why i love working part time.

I have been wanting and needing a dresser for quite some time now. Well, I'd say a year...ever since I moved back in with my parents. I've had the same white, beat up dresser since I was a kid...as long as I can remember really...and I have been wanting to sand it, paint it, and find knobs for it for a really long time now. It just always seemed it got put on the back burner with the million other projects I was always wanting to get done. Well, I finally finished it today! I painted it a simple white and covered the wood knobs with some fabric. I was really wanting knobs from Anthropologie, but with them being $6 a piece, I decided I needed to come up with a just as cute, but cheaper idea. A couple of weeks ago, while working on another fun art project with my dear friend, Kristie, I had a stroke of genious. Why not just cover the existing wood knobs in some killer cute fabric? So, I got a fat quarter of fabric at JoAnne's for .99 cents and I think they turned out almost as cute as Anthropologie knobs...and they only cost me .10 cents a piece! Eat your heart out Anthrolopologie.

Here is the finished product...





I think I might struggle when I have to go back to work full time in a couple of weeks (pathetic, I know). It has just been SO nice to be able to do things like this. Not only because I need things like a dresser, but I really enjoy doing these things. I've loved having a few extra hours each week to work on art projects, put things on my blog, stay caught up on my laundry and church calling(s), spend some extra time with friends (:D), exercise everyday, and so on. I can't remember a time in my life since high school that I didn't feel like I was way behind on my 'list'. So, I guess even though my bank account may struggle and I have to find ways to be a bit more savvy and I still live with my parents at 27, these past 2 1/2 months have been quite nice.