Earlier I hinted at a big surprise I had for you~
its no surprise how much I love the mora clock,
so you must know I was super excited to finally
get the floor sized reproduction for my shop!
The floor size model is very similar to the wall model with a few differences. Its much deeper
at 9" deep to the wall model's 3" depth. Its also a lot taller at over six feet tall coming in at 75.5".
It has an antiqued mirror in the pendulum hole, which the...
Thursday, January 31, 2013
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Thursday, January 24, 2013
Custom color candles in two minutes!
I used to be a white candle only person...I think I read somewhere it was
a design no no to use colored candles. I am so glad I don't have to follow
all the rules anymore..."cause I am all grown up and I have my own ideas!
Well maybe my ideas are greatly influenced by what I see in books and on
beautiful blogs~but at any rate I had in mind a set of ten bright pink candles for
these antique candelabra. The last time I wanted a certain color candle I went online
and...
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
How far does a sample size of Chalk Paint® go? and other cool stuff...
How far does a sample go?
I get asked this question alot...people want to know how
big a piece they can paint with a sample size of
Chalk Paint® decorative paint by Annie Sloan.
This small chest took an entire sample~and that is two coats of coverage.
Its about 24" x 12" x 16" in size.
I painted it in Emile, a purple color and it looked like this below~
Cute but I wanted to make it a bit more of a grown up purple~
So I did a Graphite...
Friday, January 18, 2013
My living room
Its been awhile since I posted on my living room~
I have a new old coffee table now.
Kind of like a tea table I guess~its tall
and its handpainted and very old and I love it!
All kinds of little scenes and floral bits are
painted freely around the top and the legs~
The main color is blue, and its got that feminine french style that I love.
Betsy Speert told me to put myneedlepoint stool underneath
it as there was too much of a blank space...
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