Latest Projects

Today I thought I'd share with you some of my latest projects.

I'd picked up an unfinished wood shelf last fall and had it in my "to paint" stash.

It was a bit boring in its unfinished state, and I wanted to add something special to it.

Finally inspiration struck!  I painted it a pretty light blue (my favorite color!), then added this pretty Frenchy stencil by DecoArt.

 I must say that it turned out even cuter than I thought it would!

 I love the curvy front, and the neat curved side brackets.

 I'm always hunting for mirrors to transform.  I found this over the winter when we were down south, and it was in a pretty sad state.  It had been painted layers and layers of an awful rusty color and just wasn't very happy!  So, after cleaning her up, I just knew she'd look prettier in pink!

 She looks so much happier now, I think!

 Next up are a pair of wood and metal vintage candle sconces.  I'd had them in my stash forever, and had practically forgotten all about them (do you ever do that?).  I painted them a soft light blueish gray chalk paint from DecoArt.  I am really loving this color!

 Geez, I should have taken "before" shots of all of my makeovers, but I guess I was just too excited to start transforming everything!  Trust me that these sconces look oh so much better than their former boring dark brown finish with black metal accents!

 I also used the same pretty blue gray to paint this crown moulding shelf.

 I then used DecoArt's cream wax to give it a nice hand rubbed finish.

 Now it's back to pink!  I found this cute vintage wall pocket basket, which was originally white.  I love the hobnail pattern, and the pretty ruffly top!

 This is the second one that I've found, so I knew I wanted to go pink with this one, just like the previous one that I did about a year ago.

 It's made by Burwood, as are these sweet little butterflies, that I found down in Georgia this winter.

 I think they would look adorable in a little girl's room!

 Since you know how much I love mirrors, I couldn't resist showing you this little cutie, below!

It is vintage, and actually found by hubby when we were out thrifting last week!

I guess I've trained him well, as he now has a very good eye!:)

 The frame was a really ugly dark brown, and was practically begging me to paint it a bright and cheery aqua!

And last up is a tall wooden candlestick, which also was practically forgotten in my stash!

I painted it the same wonderful blue gray chalk paint that I showed you in some of the projects above.

I really love the carved details of this piece.

 I used a darker cream wax from DecoArt to give it that aged look.

 I've placed all of my creations in my Etsy shop if you'd like to take a look!

Hope you all gave a great day!

Now I'm off to find something else to paint!:)