booo

I move to Lake Charles in 15 days.

I'm so not ready.

-sigh-

Extreme Cabinet Makeover: Barrios Sisters Edition

"I'm dedicating this whole morning to you," Sergio grumbled as I looked through the little papers where I wrote numerous addresses. Much to his discontent, we were going to spend Saturday morning sifting through another man's trash in hopes to find me some treasures. Namely, furniture for me to take to Lake Charles.

I only found two small tables. Both wood. One was an interesting little cabinet a lady had sanded down with plans to turn into something nice, but said those plans fell when she decided to move houses and realized she had to sell a bunch of stuff, including the cabinet. The sticker on it, gooey from sitting under the sun far too long, read $3. I immediately thought of the things I could do with it. Sergio and the lady's son loaded it onto Sergio's truck, I bought one more small table for my mom (or me) and off we went.

I decided to wait until Sunday to do anything with it other than buy some paint. In the morning, I asked my sister to help me make over the little cabinet. Mayra, being the artist that she is, started throwing ideas at me about what we could do with it. She wanted to make some stencils. Bird shapes, since I love birds. Then she would pass them onto the cabinet under lace to create a nice texture. I will not lie, I thought her ideas might not work. "I've done this before," she said when I questioned her about applying the stencil under lace. Bueno, I thought skeptically.

After my mom painted the cabinet a Robin's Egg Blue we bought at The Home Depot, Mayra begin working on the large stencils and cutting them out. We began work on it around 1 p.m. and wrapped up around 9 p.m. We took many breaks, and ended up loving our results! This is the first time I took on a project like this. I anticipate more.

Check out the before and after pics.

Arte

I commissioned an incredibly talented artist named Beatriz Guzman to paint a little something for me to take to Lake Charles and hang on the walls of what will be my home. I have always admired her work. Don't know what will be on the canvas. I just know that there will be a swallow on it. And I think my dad will be there, as well, but I'm not sure. So excited to see the final product! You simply must go check out her work here.

Well, I will be in Lake Charles this weekend to house hunt, say hello to some current MFA kids and to pass 4th of July there. There's going to be a festival in LC that I am going to check out.