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 Hello everyone!  I know I haven't been very present here in the blog but rest assured I've been keeping very busy.  Last month I finally opened up my  Etsy shop for Lillys Home Designs  I even made my first sale which was very exiting!   I have been wanting to do this for an awfully long time and I finally got the courage to just do it!  I was very nervous and excited at the same time, I still am.  I don't know exactly what I'm doing but I'm learning.  Just like I did with the blog and the furniture.  I didn't take any blogging or furniture painting classes I just learned as I went, through trials and errors, lots of errors but I'm still doing it and I'm glad I've stuck it out this far.  I'm very happy with this stage of my life and I'm looking forward to what's in store for the future. I'm very fortunate to have the unconditional support of my husband who is very patient with me, he helps me a lot and pushes me to believe in myself.

A few weeks ago I shared pictures on Facebook and Instagram of a curbside cabinet that I brought home to give it a makeover.  This cabinet had lots of dirt, cat hair and cat scratches.  It was pretty gross but nothing a little, no who am I kidding, a lot of elbow couldn't fix. I started by vacuuming the cabinet inside and out.  Then I wiped it down, it was filthy I used up all my Clorox wipes.  I also cleaned it with TSP.  Next I removed all the hardware and the kick-plate.  I filled all the holes and cat scratches with wood filler.  Then I sanded the top off to bare wood and lightly sanded the body and areas where I had applied the wood filler. I made the new holes for the new hardware and got a piece of wood cut to size for the new bottom kick-plate.  There was nothing wrong with the kick-plate it came with. Its just that this cabinet really wanted to be a boy cabinet so it needed a straight bottom.  The other kick-plate looked like a girly skirt on it.  I also bought a pack of