Painting the exterior of a travel trailer

I've wanted to paint the outside of our travel trailer, aka: my sewing cottage, for a couple of years now, but just couldn't find the time.. I finally just made myself find the time this summer, and she's now done.. I'm really happy with the results and was very surprised at how easy it actually was. 

I had read on a trailer blog, Mobile Home Living, that you can paint the exterior using Rustoleum spray paint.. Who knew? 

I walked into a store called Merchandise Outlet one day and noticed they had a whole bunch of spray paint for $1.69 a can... The same paint cost $3.89 at WalMart, so I was excited.. They had quite a lot of the color "celery" and "ivory", so I decided that would be the color I'd use.. I bought 6 cans of the green and 8 cans of the ivory... In the end, I had to order another can of the green (celery) from Amazon because no one else carried it and Merchandise Outlet had sold out of it... I also purchased a couple of cans of the pink from WalMart, so all in all, I spent under $50 to paint it.. 

I scrubbed the trailer really well with an Rv brush and dawn dish soap! I sprayed it off really good and let it dry.. Once it was dry, I started painting from the top down.. First, though, I taped off all the windows. It only took me one day to finish it.. It really was easy to do.. 

Once the ivory and celery colors had been sprayed on, and it was dry (dried really fast.. it was a really warm day out), I taped off the center for the pink paint.. I used Scotch brand painters tape and nothing lifted off.. I was impressed! I just followed the same lines that already had a striped design, so it was very simple to do.. 

Once the pink paint was dry, I decided it needed something more, so I looked through my stencils and found one I liked..I love roses and gingham, so the two stencils I used seemed perfect. 

I used acrylic craft paints to do the stenciling, and once it was dried, I sprayed it with Rustoleum Clear Gloss Enable Spray to protect the stenciling from the weather.. I bought that product from Walmart for $3.77 a can...

So far, so good! I haven't noticed any fading.. It's been about 6 weeks and it looks just like it did the day I finished it.. 

I decided to add a rose wreath stencil to the front door.. This stencil has a special meaning to me.. Before I met my husband, I owned an old Victorian home, that I loved.. I had decorated the front screen door with this heart stencil, so this brings back a good memory every time I look at it. 

The people that bought my Victorian home have painted it some very odd colors, but they left the screen door the way it was, so my stenciled heart is still there ;o) 

Last thing I did was paint the window cover the same way, with a stencil and acrylic paints, then sealed it with the Rustoleum Clear Finishing spray.. 

I use the Sew Sweet Cottage to sew pet tents and kozy kitties, which I sell on my website Karens Kottage... I have a sewing room inside the house, but it is so nice having an extra sewing space! I love it out there. It's so peaceful and quiet.. 

For the last several years, we've used hay bales to block air from getting under the trailer, which helps with heating it in the winter.. This year, we decided to buy pink insulation board and used that to block the air, then my husband made a little picket fence to put up against it.. We had a whole bunch of wooden rails left over from another project years ago, so that's what he used to make the little fence. I bought a can of the same ivory paint I'd used on the trailer and painted the fence with a small roller... I also painted the little porch my husband made with the ivory paint. 

Next year we'll build a longer porch, about the width of the original awning and plant flowers in front of the picket fences.. I'd love to add flower boxes under the window's, too!

I had enough paint left over to spray paint the two wire chairs that sit in front of the trailer..

I didn't mention this at the beginning of this post, but it's worth mentioning. Before I did any painting on the trailer, I scrubbed the top of it really good with the RV brush, sprayed it off really well with the hose, then after it dried, I painted the top with Cool Top roof paint by DeWitt. It's an elastomeric roof coating, which helps seal any leaks and also keeps the trailer cooler in the summer by reflecting sun rays..I used a paint roller on a long handle. I painted while standing on a ladder, so I had to keep getting down, and moving the ladder to the next section, moving the paint tray, etc...It was very hot that day, so this was not a fun project, but something I knew I should do... I'm glad it's done! 

We bought the Cool Top from Home Depot for about $18 a can.. One can did the entire roof.. I also bought some Lap Sealant by Dicor to seal all roof seams.. The trailer doesn't have any leaks, and I want to keep it that way..  I couldn't find this locally, so I ordered it from Amazon.  This is something I still need to get to before too long! Maybe this weekend??? 

