We have some REALLY exciting news to share with you today! John and I have been considering our next steps for FunCycled for a few months. After praying about it and asking others' advice, we decided to have John resign…

Hi All! I hope you had a wonderful week. I'm sure for most of you, it was filled with graduation parties, father's day celebrations, and yard work. Tis the season around here! Congrats to my little niece Emma for graduating…

Happy Tuesday everyone!! I'm beyond excited to share this week's Tuesday's Treasures with you. If you haven't seen it yet, I also did a post on our recent NYC trip for John and my 10th anniversary. This armoire was in…

This is a quick overview about our anniversary trip to NYC. With some time saving, $$ saving tips to help you have a great time in the city, too! On a rainy Saturday afternoon ten years ago, I said "I…

Hi everyone! If you aren't from upstate New York, you might not know that we had quite the storms last week. Wowzer!  Wednesday night I was at church in a meeting about our new Mom's Group starting in the fall.…

Happy Memorial Day from the daughter of a Marine. “The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.” - Thucydides. We are so thankful…

Good morning! I hope you all had a nice weekend. If you all are Pinteresters (is that a word?)... well, if any of you look at furniture on Pinterest you've probably seen this dresser by Art is Beauty. If you…

I know, I know, two posts in one day?? lol I just finished up this makeover and put it on our Furniture For Sale page. If you're interested in buying it please use our Contact Us form or email me…

Simple. Classic. Elegant. I think that sums up this week's makeovers. Audrey welcomed me into her home to show me the furniture in her dining room that could use a face lift. Here they are before. Sorry I don't have better…

If you are sentimental like I am, you'll understand my struggle with this next story. See this vanity? Well, it was my grandmother's and I remember as a child looking at it and loving everything about it. There is something about it…

I'm really excited to share these before and after pictures with you. This kidney shaped buffet is stunning! I loved it from the day I bought it. I really wanted to keep it myself, but decided that it was way…

Good morning everyone! Since there was so much excitement on our Facebook page over our purple end stands, I thought it would be a good time to share a quick before and after post about it. Here they were before…

Hello everyone! I'm sorry for posting this Tuesday's Treasures a little late today and for not being online as much as I usually am. I decided to take a week off from furniture projects so I could catch up with…

So, who remembers this desk from our Upcoming Projects page? The leg was broken, but we had all the pieces to bring it back to life. :) It's a beautiful piece, right? I fell in love with it right away…

Hi Everyone! I hope you had a great weekend. We had a busy Saturday reorganizing the barn and trying to make room for over 30 new furniture pieces. We've added most of them to our Upcoming Projects Page so please…

Hi All! I'm BEYOND excited about this new dresser that I just added to our Furniture For Sale page. Please check it out to see the size info, pricing and to make sure it's still available. When I bought this…

Well... dumpster diving may be a tiny bit of an exaggeration. My friend Jo Ann who reads all of these blog posts and makes sure I use "English" and don't write something I could one day regret (except maybe that post about…

Hi Friends~ I'm having a fun time over here making some really beautiful new pieces. Since it's keeping me busy, I haven't had to post all of the ones I love. So I'm sharing a quick before and after with…

Did I just call something a Dresser Thingy?? Why yes I did! Why? Because I'm a weirdo. Why else? I don't know what to call it really. I picked up this dresser one day and knew it needed lots of…

Good morning everyone! Since it's a snow day here in NY, I thought I would share a quick overview on how to paint an Ombre (or gradient) colored dresser. We started with this dresser: When I bought this little dresser,…

Is it snowing where you are today? Even though it's mid-March here in upstate New York, we're enjoying yet ANOTHER snow storm today. It's days like these that I wonder why I live in NY. Lol! On a much more positive…

Hey everyone! It's been such a crazy week here with almost all of my projects being more complicated than I anticipated. You've probably seen on our Facebook page that 1/2 of my projects kept bleeding through this week. Which means,…

What could be better than a lighted hutch -a huge lighted hutch painted black and distressed to give it just the right feel? Yes indeed, you're right! This is my first ever black hutch. This hutch may look average size,…

Happy Monday everyone! I thought I would surprise you this morning with another quick before and after. I bought this little dresser and loved the shape. We've done many dressers in this style, but for our customer, Pam, we were…

OK, OK, it's not really a coffin... it's just a HUGE beat up old trunk!!! It's so big that I probably could bury my little sister in it (of course I wouldn't - you know that, right, Lee Lee?). Happy Tuesday's…