Since my last post featured my mom’s new powder room ceiling, which was inspired by *MY* powder room’s beadboard ceiling, I thought that i was only appropriate that for Frlashback Friday this week, I feature my entire Powder Room Makeover.

On my summer trip to my mom’s house, one of the project she asked me to work on was paneling her bathroom ceiling.  She had seen my powder room ceiling and decided she wanted something similar.

My mom actually has a beautiful bathroom (check out that oval window!), but the ceiling was pretty bland:

The rest of the room has very traditional features like marble counters and a chrome cross handled faucet, so beadboard was completely appropriate:

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I was excited when JannYvette invited me to join the Tour Through Blogland, and I was super flattered when she said all these nice things about me.  (*blush*)

The idea of this tour is to quickly introduce you to other wonderful bloggers you may not already know about.  (And without having to randomly ‘pick them up’ in some shady bar on Pinterest.)

JannYvette has an amazing blog (Confessions of a Junkaholic) which features her painted projects, a few recipes and a whole of lot of salvaged inspiration.   I have recently started following her on Facebook and I love her projects.

She also has a booth featuring her wonderful designs at Woodstock Market, so if you are in the mood to buy some beautiful treasures, and you are in the Actworth, Georgia area, be sure to swing by for a visit.

I asked on Facebook what kind of project everyone would like to see.  (Therefore if you don’t like this post, and don’t follow me on Facebook you can only blame yourself!  *wink* ) 

The response to my survey was hands down: “Glass Etching”  so I quickly whipped up this project to demonstrate how to use the Silhouette for glass etching. (And I included an alternative to cutting a stencil with your Silhouette if you don’t have one yet! Those directions are in RED**)  

For my sample project I wanted a prettier way of keeping my dish soap on the counter, the idea of a labeled dish soap bottle came to mind.  Obviously, you can etch any glass surface, but a clear glass bottle is a good starter project.

Step 1: DO YOU ACTUALLY WANT IT TO BE YOUR STYLE? 
What are your goals? Is this going to be your bathroom? A guest bathroom? A child’s bathroom?

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So what do you think of my new stair landing?  I'm so excited about it I could jump up and down and spit nickels!

It was a TON of work, I'm not going to lie, but it was totally worth it.  And really, it wasn't difficult especially since I didn't have any paint touch up.  NONE!

So how did I do it?
I'm glad you asked! But first, let me take you down memory lane (it is Flashback Friday..)

I have been trying to dream up a practical back to school gift for the girls' teachers, and as I was digging through my Haven Swag I came upon a wooden "assemble it yourself" kit from Home Depot.

I knew I could transform it (and personalize it) into a teacher gift using my Silhouette and since this month's Silhouette Challenge theme was "school" I finally got motivated enough to throw it together.

Since I couldn't find the kit commercially available, I took down all the measurements (it is super straight forward) so that I could duplicate it out of cheap pine lumber if I wanted to make more.

Here is everything I needed:

I cannot stand how fast time is flying. I have so many things I want to work on, and I just can't seem to find enough time in the day.  Hard to believe it is Friday again, but at least that means it is time for another edition of Flashback Friday!

Today I decided I would feature my favorite past spray paint projects.  Spray paint is one of the fastest/cheapest ways to update thrift store finds and outdated objects.

My personal favorite transformation was the free curbside filing cabinet that I spray painted purple.

My kids actually don’t start back to school for a few more weeks, but a lot of my friends and family have kids that are already back, so instead of jumping right into the “leaves and pumpkins” fall type theme, I thought instead I would put up a back-to-school mantel.

I threw it together in about 15 minutes and with only stuff I had lying around. Things like pencils and alphabet blocks came out of the kids’ toy closet:

These apples are actually REAL apples.  (Normally I use wax fruit, but I didn’t feel like scouring the garage for my fake apples.. I was in the middle of watching the Chopped Teen Tournament!)

Why hello August! It feels like summer vacation just started, yet here you are.. the gateway to Autumn.  I feel like I didn’t get a ton of projects done since July was so packed with vacations and conferences, but it has been fun.

First there was Haven, which was definitely my highlight of the summer.  I feel really bad that in my recap post I left someone off of the “awesome attendees” list.  So now I want to take a second to tell you to visit Julia at JustSomethingIWhippedUp. She is a BRAND.SPANKING.NEW blogger, and is fixing up a house back in Boston, which makes her near and dear to my heart.