I didn't keep track of exactly what we spent to paint the exterior of our travel trailer, but with the roof and everything including the insulation board and picket fence around the bottom, it was well under $100... 

Before

After

Now that My Sew Sweet Cottage is done, I've moved on to the little 1982 Sunline Travel Trailer we bought this summer.. I'm going to start painting the outside of that one today!

1982 Sunline Travel Trailer Redo

Whoa whoa... If you read my first travel trailer post, you know that I really wanted a smaller travel trailer when we first started looking for one... 

We ended up purchasing a 21' trailer that we decided not to use as a travel trailer, but rather, a sewing cottage for me.. I love it, but have still longed for a cute little travel trailer.. 

Well, this weekend we found a sweet 13' Sunline Travel Trailer and officially purchased it this morning for $700..It's 31 years old, but still in pretty good shape.. It needs a bit of work, has had a small bit of water damage, but all in all, it's a nice little trailer just begging for an updo.. 

I worked on it just a tiny little bit today, we went and bought the paint I'll be using and I hope to plunge in by this weekend... I have a lot of orders to work on right now so it's going to be a hard week wanting to be out there working.. Can't wait to get started!!

Pictures will be posted very soon....

For more pictures and descriptions, click on the link at the top of the page titled 
"Vintage Travel Trailer Redo"..

Backyard Sewing Studio

It's been 5 years since I first renovated our travel trailer (See blog HERE).. She ended up being my backyard sewing studio rather than a travel trailer... I had decorated her in a pretty Coca Cola Theme 5 years ago, which was great when we were planning on using her for camping.. But since I've been using her for sewing for 4 years now, I've really wanted to redo her again and turn her into something really pretty and more sewing room friendly...

I've been trying to get done with her all summer but just couldn't seem to find the time.. I just finally decided I was going to donate an entire week to work on her, and she's now finally done...

I turned her into a very pretty and relaxing place to work... I'm not really sure what you'd call my style.. I love cottage chic, country decor and shabby chic, but I've never really followed trends.. I look through a lot of styles and seem to just pick out things I like and incorporate them into my own style.. I don't think I really have a specific style, but rather, a Karen style....

I started by ripping down the old wallpaper, took all the cupboard doors off to be repainted and got started... I was really surprised at how well the old wallpaper had held up... I had to really work to get some of it down.. I had planned on painting the walls, but decided last minute to use a roll of wallpaper I had purchased from Lowes a couple of years ago on clearance..

Before re-wallpapering, I painted all the wood walls and cupboards cottage white.. I also painted the cupboard doors cottage white.. Since the doors were coca cola red, I used a primer first to block the red.. It worked better than I thought and I only had to add a couple of coats of the cottage white..

I distressed each cupboard door to show a bit of the red underneath the paint.. I had removed all of the white knobs from the doors and I replaced them with some shabby pink glass knobs I had purchased from a seller on ebay.. I love these glass knobs.. 

The wallpaper I used match the glass knobs perfectly.. There's not much of a pattern to the wallpaper, but it's the perfect shade of pink, and since it's sometimes pretty tricky finding the perfect color of pink in paint, it was a great alternative..  

Not wanting to go so far as to remove the refrigerator, stove, sinks or toilet, I found ways to hide them... 

I removed the door to the fridge and planned to just use the shelves for storage, but the inside of the fridge was a kind of a golden color and it just looked icky with the pretty cream and pinks on the walls... So I decided to use modge podge and coat the inside of the fridge with crinkled tissue paper... I used white paper thinking it would mute the golden tone and it would end up looking cream... I ended up liking the kind of paper mache look, but not the color.. It just looked like white over gold and wasn't pretty.. So I waited a day until it had dried really well, then I painted it with the cottage white paint.. It turned out looking really neat! 

I don't think it would have worked very well to just paint the inside of the fridge, as I suspect the paint would have been scraped off really easily... But the paper mache affect created a perfect surface for painting.. I cut out some flowers from an old wallpaper border and modge podged them here and there.. It ended up looking like an aged cabinet and I really like it.. 

 I added a tin sign I found at Hobby Lobby's over the control panel at the bottom of the fridge to hide the knobs.... 

I covered the stove and sink with a 1" thick piece of mdf and covered that with my cutting mats to use as my cutting table...

