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24 In decor

Tock To Me

A friend recently scoffed at me when she saw that I wore a watch. She told me she doesn’t wear watches anymore because they make her seem ‘old.’  “All the young kids use their phones these days, nobody wears a watch!” (said as though I was dragging around a sun-dial).  Well, that may be, but nothing replaces the ease and elegance of a great watch, am I right?  Anyone? Anyone?  Am I the only watch-wearer out there?

If so, that’s ok, because then you won’t be familiar with antique time-tellin’ machines, and thus be horrified by these grandfather clock makeovers.  (But you really shouldn’t be horrified anyway, they are not priceless heirlooms.  The first one was a $40 craigslist find, the second one came from Wal-Mart!)

First one from Heather at My Many Moments










And its Wal-Mart twin-brother, from Lesley at Saving Grace Creations.















 


 


 


 


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2 In kiddie/ tables/dressers

Tribal Vibe

Look here!  Before and after time!  This funky old dresser became a changing table in a nursery. With the cute half circles on the drawers, I would have been tempted to go “full-baby” all over it, and plaster it with pastel pink polka dots or something, but Heather went in a totally different direction: minimalist Native American.  Intrigued? I was! Head on over to Heather’s blog, The Coterie Blog to check out the entire space!


 


 


  


 


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12 In outdoors

Shedding Away

Some items of business to attend to this fine Monday morning:

1.  Look!  Better After just got a facelift!  She’s all streamlined and grown up!  What do you think?  Thanks to the fabulous Ana at Liven Design for her web magic and putting up with my nit-pickery.

2.  Get ready, because the Ugly Lamp Contest is about to get underway!  Woo!  More details to come.

3.  Check out this before and after shed from Tracy at General Splendour.  It went from looking like a foreclosed tiki-hut to a high-class country club! It gives me the desire to own a shed, a desire I’ve never experienced until today.  I think the doors are my favorite part.  Great job Tracy! 















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107 In Uncategorized

My Memories Giveaway! (GIVEAWAY NOW CLOSED)

*** GIVEAWAY NOW CLOSED ***

Well hello friend!  Are you in the mood for a giveaway?  I sure hope so, because today the nice folks at My Memories are giving one lucky Better After reader a free My Memories Digital Scrapbooking Suite!  


This program is legit.  If you’ve been poking around the internet to find some decent scrapbooking software, then you’ve probably already heard of My Memories, because they consistently rank at the top in digital scrapbooking software reviews.

I’m not nearly as good of a scrapbooker as I’d like to be.  Sure,  I want to preserve memories and mementos in a cute and stylish fashion, but do I want to spent $35 on stickers?  Or spend two-thirds of my life cutting and cropping and gluing?  No sir!

My Memories software makes it so ridiculously simple to sit down a pop out an entire scrapbook in minutes with their pre-designed templates.  And if you have more time on your hands than that (lucky), you can design your own layouts and pages with tons and tons of embellishments, fonts, buttons, brads, to your little heart’s content.  Everything is customizable, you can easily change image size, rotate and copy items, add texture, you name it.

You don’t have to be a scrapbook pro or computer savvy either! It’s so easy to use, look, I churned this page out in, literally, seconds.  OK, a couple minutes.  I’m indecisive.  There are so many choices of papers and textures, I had to narrow them all down!

And that’s not all!  You can also make videos, photo books, cards, printables, tags, and videos!  (I know I already said videos, but I just think that one is extra cool).

My Memories is giving one Better After reader their complete My Memories Digital Scrapbooking Suite for FREE!

 The My Memories Suite Software can be used on a PC or Mac. The software has design tools that help you build entire albums effortlessly using one of the many installed templates or designing your own pages from scratch. This software alone retails for $40.

To Enter:

1.  Just leave a comment here! 
(don’t forget to leave a way for me to contact you)
For up to three additional entries: 
2.  Visit the My Memories website and then come back here and tell me something cool you found over there!
3.  “Like” My Memories on Facebook and c’mon back and tell me about that too! 
(Let them know Better After sent you!)

4.  Visit the My Memories Blog, and come back here, leave a comment, and you know the drill.

Just can’t wait?  Well, for a very limited time, My Memories is offering a $10 discount with the code: STMMMS6122

Woo!
Good luck and happy weekend friend!  I hope you win!
(Winner announced on Monday)

19 In desks/hutches/buffets

Hutch Crush

Nothing much wrong with this before hutch, other than the doors were ineffectively placed on the floor for some reason, (I kid). But holy smokes! There is everything right with the after! 

I love it.  I want to ask it out on a date. I want to take it home to meet my parents.  I want to walk around with it and hold its hand … or drawer.  I want to take it for a ride in a convertible with the top down and show it off to my friends.   *dreamy siiiiiiigh*  I think it might be out of my league though.  Too gosh dang gorgeous.  From Amy at Life Happens.







 


 


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11 In tables/dressers

Fresh Pressed

This horrible dresser appears to have been only recently vacated by an incontinent cat. Ew.  But forget about that for a second and check out the after.  What the?!  Woah, right?  How did Kristy get so much design and detail into the drawers and side?  Well, turns out that the dresser already had these details pressed into the lightweight wood, (which couldn’t be sanded, thus explaining the puddles of stripper and acetate, and not … you know). Kristy knew just how to coax them out.  I think it’s beautiful.

See the process on her blog 4 the Love of Wood.









 


 


 


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