Another day of making ornaments has come and gone.  My entire house is dusted in glitter and littered with shreds of paper.  Sigh.  So, since I’m stuck in monotony at the moment, I thought I would share two other new pieces of furniture I worked on last week and dropped off at Lucketts. This armoire had been in my office for a couple of years, but it was replaced in my recent makeover.  I couldn’t just let a good vintage armoire go to waste, so I gave it a new life. I decided to paint the entire piece in black chalkboard paint.  I think it could work in a kid’s room, kitchen, craft room, play room, family room…lots of options.  The other piece, which actually already sold, is this princess dresser.  It wasn’t bad, but the paint finish was very tired, so I stripped the top and painted the base in ASCP

Some of you have been waiting a long time for this one. Trust me when I say that I have, too. Back in March or maybe April, I was browsing Craig’s List.  I looked all over my area and didn’t find one thing that was of interest to me.  Hating to spend all of that time searching and only to come up empty, I decided to expand my search.  I looked in metro areas where I had family, including the Orlando area where my parent’s live.  And, I came across this French armoire for $150.  “Um, Dad…will you pick up an armoire for me?  Pretty please?”  Batting eyelashes don’t translate over the phone, but my Dad melted at my sweet, angelic tone.  Not only did he pick up the armoire for me and spotted me the money until I sent him the check, but he stored it in the garage and then packed it up and drove it

I used to shudder at pieces of furniture that were poorly painted.  Drips, major brush marks, streaks and chips.  I felt like my paint job would only be as good as the previous paint job and I needed to sand it baby bottom smooth to make it right.  Well, I have had a change of heart.  I no longer see problems in poor paint jobs.  I see texture.  Amazing texture just waiting to be highlighted and put on display.  For example…this piece was poorly painted. It was streaky, drippy, chippy and not in a good way. The drawers worked perfectly, though, it’s solid wood, has the original hardware and a great shape.  Instead of stripping or sanding it, I just painted straight over it with a mixture of paint (I’ll get into that in a minute.) Once the paint was dry, I sanded it heavily to bring out all of

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