 I had a pair of white lace curtains that weren't being used anywhere else, so I stuck them in the washer with a little bit of tan fabric dye to create an ivory color.. It worked great and once they were dry, I cut them to fit under the cutting board to hide the oven and cupboards I never use.. I have a large amount of a really unique ivory and pink lace, so I decided to trim the curtains in it... 

I've had my eye on a certain fabric on the Hobby Lobby website for quite some time, but didn't really have anywhere to use it.. I decided it would make perfect curtains for the Sew Sweet Cottage, so I ordered enough to make curtains one week when they had free shipping plus 40% off the entire piece of fabric.. 

cha ching!!!

I made curtains for all the windows and topped them with the lace valances I had already been using on the windows before the redo...

For the last 5 years, I've put plastic on the windows for the winter, but it's kind of a pain! I recently read about window quilts, so I'm going to make quilts this year for the windows that will be attached with velcro to the window sills (on the inside)... I'll be able to remove them in the spring and store them until winter... I'm crossing my fingers this will be a good option to help insulate the windows. 

A lot of cold air gets in through the doorway in

the winter, so I made a curtain for the doorway that I can keep closed in colder months.. I attached it to a thermal drape so it will really block out the cold..

I covered the red leather couch with a quilt I've had for awhile that I no longer used in the house.... 

I've had a hanging light fixture stored in the garage for quite some time with no where to use it.. It was just a plain clear glass globe and not that great looking... I wanted a light positioned near the couch so I can have a nice cozy place to read... I made a lace cover for the lamp out of left over lace from the curtains..I just sewed a simple hem in the top and laced a pink ribbon through it to tie tight around the top of the globe. It was simple to do and adds the perfect light for reading....

I had bought a mason jar lamp kit quite a long time ago but never had anywhere to use it... I have a small collection of the old green mason jars, and this  is one of the huge old jars... I bought the lampshade on clearance at dollar general for $4.. It makes a nice little lighted area in the corner near my sewing machine...

My sewing table is a desk we found set out by someone's driveway with a FREE sign on it.. Love finding stuff like that!

I use my older Singer machine out here.. I have a newer machine in my sewing room in the house, but have to say, this Singer is one reliable machine! 

Half of the floor is done in carpet and the kitchen area, which is now my sewing area, was done in a vinyl floor.. There was really nothing wrong with it other than I just didn't love the color, plus the previous owner had taken out the table that came with the trailer, which had left a large round area with no vinyl on it.. We had some peel and stick tiles we had purchased years ago for the house, but then decided not to use, so I decided to use some of them on this floor... 

What used to be the bedroom is now my fabric room... We had already removed the bed to add a cutting table before this redo... Since I moved my cutting table to the other end of the trailer, I was able to add more shelving and store a huge amount of fabric in this area of the trailer... 

I took down the folding door that came with the trailer and spray painted it ivory... It turned out looking kind of like a big gingham print.. I was going to spray it with another layer, but decided I sort of liked it the way it looked, so I left it that way... 

I can store an unbelievable amount of fabric in this room! With the doorway closed, it will stay dark in this room, which will help keep my fabrics safe from any light damage... There is a toilet, sink and shower in this room (that we've never used), but I've placed shelves so that every space available is being used to store fabric and the sink, toidy and shower are completely hidden..

There's a little cabinet under the window that has never really made much sense to me.. lol.. It's built over the wheel well, but it's really narrow so really doesn't work well for any type of storage... I decided to use it to display my 1954 Brother Sewing machine.. I was born in 1954 and my husband and I found this machine at a garage sale for $7... It still works, actually, I'd say it works better than many newer machines on the market today, but it does need a new cord, as someone had spliced it two or three times.. 

hmmmm....That reminds me, I asked John to replace that cord for me a couple of years ago. lol.. 

Guess I need to remind him.. 

I love the color of this old machine! There's just something very neat about old sewing machines..

My son in law is career military and is stationed in Germany right now along with my daughter and three grandkids... My daughter found a really old German machine for me at a garage sale and sent a picture of it to me telling me it's my Mothers Day/Birthday Present.. The only problem is, it's heavy, and will cost a small fortune to ship home, plus there's the danger of it getting damaged... When they come home, so will my vintage machine.. I can't wait to add it to this little cabinet area...

I love old machines! They were built to last and are just so neat looking!!

I've always loved this saying, and in fact, it's part of my logo on my Karens Kandles website.  

