Weekly Finds Painted - Frame

Sometimes there is so much detail in a item that you need to paint it so the detail shines.

I thought I'd give the gold a chance on this frame and dry brush with white leaving the gold in the recessed areas to help the details shine.  

Here is the frame before paint.  The natural wear of the frame shined up the details in some areas to accent them just enough to notice them.  

Adding the dry brush was certainly fast and easy with some pretty fun results.

Dry brushing is taking most of the paint off and then painting a newspaper or cardboard until most of the paint is gone and then paint the item just hitting the high spots.  This also saves you time when waxing.... no need to dark wax.

I'm not totally convinced this is the best color choice yet but the good thing about paint is you can just paint over it if you don't like it.  I'm also not sure what I'm going to do with the frame.  Thought about hanging it in the living room with the letter H inside.  Making a back for a chalkboard....

Right now I just leaned it inside my empty mason jar box.  

Later.....

Painted Weekly Finds - Dragon Fly Planter

It's been too cold to buy plants for the patio and that was my plan for this dragon fly planter but of course I couldn't wait.  

The planter got a coat of Chalk Spray Paint with a bit of distressing and clear wax.  

Then I needed to add something to the front to make it fun.  I tried handles, knobs, junk metal pieces..... and then this dragon fly caught my eye.  

Remember how this planter looked before paint?  

The dragon fly was clear plastic so he got a squirt of coral and aqua spray chalk paint.  

 Added the twine just for another layer.

Quite the transformation huh?

Later....

Wine Rack

 Weather is getting warmer and I will apologize in advance for lack of posts.  I have no idea why we even own a house in the summer months because we are never in it.  I make chips and salsa for supper 3 days a week and for a special night we get pizza..... yes I know that's not good but when our days get longer we try to squeeze so much into them that eating and cooking has no room in our schedule.  

Painting does fit into my schedule but taking the pictures.... not so much.  So again I will do my best to keep this blog current with some items to show you what I'm up to.  

However there will be lots that you won't see until July when my sister-in-law and I have our annual Jazzed Up Junk Sale.  Somethings are just worth the wait.  

Here was the wine rack before paint.

It's painted in a great grey color with white edges.  

I am the fruit snack Grandma so of course I have a jar full of them for every visit.  This is a jar I showed from my weekly finds and the trivet it's sitting on is also a weekly find.  

The wine rack is distressed because I am a distress lover..... everything needs to be distressed in my world.  

Oh you noticed the empty wine bottles..... yeah I don't drink wine so finding bottles to fill this rack was a bit difficult and all I had was empty bottles.  

And the full ones...... them is OLD..... and were probably given to us.  

The edges of the wine rack are painted in white.  I am loving grey and white together and for this item it just worked.  

Did you need another before and after?  

Okay here it is.  

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Painted Treasures

I've painted a lot of my weekly finds but just haven't found the time to photograph them.  

Candlesticks before

Candle sticks after

Wood bowls before

Wood Bowls after

Shelf before

Shelf after

Tonight as I blog this post our hearts are heavy as God opens up his gates and lets my niece by marriage into his kingdom.  She leaves behind my nephew and their 3 young children.  Her daughter at the age of 6 says to my sister "My momma is going to be an angel" Yes honey she is, and she will be a great angel.  So as my mom is meeting her in heaven and I'm sure sewing her up a set of beautiful pink wings we comfort ourselves with memories of her laughter, her fight, her days when she wasn't sick, her love for everyone and the joy she brought her family.  It's hard to say good bye but it was harder for her to leave her family.  

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March Madness Day 31 - Blue Mason Jar Box - Blue Box

It's the last day of March Madness and I'm so glad you stuck it out with me for 31 days (actually 30 cuz I missed one day).  I'm not sure you are going to miss these daily posts but I'll certainly have a hard time adjusting to it.  

I was hoping for a big grand finale for the last day but my last 2 weeks have been crazy busy at work and at home so that didn't happen.  However this blue box isn't too shabby to finish up the month.  

When I bought this box it was similar to the many John has made for my painting classes and the price on it helped it to jump in my cart.  All put together and painted already.  

I wasn't too crazy about the blue color but I could make it work but the yellow had to go.  

To calm the blue down I did some serious sanding.  It took forever since it was some type of regular latex with a gloss finish.  I finally got down to a matte finish.

Ane covered up that bright yellow with some Rust-Oleum Linen White.  It needed a little something for the front of the box.  That's a large flat space, so it got a vine stencil in Linen White.

And for a fun surprise it got Linen White handles on both sides.  

This box is a bit bigger than John's so 3 Mason Jars fit with lots of wiggle room.

The blue works with the white and a coat of Clear Wax she's ready for someones table.

Another look at the before and after.  Hardly looks like the same box.

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March Madness Day 30 - Vintage Platter

This might not be a vintage platter but it's not painted with Amy Howard Vintage Affliction.  Let's talk about blue....

If you're not seeing blue everywhere you're not paying enough attention.  Platter is Amy Howard Vintage Affliction, bowl I found a long time ago that was blue and jumped in my cart, the flower pot was a class I taught at ACE Hardware in Amy Howard Tick Tock.

Watch your TV shows, look at the clothes in the stores, look in the magazines.  BLUE is everywhere and I can't get enough of it either.  

All shades of blue and then put all those blues together. 

This handle looks good right?  A little distress with some Amy Howard Vintage Wax.

Do you remember the before?   I used this tray for Jr.'s birthday party rice krispy treats and then I washed it.... water spots galore.  

Now no more water spots.  

A quick peek at the before and after.

One more day of March Madness.  Oh what will I do with all my time?

Later.....