A New Lookie for My China Cabinet and I AM HAVING A GIVEAWAY-YAHOO

Can you see the difference?  Look- way to the back

I have been thinking about painting this china cabinet for awhile and am still not sure if it is the thing to do.  I know- will I ever make a decision on anything.  I look up to you gals who just get an idea and go for it-unfortunately that's not the way I operate most days-

So

Till I can be brave enough to Paint

I 

decided to try and freshen up the look with

wallpapering it with old pages and music

Here's the before (yes, walls are still undecided too!)

This picture if from last year- if you look close you can see that funky wallpaper!

I took the glass shelves out and lined used newpaper to make a protective sheet . I transferred this to each shelf as I was working on them.  

I sprayed the back with spray adhesive and then took miscellaneous vintage pages and started 

slapping them up in hodge podge fashion.

Here it is before the pretties are put back-

Do you see those little white strips at the front edge of the shelves?  That is the stiff side of Velcro strips cut very thinly.  I tea dyed the crochet trim that Bill's grandmother had made for me years ago and those little strips keep it in place nicely!

The great thing about this little project is that it didn't cost a cent!

Now the fun part-

Playing with Picnik on some of my pictures-

Left is before- right bottom is after- 

Woohoo I made a mosiac so I could Join in on Mosiac Monday at Little Red House this week too! Thank you Mary for hosting this fun link party!

I will be posting about my giveaway Tuesday or Wednesday. I am coming up on my 200th post and am nearing 300 followers so I think that calls for a celebration and I promise you you won't have to jump through a million hoops to join in on this one!!  This isn't the post to sign up yet but here is a sneak peek! I(for those of you who caught this post Saturday evening before I got the sneak peek pic in - so sorry- hit the publish button instead of save!)

I hope that tempts you just a bit- 
Note I have posted the Giveaway blog entry so be sure to click here and sign up!
Speaking of tempting-

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