Updated Metal Chairs

So I know it's February, but here in Southern California it feels more like June right now. It's been in the high 80s/low 90s for the past few days and I have been taking advantage of it! A few months ago, I showed y'all how I updated an old rusty metal table we had lying around... well, there are actually chairs that go with it :) With all this beautiful sunny weather, why not finish off the set and enjoy the view?

The chairs were in great condition to begin with, but they were painted the same sky blue as the table was originally and they were just chipped and showing some neglect. Here are some before shots:

Originally I was going to paint them all the same color as the table, but then my Hubby gave me the great idea to go all dual-color on them. I decided to do these colors:

I know it seems weird to put black on a metal chair (hot tush anyone?) but for the past few days they haven't actually gotten all that hot...even when sitting in the sun all day. So the first thing I did was spray paint the section of the chairs black first. Here is what they looked like after they were coated a few times:

Next, I covered the areas most prone to getting color mixture with painter's tape (a little time-consuming and tedious, but easier in the long run) and then began covering them with the second color of choice:

I ended up getting a little bit of paint outside the lines, but overall they turned out great! I am really loving the two-toned look of them and might end up do the table they same way down the line (maybe black legs?) What projects have you taken on lately? Thank for stopping by!

Crockpot Buffalo Chicken

Recently my family's budget has gotten a bit out of control, so in an attempt to bring it back to earth, I have started making a dinner schedule. I know most people probably have one of these, but I am just now joining that bandwagon.

I thought about having a meal schedule for breakfast, lunch, and dinner but realized that we don't all leave for work/school at the same time and the same goes for the lunch hour. So everyone pretty much fends for themselves for those two meals and I come up with the dinner ideas. We have been doing it for about a month and a half, and so far it has saved us time, money, and energy.

One of the dinners I did recently came from Pinterest (where else?) and was super delicious and easy. It was this recipe for Crockpot Buffalo Chicken. It was really simple and was a total hit with my family. Here was the picture from the original post:

Yummy right?

While I totally wish that mine turned out looking that amazing, we actually decided to go the semi-unconventional way and put the chicken on top of our nachos! Not exactly swachos (just for my hubby) but still really delicious :) Here's the photos from my process:

Just beginning

A few hours in

In the end, we realized that we didn't have any of those fabulous rolls and since we didn't want to ruin the recipe with regular hot dog buns, we did the next best thing :)

Crockpot Buffalo Chicken Nachos:)

They were amazing and definitely something that we are going to repeat in the future. If you try it, tell me what you think in the comments and if you have tried this recipe any other way.

Spray-painted Acorns

Awhile back I was trolling one of my friend's blogs and she put up a post on creative ideas for Autumn decorating and this one caught my eye. It is her Mercury-Glass Acorns and they were so cute and easy to do, that I just had to try them!

Every year my husband's family goes apple picking and when we went this past year (I keep forgetting it's 2016!), I went with a purpose: I was going to get me some authentic acorns right from the source! I sort of stuck to that idea... I actually picked most of them off the ground, but they were in excellent condition and I managed to get a whole paper bag's worth :) When I got home, I had to sort out the good from the bad (cracked, holes, etc.) and then decide how many I was going to want to have. I settled on spray-painting some and leaving the natural color on others; I also used two colors of silver: a shiny one and a regular matte gray color. Here's how they turned out:

Before

Matte Gray

Silver

In the end, I used both in small glass vases with tea lights and placed them around the house for ambiance. Thanks for the idea Justine :)