We have a Winner!

Thanks to everyone who entered in the giveaway to help me celebrate!

Without further ado, the winner of this fabulous painting is....

HannahJ! Congrats Hannah! Please email me with your address and I'll send it out this week! Stay tuned tomorrow, I did a lot of thrifting and decor shopping this weekend and I want to share! Happy Monday!

Some Pretty, a Thank You and a Giveaway!

The title of this post is pretty accurate :). I picked up some super cute Kermit Mums at the store this week and put them all over the house in different containers from my vintage bottle collection.

Makes me so happy!

As you may be able to tell, my photography classes are coming along nicely.

Next, order of business!

 

Some of you may have noticed, but last week I reached a 100 followers! Even a few more of you have joined since then!

You have no idea what this means to me. The fact that you come to my little corner of the internet, leave your comments, tell me your opinions on things, means the world to me.

So in order to say...

I made this painting to give away to one of my lucky followers!

I know it's nothing fancy but I rather like it's simplicity don't you? And it could be yours!

All you have to do is be a follower of Flights of Whimsy and leave a comment below that you are one. You can get an extra entry by being a follower on my facebook page. Just click the link to the right! Please leave a separate comment for each.

The giveaway will be open for entry until 9pm CST Sunday, March 6th. I will announce the winner Monday morning. I will ship anywhere in the whooooole wide world too!

Again, from me to you, THANK YOU!

House Projects & Giveaway Winner!

Happy Friday everyone! And a warm welcome to all my new followers! I'm happy to announce the winner (chosen by random.org) of the CSN giveaway is Sarah, from La Maison Boheme!

Congratulations! You will receive an email with your gift certificate code!

I also have a couple of projects to share with you this friday. I'm sure you remember my Craigslist dining chairs. It's taken me forever to tackle this project due to the heat but it's cooled off a bit so I decided to get it done this week. The two arm chairs are sanded, primed, painted, and poly-ed! I put the fabric on them to get an idea of the finished product. Take a look!

The animals inspected and promptly approved!

Sorry for the super dark pictures guys. I will do better next time I promise. Not that my picture taking skills are awesome in the daylight though, let's be honest!

I don't think I've showed you my finished curtains yet either. I purchased the fabric from Mood as a birthday gift and my mom helped me sew them. They are beautiful, we lined them and sewed them with love and they feel heavy and look lovely. I got mercury glass holdbacks from Lowe's of all places and they go perfectly in here. Still haven't decided what to do with the chandelier, I keep thinking something will just jump out at me like, "Here I am Brandi! I am the perfect light fixture and oh so affordable won't I look awesome in your dining room and just complete the whole look and make all your dreams come true?!". Ok maybe not quite like that but sorda.

Now all I need is money for the upholsterer! Aren't all our houses a work in progress?

I bought a few vintage scarves to frame as artwork but of course they are an unusual size and require custom framing. That shiz is expensive! For this small one I bought a simple frame on sale at Michaels. It's one of those glass frames where the picture just floats in the center, and BAM one scarf framed! I wish the frame were a bit bigger so I could put some matting in there. I will keep looking, I can always use a black lacquer frame so it was a good purchase.

I'm off to Washington DC for the weekend to visit family and go shopping with Eddie Ross! Have a fantabulous weekend!

CSN Giveaway!

I'm sure many of you have heard about all the amazing things CSN stores have to offer, which is why I'm so excited to be doing a giveaway for a $35 CSN gift card!

They have so many things to offer right now including a new expansion of cheap bedroom furniture! Check out these awesome headboards they have...

This one's only $249!

Only $269!

It's easy to enter! Just become and follower of this blog and leave a comment below that you are a follower. You have until midnight CST this Thursday, September 16th, and a winner will be announced this Friday!

*Only available to those residing in US or Canada, sorry! Please also do not post about this contest on CSN's facebook page, it is against policy.

Good luck!