The tale of the turquoise cart

Remember that beverage cart that I wanted to make? Well...I recently succeeded in that DIY mission. Here is the story: There was recently a community stoop sale {it's like a yard sale but on people's stoops} in our neighborhood and someone was selling an Ikea wooden beverage cart that I had been looking at, for only $15! However, I had already made plans to go meet a friend in the Burg to checkout Strangeways. So I planned to get caffeinated and come back to get the cart. In the back of my mind I kept thinking that it wasn't what I wanted because it wasn't like the metal ones that I posted here, but I was just excited to have a new project. When I returned back to my hood the cart was sold and I was disappointed but I had a feeling that we would find something better soon. That night when I was walking Jack I thought that I should cross the street and check the things on the sidewalk because it was recycle day and there are often things left out that people don't want to carry. TADA!! Right across the street was this little beauty:

Rough right? It seemed like someone had used it for outside plants or something because it was rusty and very dirty on the bottom but we had a vision and I knew we could make it cute. Naturally we decided to get started right away...okay that might have been my idea{sorry for the bad lighting on the first pics} I was just so excited I had to start that night! We tried to give it a turquoise color using the paint we already had in the house, but it ended up being way brighter than what we wanted and was still wet hours later.

 

The next day it was still wet so we walked over to Lowes to find a quick drying spray paint{i have no idea why we didn't do that in the first place} and we found this pretty light turquoise color that suited our kitchen much better.  

 

 

If ever in doubt.. just buy the spray paint. It was SO fast and easy and dried within about an hour. Here is our almost finished product. We painted the wheels gold and added a handle. I'm excited to add a few other touches, like a tea towel soon! 

 

DIY: Just Do It

I have recently gotten into flipping items. The mister and I tend to find alot of things on the street in Brooklyn. We love repurposing or transforming them into usable things and then selling them on craigslist or ebay {if we don't keep them for our apt}. The create and apt boards on my Pinterest are constantly being updated with new ideas for items we find. We're crossing our fingers for a beverage cart to redo for our coffee bar, like one of these pics. 
Check out my other future projects on my Pinterest! 

Beet it

Today is Sunday. It's one of my favorite days of the week. It's also one of the most exhausting, its the "end" of the week
  even though technically it's the beginning) and I always hit a 3pm crash where all I want to do is take a long nap. What I usually do is have coffee during that time but recently I've been juicing or eating fruit instead, the natural sugars give a quick energy boost that doesn't have such severe crash effects a few hours later. My favorite thing to juice is beets (with carrots, spinach, and apple). The color is really fantastic don't you think? 

It's so great that it has inspired many areas of my life- starting with this beet tipped hair idea. Don't judge me. 

Tell me you don't want to take a trip here. I know you do. 

Colored jeans.. in beet! 

This blouse is awesome. Just in general, but also because it happens to be a beautiful beet color. 

{blouse, jeans}