ART IS BEAUTY: home made chalk paint

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Wednesday, November 11, 2015

vintage Kitchen wall art. Roadside rescue cupboard doors, chalk paint and freezer paper

Need to quick dress up your house before Company comes for the HOLIDAY's?

Here is a quick and easy way!

I thought I would RESHOW you how to

Repurpose some old cupboard doors

with some paint and freezer paper to

make your own Kitchen ART.

Well its been so bright and sunny here in Michigan that I have been able to work outside again. One of the projects that I have been able to work on is my "FREE CUPBOARD DOORS" project. :)

(p.s. don't forget to hurry and enter the $150 Krink paint pen giveaway HERE..It ends March 24)

I scored a bunch of Free old cupboard doors off of C.L. and I had no idea what I was gonna do with all of them. So I took 5 of them and thought...I will just prep them and take it from there.

So I took off the hinges and handles filled the nail holes and then got out a couple different colors of my home made chalk paint. So I had blue and green and yellow cupboards drying in my driveway.

While I was waiting for them to dry I thought...These would be some great instant art with my freezer
Paper transfer. (you can see that HERE)
So I went on over to THE GRAPHICS FAIRY, and started printing of some of my faves and mixing and matching some that I liked.

when they were done, to keep the reuse effort going, I used some pop tabs as hangers.

Here you can see all the different INSTANT ART I made for next to nothing.

I love the FRENCH SEWING ones

and I really love the instant kitchen art. I hope you are inspired to
try and do some freezer paper transfers too..:)

I hope you have a BEAUTIFUL DAY.

Sunday, October 18, 2015

Homemade Chalk Paint dining set

An OLDIE but a GOODIE!
one of my first transformations way back WHEN!

Wooo Hoooo!! Finally got this big project done. I finally got to finish the dining room table with 4 chairs.

I got a set of 4 chairs at Goodwill for only $14.99. But as you can see the fabric is ...how you say.......BLECH!!!!!!

So I ran to Hobby Lobby and got me some fun orange and cream fabric...I know its the Hot color, but I have always been an Orange girl...( I am a red head, what can I say) :)

So then much to my hubby's Chagrin, I had him help me get this table out of our shed. I have been Hoarding.......errrrr ummmm, SAVING it for a FEW months.....He was so HAPPY when the lovely neighbor gave this to us for doing a couple favors for her...(you should have heard his happy comments when he was helping me carry it home....What are you gonna do with this....where are you gonna put this...yada yada yada) :)

I got started sanding this beauty.....and as you can see from my pants....

I am so happy I have my respirator mask...can you imagine this dust in your nose...been there, done that...don't want to do it again..:)

So I sanded and sanded and got down to the layer I wanted...I didn't want to get completely bare, because I wanted it to have that old finish...

Once it was sanded, I dark stained it.

While that was drying I started on painting the chairs. I was so happy to discover 2nd Essence's recipe for homemade chalk paint.
She has been tweaking and tweaking and has come up with a great recipe....1/2 cup plaster of paris...1/2 cup hot water whisk those together and then add 1 1/2 cups of paints.
Make sure you stop over to Valerie's page and let her know how awesome it is that she did all this work.

It worked like a dream and was actually quite fun. Since it was a white I had to do 2 coats over the dark wood.

While those were drying I got to painting the legs of the table.

The fun part came in the morning when I got to use my clear wax to wax the chairs and re-attach the seats.

I can't believe these new ish chairs look like such old world look...

Same on the legs...Love how they have such an old Parisian look to them.

So excited to have finally finished such a big project.

While I was taking pics, I was trying to figure out if I could keep it...but I need two more chairs....so my Husband lucked out...............................................................THIS TIME!!

I hope you enjoyed this project...Have a BEAUTIFUL day...

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Wednesday, May 8, 2013

"at the BEACH" shabby chic coffee talbe

Man oh man, we are having some UNSEASONABLY warm weather here in
Michigan, and it got me all fast forwarding to Summer. :)
So when I was trying to decide what to do with my cute little table from
Goodwill that my sweet friend Annie snagged me, I thought of just the thing..

You can see it was a decent table but it HAD SEEN ITS DAY! It was beat up and dirty.
So I whipped up some HOME MADE CHALK PAINT. (you can find the original post HERE)

I bleached and scrubbed the legs to give them a distressed look and then painted the top
a really pretty pale sea glass blue.

She looks good just like this..but you know me...can't have anything PLAIN! :)

So I thought, what better than "at the Beach" So I drew it on and used my Krink pen to outline and
filled it in with my acrylic white paint. (don't forget the HUGE giveaway for the krink pens is open until March 24, you can enter HERE) When it was dry I distressed the top and sprayed some poly on to protect the paint. I can just see her sitting in a cottage somewhere on the beach of Lake Michigan.
To bad I don't have a cottage..:)
I hope you enjoyed this little tutorial, and as always, Have a BEAUTIFUL day!!