Good Monday Morning!
Hope you all had a great weekend! We had a pretty quiet weekend around here – just a lot of projects around the house. We have a small break before marching band and fall lacrosse seasons start up and we are relishing the down time. Things will get crazy soon enough.
A couple weeks ago I found a set of cool dog bookends at Home Goods. They were a little contemporary with the lines and being stark white but I couldn’t pass them up for the price – $7.99!! I took a bunch of before pictures, but of course I forgot to put the SD card in the camera so no before pictures. Here is a set I found on the internet that are similar:
I took them outside – sanded them down a little bit and took a can of New Avocado spray paint to them. Look at what they look like now:
Aren’t they so cool and adorable? I love them. I have them sitting on my orange foyer piece that I painted in a previous post. I picked up the bottle at Goodwill and the flowers from Kroger for cheap! I just stuck the pillow behind it to show you how perfect the green matches! It is amazing the colors you can find in a spray paint now days! I love Valspar spray paints!
The flowers are so perfect that they almost look fake. Y’all know how much I love my Gerbera Daisies!
Close up of the dog bookends. I just LOVE them!
Loving the green and the orange together!
Happy Happy Happy! This transformation took me all of 10 minutes – so much better than stark white!
Hope your life is more avocado heaven than stark white havoc!
Missi
**This was not a sponsored post. I just love Valspar spray paints. All opinions are my own.**
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these look great, i love that color green!
Thanks so much! Green is definitely my favorite color – but I also love orange and turquoise!
Those are adorable now. They look so much better than stark white. Now you need to start collecting dog books of all kinds to use them with!
Thanks Michele! Great idea on the dog books!
Those book ends are adorable and I love the lime green colour you have finished them in, lovely touch.
Thanks Mo! I am really happy with the way they turned out. Thanks for coming by! Hope to see you again!
So cute! What a great idea and a great color! I’d love for you to share them at my Twirl & Take a Bow party at http://www.houseontheway.com. It’s today through Sunday. Hope you can stop by!
Leslie
Thanks Leslie! I have linked up to your party! I appreciate the invite! Hope to see you again!
Had to stop by because they are so cute they crack me up! Love the shape of them-Enjoy:@)
Thanks Happy Pig!
I am so happy with the way they turned out. Thanks for stopping by!!
You did good! Thanks for sharing on Cowgirl Up this week. I featured your doggy bookends on my fb page today. Go over to the blog and grab “I Was Featured” button!
Samantha @ Crafty Texas Girls
See the fb post here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Crafty-Texas-Girls/140299076008437
Wow, those are so cute! I love them in the green color, too! Great job!
Visiting from the Keep Calm and Link Up Party!
sara @ applestonedrive.blogspot.com
Thanks so much Sara! The green is such a happy color. Thanks so much for visiting!
Those are too fun! I love that avocado color and those little puppies are so cute. Now I need to go find me some bookends, my list just got longer! And I love Home Goods too
I would love if you shared this at my Throwback Thursday party. I hope to see you there! Thanks so much for sharing. http://www.hubbymademe.com/throwback-thursday-no-7/
Thanks Britni! I will head over now to link up. Thanks for the invite!
Missi,
These look adorable! I love how they are modern, but totally whimsical. Painting them green was perfect! I’m always trying to find cute bookends. I think this weekend might require a little trip to Home Goods. Thanks for the inspiration!
Thanks Erin! I am loving the green. Definitely head over to Home Goods – you never know what you might find. Fun!
I love love love Home Goods – way to make it your own!
So cute! They look great painted green. They have so much more personality now.
Those dogs are so adorable! It’s amazing what a coat of paint will do!
Thanks Christine. I wish I could walk around with a can of spray paint and just spray everything ugly with color. That wouldn’t be too creepy right?
Not at all! I think I’d be right there next to you!
I love the avocado color, and it looks amazing against orange! Great score at HG (as if there is any other kind of score there!) Thanks for joining the party at Keep Calm & Link Up! Hope to see you again next week!
Barbara @ Chase the Star
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Looks great! The dogs are adorable and the color is simply perfect. They remind me of a Jonathan Adler design actually – what a great find!
Sarah
I LOVE how this turned out! You took something so simple (and inexpensive) and made it look fabulous! I’m featuring you this week at Keep Calm & Link Up! Make sure to stop by sometime this weekend to grab a featured button
Meredith @Wait ‘Til Your Father Gets Home
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Meredith – I just found this in my Spam. I would have been so bummed it I didn’t see it! Thanks so much for the feature! Can’t wait to grab a button!
Still love these adorable little guys! Thank you so much for sharing at my Throwback Thursday party. I’m so happy to have you and hope you’ll stop by again this week
Your bookends look awesome! I may have to take a little jaunt over to Home Goods myself.