Little dresser all dressed up

I recently found a little dresser for Emery at a garage sale for $8. There were no scratches, the drawers worked well, and it looked barely used. All it needed was a little sprucing up. I snapped a before-ish picture as an afterthought but you get the idea of what it looked like.

Before:

A few coats of paint later and ta-da! Here's the after:

The knobs still need some work. I went to Home Depot last night to buy new ones but the bottom two knobs are more narrow than any of the options at HD. I didn't feel like filling the old holes, re-touching the paint, then drilling new ones, so I just spray painted them black until I find other options I like better.

I love seeing furniture re-dos. Betterafter.net is a blog I follow that posts people's before and afters and it is really fun to see the transformations. Plus I think the blogger is funny. I was excited to try one of my own and this was a nice, easy first time project.

My next project is a tall, narrow cabinet that's been sitting in my garage for months that I don't know what to do with. I keep waiting for inspiration to hit but it hasn't. Maybe that means I should just get rid of it? Or I just need to stop fretting about it, slap some paint on it and bring it in my house so it can start being useful instead of just collecting dust.

Family blue bonnet pics

I can't decide which of these first two is my favorite. Emery was being very wiggly so it was a miracle we got her sitting still at all.

These next two didn't turn out quite as well as I hoped they would (because Emery was not having ANY of the squished face), but they're still cute enough to share.

 Emery ran away from us to frolic in the wildflowers and Gavin took this when I went to get her back. Can you believe how many flowers there are? This field was FULL of them, and full of people taking pictures in them. It was beautiful.

Poor Emery, we went out to take these on a Sunday afternoon and she is just so worn out on Sundays. Here she is having a meltdown, but maybe if you didn't know better she looks all sweet and cuddly.

Emery in the bluebonnets

Gavin doesn't have much time to edit pictures so I just decided to post these. Some day he'll edit out the people and cars in the background, but until then Emery still looks adorable so take a look! The last one is my absolute FAVORITE!