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Up to some of my old tricks . . .

May 25, 2011 By Kim Filed Under painted furniture

I have a fabulous antique secretary that sits beside my front door. Unfortunately when I bought it from my grandparents estate sale, it was in need of repair. My husband did the best he could for a temporary fix. But the leg is about to come off at this point, so she has been retired until I can afford to have her repaired AND refinished.

But the thing is, I need something desperately in that spot! Mainly for storage reasons and just because it looks empty without anything there!

I don’t know if you are like me, but usually I can just walk around my garage and find something – Ha! {Wish I was kidding, but I’m not!!!!} I really have every intention to go through it all this summer and sell off everything that isn’t what I consider a family heirloom. Which really shouldn’t be anything in there!! I probably could furnish a small apartment. {Pure ridiculousness!!}

During my walk around the garage, I spotted an antique dresser that I was determined had to be sold just days earlier.

And it actually fits on the wall that was holding up my secretary – literally.

I don’t usually paint the hardware. But this time, I didn’t want to take it off. And it is easy to remove paint from the hardware – so really it isn’t a big deal.

While posting these pictures, I realize I didn’t get a full view one?! When I think about it, I’ll take one to post – later.

This is true color. Only, it wasn’t this color about 10 am this morning. It was stained – a really bad stain job. I dreamed of painting her since I found her many years ago in a antique store in Bell Buckle, TN. Just never got around to it. And I never had a reason to . . . until now.

Fortunately, not only do I have furniture laying around, I have paint, too. I’m pretty sure this is a Sherwin Williams color – Leap Frog.

This has more yellow than the original color, because I sanded it. I had every intention of waiting till tomorrow to sand it, but I couldn’t wait. {Could you?}

I was also planning on rubbing stain on her – forget that! I like the way she turned out! I’ll seal it tonight and call her “done.” This is what you do on your child’s last day of school. Because summer is about to begin. And I don’t know if you noticed, but I got a lot to do this summer.

And for those wondering – she’s still for sale. I just want to get my secretary fixed up right!

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A New Coffee Table . . .

February 16, 2011 By Kim Filed Under painted furniture, sneaky peeky

Remember the post where I talked about my coffee table?? It was the one I found for a great bargain on Craigs List. I painted it, had someone come over to visit and they bought it. I seriously didn’t have it for 3 days before it was gone! The joke is everything is for sale here at my house {except the people.}

Well, I lucked out! A friend of mine sold me hers for $25!!! I told her years ago that I had first dibs or it better be willed to me. And frankly, it is a better fit for my room than the old one. The one above was a square and the new one is rectangle. AND the new one has really big drawers like the old one and that was what mattered!

This one is red though, and I . . . . reallllyyyy like/love/having an affair with the robin’s egg blue I painted the last one. So, I’ll be sanding this one off and starting over!

I see the month of April being the month I paint a ridiculous amount of furniture!

And because I know you like a good sneaky peeky . . . .

There is no white line separating the turquoise and pink anymore. This was from yesterday before I finished that part up.

I just want you all to know that I’m dying over this one. That’s all, Dying, I tell ya’!

I never got to the end of my inbox the other day. Forgive me. I hope to finish up by this weekend!

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One of the best reasons to blog . . .

November 1, 2010 By Kim Filed Under a little Christmas, family, inspiration, joys of motherhood, keeping it real, painted furniture, small words art, what shall we make today . . .

I have to tell you guys that the one thing I love about blogging is when you take the time to go back and look at older posts. Today, for fun, I went back to all my November 1st post – and I had one every year I blogged!!

2007

On the first, I found out that my 3rd pregnancy {4th child} was a girl. Good thing too, because I had only visions of vintage chandeliers since the day I found out I was pregnant!

That was also the same month that I did some Christmas tutorials – my favorite was my Christmas wreath!

It was also when I started working on the website you currently visit and had several online boutiques show interest in my art – although I did not take anyone up on their offer. I started offering the 5×5’s. I also had to put my dog down for a tumor on her kidneys – I miss that dog soooo much.

Uhmm, yeah . . . that is a professional picture of my dog. You can’t tell me that it’s not the funniest picture you have seen! That dog was precious! And she loved me so much that she would do anything I asked! Obviously.

AND I was featured on Today’s Creative Blog.

2008

On the first, I helped a friend “surprise” another friend with a painting. It was one of those times when someone ordered their own shower gift – only, they didn’t know it. haha! Since, that has happened many times!

That was the month that I braved it and took all 4 kids out by myself. {Definitely the beginning of the rest of my life!} Emme started standing and it was the month that the ball started turning with all the therapies for the boys. It was also when Hudson had a scary experience and we found out he had a nephrotic syndrome when his kidneys had issues filtering.

And who could forget the Fa la la’s?

And I got great “blog” exposure when blogger chose my blog as the “blog of note” – I had over 7000 hits that day!

Rough month with alot of positives – do they cancel each other out?

2009

On the first, I painted a painting that sorta help start the layered look you see so much of here on my site/blog.

I forgot how I did the tone on tone dots on the white! Will be doing that again really soon!!! LOVE that look! Love this painting! {That is vain!}

I let my kids pick out their own Christmas trees AND went ahead and set them out {I won’t be decorating that early this year!}

And who can forget my beef with Porter and SW paints?? Do you know how many people google this?? I get at least 20 hits a day when I do a keyword analysis. Hysterical!

I finally got a family picture taken!! And then the frenzy began when I painted the Boone! So many loved this “style” of painting.

I didn’t blog about it at this point, but Hudson had a biopsy on his kidneys to confirm his nephrotic syndrome was Minimal Change Disease. I also painted my hutch – and for the record . . . I have not changed her up at all!!! Still love that color just as much – if not more – today!

And my tree was the wackiest and tackiest it had ever been!

2010

. . . . to be continued.

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