Tarnished gold to oil rubbed bronze.

A couple things came together for me yesterday to make it a very nice day – I’m finally starting to feel better, the weather’s warming up to the upper 30s and will be pushing 60 later this week, I was able to open the windows our our house to air out the germs & dust, and I enjoyed time outside after church finally shoveling the inches of ice off our driveway while the pup played in the melting snow.

Our friend, Jake, helped us in a big way by rewiring our electricity so that we can safely use our oven. {Thanks so much!} And while he & Eugene were busy with that, Eugene’s sister tackled some more English Herb Garden wallpaper and I worked a little on organizing the bedroom, cleaning windows, and fixing our headboard.

I also grabbed my ORB spray paint that I had left over from this project & this one too and decided to try it out on our main bathroom’s faucet.

We don’t plan to replace the vanity or the countertop for a long while, so we thought we might as well try to paint over the tarnished gold faucet to see if we could get it to work. After all, I think {besides the ugly state of the gold} it’s kind of a cool faucet with some character. :)

 

I probably should have removed the faucet from the countertop, but this thing was stuck solid {plus I was low on energy!}, so instead, I taped around each part of the fixture with some blue painters tape, poked a hole in a trash bag and surrounded the piece with the trash bag & sprayed away.

 

I let it dry completely between coats & ended up doing 3-4 coats…while the pup made himself comfy on our couch.

This pic below is pretty true to color. I like that the ORB isn’t basic black, but has specs of bronze that show through.

Oh and for the spots where the spray paint sneakily {yup, it’s a word} got away from my trash bag, a SOS/steel wool pad took it right off the countertop. Here’s the finished product…

How about a little before & after action…

 

We plan to paint the pink tile white, paint the wood vanity, paint the knobs on the vanity, paint the walls/ceiling, add new flooring & more. Sheesh, we’ve got a lot to do.

On a different note – how about a Happy Valentine’s Day to y’all out there in blogland. I asked Eugene not to spend any money on Valentine’s because the house is taking plenty of our cash these days, but when I got in my car this morning I found this…

It’s perfect. Valentine’s Day is definitely a bit of a Hallmark holiday, but nonetheless, it’s nice to reflect a little on love. Klove, a radio station I listen to sometimes, aired a love song written in just a few days by Matthew West specifically for one of its listener couples. You can read all the details & listen to the song on their website here or buy the song on Amazon here. Anyway, I listened to the song as it was played for the first time today & it brought me to tears. The lyrics are so honest & real –

Had a picture in my head of how i thought it all should go. look who showed up instead, turns out you never know. love will steal you buy surprise, and take your heart just like a thief. Love can bring a stubborn man down to one knee.

And I wouldn’t change a thing. It’s perfectly imperfect, so crazy but it’s worth it, and I’m wrapped around you like this ring, and something tells me even if I could, I wouldn’t change a thing.

Love will show you what you lack, love will laugh at all your plans, and if your heart won’t give it back, love will slip right through your hands. But Heaven knows we’ve had our share of days we’d rather leave behind, but love don’t really seem to care, it makes the wrong turns turn right.

And I wouldn’t change a thing. It’s perfectly imperfect, so crazy but it’s worth it, and I’m wrapped around you like this ring, and something tells me even if I could, I wouldn’t change a thing.

I’m truly, and deeply, and madly, completely devoted, every moment, till my last breath, I’m yours. Got a picture in my head of a hundred years from now, when all our lines have all been read and we’re both up there looking down, saying

“I wouldn’t change a thing. It was perfectly imperfect, and every bit was worth it. And I’m wrapped around you like this ring, and something tells me even if I could, I wouldn’t change a thing.”

God’s blessed me so much with earthly relationships filled with love. Especially with my husband. And although we’ve had our share of days we’d rather leave behind, it’s made us appreciate the good ones even more. God’s also blessed me with His love for me. It’s amazing really.

Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13

Wishing you lots of love today. :)

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