Labor of Love

This piece was definately a 'Labor of Love', as in I love my girl so much the labor was worth it!  I wouldn't have done this piece for anyone else, and I will be thinking long and hard before I strip this much paint again.  lol  Did I mention it was worth it?  I sound like a huge whiner.

Before.  Lauren is the only cute factor.

The Ugly Truth

I'm a big fan of before and afters, love them really, but it's the during that is UGLY!  Really ugly.

First you clear out the room.  My little helper picking up misc toys that ended up under bed and desk.  She even dressed for the occasion.

Then you put all the stuff in the loft and master bedroom, cause where else would you put it? 

The only cute factor, so far.  The are pretending to have a garage sale.  They are my kids.

In totally unrelated news, the armoire got a second coat of paint!!!!  All it need now is hardware and gold paint on the details, oh and a good waxing.   Of course the room has to get painted first.  Hubby leaves Tuesday and  I need to get the most out of him now.  lol

So there you have it, the during, pretty ugly huh?  I can't wait to show you the after!



 

Proof

Shabby Creations Give Away!!!  

  I knew if I just told you I painted something, you would be like, Proof!  I don't blame you really, I've been not to pretty good about doing anything lately. 

Here's the Proof.

It needs a second coat and then I have to bust out the gold paint and pretty it up, and wax...but hey, it's a complete first coat.  Tomorrow Hubby and I start painting the rooms upstairs.  He changed his mind and wants to do it himself.  Really he just doesn't want to pay any one else, I'm good with that!

Design Help

So I dragged the Hubby to Joann's today, and aside from one male employee, he was the only man in there.  I guarantee it was funny!  I joked that he totally lost his 'man card'...did I mention I think I'm freaking hilarious...Hubby not so much.

Ok ok, here's where the help comes in, I bought fabric for some chair seats, and I have no idea what color to paint the chairs.  What ever color I paint the chairs I'm also paint the base of my table, I'd like them to match each other, but not the china hutch.

Fabric Sample, it's a shade lighter than the green I have on my old chairs.  We are getting rid of the old chairs, I found some I like so much better on craigslist for CHEAP!  The fabric was half off and cost almost as much as the chairs and table I bought.  The table isn't special.  It will probably be sold.

This picture is old, but it pretty much looks like this still, only MUCH messier cause the Hubby is home and has bought a lot of crap and littered my table with it...no biggy...well little biggy.  I'm not gonna lie, I'm Type A after all.  lol  I can live with the mess to have him home for a few weeks.

So what ASCP would you use? 

Pink Armoire update, finally got Hubby to take the Bakelite handle off, so I could get the last of the paint off, and the handle broke...sigh.  I guess I'm buying a new handle.  I also think I'm going to use more of a know style and just fill the other whole.  Something sparkly.

The old white/emperor's silk mix turned out great, love this shade of pink!

Have a great week! 

Progress

I'm making progress on the armoire, and I just wanted to share with you what I've accomplished so far.

I may not have attended online school for design, but I feel like I have a knack for it.

This is what it looked like when I brought it home.  Notice all the stickers, really stickers?  Then written in marker was the phrase "Change how you see, not how you look."  Again, written in marker, so it had to go.  It all had to go.  I couldn't paint over it, the paint was peeling, so it had to come off.

This was taken after I pulled the stickers off, see, some of the paint came off too.  She's still madly in love with it, even tho it look like this. 

Finally where we are today, after stripping it for 4 days!  lol  It was actually pretty easy, there's just a lot to strip, and the dog can't live in the kennel forever!  lol  Poor Stanley.

I still have some paint to get off from around the handle.  I can't figure out how to get the Bakelite handle off.  Hubby will be home in less than a week, he said he would help.  I should have the paint by then too.  I need to fill some dings, not all of them, just the big ones.  I want to keep some of the character. 

When I'm finished I share all the info about my special mix of paint that the fine folks and Robyn Story Designs whipped up for me!  Love them!!