A Sneak Peek of the Makeover at the Shabby Creek Cottage

The makeover is complete!

As per my previous post, I've been down in the boondocks at The Shabby Creek Cottage helping my new friends do a makeover for Gina's two daughters.

I have a long post in the works for tomorrow, but for now, I just wanted to pop in and show you a sneak peek of the results.

A teaser of sorts.

Believe me when I say that the makeovers were AWESOME!

I'll be back tomorrow with a lot more pictures, so enjoy this teaser for today......mkay?

All pics are compliments of Angie at The Country Chic Cottage........cause I forgot to take very many

I'm so excited to tell you all about it!



A DIY Bloggers Weekend at The Shabby Chic Cottage

It's time for some real fun!

I'm heading over to Gina's this weekend to help out with a fabulous project.

Ever the master of the project list, Gina has a whole bunch of them planned this weekend.

A "gaggle" of bloggers are meeting up at THE cottage to make over 2 rooms in 3 days.

Lauren and Hannah, hereinafter known as Lala and Bre, will be getting their bedrooms made over by this team of diy gals.

There's Lisa of The Pennington Point

ChaCha of The Heartfelt Home

Leslie (the winner of the "Come to the Cottage" contest) of  goodbye house, Hello Home

Angie of The Country Chic Cottage

And of course Gina herself!

I hear a few husbands are joining the team too.

They do not know what they're getting themselves in to with all us women around!

I cannot tell you how excited I am to get this opportunity to work with all these great gals this weekend.

Now Gina and I have been buddies for a while now, and she's been buddies with a few of these other gals for a while too. It's going to be SO MUCH FUN to finally meet all the gals we talk about all the time. Putting a name to a face is one thing, but putting a personality to a blog face is what I'm looking forward to. I think we all have the potential to get in a bit of trouble. :)

Now I must confess, I'm a day late and a dollar short.............as usual.

My commitment to work has me running a day behind everyone else.

They're going to be well into their projects by the time I get there, so I may just show up and put the seal of approval on it like the Good Housekeeping folks do.  :)

There's going to be building and sewing and painting and decorating and laughing and eating, and I...CAN'T.....WAIT!  squeal!

We'll all be blogging from the cottage to let you in on the transformation over there, and I think someone has threatened to whip out a videocam.

I'll be back tomorrow night to show you some transformation magic already in progress.

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Oh, OH, guess what??

We found a house!

Yep, we did. Yesterday.

I'll tell you more about that later, but let's just say I'll be doing a bunch of painting next week getting ready to move in next weekend. 

I'm trying to con Gina and Mr. SCC into driving over to help me.

I'll let you know how that goes after the weekend.

Here's a sneak peek.

(Yes, I know it's smaller than we're used to, but we're committed to downsizing so this is a major first step in that direction.)

It's a charming little house with a lot of potential...........and 3 bonus rooms! woohoo!

Repurposed Coat Valet - Easy Peasy Project Alert

I've always wanted one of those antique coat valets.

No real reason - I just thought they were pretty cool looking.

One day while at my favorite thrift store, I lucked up on this baby....

.........rickety, time worn perfection.....and only $8!

Had to have it!

Being clueless as to what I would actually do with it, it sat in the garage for a while.

One day I was unloading my car and sat a stack of baskets on the bottom of this to get them out of the way -

and that's when the inspiration struck!

I knew right that minute that this would become my new guest bathroom organizer.

You heard me right. I say it was destined to hold soap, not coats.

So, I gathered my baskets,

...and a few loads of toiletry items,

(from my stash of the finest toiletries around ;) )

...put it all together,

....and came up with this!

I LOVE IT !!

And here she is in place.

Purdy Spiffy, eh?

I thought so too.

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And before you ask......NO, I have not found a new house yet. This is from our last house, I just never got around to posting about it.

Where am I now?

Still hanging out in extended stay housing, keeping my fingers crossed that a house will fall in my lap before I get all crazy being cooped up in one room.

When it does, I'll let you know.

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So tell me, what have you been repurposing lately?

Linking up over at Funky Junk this week.