Still Singing the Blues

I haven't blogged alot lately.

I've been busy painting,

sanding, waxing,

& hunting for new items to paint.

This frame was your typical brown

with a really bad water splotched print inside.

The print was removed and tossed in the dumpster.

The paint on this is Martha Stewart Hosta,

which I'm really, really loving,

topped with a coat of my walnut wax.

Chicken wire was stapled to the back,

so that photos could be attached and displayed.

Old black 'n white postcards from an estate auction

were attached with tiny clothespins.

I had three large frames
that were an old gold,
not a pretty old gold,
but a please paint me old gold.

Now they look like this.

This little table was brown and icky.

The wood on the top was peeking through the brown in spots

and drew my interest.

After a little sanding,

the top was looking very promising.

The top of this was waxed with a walnut wax

and the bottom painted with Martha Stewart Hosta.

The paint on this table was more of my oops paint,

like I used in my last post.

And more of the ooops paint on this dresser,

although it looks different from photo to photo.

These two little end tables

were part of a score from an estate auction last summer.

Finally they've been given some love and color.

Feeling a Little Blue

This ladies writing desk showed up on one of the local FB swap shops.

I fell in love with her,

but didn't message,

as I didn't think it would fit in the car.

After a few days,

the desk was still listed online,

with only a few posts,

but nobody showed any real interest in her.

So I drove to pick her up,

hoping that she'd fit in the car.

Luckily, the legs didn't even have to be removed.

After a coat of paint,

a little distressing (aka destressing me),

and a coat of Minwax,

she was all blue and ready to go.

It was raining, so these photos are taken inside the antique mall. 

Paula, the owner, asked if I'd like to put her in the front window,

so now here she is,

gracing the front window of the Summer Hill Antique Mall.

I also used the same paint on a little three drawer dresser.

The finished product looks very different,

but the only two differences in application were that

the desk received two coats

while the dresser only one

& the dresser was sanded much more than the desk.

The scrapbook paper is from Hobby Lobby.

(I love this paper!)

The knobs are salvaged from the dresser I painted here.

I really love this blue.

It's a "custom mix" aka oopsie special -

1 qt light tan

2 sample pots bright blue

1 sample pot white -

Shaken, not stirred,

in a huge cottage cheese container.

I love the ooops section at Home Depot!

New Spring Lids for Old Glass Jars

A few weeks ago, I bought a few charmpacks from Craftsy,

with no specific plans,

I just loved the colors.

With 40 charms in each pack,

and four packs,

I'm going to be finding many projects to use these.

First, I'm making jar lids.

The bright spring colors will jazz up any plain old jars,

even the leftover pickle jars that are great for storage,

but rather bleeeehh

can have a big WOW of color.

Here are the first batch of lids.

All the pretty lids in a row.

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