A PERFECT Valentine's Day Dresser Up-cycle {Guest Post by Stacey from Embracing Change}

Friends!!!!!!!

I am SO so SOOOO excited to introduce you to our Linky Party Co-host and guest blogger for today---

my friend Stacey from Embracing Change!

Seriously she is one talented gal you are going to want to get to know!!!!!!

Enjoy friends!!!

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Hello everyone! I am here to guest post today on Crafty, Scrappy, Happy thanks to a great opportunity from Jaime!  I just love her blog and I am honored to be here!  My name is Stacey and my blog home is Embracing Change.

 I would love for you to come by sometime! 

Just me

Me and my beautiful family!

      I began blogging a year ago and I confess it has become a passion of mine.  I really have no time for it as I am a mother ot two beautiful girls named Emma and Ana as well as a pastor's wife and Day Care Center director to over 100 kids!   It's amazing how we find time to do what we love, isn't it?

I have a passion for decorating and thrifting as well as redoing and restoring unloved furniture!  I found myself at a point in my life where I needed change, but didn't have the budget to do it thus my love of restoring and redoing what I had was born!  I find such therapy in what I do.  Painting is how I like to decompress.  I have discovered that finding a bargain and restoring it to beauty is a challenge I greatly enjoy. 

 This piece was no different. 

I managed to score a free dresser three weeks ago.

I was thrilled! 

I think dressers are my favorite thing to redo. 

I have redone several over the past year

including the following:

There is nothing like a beautiful dresser!

I love drastic transformations.

The beast to beauty makeovers.

I love taking the old and making it new. 

That's my fun time.

So...back to the free dresser.

When I brought it home, it looked like this:

Dingy and old. 

Dirty as could be. 

And with a broken drawer to boot. 

No problem.

I have an affinity (obsession) for the French Provincial

style so this was quite a gem!

I love her curves and sweet feminine appeal.

I quickly got ahold of my vision which is always a key part of the process and then proceeded with the redo.

I have to tell ya, I am loving how she turned out!

I hand-mixed the pink paint and used

Annie Sloan's Old White for the rest!

How does she look now?

Isn't she just delicious?

My friend Megan and I have started a business of recreating furniture and home decor called The Blessed Nest.  Typically I send almost everything I recreate there, but this one is...

MINE ALL MINE!

If you have read my blog before, you know

that I name each and every piece I create.

Her name is Perfect Priscilla.

I think her personality just shines through!

And she is PERFECT for Valentine's Day as well!

I adore her...hope you do, too!

Thanks for allowing me to stop by and visit Jaime.

I am blessed by your kindness!

Come and visit me soon - hope to see you

at Embracing Change!

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See what did I tell you?!  Amazing right?!!!!  Now go over and check out Stacey's wonderful blog!!!