Introducing a new clothing line that we just started carrying. Luckily I didn't have to go far to find a model. This little dress is very lightweight and could be worn in almost any season, with or without leggings or pants. I have sizes 2 & 4. Look for these looks and more at Austin Gift Company this week!

Somehow this blog entry never posted...so here ya go!  Happy customers! So, we finished the Craigslist customers living room, dining room, entry way and kitchen. I would like to thank the Academy and God and my manager...wait, that's my other life. But seriously, I would like to thank our families for putting up with the long hours of not seeing Kasey and I ...as she would say, "our built in babysitters." Cody and Jonathan really are amazing husbands and dads. They are up for rent. Remember everything is for sell! Completing this project really confirmed that you do not need a huge budget to have a complete, beautiful and personalize space. Mixing new and old pieces is truly the key. Say you hate your huge entertainment center you bought off the side of the road in 2000....like everyone else did that year. Don't throw it away! Think of ways to give it a facelift. You could chop it half or maybe turn it side ways...definitely paint that big boy! For the customer's end tables in the living room, we used an antique saw horse and a table made from an old suitcase. The coffee table is a cabinet door attached to a metal thingy with wheels I found at a junk yard. It turned out to be the perfect height! Instead at adding a traditional love seat to match the couch, we found a chase lounge. Just as much seating but with an different look. The small table by the sitting chair did not have a drawer face when Kasey bought it. She was able to customize the color of the fence wood, nail it to the front, which added a pop of color to the room. Yes red, but a small, tiny, inzzie binzy bit of red. Most of the bigger pieces of furniture was either in our garages or found on Craigslist. Their entry way table was an old sewing machine repainted with a cool duck egg blue color and a black stain. The entertainment center is an antique buffet. So cool! You just are not going to find a piece like this at Pottery Barn...for sure, a one of a kind! We used an antique foot board that someone had added a board it to make a shelf behind the couch. Chippy paint and all. Once we had the big pieces in place, we wanted to personalize their home based on our first consultation. On the fence wood entryway wall, we hung up a picture frame with chicken wire for photos.  If you look way up high you will see that we burned their initials on one of the planks like you would see lovers do on a tree. I could go on and on about the projects we did for these guys but the pictures really explain themselves. On to stage 37... The office. ~Jessie

First, before I tell you what this blog post is about, I have to tell you a funny little story. I received an email from a customer asking if I would take less than the marked price for a chair that was listed on Craigslist. They stated the reason was because the chair looks scratched. Haha...it's called distressed! I beat that chair up on purpose! And once I was buying a cabinet from a sweet elderly woman and her daughter said, "please don't tell my mom you are going to paint it." Yes, ok, and I won't tell her that I am going to whoop it's tail with chains and add chicken wire where the glass currently is either! Speaking of Craigslist (nice transaction, huh?) #Hashtag was contacted by a young couple through Craigslist who recently purchased their first home. They were looking for interior designers to take the dream of a completed move in ready house and make it reality. Hey, we can do that! With budget in hand, Kasey and I went to Chicafila with our tiniest of kids and drew up a plan. The only way for us to stay within their budget was to #Hashtag the heck out of this house. And believe me...we did! For all the new readers, #Hashtagging is taking something old and making it desirable or repurposing an item, like fence wood on the wall as art. I could write a whole other blog just on #Hashtagging. One day.... Stage one was painting the living room, kitchen, dining, office and master bedroom. We complete the fence wood wall in the entry way. (Shout out to Cristi for killing the cutting in) Here are photos of the process through stage one.

The girl likes to paint!

It was probably going on the 14th hour at this point. We added an accent color to sunken wall.



Entry way fence wood wall.



Entry way before fence wood wall was complete.

Had to show this guy...say goodbye to everyone little weird light thingy!



These two pictures were on the listing website. Let's hope we can do better than the way the house was staged to sell.

After 14 hours of working, stage one was complete...on to fun part or so I thought, SHOPPING!