A little Inspiration~

My new friend, who happens to be an amazing photographer (shout out to Lahna) took some shots of my spaces at both shops, I wanted to share:

storage drawers are cute anywhere!

in any color!

who doesn't love an old dress form?!

Im loving old crates and burlap right now

I need a little inspiration,,, so im packing up my family and headed north for some antiquing this weekend!

also going on right now, I am involved with a fundraiser with 4 other small business in my area who are helping to raise money for 2 local kids fighting childhood cancer, there has been an outpouring of support for these kids. The 4 business that I am teamed up with are giving $1250 dollars to the families just for people 'liking' our facebook pages!! you can find that link here: prettyinpaint.

My heart is heavy tonight for these 2 kids: Faith Fulmer and Ethan Jostad.. I cant imagine what their families are going through trying to be strong for their little warriors.

Mindy~

Must have Dresser

I was asked if I could re-finish this dresser, but since i don't restore furniture and only paint it, she kindly asked if i wanted to buy it! How exciting, I already had a plan for it and it wasn't even mine yet!!
It had these weird carvings on the door, but they were missing a few chunks, usually i would try to salvage the original carvings but these were of 2 faces that looked like they were yelling at each other... weird, i know!! so i took them off, puttied the holes and this is what she looked like:

I used a teal color, and grey for the panels, (grey is my new favorite color)

A bit bright, and kindof beachy... not the look i was going for.. but as usual I busted out the Minwax stain.. I cant help myself! I love the look of stain on everything!!

I love this one so much,, hmmmm i just might keep it. I will probably have my poor husband move it all over the house to see if it will work and if not, it will be in the shop :) 

(gotta love husbands!!)

Mindy~

im linking up to : http://www.theshabbychiccottage.net/

and:

 http://www.atthepicketfence.com/

http://missmustardseed.blogspot.com/

Fabulous Finials~

We have all seen these finials at yard sales for 1-3 dollars each... they are always that yellowish boring color... well my husband picked up 4 of them today and I thought hmmmmm how can i spice these up... so i got out the paint and started painting ..

                              Here they are before:

And after a coat of random colors of paint :

and then i waited for it to dry then slopped on some Minwax Jacobean stain

 (the best color stain on this earth)

then wiped it off with an old t-shirt

I left stain in the cracks because i personally like the look of that but you could wipe it completely off if you wanted to

And all done!!

so cute and fun and easy peasy

Im linking up to:

http://redoux.blogspot.com/

http://www.theshabbychiccottage.net/

Mindy~

French nightstand~

This was my attempt to create a 'french looking' night stand... I'm not sure i like it... It might grow on me though.  First I mixed some grey paint and some light purple.. i only put the purple in because i was almost out of grey and it was the lightest color i had besides white.

So before i started, it looked like this:

Then i painted on the grayish purpleish color:

Then I slathered on some Jacobean stain like this:

Then I wiped it all off :

So this is how it turned out, I'm not 100% sure it looks french like i was going for,

at least it looks better than it did before i started! Ive had times when it looks worse after i was finished!!

Im linking up to :

http://www.missmustardseed.blogspot.com/

Good Night ~

I am being featured on Earth Monkeys!

Check out the wonderful blog of my friends Lindsay and Gena, they are fun girls with cool products!
Today they featured me on a fun DIY project!

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