ironstone heaven
During my 15+ year love affair with ironstone, I have come home with some pretty sweet ironstone hauls. Child’s play. Yesterday, I walked into ironstone heaven at a local thrift store. One of my “picker” friends tipped me off on the treasure trove and I couldn’t resist making the drive to check it out. My […]
January Favorites
I’ve been thinking about sharing a “favorites” post each month for a while now and finally decided to actually do it! There are so many times when I find a show, a website, an Etsy shop, a beauty product, an Instagram account, etc. that I am smitten with and I want to share them with […]
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 […]