I bought this wall decal sticker on Amazon..It's vinyl lettering that you press onto your wall, and then pull the backing paper away... It took a bit of patience to get it on there, but once it was on, it's there to stay... 

What can I say? 

When I got all done with the inside, I decided to paint the outside! 

But that's a blog for another day.. It's past my bedtime and I'm getting very sleepy!!

Remodeling a Travel Trailer

Coca Cola Trailer Cottage

About 5 years ago, my husband and I bought a 1987 Taurus 21' travel trailer.. To be honest, I had been looking at those small, vintage little trailers, like the Shasta's, and wanted one to redo.. But my husband had other plans.. He thought a big one would be better..You know how men are.. The bigger the toy, the better.. 

We looked at a lot of trailers, new and used, but ended up buying one from a guy who listed it on Craigs List.. It was pretty cheap ($1500) and had a lot of possibilities, so I agreed with my hubby that we should buy it, even though my heart was still lusting for one of those cute little vintage trailers.. 

Within days of getting it home, I started remodeled it.. It didn't need heavy duty remodeling, as it was in pretty good condition, but it did need a new look.. 

I started looking for sites with ideas and info about remodeling a travel trailer. I found lots of info about stripping trailers down to nothing and starting over, but not a whole lot about just remodeling, or maybe a better word is, renovation...

I basically just flew by the seat of my pants and figured out what to do as I went.. It wasn't that different from redoing a room inside our house.. Well, not quite like a room in the house, but similar!

When we bought it, it was your typical every thing is wood look.. The previous owners had just purchased a new, mattress for it and extended the bed a bit. Travel trailer mattress's tend to be smaller than a normal mattress, and the one they put in here was a standard full size mattress.. In order to make the mattress fit, they had removed the door to the bathroom and shower. There is a folding door between the livingroom and bedroom, so there was a little privacy, but not the greatest set up...

 I wasn't sure if wall paper would stay on the walls of a travel trailer, but I decided to try it anyways.. I couldn't find info on it anywhere, but I had bought a bunch of wallpaper on clearance at Lowes when they discontinued it for $2.50 per double roll. Cha Ching! I had one that was light beige with a tiny red diamond print that I really liked, so I decided to use that in the trailer..

I love the color of red, and also have a thing for all things Coca Cola! Love that red and white.. I decided it'd be really neat to go with a Coca Cola theme...

I started by removing all the cabinet doors and painting the walls and cabinets with a good primer..

Luckily, the ceiling was in really good condition, so I didn't have to do a thing with that.

Once that was dry, I painted the cabinets a light beige that matched the background of the wallpaper. I used Behr paint from Home Depot.. I really love that paint! It goes on smooth and thick, and never disappoints..

 I set up a couple of saw horses with an old door on them in our driveway to create a work bench to paint the cupboard doors.. I had taken a picture of a Coca Cola logo to Home Depot and asked them to try and create that color of red in a paint.. They did a great job! It came out perfect Coke red... I had removed the cupboard doors with the hinges still attached, so I could paint them red, too...It made it much easier putting them back up that way. I purchased a big lot of white cabinet knobs from someone on ebay for $10 to replace the knobs that came on the door. I left the little knob backplate on the doors and painted them red, too.
Turned out pretty neat, even if I do say so myself. :o)

After painting the doors and reinstalled them, I got busy with the wall papering and tongue and groove..

I attached the tongue and groove boards with liquid nails instead of nails.. My husband was worried about my hitting wires that may be in the walls. The liquid nails worked great and to this day, I've never found a board that has lifted or seems loose in any way... The wallpaper has also stuck beautifully, which really surprises me considering I live in Northern Michigan where we get huge temperature changes..
However, looking back, I think it would have been smarter to tongue and groove the outside walls for insulation and wallpapered the interior walls.. As they say, hindsight is 20/20..

I purchased some red leather from the Fabric Guru off their remnant page... If I remember correctly, it cost under $30...The previous owners had made a cover for the couch (which is also a pull out bed), so I removed it and recovered it with the red leather.. 

I found the red lantern wallpaper border on ebay. I had been trying to find a Coca Cola border, but the ones I found were way too expensive.. I fell in love with this one and decided it fit the whole camping theme and color scheme really well. It was also kind of pricey on most sites, but I found one roll offered on ebay for $9.99, so grabbed it. 

I had enough red leather left over to make a cushioned pad for the cabinet under the window... I'm not sure what that little spot is suppose to be, but it made a nice little seat.. 

