Weekly Finds Painted + New Chalk Paint Review

Last week a local hardware store got in their new spray can chalk paint.  Yep Spray Can.... I am not a spray can lover.  Back in the day I sprayed just about everything and since the finding of chalk paint I have no tolerance for spray paint.  So when my hardware store got their shipment in and were very excited about it I was curious so I tried it.

Krylon Chalky Finish Paint  link here  and can be bought at Fourmans Farm Home in Medford.  

This stuff was amazing, the coverage was beyond perfect, no runs, no drips, 1 coat coverage and best of all chalk paint look and feel.  I tried a couple different surfaces to see if was amazing with all of them.  The tray is a hard to brush paint bamboo and wicker surface.... PASS.  The container I shared on my weekly finds a few days back was ceramic with a bold design on all 4 sides... PASS.  

Yes I need a new couch...... I've been saying that for 2 or 4 years already but there is always one excuse after another from my mouth or John's, and then the kids come over and they all run to the couch cuz it feels like HOME and it's so comfortable and they want to sit and lay on it for hours.  One day Lynn was sick and sent me a text asking if she could come over and lay on the couch while Dad watched Nascar.... she needed comfort of HOME to make her feel better and take a nap (kids could nap all day if the race was on).  Now how am I suppose to get rid of this ugly, beat up, well loved, saggy, fabric worn off, ragged looking couch with children that need it to come HOME to.  

Some day it will happen I just don't know when.

1 coat coverage.... perfect for both surfaces.

This Copper and metal basket, plant holder thing was bought before my weekly finds.  It sat in the garage for weeks....... okay months.... and was on the back burner because it was going to be a pain to brush paint.  Well it sprayed in minutes.

The bowl/plant stand is going to be mine for awhile, it's to unique to let go yet.  

shhhhhhhh....... little sneak peek at my book project (more on them later)

 A look at the copper inserts with a bit of distressing.  With this spray chalk paint you can distress and wax just like the brush on chalk paint.  It's finish is so touchable.

Metal/copper.... PASS

I was loving this spray paint and just had to keep going with it.  

A milk white vase...... PASS

A plastic gold mirror....... PASS

The plastic gold tray I shared in my weekly finds.  

The distressing brought back all the details in the vase and the gold frame.

This can of spray paint is still going strong, it is still like 1/2 full and I did a lot of projects with it.  My review is A+ and I hate dislike spray paint.  I will certainly be back for more with those hard to paint projects.  And for those that want the smooth finish on your chalk paint projects this is the ticket, the finish is Smoooooooth.

And of course there is a wide range of colors but aqua is my GO-TO color when I'm trying something out.     What color will you try?      Later......

Circle Challenge

Before Christmas my girlfriend brought me a bag full of wood circle pieces.  She challenged me to find something to do with them, her father makes a beer can holder and this is the part he throws away and he has LOTS of them.  She's like me..... it's hard to throw a perfectly good piece of wood in the fire.

I tried many things but nothing worked.  I put them away and searched Pinterest many nights trying to find something.  There is many ideas but not really anything I liked.  The challenging part is the hole in the center and the sharp lip around the diameter. 

So this girlfriends 50th birthday is coming up.....  I had one idea that I needed to try so I could surprise her with completing the challenge.   This is a bad cell phone photo with it laying on the table but John and I finished it just minutes before walking out the door to the party, no time for formal pictures.

I brought it with to her surprise birthday party and her dad had to rush right over and check it out.  Poor guy still thinks I carved each of these flowers out of those oak circles.

Back board and wood knobs are painted with Rust-oleum Linen White with Clear and Dark Wax. 

The circles are painted with Amy Howard Cartoucsh Green with Clear ad Dark Wax.

She had one of the circles painted red already so I just added a heart and a fun window bracket thingy with an old screw to cover up the hole and some twine for hanging. 

So proud that I passed that challenge, it wasn't easy and she loved it.  

A true trash to treasure with a bit of memory for a friend.

There might still be a few of these going in the campfire but I'm willing to try again to find another use for them. 

