got home, I called Uhaul and rented a Uhaul Van.  Now that I knew the Van was undriveable (two mechanics assessed it as needing a new engine), I was, well…..

Van withdraws kicked in.  Day after day, I would have to re-think furniture purchases because I did not have an appropriate vehicle to haul the furniture.

I’d drive down the road and see a piece of furniture and I could not grab it.  It was HORRIBLE!

Finally last month, I headed into Princeton to check out used vehicles and of course I found the new van.  Tiffany was a beautiful white color with a blue stripe.  The new Van, a 2002 Dodge with only 50,000 miles was a government vehicle and perfect for moving furniture.  I call her Tiffany.  Tiffany is also a little temperamental, but I guess that’s just a Van thing.

Tiffany, the new van is hoping for a make-over soon!  She’s on the project list!  We’ll have to see when that happens, but until now.  Tiffany is happy!  She’s been to TreasureFest and she loves driving on the Bay Bridge. LOL

More on the Van later.  Hope you enjoyed the story!

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TreasureFest in San Francisco, May 25th and 26th!

Have you seen my You Tube Channel, Create With Cynthia?  Please subscribe and hit the notifications button.  Thank you if you have already done so.  This video is all about TreasureFest.  Enjoy!

Watch the video here.

If you love pups and people watching, get ready for loads of fun.  Oh and shopping too!

Make it a great day!

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