Finally!

So the other night when I couldn't find my camera it was driving me nuts. I went back to looking for it as soon as I finished the blog post and finally found it like an hour later in one of my boxes of fabric. Oh yeah, that's where I put it. Then I ran into another difficulty. I couldn't find the cord to upload the pictures. So I finally gave up and went to bed. I spent a bunch of time on Wed and Thur getting my Halloween costume all ready. This weekend has been full of running errands and trying to get my house in order. It's getting there. I still can't find my way through the second bedroom but the rest of it looks better than it did. So finally tonight I'm sitting down to post the promised pictures.

Here is the before picture of the desk, before I sanded and painted it, before I cleaned it.

Now here is the after:

Looks much better I think. I could have done a little better job with it by spending a bit more time sanding it and such before painting but I was getting very tired of living without a dresser and wanted it done so I rushed it a bit. I still think it looks pretty good though.

Next is my Halloween costume. I bought the hat with the feathers and then got the idea to add feathers to the shirt. It turned out really cute and I loved it. I did lose feathers all over all day long but I got a lot of great comments about it. I had a lot of fun too. For the most part the costume was pretty comfortable although my hair looked awful if I took the hat off so I couldn't take the hat off and the false eyelashes I had (sparkly, glittery silver) sort of sucked. The glue made my eye lids itch really bad. Other than that though it was a lot of fun.