Craigslist China Cabinet

I have been searching long and hard for the perfect China Cabinet for my dining room. Fear of large projects and a bigger furniture commitment, I passed up this beauty for over a month:

The seller was very aggressive and reposted this Craigslist ad almost every other day....but stupid me kept passing it up... Then when I finally felt ready to commit, he stopped posting. And even deleted the ad. Sold from under me :(   (well not really, I was the procrastinator... but I still feel cheated!)

So I've been on a hunt. But no French Provincial cabinets ever appeared on Craigslist again.... Well it was maybe all of 2 weeks...but it felt like F.O.R.E.V.E.R.

So the next close one was this:

Which I wasn't thrilled about.

Then came this, which I was even less thrilled about...

Then today I found this one, which I thought, "eh, kinda gothic looking but def unique and doable..."

                                       

So I emailed the lady cleverly disguised in the picture above, but continued on my search ........

aaaaaaand found this beauty an hour north of me:

I immediately emailed and asked for a pic of the cabinet door closed....

And now I'm in heaven....

Waiting to hear back about pickup time, but this baby is mine, no matter who I've got to run over with the Hummer.... (Ok well not really, but I am not letting this one slip away without a fight!!!!!)

A's for Apple, B's for Boy and C is for Chalk Paint :)

The adorable early 20th century school desk that will now become the kids' homework desk. This is going into a room with white furniture, and you know me, Miss OCD, I had to make it match... but per the kids request, I decided to paint it a light gray and white instead.... and with my little girl's help, we got started chalk painting!

C putting her chalk painting skills to the test ;)

Jr. helped me wax it. 

(sorry I was so excited my glued-to-the-iPod-son was helping that I forgot to snap a picture!)

And here we have our final result.

I don't know about y'all, but I can see future full-ride-college-scholarship recipients having a grand ole time finishing up their home work on this school desk! =P

Your husband called...

First 'for sale' Project!

Queen Anne End Table

(Solid wood with false drawer)

*Reclaim*Repaint*Revive*

20" wide x 26" deep x 21.5" height

Van Gogh Chalk Paint: Chivalry

Asking $50, pick up in Cameron, just north of Ft Bragg.

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Check out those curves!

Words can't even express how excited I am about this french provincial beauty!

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Finally a break from work!

Finally have a *short* break between shifts to pick up some awesome furniture pieces tomorrow!! Mama's got lots of work to do, and daddy's not gonna be happy until all the pieces are done and found a home outside of his garage!

(Quick! How many items can we hide under the tarp?!)

A few teasers...

                                       

Divalicious! Modern Shabby Chic Vanity Table

Remember this vintage craigslist find?!

Well she got a makeover... as promised!

First, Van Gogh's Diva underneath, then Revenge on top for the distressing :)

 Let the distressing begin! 

I used a wet t-shirt distressing technique for this, and it turned out awesome!

Then cover up the gorgeous hardware with some more Diva... lovin' it!

And here we have the [almost] finished product! (I have plans on painting the grooves hot pink as well, but VG's Diva is a bit transluscent and will take several coats to get to a bright shade of hot pink, so I opted to grab some hot pink acrylic paint from the hobby store at a later time..)

The semi-final result...

I. Am. In. LOVE. <3

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Porch Bench Refinish

I am IN LOVE with this awesome find on one of the local Facebook yard sale pages!

Picked it up Saturday morning and by Saturday night, I had two coats of chalk paint on it. I decided to only chalk paint the seat in Van Gogh's Revenge since the sexy legs already started out black. This way I have a nice two tone black when I am done, rather than the bench being all one shade of sheen. I decided against distressing it because it is gorgeous the way it is. The sexy legs do all the talking!

Finished product with a polyacrylic top coat... Looks amazing on my front porch!!

Victorian clock makeover

I've been eyeing this one in the background pictures from the American Vintage Home Store and have been meaning to ask A about it.

So today when I stopped by A's store in Broadway for some Van Gogh Chalk Paint, my brain kicked in and I remembered to ask! She never had a chance to finish it, but it was fine with me... She's already chalk painted it so it took away the prep work for me, yay!

And of course since its going in Miss Divalicious' room,
I had to maintain the hot pink and black victorian theme.

The black is on! 

(aaaand it was a beautiful, sunny day out... I threw on a tank and some shorts and got my tan on as well :))

And voila, here's the finished product. Van Gogh's Revenge and Diva used. 

I'm in chalk painter's heaven!!

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Vintage is the new New

There are three things that have changed since moving back to North Carolina. Appreciation for sweet tea, country music... and my newest addiction, french provincial furniture to furnish my new home! After taking chalk painting classes taught by Amy from the American Vintage Home Store and learning more about Van Gogh's chalk paint, I am now on the hunt for some amazing french provincial/Victorian furniture that I can keep busy with and turn it shabby chic to fit our furnishing needs.

First thing I bought at Amy's shop was this adorable antique wood school desk chair!
Not french provincial, I know, but I'm ok with taking chances learning on this piece of furniture first!

Next, I came across the perfect vanity table and chair for my daughter's room! A young, girl soldier from Bragg who didn't have time to finish her project and just wanted to find a new home for it. I got it at an awesome price!

I plan on chalk painting it with black, distressed with hot pink undertones and hardware to match my little girl's bedroom!

Ahhh, yes!!

Deuces DMV and Baltimore!

Only one week left until the kids and I reunite with my husband in Fort Bragg, North Carolina!

Our new home purchase in Cameron, NC

Striped Walls

I absolutely LOVE the way Jayden's bedroom turned out. Poor kid was disappointed that I had plans to paint everyone's room except his. But really all the rooms' walls were painted a standard beige color and he is going to have an Americana theme to it, so why bother to paint??

Well, to not let him down, I decided to do striped walls for his room instead. It took me a really long time to decide what color matched his room best based on the color samples from Lowes. I looked at it from every angle and in every lighting before I could decide which direction the beige was going. I was convinced, initally, that it was a warm brown based beige, turns out the beige on our walls actually have more of a gray hue to it... weird, right? Oh and PS, Lowes offers a 10% Military Discounts to all my military families out there ;)

After measuring the height of the wall, I divided it up and ended up with a rough 13 inches per stripe. I liked the idea of 13 because it's my husband's lucky number :)
(there was an extra 1.5" remainder so I made the bottom stripe an extra 0.5" and the top stripe an extra 1" to save myself the headache of measuring 13.2142857142 inches!)

Also, my husband made a good point when he said to me to keep the "unpainted" stripe starting out with the baseboard so we didn't have to worry about taping and painting near the baseboard (smart man, ain't he?). Well, I went above and beyond and made sure to include in my calculations the ceiling stripe was maintained as the 'unpainted' stripe as well. With only window and door trimmings left to tape (and believe me, there was plenty to tape already!), we were ready to start painting the stripes!

After a lot of tedious details of measuring, marking and taping, below are the before, during and after products. I'm in love with his room now!!

Did I mentioned my legs were super SORE the day after from all the squatting?! Oh man, its time to get back in the workout routine, cuz that is sad!!