cleaning a grubby piece of furniture
I have recently acquired quite a few awesome, but very dirty pieces of furniture and I’ve been asked how I clean them, so I thought I would share. I’m all for diving in with a brush and getting straight to the fun part, but grubby pieces really need to be cleaned first. (Just a note […]
loosen up
I haven’t had much of a chance to paint recently and I found I was really missing it, so last week, I set aside some time to put brush to paper. I picked blueberries as my subject and started. I got to an “almost finished” place and realized I just hated it! It was too […]
Me & Mrs Jones
I left early (for me) Thursday morning to fly to Memphis, Tennessee to spend the weekend with Shaunna of Perfectly Imperfect and Stephanie Jones of Me & Mrs Jones. Trips like these always feel like a bit of an interruption to daily routine (I guess trips technically are), but they always end up being a […]
Hand Painted Stencils
“Where did you get that stencil?” I’ve been asked that question so many times when I share one of my hand painted pieces. And that has led to people asking if I ever planned to come out with a line of stencils. I have always loved the idea of it, but as someone who works in […]
step-back cupboard reveal
I shared my progress on the step-back cupboard yesterday and here it is all prettied up! As a reminder, here is how it looked before. Well, it had part of the first coat on the top, but this angle better shows what a mess it was! My goal in giving it a makeover was not […]
step-back cupboard in progress
I have learned to trust my gut when I see a piece that is underpriced, underestimated and, perhaps, overlooked by others. Such was the case with this step-back cupboard. It had, shall we say… issues? It was originally a built-in, so it was missing a back, top and trim, it lost its bottom somewhere along […]
how to fix “sticky” drawers
Have you ever had words with a piece of furniture that just would not cooperate? Well, I had to have a few words and get physical with this bottom half of a step-back cupboard yesterday. The drawers that came out of it, so they could be cleaned, just would not go back in. And, when […]
5 tips for building a killer collection
Yesterday, I talked about paring down and today I’m talking about collecting! Believe it or not, but the two can very much go hand in hand. I believe editing is an important part of building a killer collection. As I was working on the process of purging, deciding what to keep and what to box up to […]