I had a curved curtain rod, so I decided to make a bathroom door out of fabric..  I found a fabric shower curtain on clearance at Kmart for $5 in just the right color..Not a real door, but much nicer than just leaving it open.. 

The bedroom was such a tight squeeze with the bigger mattress, I couldn't really do a whole lot in there. I tried to pull the mattress out, but it was really wedged in there. I got my hubby to try and help, but after an hour of trying to get the thing out, we gave up and I just worked around it.. It must have been a blast getting that thing in there to begin with! With the position of the cabinets overhead and the shelf, there was just no leverage to get it out...

The little "Exit" sign over the window cracked me up.. Anyhoooo..... I decided since there wasn't a lot of room to work in here, I would just add the wallpaper border over the window and tongue and groove board to the wall. They had added a shelf over the bed, which I didn't think we'd need, so I made a little mattress pad for it so Tomi, our cat, would have a comfy place of his own.. I also removed the cupboard door knobs and back plates and painted them red... 

I already had the quilt and pillow shams, which had been in the spare bedroom in the house, but had been replaced with a new quilt the year before.. I loved that quilt set, so had held onto it... Glad I did, as it worked well in the trailer.. I bought the red plaid woolrich blanket on ebay for under $10! Cha chingaling.. 

I made red gingham curtains and lined them in room darkening fabric so it wouldn't be so bright in the bedroom first thing in the morning...

I didn't do much to the bathroom area other than wallpaper the walls and paint the towel bar and hardware red. 

Below are some before and after pics...some are repeats of pictures above, but for some reason, I don't have a large assortment of pics available.. I saved them to some file somewhere on my computer, but can't seem to locate them.. 

Before

This is a picture looking at the kitchen from the living room.. Like I mentioned, it was your typical everything was a wood paneled look. The blue striped fabric was curtains.. All the accent stuff was blue but the carpet in the living room is kind of a rust color. Not sure how that combo came to be. lol. 

After.. 

The previous owners had taken out the built in table and booths, and built in a cabinet that didn't quite match the others.. I wasn't quite sure what to do about that but ended up tongue and grooving it and painting the door red.. It blends in nicely now..

We found the little 2 leaf table at a garage sale for $5.. I painted it the light beige color and painted the tips of the table legs red. I found the old fashioned radio at a garage sale for $1.50.. It works and looks pretty neat!

We bought the little vintage look microwave at Wally World on sale for about $30.. The biggest "splurge" was the red coffee maker, which wasn't on sale, but only cost around $20..

I found a 5x7 rug at Kmart on sale in the perfect color combo of red with beige stripes on the ends.. It's like it was custom made for our trailer! I think it cost about $20 on sale.. I put red gingham shelf liner on top of the table, made red gingham curtains for the windows and added  lace valances (also purchased on sale at Kmart)..

I already had the majority of the Coca Cola decorations, purchased a few new ones and just started filling the trailer with them...

Before
The kitchen was really in very good condition...it just needed a new look. The wall behind the stove and sink was that factory manufactured wallpaper board.. I painted it with primer, then wallpapered over it and 5 years later, it's still stuck to stay!

After

I taped off the sides of the fridge and used a little paint roller to paint the front red...It took several coats, but turned out great.. I purchased the Coca Cola decals from ebay vendors.. The white "Coca Cola" was a pain in the behind to get on correctly, but once it was finally on, it's stayed really well.. The hand holding the coke bottle, however, was the opposite. It went on very easily, but the edges are constantly curling up.. I've gotten in the habit of running my hand over it to smooth it down every time I walk past it..

I bought two red dish pans to put in the sinks and put a vinyl splash plate behind the sink on the wall. 

                                                                                                                      

Livingroom Before

Pretty much like most of the trailers we looked at.. Lots of cupboard space, a couch that pulls out into a bed and that about describes it.. 

                                                         

Living Room After

 The mirror hanging in the picture above was actually a really nice mirror.. I decided to paint it country white, distress it for a shabby look and ended up hanging it in the spare bedroom in the house. 

Some of the mini blinds were a little unstable, unable to be opened and shut and just didn't function properly. I was going to replace them with inexpensive ones from Walmart, but soon realized the windows aren't a standard size and I couldn't find any blinds that would fit.

