My Famous Silver Leaf Dresser

This silver dresser was and still my all time favorite DIY project.

Back in 2012, this silver leaf dresser had so many features and pins from the number one bloggers. With over  130.000 post views I was called Rasha the silver leaf queen LOL.

So why am I rewriting this post today? I’m writing this post after 6 years because I always get questions like:  Does the silver leaf change its color after a while? does it get scratched easily since I didn’t prime it?How did the dresser hold up?

The best way to answer the above questions and many others, I will post the following pictures of the same piece six years after. It is still as beautiful as it was on day 1, it is not scratched, it didn’t change colors. Enjoy the photos.

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DIY: Baby Food Jar Recycle

This is a throwback to 2014. I painted and took pictures of these jars 4 years ago but I never had the chance to write the post.

After breastfeeding my first child for 9 months and a half (yes the half is more important than the 9 months lol), I was determined to only feed him homemade food. First few months I started cooking for him and he loved my food. All was good until my sister and her family came to visit. I got distracted by them and I didn’t have enough time to cook. Instead, I took the easy route of the ready baby food jars.  When they left back home, I resumed the cooking and I  used these jars when I’m out of the house ( or when I didn’t feel like cooking 😉 )

Their adorable and cute shape made me save them for future DIYs . Removing the Gerber label was an easy task, just soak the jars in hot water overnight or throw them in the dishwasher. Then I spray paint the lids and add a label sticker and voila… All done

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Pink and Grey Outfit

I finally found a babysitter whom I can trust and the kids love her. She is my friend’s daughter so I can now leave my 2 boys with her without worrying.  And dare I say I’m also excited that I can wear not kid friendly outfits LOL.

During winter, your outfit will look incomplete unless you are wearing a coat. That’s why I’m always on a search for pretty and unique coats. This year I wanted a long wool coat with fur collar and of course without breaking the bank. So I couldn’t be happier when I found this one at Nordstrom’s and hooray it is PINK. I know I know I have too many pink coats but I always wear pink so I know that I’m gonna wear them A LOT.
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Gold Leaf End Table

I think you all know by now that I love metallic finishes. So when I wanted to restore this antique style end table I chose to gild it. 

In a previous post, I showed the details of how to silver leaf a dresser.  It is a little bit time-consuming but the end result is well worth it.  This time I used gold leaf papers, I chose pale tone gold, I don’t like the very brassy gold color. As for pulls, I was so excited when I found these black white and gold pulls. They matched perfectly my courtly check Mackenzie Childs pieces. 

Here are the pictures:

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Sequin Makes Me Feel Better

I’m writing this at the end of a very rough week. My little one was and still sick, he is teething. Four stubborn molars knocked the poor guy down. Fever, fatigue, and vomiting. He is sick, I’m exhausted, the house is a mess and no time for mama. My husband and son went fishing in the morning along with some friends. We were scheduled to stay home after they returned, but felt like that will drive- me crazy.  I told myself that I need to go out to get myself out of this mood. So here are the details…

Threw on a sequin gold skirt that I had from years ago (Forever 21.) Yes I know, you may say sequin in the morning! Well if you wear sequin with a casual sweater it will be the perfect outfit for the day. So I put on an off-white sweater with tiered sleeve detail.  My favorite piece of this outfit is my very dear and precious vintage red coat ( This coat belonged to my mom and I love it way too much).  As for shoes, I chose my Burberry sneakers with the perfect hint of red.

After getting ready my mood changed automatically, kid you not. This is the magic of dressing up.  

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A Day at the Museums

Last Saturday, we went out to a train and an auto show. My 5-year-old son was so excited and he had a blast. He is obsessed with any kind of transportation vehicle.

Since it is a family outing, so I chose a comfy and cozy outfit.

I’ve always been and I’ll always be a pastel color kinda girl.   I love to wear light colors on gloomy cold winter days, I believe that they relax me.  So today’s outfit is pink, gray and white.

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My Tea Station

Everyone I know is addicted to coffee. They can’t function unless they have their morning coffee. Well, I hate coffee! I tried it with milk, creamer, and sugar but nothing made me hate it any less. On the bright side, I’m a tea addict. I drink it two and sometimes three times a day.

In my home country, we drink tea with any breakfast meal, and  I carried this tradition to the States. That’s why I wanted to have a tea station so I can have everything in my hand reach: mugs, sugar and of course tea bags.

I snapped these pictures before my afternoon tea time. If you’re using your phone, click on each picture to enlarge.

This is not a scene that I arranged for this shoot. This is how my tea station on a daily basis. Well, less the half eaten cake.

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2018 first outfit

Happy New Year everyone.

 
I decided to start this year with a comfy yet stylish outfit. Remember I’m a mother of two, a 1-year-old and a 5-year-old. So practicality is a must. Changing diapers, fixing my son’s shoes for the hundredth time just because there is something in it, wet diaper accidents, these are all easy tasks when you are wearing flat boots and midi dress ( believe me I tried in heels and mini dresses and I almost wanted to kill my self 🙂 )
 
 

Here are the pictures:

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Vintage Cake Smash Pictures

I would like to share with you today my son’s cake smash pictures. I took these pictures after 3 weeks from his actual birthday party, I was always busy and I kept postponing it.

His birthday theme was “world little traveler” vintage style. Some vintage old world maps, wooden high chair, and raw cake like beautiful old days.

 

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I painted this wooden high chair 4 years ago for my older son’s cake smashing pictures and I kept it because I knew I will use it again for my second child.
 

Christmas outfit

We were invited to a Christmas dinner at our friends’ house. So I had in mind to snap few pictures with the boys all dressed up before leaving the house, but I was so so wrong. It was so hard to control my baby next to the Christmas tree, he was removing the ornaments of the tree, running around the coffee table and throwing everything on the floor, as for my older son he was just making silly faces all the time.

I don’t know how Instagram families post one perfect picture after another with their kids. I have only 2 kids and I couldn’t take one decent picture with them 😀  This picture was one of the best.

 
For this Christmas, I chose a pink outfit to match my Candy Land theme. The indoor pictures that I snapped didn’t turn out good, so here are the outdoor ones.
 

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