I’m so sorry, girls. I have totally gotten lazy about taking “after” shots of my furniture. I have to haul it up from the basement, move the furniture around in my house, gather props, stage the photo, take the pictures and then put everything back. It’s very time consuming and I have to have good light and an extra person on hand to move the furniture. Well, after today, I think I’m going to start going through that trouble again.
I finished two dressers last week and I have lousy pictures of both. So, be prepared to be underwhelmed.
Despite the poor photography, I really love this dresser.
It was painted in glossy green and gray oil based paint. I took this picture after the paint from the top was removed.
Mini Mustard Seed painted it in ASCP’s Cream, which is sort of a very pale yellow. Once it was dry, I used the Springtime in Paris Stencil from Royal Design Studio and ASCP’s Paris Gray to create a “French poem” design on the front.
I distressed the edges to allow some of the old paint to show through. The top is finished in a dark walnut wood stain and then the entire piece is protected in a soft wax finish.
It’s a very soft, pretty piece. If it isn’t sold, yet, I’ll take better pictures of it on Thursday. Off to work on another dresser, a wardrobe, a desk…and it’s time to tackle the basement. If you don’t hear from me tomorrow, send a search party.
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wow, thats so pretty and so feminine. i love it. maybe i can TRY my luck at it, but know it would never compare to yours. you do beautiful work. im sure it will be gone in a heartbeat. no doubt about it.:)
Hi Marion!
Let me start by saying that I love your blog and your work. You are truely an inspiration to me. So much so that I am coming to you to ask you your opinion on the pieces that I recently picked up on Freecycle for FREE. I wondered if you thought I should paint or not? I am really in a quandry here. Or perhaps you have some other suggestions? I would love some direction. The pieces are so beautiful and I don't want to ruin a good thing. Thanks for your help – you can find the link to this posting and pictures of the pieces here:
http://staceyembracingchange.blogspot.com/2011/09/freecycle-finds-reveal-you-arent-going.html
Stacey of Embracing Change
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Beautiful! I love how you did the poem, very inspiring!
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Love love! Just yummy, Marian!
Sheila
Gros bisous… Très joli travail et longue vie à cette nouvelle commode!
Beautiful, Marian! Gray and yellow is a fabulous combo. FINALLY someone came out with a French script stencil!
xo,
Jami
Oh Hon, your crummy photos are better than my bestest ones. The chest looks great; what does it say?
I always wonder — when I see French on items, am I buying something emblazoned with the Gallic equivalent of "Your mother wears Army boots?"
Ah, you are much too young to remember when that was an insult!
You do lovely work, and your energy astounds me.
Cass
It's just gorgeous, Marian! I love it!
Hugs,
Julia
Haha… only you could take a bad picture and get 58 + comments on it! Oh my this dresser is gorgeous!!!
I'd say your shortcut works just fine.
Donna
The paint job is so great, who's noticeing the quality of your photo. I'm going to try this on a chest I have. I'll be watching for instructions on how to do a stencil. Jan
At least you have been blessed to have to keep busy in order to stay up with the demand for your work. This is way too cute! I have really been into yellow and gray lately, but the hubby would nix anything like that for our home.
I can totally understand the challenge of making the time to take photos after a project is done when your selling the item & you need to get moving on to the next. I am in craft show mode now & sometimes forget either the before or the after pictures for my blog.
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Hi!
I'm dropping by to thank you for following me on Twitter. It's really nice to meet you and I see you're a VERY talented lady! Wow! Good for you!
Anyways, I hope we can get to know each other better.
Have a great week!
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Luciane at HomeBunch.com
Hi Miss Mustard Seed, I've been an avid follower of your blog for two years–LOVE this dresser.
I have a question that I trust you to answer better than anyone else. I just painted a dresser turquoise, in latex paint, Behr with primer built in. I sanded to remove the gloss but not to bare wood–I was hoping the built in primer would be enough.
Now, a week later, the dresser is still "sticky" to the touch. This is only important for the top of it.
My question is, should I use a paste wax finish, or polycrilic? Which will help to take away the remaining tackiness? I definitely want to finish the top, and would have used the polycrilic I had on hand but the tackiness has me thinking that perhaps somehow the wax would do a better job at preventing things from sticking to the surface.
OMG!!!! Your work is NEVER underwhelming — WOW! You are a genius. Would love a better view with some info on the piece on the wall behind the dresser. Your work is truly beautiful.
Beautiful! I've just painted my first pieces with ASCP (thanks for your suggestion!) and just love it! Going to a sale this evening…. wish me luck! xx jess
I really love that yellow color! It's perfect. I also like what you've been doing lately with the tops of your pieces, refinishing them & staining them, while painting the rest, I think it looks great & will be much easier to maintain.
Hi! I love that stencil (looks terrific on the dresser!). I just used Melanie's French poem stencil us her Florentine corner stencil in a Designer Showhouse in Centerport NY. It's the Normandy Mansion – show I figured there should be some French in the showhouse! Here's the link with a picture on my blog!
http://studioofdecorativearts.blogspot.com/2011/09/designer-showhouse-in-centerport-ny-and.html
ahhhhhhhh! i just heard from melanie at royal designs about you using the french poem the same day i posted about mine on hellolovelyinc! great minds!
i love how you have used it!
also excited to see your new nest painting. what a fabulous inspiration for your bedroom.
michele
Less than perfect pictures or not, that dresser is still a star. Love the poem on it! How do you come up with these things. Good luck with the basement and all the work that is waiting for you in there.
Silly girl…. why don't you create an area in your basement where you can photograph your furniture when your done painting it? You could create a faux background wall using bead board, set up lights that are always on "the ready" have some props in a cabinet… maybe even a small rug. Easy peasy— and fast
I love, love, love it! So much that I wish I could just hop on up to the northeast and grab it! But I can't, so for now I will just drool here in East Texas. It will be the only moisture the ground has seen in months! Thanks for sharing! By the way, your photography is fine! XOXO!!
Love this….i also love the black thing with the letters above it, can you show more pics of that????
I just got an email from Ballard's and they are getting in on the Annie Sloan Chalk paint only calling it Casa Florentina with 15 different hand-applied finishes that look just like AS color palette, here's the link
http://www.ballarddesigns.com/collections/casa-florentina/woodswatches/?sortBy=NA&pageSize;=0&pageSizeBottom;=0
Forget the staging…your stuff looks awesome even without it. You are busy and we get it…aren't we all? I got the same thing from Ballard as Amy above me and thought the exact same thing! Peace to you MMS…I don't know how you do it
I was just about to ask if I could still buy ths, but then I looked at the dates of the other comments and realized they are from 2011 and this is WAY too pretty to still be available! I love why you did ith thu. You are so talented.
I have recently come across the springtime in Paris stencil at royal design studio. However, I cant bring myself to spend that much on a stencil! Any ideas on where I might get used/cheaper stencil? I have searched and searched. No luck. :-/…..