Find

A fun little lamp with a story.

I was in Park City with my sister in law, and we went down to the local Christian Center. Which is a thrift store. Well, I saw this cute little lamp at the back of the top shelf, and it looked like it was made out of dark teal glass. When the lady pulled it down however it was just plain black. Sad. I decided to buy it anyway.

When I got it home I painted it in Annie Sloan's Duck Egg Blue. As I was painting it I noticed a really cool effect happening. A little rust was starting to pull to the surface. Not planned, but I love how it turned out.

If you have ever used Annie Sloan's chalk paint you know she says to use furniture was to seal her paint. I wanted to know if you could use anything else. Since this was a small item I thought it would be the perfect guinea pig. I sprayed on some polyurethane. And Presto! One sealed lamp.

The shade was sturdy but had water spots on the fabric, so I took the old fabric off and recovered with a butter yellow linen.

I think the lamp wanted to be teal, and was speaking to me from the shelf. Well, I listened, and am thrilled with the results!

Never Knew Boutique

Never Knew Boutique
Fall 2011 Information

Park City is in need of a venue where creative women can showcase their arts and crafts with others in the community. In response, we are excited to launch …

This boutique will tout a hand-selected inventory of unique, diverse, quality hand made goods, vintage treasures and couture edibles.

This year’s event will be held on
Friday, October 14, 2011 from 9am- 6pm
at a private residence (5785 Mountain Ranch Drive, Park City, Utah).

First

Here is my first First. A navy blue velvet tufted ottoman. I slightly aged the wood and sealed with furniture wax. This item will be up for sale in October!

I know I should have taken photos of the process, but I didn't, and next time I will. Sorry! The tufting was easier then I expected. I bought a button cover kit, and was thankful for the advice to put superglue inside the cover before you press in the back. I only had to remake one button out of 28!

Find

Let me give you a little background on myself before the I tell you about my first find.

I am a mother of four and wife to a fantastic elementary school teacher. His career choice has led to many different adventures due to our lack of funds! The two homes we have owned we have worked our tails off so wecould have the kind of home we wanted at a price we could afford. The plus side to all our sweat equity is we have developed a wide array of skills, and I am pretty confident with power tools!

Recently during my hubby's pursuit to provide for our family we found ourselves selling our newly finished home (lived in for 11 months) and moving to a little town in Wyoming with a population of less then 2000. I know it was the guilt talking when he told me I could take up any hobbies I wanted once we got there since he was moving me hours away from friends and family, but when a gal is handed a gift like that you take it and run. So here is my first lap!

There is a little antique/thrift shop in the town we moved to. Luckily for me I met the owner at church before I saw her shop and we became fast friends. I've always been drawn to sassy older ladies and Veda does not disappoint! I found this little beauty upside-down in a lean-to and when I saw that the caning was in great condition I had to snag her. (don't mind the bird poop on the back of the chair, I washed that off!)

I really liked the legs on this chair they looked perfect for a few scuffs and scrapes.

Here's a close-up of the doo-doo and the fun knobs on the back of the chair

I have been blog stalking many ladies as they started using Annie Sloan Chalk Paint, hearing their reviews and weighing the cost vs quality. I finally bit the bullet and bought a few (4) cans. I didn't want to pay shipping so I bought them in Park City when we went home for a visit, and promptly painted this little lady when I got home.

I used Old White, and Clear Wax

After I had her all painted up and lookin pretty I had to decide on fabric for the seat. I love the Old White finish, but felt like the chair needed something lively to set your tushy on.

I settled on a pretty floral from Fabric.com. This chair just makes me happy when I look at it! The colors are so fresh. I would love to keep her, but my plan from the start was to sell the items I made/refinished to pay for my new hobbies! My sis-in-law is putting together a boutique in October, and I will be selling this chair and the many other items to come at the boutique. More details to come on that in a later post!

I hope you liked my first find and hope you come back to see what else I dig up, or build myself!