Food Storage

While sitting in Sunday school at church, the instructor was talking about the Second Coming of Christ.  He was talking about being prepared and heeding the counsel of Latter-day prophets in getting our food storage and emergency supplies ready.  Those who are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as I am, have heard this SEVERAL times for SEVERAL years from SEVERAL prophets.  I have always had the "desire" and known that it is something Lance and I "should" be working on, but it wasn't until it the following question was asked that the importance and URGENCY of being prepared really hit me...  "Do you want to be responsible for watching your children starve in the event of an emergency because you have not sufficiently prepared?"  I couldn't help myself...my eyes well with tears every time at the very thought.  We have been instructed again, and again, and again.  Now is the time to prepare.
I just wanted to share this in hopes that it ignites as big a fire under your bum as it did mine!  LOVE YOU!

Trash to Treasure...

I have been on the hunt for a piece of furniture to use as storage for my ever growing supply of craft stuff.  A couple weekends ago Lance and I went out in hopes to find something during our community wide garage sale.  This is what we happened upon...

It definitely was NOT pretty, but the price was right at a whopping 15 bucks!!! The quality and sturdiness of the piece seemed great, but the previous owners let their daughter paint it...YIKES...it was quite a mess.  The hutch backboard had two large holes and wasn't quite salvageable, but that's not too much of a big deal. I'll show in a later post what I plan on doing with that.  Anyway...

I had the BEST helper ever sanding off a few rough spots...then busted out the primer.  I love primer.  It didn't require me to sand the entire piece before painting. Here it is in its "prime".

Then it was on to the painting.  I used an oil base paint because I read that it gives furniture a smoother coat.  Not to mention it is SUPER wipeable which is AWE-SOME!  Here it is painted with drawers in...except for two.  One needed to be glued and one needed to be sanded a bit so it would slide in and out more easily.  No biggie. 

I wasn't a huge fan of the hardware (although it is kind of cool and rustic which I might be able to use for a future project) so I searched online and found some nifty stainless steal pull bars for just $1.26 each! Since I needed 15 of the bad boys, I was STOKED at the price!!! I found some other ones I loved and thought were SO cool, but they were $10.00 a pop! OF COURSE!!!

And here it is finished with the new hardware. 

Yeah, I'm lovin' it! 

Project Tally:

Dresser and Hutch $15

Hardware $27 (shipping included)

Paint, primer and supplies $15 (total cost of all the supplies was more, but I plan on using them for future projects so this is the estimated cost for the amount I used on the project)

Craft storage awesomeness total: $57

I'll post it with the my hutch plans when that's complete.