Mirror Mirror On the Wall

So I got this mirror at Good Will a few months back when I first started doing my DIY'ing and I loved the look of the old white but as I am getting better at my distressing, I wanted to make my mirror look more in place with my antique dinning room...so I put Duck Egg blue on it and distressed it. I still have to put the dark wax on but my girl friend Natalie "who I am doing the table & chairs for" has it so I will re-update this blog when I am fully done the mirror and give you a final peek at it. The dark wax will really bring this mirror from nice to oh la la.

So this is a picture of it distressed. I am pretty happy. I also painted my candle holders to match  the color too...it was a fun project for my sons to help me with for an hour (no fighting and it was quiet YEAH).

Old lawn chairs look new again

I have had these lawn chairs for around 10 years now and I was bugging my husband all summer to buy me a patio set ( I sit outside to watch the kids play but don't really use the patio as much as I want to)...so my hubby says "not right now" -translation "when pigs fly".

10 old faded green lawn chairs...I disliked even looking at them.

Walmart was having a great sale on spray paint so I picked out the funnest and boldest colours that I saw "Mandarine"  I also picked up white. So I have the green chairs a bright fun colour and the white chairs got a refreshing coat to bring them back to look nice again.

My next thing is to find some metal side tables "garage & yard sale hunting here I come". and I will transform my patio for the end of summer days and enjoy every moment I can outside while our canadian weather allows me too.

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Side Table Transformations

I got these two tables *with glass tops* at a garage sale...I wasn't sure what to do with them but I had left over wall paper from my coffee table set and thought it would be really cute with those.

So I took some spray paint and painted the tables black. After letting them dry I had my 6 year old son help me and got to mod podging the top. They turned out super cute.

I love making something that looks a bit blah and turning it into something someone will say "hey where did you buy that" and seeing their face when you tell them you made it.

Be crafty and think outside the box and show me what you have created. If I get a lot of submissions I will create my own feature page of your stuff.

Working on a Table & Chairs for a friend

One day I was at my girl friends house having a coffee and she had informed me that she was going to look to buy a new table & chairs in black as her set was so scuffed up and looking old...and I said "why buy a new table, why not just paint this"...and I offered to help her as she has never painted anything like this before. My friend Natalie had this kitchen table and chairs. We bought Annie Sloan paint in "Graphyte" which is more a charcoal colour than black. Hoping that the dark wax will make it darker we started painting the chairs.

There are 6 chairs in total.

I really hope she likes it. We had a bunch of little helpers today too, her daughters helped us today as well. It was a family affair which made it very special because as they sit around the table they will always remember that they helped mommy restore their table.




So we painted the tables and chairs and they were coming out great but Natalie was wishing it was not so grey but more black so I ran right down to Walmart and bought some acrylic black paint and made a new mix on the fly and this is what it went from grey to black.

This is the graphyte color. 

Graphyte color - a bit of a duller grey than what Natalie wanted.

So we added some black and this is the result...the last thing to do will be add the dark wax and we will be all done.

I will post the end result next week as we still have a bit more work to do on the wax but I am glad she is happy with how it is turning out.

I am very impressed with the annie sloan paint and that I was successfully able to mix in an acrylic paint and it worked out great. This paint is the easiest paint to use. I love it.

So we got the dark wax on the table today, the chairs still have to get their coat but it was fun distressing everything. Can't wait to take the final end picture to show you all. Loving the wax on the table and how rich and deep it is coming out like. It has a new life, a new personality.

Perfect example of an older table that is in perfect condition, great wood but was a bit worn and now it has a great new updated look.