How to tell you are really on the mend after having the flu : When you get excited about a thrifted chair find!
Remember this post? I lauded my friend for bringing me and my family Culver’s Custard when we were all recovering from the flu and craving some cold, creamy deliciousness. Well that same friend text me the next day. The text included a picture of a chair. A chair that was sitting at Goodwill. With a price tag that proclaimed it $8.99.
On Labor Day I decided I might as well do some labor 😉 So I dug out a chair and small table I had stashed away to be dealt with later. Later had come. I pulled out my Annie Sloan Chalk paint, waxes, and brushes and got to work.
Here is the chair before. Isn’t she just so lovely?? Not. I began my projects on the front porch. The mist that kept coming and going made me think I was in Ireland. The mist finally started coming down hard enough, and the breeze was just strong enough, it drove me and my projects inside to the dining room. Continue Reading…
A few weeks ago I went thrifting with The Teenager, one of her friends, and her friends Mom. I brought home a carload of cool finds. Several of the cool finds were furniture. Yesterday I painted some of it. I plan to blog about the furniture tomorrow. Today I have a project to share with you that is technically a wall but really doesn’t qualify as ‘wall painting’. No roller brush involved, no paint tray, no pole to attach to reach to the ceiling. Just a plastic cup to hold the paint and a natural bristle brush.
This past Saturday I text my Mom and asked if she wanted to come over and go with me to the shop that carried Annie Sloan Chalk Paint. It worked for her so away we went. Then we headed to her house so I could get her painting done.
Remember my Slip Cover Project? My Union Jack pillows? My Ottoman Makeover? I also slip covered a couch for the…
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A couple months ago a customer brought me a chair to slipcover. I finally made the slipcover last week…
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