43 Inches
You may have noticed that I’ve been a little quiet lately. Things have been crazy around here. We were hit with our second blizzard in less than a week and had over 43 inches on the ground when it was all over. One of the teenagers we work with wasn’t able to make it home, […]
Decorative Painting 101 – Finding Inspiration
Welcome to another installment of the workshop series brought to you by Mustard Seed Creations and Funky Junky Interiors! It has been very exciting for me to hear from all of you about your excursions into the decorative painting aisles. You never know how you’ll be unless you try it! I also want to encourage those […]
Goodwill Lamp Before & After
I just finished working on my latest project – a brass lamp from Goodwill with a pretty shape, but it needed a lady’s touch. This post is a bit of a tease, because I’m not going to give you any information about the process. I painted this lamp to use as an example for my […]
The Story of the Stone Fruit
I shared about my love of stone fruit in a post a few months ago. It’s marble that’s been carved and hand painted to look like real fruit and it’s pretty convincing. It’s also usually very expensive. One rare piece on E-bay can sell for $60 or more. I was over-the-moon one day when I […]
Faux or Faux Pas?
I’ve been working on framing family photos lately and today I worked on this frame. Hold that thought a minute. I just had to share that we got about 2 feet of snow here in south central PA. Yes, that’s our van under all that snow and it was barricaded by a 4 foot […]
Latest Thrift Store Yield
I stopped by my local thrift store yesterday and found a beauty of a birdcage. I have been looking for one for a while and I saw this one tucked up on a shelf. Lately this thrift store has gotten a little pricey with certain items and this was $12.00, which is not dirt cheap, but […]
Furniture Feature Friday – Winners & A Link Party!
And my favorites from last week are… A fun and funky chair makeover by Kim at The Inadvertent Farmer. First of all, this chair was really ugly. It was a blah oak with an even blah-er seat cover. She borrowed an idea from BHG’s Decorating Ideas for Under $100 and applied foam stickers to up the […]
The Greatest Form of Flattery
I was so excited to receive an e-mail from a sweet woman named Rose. She shared with me that she was inspired by my Chalkboard Table Tutorial and made her own creation. Here is the table she tackled. Brave woman. This table looked pretty dated. …and here is the result! Didn’t she do a wonderful […]