An Unusual Sunday Boost of Energy

For some extremely odd reason, I decided to forgo my typical Sunday afternoon of vegging on the couch taking multiple cat naps, reading, and getting caught up television. After we got home from church, I had an unusual Sunday afternoon boost of energy.

I cleaned house from front to back, had the kids clean their rooms and the basement, and ran back and forth between my house and my parents' to do laundry (my washing machine is broken, but I get my ones from Oklahoma this weekend ... squeal!!).

As if that wasn't enough, I decided to paint the bedside tables in our bedroom. A bit of back story ... In Oklahoma we have the most amazing bedroom furniture with a super comfy king-sized bed. In our little house in Missouri, there is no way that furniture is fitting into it. So, our master bedroom furniture is, instead, the furniture that I grew up sleeping on at my grandma's. It's OLD! When we moved in I painted it all a nice chocolate brown. It has a full-sized bed (so small!), a tall bureau, and a mirrored chest of drawers. But, it has no bedside tables. So, I took the two pine end tables from our second living room at our house in Oklahoma to use in our bedroom in Missouri.

When we were moving my grandma into a nursing home, I was so sad that this furniture was going to just be given away. I loved it! So, I was actually so glad we needed it in our new house so that I could keep it in the family. I plan to use it as our spare bedroom furniture when we do the renovations upstairs (someday).

The side tables did not match the colors in the bedroom (green, tan, white, and chocolate brown) nor the style of the other furniture. They were rustic, and they drove me crazy. BUT, we don't have the money to purchase anything new right now, so we have to make due with what we have.

I felt like I was in college again, throwing together a mish mash of furniture.

I wanted the tables to be transformed into something new and eclectic, but still to blend with the other furniture. So .....

I "green"-washed the furniture. I watered down green paint we used in our kitchen, painted a whole side, and then rubbed it with an old t-shirt. When that was dry, I watered down some of the brown paint I used on the other furniture and added accents to the edges, creases, corners, etc., and rubbed it around. Then I painted the top that same brown.

I think they turned out really cool. AND they look really neat in the room!

They have also inspired me to complete the decorating in the bedroom. I want to get some chocolate brown Euro pillows, a neat iron scroll thing to hang above the bed, some cool prints of birds (maybe from a calendar) and frame them with green matting and white frames, and I want to get a couple of small green/brown rugs. With a couple of other miscellaneous accessories, the bedroom will be very comfortable and cottagey.

This is, seriously, the tiniest bedroom. But it's only temporary. The upstairs renovation will include a master suite, and this room will become Brynne's, when and if she and Eli ever decide they can be separated.

The last thing I did last night was to touch up paint in the bathroom, spray paint some hooks a rubbed oil bronze, and hange a toilet paper/magazine holder. I had to use my MacGuyver skills to do that. Rick will die when he sees how I did it.

Oh, and I cooked a BIG dinner ... for a Sunday! (We usually either go to my parents' for dinner or have something super easy). We had homemade fried chicken strips, waffle fries, and apple slices.

Then Dawson and I ended the night watching an episode of Chopped. My feet were actually hurting. And, dang, I slept good last night! No wonder .. I practically worked myself to death.