Thursday, March 26, 2015
Monday, March 9, 2015
Antiqued mirror---$65
I wish I could have captured the colors in this mirror on camera, but it's hard to photograph a mirror ha ha...it's pretty cool!
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Old books
These are fun to make!! They are quick and easy! All you do is tear the backing off an older book, stain the outer edges and paint the outer pages. I also used nail head trim to decorate them up a bit!
Monday, February 23, 2015
Thursday, February 5, 2015
Redo
He I think maybe my lamps need their own blog....
I know this one is pretty cool just as is but I had something in mind and had to go with it...
It's tomorrow....
So I of course changed out the glass. Remember the lamp from a couple posts back? I discarded it's glass...I knew I'd find just the right place for it! These would be an awesome easy project for you. There are some awesome quirky lamps out there. This literally took me 30min from start to finish! Before you start, make sure you have a top piece(which is just the part that keeps the lamp shade on). Some are more decorative than others...that piece is what holds it all in place!
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Another lamp!!!
So I love lamps! I'm a bit crazy about them...
This one I've had for awhile but I just couldn't find the right shade. So it's time to make something else out of it!!
It's pretty cool right?? I'd already started painting before I remembered to take a picture :)
I decided to change out the glass, the other just wasn't working for me once I got some paint on.
Now it's an awesome decor piece!! I love it!
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
3 Drawer dresser---sold
So, I'm still working out the details of our upcoming occasional sale. We haven't set an exact date yet but it'll be the first part of March. There will be myself, My little sister, and 2 other talented refinishers I've found in our Virgin Valley, gathering our pieces for that weekend!! We will have furniture, and décor, I can't wait! You won't want to miss this one!! Stay tuned for details....
Thanks!!
Monday, January 19, 2015
Sold
I found this dresser in Vegas, my daughter had a basketball tournament there a couple of weeks ago and we had some time to kill between games, so why not find some yard sales!! I had to talk pretty hard though because yardsaleing is not my husbands favorite thing to do ha ha.
This was a project fail!! Majorly!! I had something else in mind for how I wanted the finish on this but sometimes things don't go as planned...isn't that kinda how life goes too?
So I started out with a very light coat each, speratically, of white and cream paint.
Then I went over the whole piece with a dark stain. I was hoping it look awesome and that the 2 colors would take the stain differently, but it ended up looking like some kids were let loose with paint. It was not pretty!! What to do?? After you've gone to that much work, it's pretty discouraging. I thought maybe sanding the snot out of it would help but it didn't. My husband liked it :) he was just trying to be nice...but I've been doing this long enough that I new it wouldn't sell like that.
Well... I like layers! In fact I love layers! I can't seem to paint a piece just one color anyway!! I took the white paint and made it into chalk paint(yes you can do that) there are recipes online. Then I went over the dresser with it making sure the dark grey stain still showed through.
It worked out beautifully!! Whew!!
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Chalkboards
Hello everyone!! We will have a variety of chalkboads at the occasional sale coming soon....sorry these have all been sold :-)
Just a little info. If you are going to make your own chalkboard it must be seasoned! You need to turn the chalk sideways and go over the chalkboard completely before you write anything on it. If you forget this step, the first thing you write will be there forever, it will not erase.
Have a good one!
Saturday, January 10, 2015
Beautiful Grey Desser
How often do you come across one of these babies??? Trust me not real often... this is absolutely gorgeous!!!
This one sold but I will have another similar in our upcoming occasional sale...stay tuned for details!!
Monday, January 5, 2015
Lamp redo
If you've been following me for awhile you know my fetish for lamps. I just can't help it!! Isn't this one lovely? I picked her up at a yard sale for $2. "Ado's price!" Ado is my awesome neighbor who loves to garage sale as much as I do. I love going with him to the sales in Vegas because he's a garage sale maniac!! Anyway, he has a way of talking people down to "Ado's price."...if it's not "Ado's price" we move on. Ado sometimes just shakes his head when he see's what I buy. He just can't see the potential ha ha
I'll show him!!
Ok, first I needed to take it completely apart. If you are going to try something like this be pretty sure about it because to get it apart like this you have to clip the wires. No more light!!
Don't you just love the seventies glass??
Time for some dark spray paint because the brassy color really dates it. Also I want to distress it and the dark looks much better than brass showing through. I like krylon spray from Walmart. I use this often for undercoating.
Now I've got to decide if I'm going to leave the base and top dark or paint them too. Decisions, decisions!! Stay tuned for the finished product!
Ok, the painting and distressing is now finished! Now how to put it back together!! That's where my husband comes in :) I was just going to put the long pole back in which held it together as a lamp but then you'd have an ugly pole down the middle. His ideas is much better :) they make these screw thingys...one end is a screw(which will go into the wood) the other end can have a bolt (which goes through a hole we drilled in the metal...then tightens down. Hope that made sense.
It looks like this.
There is no way I was putting the glass back in :) I'm going the shabby way and replacing it with wire. Just used the glass as a template.
All finished!!! It made an awesome lantern:)
I just want to show you a comparison to the lantern I bought probably 7 years ago from tai pan for 50 bucks! I thought it was large ha ha...this one is majestic!! I love it!
This will be available for purchase in our upcoming "occasional sale". Stay tuned for details! Thanks!!
Saturday, December 6, 2014
Saturday, August 2, 2014
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Antique white/metallic dresser with casters
I tried to paint this just plain white. I can't seem to do it ha ha. I always end up adding another color because I like depth and character. Anyhoo, I had to try some metallic. I think it turned out pretty darn awesome!!
Monday, June 30, 2014
Extra Large Dresser~~~50" tall x 57" long~~~~SOLD
This was a fun project! Some friends of ours were going to throw this dresser away but decided to call me first! Thank goodness :-) I have to admit it was a very ugly, very plain piece of something ha ha. But she's beautiful now! It's bigger than it looks in the picture :)
Whaaa Laaa!!!!!
Whaaa Laaa!!!!!
Saturday, May 31, 2014
Saturday, May 24, 2014
Monday, May 12, 2014
5 Drawer French Provincial
This Dresser is not for sale :-) It's going in my newly refinished bedroom! It's taken us almost 4 years to get to my "hole". It's been a dark dreary place until now. It is now a little piece of heaven in my chaotic construction zone, 1901 house.
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Waterfall Desk
This one is awesome...shabby elegant, is a good way to describe it. It has 4 drawers. The bottom 2 are fake.