Sometimes you don't find what you need on Pinterest so you have to use your own creativity

Later....

Weekly Finds 1/14/16

My weekly finds

A fun little glass bottle for my table decoration that I have right now.  I also like these little bottles for holding my weekly garden flowers in small little areas of the house.  I would rather have 1-3 flowers in a vase vs a big bouquet.  

I don't normally look at the dishes because I am a sucker for old fun dishes but since I had to walk down the isle because of a shopping cart in the way I spied this little gem and it had to come home with me.  

The red rim pulled me right in.

I have a project that I need some old books for so my hunting for old books is always interesting.  I need to have a good size, old looking pages without a stink to them and I like no paper cover but if it comes off good I can always throw it away.   The books need to have some wear to them on the cover and pages (if I can't find wear I will force it with my trusty sandpaper)

I have taken off the two covers but something in me says I can't throw them away, I feel I can use them on a different project some day so in my collection they go.  

The Whitetail book was picked out for me but with this cute white deer embossed on the front cover I couldn't complete by vision.  Our grandson Maxwell loves everything hunting, he breaths hunting and Lynn has to find him hunting magazines for nighttime stories.  This is an old hunting book for whitetail habits, hunting them and other tips for the hunter.  It's very old school but Max will love it and it might be a bit more interesting for Lynn.

It even has photos for Max to look at over and over again.  He'll wear out this book without sandpaper.

An oval mirror (great for a gallery wall)

Round frames (great for gallery walls with a letter mounted inside)

Another box (you know I love boxes)

That's it for this week but of course I didn't look real hard, I had books on the brain and these items hit me as I sprinted by.           

I already put a couple things in the house and I'll be back to share those with you.

Later.......

Weekly Finds 1-8-16

Weekly finds sure make up for last week.  This was a trip to the second hand store with my sister over the New Year's weekend while up north.  She got there before me and when I walked in the door she said there was nothing..... So here's my nothing

two mirrors with fun frames.

2 old jars that caught my eye

Salt and Pepper Grinder

A metal little house and 6 glass candle rings

A wood candle stick and a metal deer candle stick.

A heart engraved candle cup for the tall candle stick

The candle ring under the cup.

I got a buffalo plaid flannel shirt for myself also.  And with helping my sister see things through my eyes she walked out with her arms full as well.  

Then I visited the second hand store in town and found a few more treasures.

A Hobby Lobby stack of drawers with fun jewel/metal door pulls.  

I wasn't sure what I seen in this but it jumped in my cart

Square frames only because I have a thing for square frames....

A cell phone holder

And then I spied these butterflies.  I've painted them in the past and sold them at Jazzed Up Junk sale, they are super cute painted up with chalk paint for a little girls gallery wall.

Now the kicker...... there were 27 of them and I bought them all.  Then I wondered who had 27 butterflies????

While I was there I seen a sofa table that recently someone just asked me to watch for.  I had forgot about that conversation so I went back after work to look at it closer and dang it if I didn't find a couple more items that needed a facelift.

A couple clipboards, one says Max so of course I needed to bring it home.

A chunky sturdy shelf.  I'm not much of a shelf person but this will be perfect mounted on the wall on my side of the bed at a table height.  The space I have on my side isn't big enough for most tables so this will be perfect.

Great detals

And this hanger thing.... I have no idea what it is but it will hang on a tree branch holding a few fun items this summer.

The sofa table..... way too high priced for a broken stapled together still broken falling apart piece of furniture.  Some times those prices are just way off.

What did you find this week?         Later...

Weekly Find - Last one for 2015

My last treasure find for 2015.  This week there wasn't anything out there.  This should be a week of cleaning out the old to put in the new but those old items must not have been delivered to the second hand stores yet.  Except for this gem.  I'm not a chicken fan but what's not to love about this handmade pieced together wood sign.  

I love everything about it and might not change a thing.  Now to figure out where to hang it.  At home, up north, in the garden????  If I don't paint it I'll have to come back and share it's new home.

Happy New Year to all - may 2016 find you new treasures to paint, distress, wax and enjoy. 

Later.....