Small Projects…

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Hey!.. How've you been?.. how's your January going?.. I've tackled a few projects… Finally finished the kitchen chairs… only the paint is too stark white… I need it to be more cream… So I'm going repaint them… again… 

I tried out Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint… It's neat!.. I'd been using the Annie Sloan Chalk paint before this but Lauren Lane just started carrying the Milk Paint and they're stopping carrying the Annie Sloan and Van Gogh Chalk Paints… I really like the Annie Sloan… It has amazing coverage and sands like a dream… I need to see the Milk Paint's coverage on some prefinished furniture!..

I picked up this wooden Ikea step stool this past summer at a garage sale… and it has just been raw wood ever since… 

I needed a test project for the Milk Paint and Pickle suggested our unfinished step stool!.. He's always got awesome ideas and suggestions… 

I didn't make it chippy… but more just worn looking… it's very farmhouse now...

While I was working on the kitchen chairs I threw a couple of coats of Kilz on this folding tray… it was in rough shape… I think a couple more coats of kilz and then the last little bit of the cream Annie Sloan cream that I have left… 

I might chip through the paint layers to show through to some of the gold underneath… I did leave a gold square on the back unpainted… it is a very pretty gold...

Actually… instead of cream I think I'm just going to paint it a crisp white… then I'll give it a few layers of oil to give it a nice shine...

Old nasty table that I found on Kijiji…. the top was too damaged on this one to restain like the one that I refinished for the front living room… 

So… I sanded down all of the water damaged areas so that those areas were now flush with the rest of the table top… then a few layers of Annie Sloan Duck Egg Blue… a little sanding… and a little oiling and it was done!.. 

This same night I was struck with the need to start ANOTHER project… Burlap potato sacks… old seagrass footstool… batting and and old sheet...

New footstool for our living room!… It was pretty basic… I ironed out the potato sacks because they were rather wrinkled up… I wasn't sure if there was anything on them that would ruin my iron or ironing board cover so I placed an old sheet above and below and ironed away… 

I measured out the top and sides… cut out squares of burlap with a little bit of seam allowance… and I also cut out a fabric square from the old sheet for each burlap square… I sewed these together to help the burlap squares keep their shape…  It's not a tight fitting cover… it's a little loose which suits the burlap… before pulling it on I wrapped the old seagrass footstool in some batting… stapled it down and then pulled the cover down over it… some staples around the bottom and BAM!.. new footstool for the house ;)

I think I might try the larger seagrass chest next… 

…I hosted Bunco at Le Chateaux Pickle the other night… and a few of my bowls were empty since packing away the Christmas Decorations… so I busted out the paper shredder and some old books… paper filler!… I also twirled some paper around my finger and tied it together with another shredded piece… they kinda look like little paper eggs… 

…and we picked up some coloured chalk… look out house chalkboards!.. 

I'm fired up and ready to get more projects finished!.. the hunt begins for new treasures to refinish!.. do you have any exciting project plans in the works!?...

xo

Lacey

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