Lil’ Red Accent Table

Hello everyone hope you’re having a great day.  Today I’m sharing the redo of a small accent table I picked up at a yard sale.  Here’s what I started with.

Notice how the finished has been rubbed off of the top. It has a little open shelf below the top and I think it was probably used at one time for a desk as there was quite a lot of very old gum stuck to the bottom of it.

I couldn’t wait to try out my new Annie Sloan Chalk Paint color “Emperor’s Silk”. It looks quite bright in the can but here’s how it looks after two coats on the little table with no primer.

I love how it dries to a lovely aged red you might see on a antique piece. It would be lovely on a front door don’t you think?

Gosh look at my grass and we water ours! If you have any rain in your area of the country send us some down here in Texas we really need it. Anyway here is the finished product.

I applied a coat of ASCP clear, soft, wax and sprayed on a lace accent to the top using a piece of lace that I had as a stencil and a soft cream spray paint.  Then distressed the table in areas that would naturally have worn and applied another coat of wax.

The lace design has a pretty rose detail.  I hope you enjoyed this lil' project. I’ll have pics of a dinette set in the next couple of days.

Thanks for dropping by ya’ll.


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Friday on Remodelaholic

Free Graphics

I am starting a new weekly blog where I will be posting free vintage graphics. 

The first ones I am sharing with you are some beautiful images I acquired from an antique baby book I picked up from an estate sale.
The hand written entries date from 1924 and are so sweet as they detail the birth and first year of the baby’s life. Love it! Don’t think I could ever sell it!
So I hope you enjoy these images and can use them in some of your craft projects.  Just right click on the image and choose "save image as" to save onto your computer. Enjoy.

Mother with baby

Mother with baby no background

Mother and baby black and white

Just the birds

Just the birds black and white

By the way don’t forget to go here and leave a comment for an entry to win a $25 Hobby Lobby Gift Card.  You don’t have to follow me to enter but I would love it if you would.

Mother kissing baby sepia

Mother kissing baby black and white

I hope you enjoy the images more to come next week.


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Hobby Lobby Give Away

Hello everyone & happy Monday. I have been trying to think of a way to thank all of my followers and I have decided to give away a $25 Hobby Lobby gift card!


If you're like me you just love Hobby Lobby they are always having wonderful sales and as you know it doesn't matter what type of craft or hobby you like to do they probably have everything you need.


For one entry just leave a comment below.  You don't have to follow me but I would appreciate it if you would.  If you would like to get a second chance of winning go to my Facebook page here and like my page and come back and leave a comment saying that you did. A winner will be randomly chosen on Friday, Oct 21, 2011. I'm extending this for another week because of low response. 


Please help me out and  tell all your friends to come by and sign up. Thanks you all for your support.


Peggy