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Wax Puck Tutorial

I’m just getting in from enjoying the beautiful Collegiate Peaks in Colorado, so I’ve asked our MMS Milk Paint Primary Educator, Abbe Doll, to share a tutorial with you.  I haven’t had a chance to shoot or write a tutorial on using Wax Pucks, one of our new products, so Abbe, who is a machine, made one for me!  Enjoy! Let me just start by saying I love this little thing! It fits so perfectly in the palm of your hand and creates such fun effects. Here are some benefits of using the wax puck: You can create smooth, precise distressed lines on edges. If you want to expose color under color without sanding down to the wood, this allows you to control the amount of distressing you get It will allow you to expose or bring out the details of that great wear and tear of an old piece,

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Hand Painted Furniture

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I’m just getting in from enjoying the beautiful Collegiate Peaks in Colorado, so I’ve asked our MMS Milk Paint Primary Educator, Abbe Doll, to share a tutorial with you.  I haven’t had a chance to shoot or write a tutorial on using Wax Pucks, one of our new products, so Abbe, who is a machine, made one for me!  Enjoy! Let me just start by saying I love this little thing! It fits so perfectly in the palm of your hand and creates such fun effects. Here are some benefits of using the wax puck: You can create smooth, precise distressed lines on edges. If you want to expose color under color without sanding down to the wood, this allows you to control the amount of distressing you get It will allow you to expose or bring out the details of that great wear and tear of an old piece,

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Antiques

Pottery Barn Fall Collection

I’m sure I’m not alone in my love for the Pottery Barn catalog and everything in it.  There have been seasons when we’ve had to pinch every penny to get by and, even then, I loved picking up the Pottery Barn catalog.  I knew I couldn’t buy anything, but I was always inspired and got tons of ideas for all things home…like color combinations, designs and textures. So, when I was asked to partner with Pottery Barn and show off some of the pieces in their fall collection, I was happy to participate!  These are the things I picked out… You know I love blue, so, of course, I gravitated immediately to the Indigo Knit Throw. It’s as comfy as it looks – just like a thick cable knit sweater.  I like to snuggle up on the sofa when I’m pecking away on my computer late at night, so this

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Antiques

Chapel Market Inventory Preview

It’s not until October 19, but I’ve already started shopping, gathering and collecting for The Chapel Market in Pikes Road, Alabama. Here are some of the things I will be bringing… …an old scale… …a mini alarm clock… …a brown transferware ironstone sugar jar…   …a bunch of antique European grain sacks, fabric and tea towels….   …a pig butcher block board… …and TWO of these antique shoe racks… They’re so cool and offer some really neat storage possibilities.  AND I found them at a yard sale.  A YARD SALE, people!  You don’t even want to know what I paid for them.  Well, maybe you do and I would tell, but I’m reselling them for a lot more, so that would probably be tacky. I also have a cool industrial stool, some hand painted camp banners, a pretty antique globe, old shoe brushes, a typewriter and a lot more. Of

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Furniture Makeovers

Haven Advanced Painting Workshop “Recipes”

I recently taught the Advanced Painting Workshop with my very good buddy, Shaunna of Perfectly Imperfect, at the Haven home blogger’s conference. We had a blast and I think it may have been my favorite class ever.  In the two hour hand’s on workshop, we taught three paint techniques.  Being an advanced class, they were pretty complicated treatments with multiple steps, so I promised I would share the “recipes” on my blog. Before you set out to try these techniques, I want to remind you (or make you aware) of something – you can follow these steps exactly and still achieve a very different look.  I wish you could see the variety at each table.  The colors were the same, the sample board was the same, the steps were the same, but the end result was different.  My boards look different from Shaunna’s and even looked different in each class.

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Antiques

Finds from Opa’s House

I thought I would share a few more pieces I was able to take home from my Opa’s house as well as some pieces that are favorites of mine, but are going to other family members. The dining set isn’t really my style.  It’s beautiful, but it’s a bit too formal for my taste.  That being said, I’ve always been smitten with the needlepoint seats.  Each one is different and I’m sure they were completed painstakingly by hand.  I had to snap a picture of one…just to remember… I also wanted to snap a picture of this old friend… My Opa loved animals and was often called Dr. Doolittle.  I remember him keeping a bag of peanuts in the house to feed the squirrels who lived in the trees in his front yard.  He used to tote a small pony around in a station wagon for my mom and she

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Antiques

Latest Ironstone & Wooden Cheese Board

I have a bad habit.  Ironstone is my very favorite thing to collect and I’m much better at buying it than I am selling it.  Now, if you have shopped my tent at the Lucketts Market, you know that I do get rid of a lot, but I keep a lot, too.  I recently hit one of my favorite local shops at just the right time and bought a bunch of ironstone.  I’m selling a few pieces, but these are the ones I’m keeping… I can’t resist a pretty tureen or casserole, especially one that”s different from any I currently have… …and I sort of have a thing for sugar jars. I may have kept a pitcher, too.  Yes.  I did.  And a couple of lids. Did you notice the cool wooden pedestal cheese board under the tureen?  That’s actually going to be featured on Decor Steals soon, so keep

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Antiques

My Favorite House

There’s a house on my Opa’s street that captured my fancy when it was first built.  I must have been in middle school, but it turned my head even then. It’s classic.  Upscale, but not too fussy.  It looks cool in the summer and cozy in the winter.  I love everything about the exterior of this home. It’s called The Berry Hill, designed by William E Poole.  The interior floor plan isn’t what I envision for my “dream house”, but if I ever do get to build something from scratch, a picture of this house will definitely be carried with me to the drafting table. I love the curve of the roof, the copula on the garage… …the detail on the windows, the wrap-around porch, the crisp white siding and black shutters. Maybe one day. This house was around the corner and a fairly new build.  It is different, but

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I’m Marian, a painter, writer, and lover of all things creative. From art and antiques to home projects and everyday life, I share my journey in hopes of inspiring you to embrace your own creativity and make beauty in the spaces you live.

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