Happy Happy Happy

Hello Everyone!  It’s been awhile since my last post.  The last two months have been a whirlwind of activities all of which have been one happy event after another.  One of the happy events that Charlie and I attended was a graduation ceremony for our son-in-law.  After an intense eighteen months of training, he is officially a Green Beret now!     

Now that things seem to be slowing down,  I’m hoping to get back on track.  My son who is in Afghanistan has mentioned that he has missed my blog postings.  If my little old blog makes him happy, than I need to get back on track.

As always, thanks for stopping by and I hope to have a blog post up tomorrow.  I have a lot to share! 

Gail 

Frenchy Mail Cabinet

  This piece has been driving me crazy! 

I purchased it several months ago at a Flea Market.  My first thought was to tag it and take it right to my booth.  But that never happened because after I brought it home I didn’t really feel/like its color.   So needless to say, it sat in my garage waiting for me to decide what color I should repaint it.  Well, after months of sitting in the garage I finally made a decision.  I repainted it using Miss Mustard Seed Grain Sack and Shutter Gray milk paint.  

 

I painted the outside of the cabinet Grain Sack and the inside Shutter Gray.  I also painted the front of the drawers with Shutter Gray.  

I lightly distressed it and then applied Miss Mustard Seed Furniture Wax on it. 

 

I’m so glad to be done with this piece!  I can honestly say I think it looks so much prettier with it’s new color!  Now, I will tag it and take it to my booth. 

 

As always, thanks for stopping by.  I hope you have a wonderful week and stay cool….I think summer has finally arrived!!

Gail

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End Table Make-over

Back in May, Charlie and I attended a benefit yard sale for wounded warriors.  Everything in this yard sale was donated by the people in the community.  It was a huge yard sale with a lot of nice things.  I bought quite a few furniture pieces and this end table was one of my purchases.  

Overall, this piece was in excellent condition other than a few knicks and scratches on it.  With some Annie Sloan chalk paint, the knicks and scratches were all easy fixes. 

I did, however, sanded and re-stained the top of the table.  I wanted a darker stain than what was originally on it.      

  I used Miniwax Dark Walnut. 

Today, I took it to my booth. 

I’m hoping that it sells quickly because if it’s still there when I go back it just might come back home with me. 

As always, thanks for stopping by and I hope you all have a wonderful 4th of July!

Gail 

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Poor Pitiful Dresser Make-over

A few months ago, I was the lucky auction bidder of this poor pitiful looking dresser!  

   Believe it or not, I felt sorry for this poor little dresser because not a single person would bid on it.   So needless to say,  at the last minute I threw my card up in the air and I bought it for little of nothing.

After I brought it home, I thought maybe it does have some potential if I did a whole lot of scrubbing, sanding and a fresh coat of paint.   With that being said,  I did a whole lot of SCRUBBING, sanding and put a fresh coat of paint on it. 

 

I used a combination of homemade chalk paint (brown) and Miss Mustard Seed Milk Paint (Ironstone).   I stenciled the front of the dresser drawers with a stencil that I had bought at Michael’s.  

 

The top of the dresser was in bad shape. 

Thanks to the suggestion of Rosemary at Villabarnes, I gave the top a good sanding and used wood filler and now the top looks good as new.

I know what you must be thinking…as good as new…what you see here is the result of Miss Mustard Seed Milk Paint.  The chippy and crackled look was just the look I was hoping for! 

As you can see, I took it to my booth today.  Hopefully, someone will think she’s pretty now! 

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and thanks for stopping by. 

Gail

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Enamel Top Kitchen Table Before and After

This stuff is amazing! 

It’s a spray on paint and varnish stripper.  It took this enamel top kitchen table (below), that I bought at a yard sale, that looked like this…..

….to this.

It was the easiest and fastest furniture stripping job I have ever done!  I purposely left some of the white paint on the base of the table because my plan was to distress it.

I painted the base of the table with Miss Mustard Seed Milk Paint in Typewriter and I used her wax on it as well.       

  I love the way the milk paint crackled on this piece.  I’m so glad that I left some of the white on it otherwise I probably would not have gotten this effect. 

I didn’t need to do anything to the enamel top other then give it a good cleaning after stripping the three layers of paint on it. 

I really did not expect this table to turn out like this.  I have to be honest, after I brought this table home, I had buyers remorse!  When I got ready to work on it, I really thought I was wasting my time.      

Now that it is all said and done, I think this table will probably end up being my most profitable make-over.   Time will tell because it will be going to my booth tomorrow!

Because Google Reader will be shutting down on July 1st, I have added BlogLovin’ as another way to follow my blog.  Look at my sidebar for the BlogLovin’ symbol to follow. 

As always, thanks for visiting and for those of you who will be following along with me on BlogLovin’

Gail

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Stools of all Shapes and Sizes

Today, I thought I would share a few pictures of stools that have come and gone through my booth.  Stools are a big seller for me and when I see them, I snatch them up!  They can be big or little, wood or metal and the other things is, it doesn’t matter what they look like either.  Take this old metal milking stool, for instance.  

  

It was a rusty mess!   I removed some of the rust with a wire brush and then I painted it.  I made sure that I didn’t paint over all the rust.  I left some of it.  It sold within days! 

This is another metal stool that sold within days.   I didn’t do anything to it other than stencil a number 3 on the seat. 

The stools that I have pictured below are all stools that I have transformed one way or another and they too have all sold. 

 

 

I wish I had taken pictures of all the stools that I have sold since I opened up my little booth.  Sometimes I forget to take my camera with me when I go to my booth.  And on my next visit back when I take my camera, wouldn’t you know it, my stools have been sold.   Now that my little booth is stool less, I’m on the hunt for more!

As always, thanks for stopping!

Gail

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Night Stands

Hello everyone, I have been plugging away on my stash of furniture that I stacked in the garage.  I just recently finished a pair of night stands that I picked up at a yard sale a few weeks ago.  Do you remember these that I shared about a week or so ago…..

….well they are both done and I have them in my booth already. 

I painted them with Annie Sloan Chalk paint in Versailles and Pure White.  Instead of using Annie Sloan wax on them, I used Miss Mustard Seed Antiquing wax.  I know I have said this before, but I LOVE her wax!  I just wish that you could buy it in a gallon size bucket but unfortunately you can’t. 

I also replaced the original knobs with little glass knobs. 

I only have two more things left in the garage to paint and they both require a lot of work.  The enamel top table below…..

and the dresser below.  

As you can see in this picture, the veneer top of this dresser is in bad shape.

   I know I will need to replace the top but if any of you have any others ideas or suggestions on what I could do with the top, I would love to hear them. 

As always, thanks for stopping by and I hope you all have a wonderful day. 

Gail