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...

                                       

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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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!!