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the final coat & latest cow

There is a reason why I love painting and never quite latched onto quilting. Patience. I am a finisher and I like to finish in a day. If a project drags on too long, I get bored with it. Well, my patience is really being tested on these counters. It took a couple of days to get them routed, sanded and ready to be installed, but then I had to put the finish on. The finish I chose, Waterlox, is an 11 day process. 11 days!?! I can’t just slap on a coat and install them when they are tacky? It’s four coats of finish with 24 hours between each and a 7 day cure time. It’s torture for an impatient DIYer such as myself. BUT…it’s really worth the wait. The counters are on day 3 of the curing process and they are so beautiful and I don’t want to

March 10, 2013 127 Comments

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Copper & Tin Giveaway

There are times when I’m browsing through an antique store and someone asks me what I’m looking for. My response is almost always, “Well, I don’t know. I’ll know it when I see it.” I find that my method of shopping has shifted from wanting to get as many things as I could for my money to wanting to get something that really speaks to me or makes a statement in my home. So, when I received an e-mail from Carrie of Copper & Tin and I checked out her Etsy shop, I knew I wanted to work with this proprietress. So many pieces in her shop spoke to me. These are the three that spoke the loudest… …a “for rent” sign… …a paint brush… …and an ironstone mold… Here are some of the pieces currently in her shop that I love…

March 2, 2013 627 Comments

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awesome mail day

I learned pretty early on that I’m in the right profession for a person who loves getting packages in the mail. A part of it is that I live in a rural area, so it makes sense to order things online instead of driving all over the place hunting for something. That’s probably how I get most of the supplies for my articles and non-antique items that I sold at Lucketts. I also get “blogger mail”, which is stuff people want me to review, nice things people make for me or sweet thank you gifts. Well, today was an epic mail day with a little bit of everything. I got new tile for my kitchen back splash…. …mini herringbone marble tile. Sigh. Yes, I know. It’s actually Oriental White tile, which is a lot like Carrera, but it’s whiter and has a touch of beige veins in addition to

February 6, 2013 67 Comments

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the new bed

My new bed was delivered yesterday!! For those of you who have ordered lots of pieces of furniture and had them delivered, this might not be very exciting to you, but it was thrilling for me. I usually dig my pieces out of the back corner of some barn and have to put a great deal of work into it before it’s ready to use, so this is a different experience for me. The delivery guys even came early, so I didn’t have to run to the door at every thump during the “2 hour window.” After they set it up, I rounded the corner into my room and saw my new bed, my dream bed. It looks even better in person than it did in the catalog. To make the day even sweeter, my new bedding was delivered yesterday, too. I’ll tell you about that down the

January 30, 2013 120 Comments

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shopping for a rug

Other than a bathroom mat or something to catch drips at the kitchen sink, I haven’t really shopped for rugs until recently. I’ve never had large expanses of hard flooring until we moved to our current home. My decorating budget was always non-existent or super-tight, so the rugs I had were freebies from family, carpet remnants left in our basement from the previous owner or great bargains (like the $8 yard sale rug in our guest room, the $75 bamboo mat in the dining room and the 70% off clearance rug from Target.) When Flea Market Style contacted me about photographing my office, they wanted to add some punch to the space in a few ways, including a rug. Stacey, one of their creative editors, sent me some links to various rug companies and asked me to pick out something I liked. I immediately fell in love with Dash

January 28, 2013 32 Comments

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Union Jack Ottoman

As I shared in my other posts about my Houston trip, I met some amazing people. One of those people was Jennifer Williams of Metamorphose Studios. I was getting ready for the Milk Paint demo and Jennifer comes out of the back room, smiling. “I have a present for you.” I was slightly distracted and didn’t notice what she was holding. She then lifted up this black garbage bag filled with something boxy and handed it to me. My first thought, and I’m pretty sure I said it out loud, was, how am I going to get this home?! I pulled the garbage bag back and saw this amazing Union Jack pattern in burlap, cream and aqua. My second thought was, I’m going to get this home no matter what. Jennifer left the legs raw, so I could paint them. I’ve been known to do that sort of thing and

January 16, 2013 61 Comments

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my new bed

You know me. Almost all of the furniture and accessories I buy for my home, I buy used. (The only exception I make is for a sofa and mattresses.) It’s almost always cheaper and the quality is almost always better. I also just like buying used. The pieces have more “soul” and character. If I have money burning a hole in my pocket, I go to the antique mall. I don’t think I’ve set foot to shop in a real mall for over a year. Any time I do go to a real mall (usually for a youth trip), I make a point to wander into Restoration Hardware. A lot of their furniture and accessories are a bit masculine for my taste, but I love the classic quality of their designs. In my mind, they are tops when it comes to beautiful neutrals. I never bought anything from them, but I

January 3, 2013 83 Comments

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A bit of France in Petaluma

Sorry I’ve been quiet the past couple of days, but it’s been a whirlwind that started when I woke up Tuesday at 3:00 am to get to the airport to fly to San Francisco for a day of workshops and book signings. It ended last night when we arrived home about 11:30 and crashed in bed. I have so much to share about the workshops and the people I met and how it gets me choked up when my eye catches a huge chalkboard with my name on it and a table full of my paint and products under it. But I’ll get to all of that another day. Today, I want to share about the hotel I stayed in. As we drove into Petaluma, CA from San Francisco, I was overwhelmed by the beauty of the rolling green hills, age-old cypress trees and quaint row houses. I haven’t been

December 13, 2012 No Comments

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the final coat & latest cow

Copper & Tin Giveaway

awesome mail day

the new bed

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Union Jack Ottoman

my new bed

A bit of France in Petaluma

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