Before

My husband is the photographer in our family and I'm usually quite happy to leave that to him so that I can just enjoy whatever it is we are doing, in the moment.  However, now that I'm doing this, I need to be able to take shots of my pieces before, during and after so no judging my terrible attempts at snapping photos, I am far too over-equipped for my own good thanks to the hubs being so generous with his old camera and I have no clue what I'm doing, it's been since high school art class!

First I'm going to post the before shots of some things that I took with my phone, unfortunately, when I started many of my projects I had no intention of ever sharing them so I didn't put much emphasis on the befores or the durings, I apologize for this and I will not make that mistake again!  Without further ado, I give you the before!

An old chest my husband had somehow acquired:

Dining chairs from Good Will:

Another dining chair from Good Will:

Hunt board generously donated to us by a good friend in the midst of a move:

Children's table and chairs generously donated by another good friend:

I'm thinking I will also attempt to tally up the cost of my projects each time, too, but that may prove too daunting since I tend to be very disorganized and I will make SEVERAL trips to Homie's for just one project...