Dilemma Almost Solved

A few weeks ago I posted this dilemma:

My candle holder with it's broken candles and kind of boring color!
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Then I shared a little bit of vinyl craftiness with the addition of this {oh so cute} number 6. I obviously painted the candle holder too. This is Krylon Bahama Sea spraypaint, which I am currently in love with:) I finally found the solution to the broken candles....which I think may have been suggested by a reader on my first dilemma post. I got a pack of six little terra cotta pots at Hobby Lobby. They were marked $2.27 and they were on sale for 50% off...so I got all six of them for a little over a dollar! As cute as they are, the color is just too close to the Sherwin Williams Baked Clay that is on the walls in my living room. So, I got out my trusty black spray paint and gave all six pots a good coating.
I think it turned out really great, and it looks completely different than it did when I started! Now, I am planning to melt down a few old candles to make the pots candles, because I know it will be almost impossible to find some that fit in the pots perfectly.

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We've also been busy outside. Here's a little hint.... I'll share more next week:) I hope you have a SUPER weekend!

I'm linking up with these awesome parties:

A Work in Progress

Today, I am busy working on a redo of this: Our old and pretty beat up entertainment center.
I'm revamping it with some wood, a little Gorilla Glue, and some paint.
Hopefully soon it will be a cute and comfy bench.
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There are ton of great things for auction over at Fabulous Fun Finds today. The auction is to benefit Heather's sister who's sweet baby girl Hailey passed away from SIDs in March. Click here to read more about the auction, and click here to check out all the great things people have donated to help raise money for this family.

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Also, don't forget to enter my CSN giveaway for a $60 gift certificate that you can use in any of the their 200+ stores!

Wordless Wednesday: Making a Mountain....

...out of a {really small} dirt hill!

CSN Giveaway!

I love a good giveaway, and today I have a GREAT giveaway for you!

A $60 gift certificate to any of CNS's 200+ stores!

If you haven't checked out CNS stores, you really should. They have almost anything you could ever need for your house, your kids, your yard, your pet and yourself all in one place.

We are currently working on redoing our living room, so naturally the first place I head to at the CNS stores website is the furniture section!
They have an amazing selections of entertainment centers.

I especially like this one for my living room:And I would love to have something like this for my bedroom!
They also have a SUPER selection of coffee tables, sofas, and great accessories!

So here is how to enter:

For your first entry, go over to the CSN stores website and tell what you would spend your $60 gift certificate on.

For one extra entry, follow my blog and leave a comment telling me that you do.

For another entry, put my button on your blog and leave a comment telling me you did.

For one more entry, follow me on twitter and leave a comment telling that you do.

For another entry tweet about this giveaway then leave a comment with the link to your tweet. Copy and paste the following: CSN stores $60 gift certificate giveaway @ Random Thought of a SUPERMOM! http://tiny.cc/x8zw9

For three extra entries, blog about my giveaway linking back to this post, then leave three comments telling me you blogged.

This giveaway will end on Wednesday, May 19th at 10:00 pm CST. I will use random.org to select a winner and announce the winner on Thursday, May 20th. Please make sure you have an email visible in your profile, or include your email address in your comment! Giveaway is open to U.S. and Canadian residents only. Thanks for entering and thanks so much to CSN stores for providing the gift certificate for the giveaway!

Not My Kitchen! Monday

After a SUPER long and SUPER busy weekend, there is NO way that my kitchen looks like this:


Well, maybe it does!
Please tell me I'm not the only one who wakes up to a disaster area of a kitchen on Monday mornings!


Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

Antique Sewing Machine Drawer Makeover

A few months ago, I found a few really awesome things at a resale store that was going out of business. You may remember the $5 school desk and the fork & spoon set. Well, I also picked up two antique sewing machine drawers. Strange purchase I know, but I just loved the details and the quirkiness of them!

This is what I started with. Check out all those great details! But some of the details were loose, and some of them were completely broken off. So I got out the Gorilla Glue to fix them.
I applied a thin layer of the glue to the broken piece and to the spot on the drawer where it was supposed to be.
Apparently my layer wasn't quite thin enough, because this is what it looked like when I came back to check and see if it was dry. No big deal though. I just used a screwdriver to break away the extra foamy stuff and sanded it down a little bit. Though if you use this kind of Gorilla Glue, they aren't kidding when they say use a thin layer!
I painted the drawer with a coat of Krylon Bahama Sea spray paint. {Sorry about the upside down shot}
And then coated it with a layer of white spray paint.

After the paint dried, I sanded the drawer to make the details really pop. I love the little piece on the end that the Gorilla Glue helped me save.
And I love the {very subtle} bits of blue that you can see where I sanded off the white paint.

Now I just have to decide what to put inside the drawer. I think some fake grass would be really cute and add a nice pop of green in the room.
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I found some Faux Grass and added it to the drawer. I'm loving it! What do you think?!?

Every Child is an Artist

My breakfast room table turned into the boys' art studio yesterday. While I was working on a project for Henry's class, they got out the paper, glue, scissors, crayons, and markers.
And started creating.
If you look closely there is a smiley face on this paper.
And Henry was so proud of the way he shaded this paper by rubbing a crayon on it.
Henry's masterpiece.
It is a man with a bamboo fishing pole who just caught a HUGE catfish:)
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. Pablo Picasso