Birth date canvas

Here is a canvas my oldest daughter Britany painted today.
24"x48" canvas with all of our birth dates hand painted on each line oldest to youngest and family wrote at the bottom. She also gave the canvas an old time worn look to it before she did the lettering.

Great job Brit!

Revamped built in book case

Built in cabinet: I removed the shelves and cabinet doors then thoroughly cleaned the entire piece with TSP. After it was dry I then primed the entire piece with 123 primer by Zinzer. I rolled on a white paint in a satin finish. 2 -3 coats. I decided to paint just the back wall of the cabinet a blue gray and stenciled a design on it using a metallic paint. Soon I will purchase glass shelves instead of the original wood ones and Iv'e decided not to put the bottom doors back on.

Before

After
Update.... decorated, but I kept the original wood shelves, for now anyway.

Stenciled carpet

Recently we have purchased a home that we will be moving into hopefully soon. The entire place needs a face lift. ( Paneled walls, nasty floors, ancient lights and it goes on and on).
 A couple of the rooms we will not be replacing the carpet just yet. My soon to be office is one of those rooms, so i decided I needed to make it a bit more interesting.

I stenciled a design around the perimeter of the room on the carpet. Yes I did say carpet, not a throw rug.

It now looks like an area rug on the floor and not just a plain gold carpet. It was so simple and quick to do anyone can do it.
          I will attempt to post a tutorial soon.