I am a little embarrassed to say that I just finished the custom painted bread box that was the giveaway for reaching my 100 follower milestone. That’s right. Give me a little bit of a break, here. It was custom painted and I had to work with Lilia to paint it how she wanted it. I also have two toddlers, a house, a husband, church commitments, clients, and I painted and moved our shop. That is the craziness that is my life. But, it’s finished and here it is! And here it was. This is the second one I have found in a thrift store, so these are pretty common. They’re constructed well, they are just dull and scream 1980’s. Lilia, from 2 Brown Eyed Beauties, chose to have the box painted a distressed white with a glass knob. For the decorative painting, she wanted the quote “A mother’s treasure

It’s finally done! This is the tray I offered as the giveaway prize for my very first Furniture Feature Friday. The winner was Lou Lynn from the Life of Lou Lou and her fabulous chair makeover. This is what the tray looked like before. It was a thrift store find and actually was in really nice condition. It could have been left “as is” and I gave Lou Lynn that option. She chose to have me custom paint it for her in a soft blue/gray with white hand painted detail. I chose to distress the edges to give it more character and a sense of age. It also will hide any dings that may occur in daily use. I hand painted some detail around the outside of the handles in addition to the border around the surface of the tray. The hand painted scroll work was inspired by the footed

Here’s the piece I let you peek at a couple of days ago. I am usually a blue & white kind of person, but I also love warm colors like reds and yellows. I was in a red mood the day I painted this and it works so much better than a blue would have. Here’s the before. I purchased this vanity (with a very Queen Anne mirror attached) at an estate/yard sale for $20.00. It was sturdy and had functioning drawers, but it had a lot of water damage and the finish showed it. I sanded the piece, applied a coat of bonding primer and 2 coats of semi-gloss paint. I wish I could tell you the color of red I used (because I know the questions are coming), but I mixed this one myself. It is SW Rave Red with some Raw Umber universal tint mixed in to

The skies have finally cleared, the sun came out, and our temperatures soared into the 60’s. So, what’s a girl to do? Paint! Due to our much improved weather, I was able to crank out a few small things and I have some larger pieces that are almost ready to share. I just completed this basket today. It was a pretty straight forward makeover…grungy old basket gets a coat of primer, a coat of SW Open Seas paint, and a coat of Krylon Gloss Poly. Much better. I’m also showing off some of the new quilts I just picked out to sell in our new shop. They are gorgeous! Here’s the basket before. I purchased it at an auction for $1.00! It just needed a little love & paint. It came to the right place. I love old baskets, especially when they show that they’ve been well used. I can

Does anyone remember this table? Does it look a little familiar? Well, how about this one? This was the table featured in my furniture stripping tutorial. Doesn’t it look great? I loved the shape of this table, but the finish…not so much. So, I stripped the thousands of layers of paint off the top, stained it with Min Wax’s Dark Walnut, and two coats of rub on poly. To the base I sanded, primed, and painted it in two coats of Sherwin Williams’ Frost White in a semi-gloss. I finished with a glaze of the Dark Walnut to highlight the details in the piece and take the “newness” off of the white. I love how the stain finds all of the little nooks and crannies. And this is the fall arrangement in my foyer. I’ve used some of the pumpkins I found at a yard sale this Saturday and the