by Marian Parsons | Dec 16, 2012 | Before and Afters, Furniture Makeovers
Notice something new? I’ve been working with Reni on a new look for my blog over the past few months and it finally went live last night. I still have a lot of work to do on the pages, but it’s getting there. Today I went to do a book signing in...
by Marian Parsons | Sep 9, 2012 | Before and Afters, Furniture Makeovers, My House
If you’re very, very observant, you may have noticed that my dining room table top looks a little different. That’s because I finally broke down and refinished it. Again. I was going to write a quick post about it, but then I realized the evolution of...
by Marian Parsons | Sep 4, 2012 | Miscellaneus
This post is a little bit all over the place. A tip about hand painting lettering on antique-looking signs, a little peek at the kind of food I’ve been eating as a vegetarian and some info on how I’m wearing my hair lately. Some bloggers have a schedule...
by Marian Parsons | Aug 19, 2012 | crafts, Tutorials
A few of the kids in our youth group have been firsthand witnesses to the entire journey of my blog. Yes, they used to make fun of me and I’ll admit that the notion of writing a blog sounded a little dorky to me, too, until I got sucked in. They tolerated me...
by Marian Parsons | Jun 7, 2012 | Before and Afters, Furniture Makeovers, Hand Painted Furniture, Running a Business, Writing a Book
I had to do a lot for my book. A lot. It was so much more work than I anticipated. Weeks of writing, hundreds of pictures, hours of photo editing, weeks of rewriting, dozens of projects and days of staging. After all of the work, some of what I did didn’t make...