Finished Project: A Really Quick Transformation! Times 5!!!

I hate starting new crafts and hobbies because it seems so daunting, especially when you have to acquire stuff for it. When I started this blog, I was going to the store every week to pick up the things I'd need to finish tasks. I'd need paint, or elastic banding, or buttons, etc. I never started a project and already had everything in my possession. 

That's probably my main reason for the fact that most of my refashions or transformations are so plain. I don't always feel like heading to the store!

Take this blog post for example...

I found this candle sconce thing at the thrift store a couple weeks ago:

Pretty boring, right?!

Two years ago, I probably would've just walked right past this. What was I going to do with it? I didn't have any craft stuff at my house and I wasn't going to go out and buy a ton of stuff just to remake a boring sconce.

But.. Now I have a plethora of hardly used spray paints in my basement. Now when I see something that just needs a coat of paint, I don't have to go out of my way. I love it!

This is going to be so awesome AND quick!

After one coat, I was done. That's it, folks! And there's enough spray paint leftover to do more projects.

I don't know how, but it seems like the paint really modernizes this!

The point to this blog post is not what I did to the sconce; it's that crafting begets more crafting and more crafting. Also, even though it may seem like too much work to get into certain crafts, it can be worth it because it can allow for more crafting.

I'm not so easily turned off of items that need painting. I'm not so easily turned off of items that need tailoring. It allows me to have more fun with my crafting and I want all of you to have more fun, too!

And now I have this awesome, one-of-a-kind piece in my house.

I keep forgetting to buy  candle to put in it!

This was so easy that I went out and bought some more stuff to paint:

Boring brownish candlestick...

Not anymore! One coat of silver spray paint and it looks so fancy!

A brown lamp that just blends in to the background...

Background blandness no longer.

Especially with a funky lamp shade! 

Cheap looking wire reindeer Christmas decorations...

Not the greatest picture, but they look like they cost a fortune now!

The great thing about spray paint is that it only costs a couple of bucks, but it can transform your old, boring, bland, out of style, or cheap looking stuff into new treasures. And it takes absolutely no creativity! Hahah