Monday, July 30, 2012

Totally Transformed Tuesday #3 & Features!

Hello everyone before we start the party I wanted to share what I have been up to this week.  

I am working on several items but I finished and shared my "Old World Blanket Chest".  You can see the full article here.



Now on to our features this week.  The most clicked link this week was...Debbie from Debbie-Dabble again this week! Congratulations Debbie we loved your remake of those antique sewing machine drawers. 

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Now for some of my favorites:


Trish at The Old Post Road Blog shared her kitchen redo.


Judy at Vintage Street Designs shared a tutorial on transferring  a graphite image onto a chippy table. 


Bilijana from Bilijana Shabby shared her romantic shabby chic door plates.


Bethany from Pitter And Glink shared how to make this darling mod podge necklace.


Aimee from Twigg Studios share her tutorial on making ombre ribbon. If you were featured feel free to grab a button

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I'd like to thank everyone that linked up last week I so enjoyed visiting everyone and I am amazed at how talented you all are! 

Please link up only something you have done recently.  Make sure to use the link to the actually post not the link to your blog.   No etsy shops, giveaways, or link parties please.  


You must provide a back link to my blog to be featured. No back link no feature.

I would appreciate it if you follow me via at least one of the social networks and I always try to follow everyone back, but it is not necessary.  If I miss you please let me know. :-)

Okay, let's get this par-tay started! 



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Friday, July 27, 2012

Old World Blanket Chest

I had so much fun working on this piece even though it was over 100 degrees in the shade!  I can't wait to share it with you, but before I do I'd like to remind you of the Totally Transformed Tuesday linky party! The party is still going strong so hop on over and link up we would love to see what you have been up to!

Now here is the finished blanket chest!


I have been wanting to do something in the Old World style for some time now and when I saw this chest in Canton, Texas at First Monday Trade Days, I knew it was just the piece for the design I had running through my head.

Here is what she looked like when I bought her.


She did not have much going for her except that she was solid wood, fairly large, and had pretty little legs.

Here are the details of how I achieved that gorgeous finish.

First, I picked out three images that I thought would work together. In the beginning I thought I wanted a large old world  scene that I could split into three parts, but after a lot of thought I decided on two pictures of 18th century women (one I know is Marie Antoinette) and one with a mother and her children.  

The portraits of the two women came from the Graphics Fairy and the center image with the children is from my free graphics archive. I took the images and had them enlarged to fit the three panels in front.  


To start I painted different areas of the chest with layers of Annie Sloan Chalk Paint in Greek Blue, Louis Blue, and Paris Gray focusing on sections I knew later would be distressed. By doing so I created the illusion that it had been painted many times over the years, and in painting only certain areas I saved a lot of time and paint.  I then covered the back and all edges, center strips, and legs with Old White.  On the side panels I used Louis Blue. 


Now it looks like this:


Once that was dry I took a brush loaded with Greek Blue and painted around the outside edges of the side panel over the Louis Blue. I then added more Louis Blue, wet on wet, and using a damp rag blended and soften the colors into each other.


Once that was dry I chose one of my larger stencils that fit almost perfectly into the panel and painted it with a silver metallic acrylic.


While that was drying I very carefully decoupaged my images to the front of the chest.  I sealed them with two coats of Mod Podge.

I then applied a thin coat of clear wax to the entire piece and distressed. Once the was was dry I mixed my favorite Expresso glaze and applied it to the chest in large areas wiping it off with a dry cloth. I also waxed and glazed the images to help age them.  

The back of the chest was painted, glazed, and distressed also in case one wanted to place it in an open area. Next, I applied dark wax, very lightly, to the feet and any other area I wanted to have a more antiqued look.

The top was stripped and stained with dark walnut and sealed with three coats of matte polyurethane.


And there you have it! I hope you like it as much as I do. I'm having a hard time thinking about carrying it to the shop. :-)

Here are some closeups of the distressed areas.










This piece is sold.

I hope I have inspired you today.  Have a wonderful weekend!

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Monday, July 23, 2012

Totally Transformed Tuesday #2 & Features!

Hello friends out in blogland! I hope this past week has been a good one.  It really seemed to fly by for me I've been so busy knitting for the new grandchild on the way, painting furniture, cleaning my craft room (which was a NIGHTMARE), and I had two of my grandchildren off and on this week.


Now I'd like to take a minute to congratulate "Traci" again for winning my blog o versary giveaway!  Traci please get in touch with me at pjhdesignsinfo@gmail.com. 


Thank you so much for linking up last week and making my first party a success! Please spread the word!


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Before we start the party I'd like to share a couple of projects that stood out from last week.  



Debbie at Debbie-Dabble blog received the most clicks this week for her fabulous faux brick patio. Fabulous job Debbie! Be sure to stop by and see her wonderful tutorial.



Kathy and Paul @ One Creative Couple shared this stunning hand-painted rose table.  I so admire anyone that can paint flowers something I've never mastered.


Tanya @ Twelve-O-Eight created this lovely French country bucket. I love the antiqued hammered finish.




Shabby Story shared her beautiful craft room. You must go by and see where she creates! So pretty.





Finally, Sew A Fine Seam made this lovely, ruffled ottoman cover. Surely no one plans to prop their feet on that do they?


If you were featured feel free to grab a button!

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Now on to the party! Bear with me as I learn the ins and outs of hosting a party and I have a changed a couple of things this week. 


Please link up only something you have done recently.  Make sure to use the link to the actually post not the link to your blog.   No etsy shops, giveaways, or link parties please.  


Provide a back link to my blog using the actual post link not my general blog link (doing this benefits both of our blogs in the search engines).  I'm sorry but if there is no back link I can not feature you on the blog, Pinterest, Twitter, or Facebook, and I will be sharing links all during the week! 


I would appreciate it if you follow me via at least one of the social networks and I always try to follow everyone back, but it is not necessary.  If I miss you please let me know. :-)


Now,  let's see what kind of pretties you've been making this week! We really do want to see!




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