New Bedroom Furniture for Sandy

Life is good and fun, too!  A project was finished today - a special one because this project was done with a special friend.  We redid her bedroom furniture and it looks so great!  Although the work is finished we don't have the pretty, "with the bedding and staged" pictures but I'm so excited that my friend is excited that I will share.

Here is a before picture, ready for some La Craie!

Sandy, sporting her painting clothes and armed with a brush.  Show me what to do!

Kim

We started with Hurricane, painting all surfaces.  Then, with the Hurricane we created a Pebbled Surface on the Dresser Top, Bureau Top and the two End Tables.

Next was application of size, for crackling in randomly chosen areas, as well as in the two ovals which are the main focus of the bed.

The next color applied was La Bonne Terre.  Once dried we sanded certain areas, creating some distressing and also smoothing out the crackled areas. 

Ready for wax - we used the Antique Wax Dark Brown, and the result is gorgeous!  Very subtle tones and the crackling worked really well with the two colors!  Sandy is thrilled and I'm thrilled!  What a fun project!

Will post the final pretty pictures once staged but wanted to share some La Craie Love with you today!  This was a first project for Sandy, working with paint and furniture of this nature.  She was delighted with the paint and its ease of application.  The wax going on, of course, was her favorite part!

 Even the old hardware, which was going to be replaced, was cleaned up and used again - looks like new!

 The feeling in the room is "beachy"!

Ready for the wax

.Will post some "afters" soon! 

I don't even know what I don't know!

To say that I am sitting here, updating my blog, which is simply routine to me ... would be a crazy thing to say!  This is not routine!  I don't know what I'm doing!  I'm so very inspired by Bloggers.  I love them!  I read them!  I ponder them!  And yet, here I am and do I really have anything to say?

Today, I signed up to attend the Southern Bloggers Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina, in October.  I'm attending with my two good friends, who are in the business.  One is a 'seasoned' Blogger, and the other is a 'new' Blogger, who will also presenting at the conference.



What is so interesting about this is that you might think I'm a Blogger, officially, to attend something like this event!  Vous vous trompez ... I have no idea what I'm doing!  Except that I'm excited.  

I'm still doing what I love - making things beautiful ... meeting and getting to know neat people ... and doing something new:  I am distributing  Maison Blanche Furniture Paint's products.  Here is a little picture clue - a nice solid hutch newly sporting a finish I call Pebbled Blue Bayou!  It is sitting, completed in the studio, awaiting its new home (temporarily housed at Historic Camp Bowie Mercantile looking for its new owner!

Here a shot of the booth, lonely and waiting for La Craie Paint!  We are in Booth # 707, located at:  Historic Camp Bowie Mercantile, 7200 Camp Bowie Blvd, Fort Worth, TX  76116.    Check out their website: www.historicfortworth.org.    We have nice signs and we have some nice display space, awaiting our yummy paint!  I have an oversized sign made with all of the color samples, as well as hand painted and waxes samples to touch and feel.

  

 Here is our little hutch, in its new and temporary home.  Come and see us!  Come and buy some paint, wax and look forward to the new and coming products!  We will do custom finishes - do you have a piece of furniture and want to purposely re-purpose it?  You've come to the right place!

 Make note of our little blog.  We have big aspirations and inspirations as we learn answers to the questions that we don't even know yet!