I ended up taking them outside and hanging them from two Shepherd's hooks, sprayed them off with the hose (because they were really dusty), and when dry, I was able to restring them and fix the majority of problems with them.. I wouldn't say they're the most attractive thing on the planet, but they do the job and for just a little time invested, are usable again...

Before
Living room Couch Area

After

This couch is actually very comfortable. I've never pulled it out to sleep on it as a bed, but I've been known to sneak out here in the afternoon from time to time to take a little cat nap.. 
The woolrich blanket is another bargain I got on ebay for around $7.. I love bargains!

              Bedroom Before                                            

Bedroom After

It took me about a month to finish the whole thing and I ended up really happy with the way it turned out.. I'm lucky that my husband trusts me to do whatever I want to rooms.. He thinks I'm loony because I never stop changing things, but he's very supportive and just stands back to see what I'm doing now...

Once the trailer was finished, I waited for us to take it camping....and waited....and waited......and waited some more...We had moved it to the back yard behind a little garden pond we had put in years ago.. We occasionally "camped" in the yard and it was very comfortable and peaceful.. We live in a very wooded location, so it did feel like camping out in the wilderness...We can hear the little pond waterfall from inside the camper and it's very relaxing.. But still...I really wanted to take her camping somewhere!

A year went by before my husband finally confessed that he was really nervous about pulling it anywhere, he wasn't looking forward to backing it into campsites and all the rest that went with camping with a trailer. He was worried about something happening on the road pulling it and not having the knowledge to handle it.. He's the worrier in our family.. I'm the adventurer... 

In his defense, we had actually burned out the brakes on our truck hauling it home.. We had to have them replaced the day after we brought her home, which was kind of crazy since we'd just had them replaced about a year before and for the most part, my hubby only drove the truck to work and back, which was only 2 miles away.. 

He has a fishing boat which he pulls with the truck and has never had a problem with it. Unfortunately, this particular trailer just didn't seem to haul smoothly.. It was located about 1 1/2 hours from our home, so hauling it home after we purchased it had given him a pretty good picture of what it pulled like... 

He also said he was thinking maybe a smaller trailer probably would have been a smarter purchase.................................................................................................hmmmmmm........

We talked about putting it up for sale, but in the end, decided to keep it and turn it into a sewing cottage for me.. I can live with that!!!

We ended up pulling the mattress out of her and making shelves for fabric and a cutting table on the bed platform. It took us hours to get that mattress out of there. I'm sure we looked hilarious trying to figure out how to maneuver that thing, and even funnier trying to carry it out.. 

But we did manage to finally get it out of there and we then spent days carrying bolts of fabric out to organize.. 

I have a sewing room in our house, so I was splitting up the fabric by what I use it for. Because I'm self employed and sell hand made items for a living, I have over 200 bolts of fabrics, so this was not an easy chore.. 

But after a few weeks, I had pretty much organized the trailer into a cute little sewing cabin.. I took my older singer machine out there and set up a sewing area in the kitchen. All in all, it was a nice little area to work in. I've sewn out there from spring through fall, and used it year round to cut out projects.. 

We heat it with a Eden Pure heater and I insulate it the best I can every fall in preparation for cold weather.. I used to sew out there even in late fall and winter, but one year I was sewing orders late afternoon/early evening.. It was already dark out... My husband blew a fuse in the house (the trailer is plugged into the house electricity), only he didn't realize he had... It was pitch black out.. I sat in the dark waiting for the electricity to come back on..about 5 minutes later, I decided I needed to make my way to the house and find out what was going on.. Unfortunately, the light I leave lit on the back porch was on the same line, so it was out, too.. 

We have bears in our area who visit our yard after dark frequently.. Living in the boonies, there are no street lights and our neighbors are spread out so we can't see their homes from our house.. It was the longest 50 ft I ever walked.  I kept hoping I didn't walk into a black bear.. lol... 

From that time on, we decided it probably wasn't a good idea to work out there after dark.. I do all my sewing inside the house during the winter months, but enjoy sewing in my little cottage trailer the majority of the year.. 

I've enjoyed the trailer as is all these years, but have decided to do another redo... Even though I've enjoyed the coca cola theme, I'm ready for a change, so I'm going to turn her into a shabby chic trailer, and have renamed her "My Sew Sweet Cottage"... 

I've already started the redo and will be posting new pics as she goes... I can't wait to see her looking very girly and sweet... 

Stay tuned :o)