From Vegas to Sweden

Hi everyone, Well its that time again Make it for Monday. I love Mondays now because of this.

How do you go from Vegas to Sweden, its all in the paint, baby. I started off with this rather Vegas like chair, black with gold accents. I'm sure it was pretty at one point (Maybe 1984????). I do however see the potential in it, the Rococo line. So I decided to go for it.

I had this.......

Yummy gold details (yuck!!!!)
I wanted this, a beautiful Swedish Rococo chair......

I got this, very close without the price tag of a real antique. I primed, painted (Its a misty Swedish green I had color matched), distressed and glazed. The seat bottom is a fabric from JoAnn Fabrics that had a Swedish feel. I love it and I have one more to go, then I can have my front porch sitting area Swedish style. After all this is The Swedish Room.

No more gold detail Yaaaaa!!!

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French Love At The Room

Hi everyone. Thanks for all the kinds words for my last post. I really appreciated it. Ok we are moving on with the fun. Ok I decided to do something difficult for me, but I love a challenge. I recovered a Louis side chair in white burlap. I didn't realise that burlap is so thin, so I doubled it up so the staples would go into the fabric and stay. Trust me it took a few tries, but I finally caught the hang of it. Next was double welting (I found mine at Hancock, I went to JoAnns and they don't sell it anymore). This was really hard trying to stitch it and making sure it was straight. This project took a few days (because I just had to walk away a few times), but I bucked up and finished. BTW the frames were yellow gold (Yuk!), so I distressed them and put some dark wax on them to give them an aged look. I love them, take a look......

As you can see green drapery fabric and yellow gold frames...
Now with burlap and antiqued frames, I love them!!!
Look double welting (I might wait to do this again).
French Love...

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From Vanity to Nightstand

Hi everyone. Sorry about last week just got busy doing the show. I should be good for another 20 days until I have to get ready again. I'll tell you all about it in a later post this week (saving all the details until then). It is Makeover Monday and I have a good one. You know how you see old vanities around without mirrors, well I love to turn them into nightstands. As long as they have four legs per unit it is easy to do (I once didn't notice a vanity I bought only had three legs per unit, I had to have two made to match. Lets say after that I always make sure.). The middle of these vanities are usually a step down drawer, so find out how it is attached and remove the screws or nails (usually inside the units). Next putty the holes, sand, wipe down (that easy). Then I paint, distress, and wax the tops (I don't think I need the explain all those steps). Waaa Laaa two great old looking nightstands. See for yourself.....

Before
After

Don't they look great, they sold at the show, so I'm happy for the two little girls, who had such a smart, and tasteful mommy who thought they should have them. For more Must see Makeover Monday projects go see Cindy at http://cottageinstincts.blogspot.com.

BTW.... The giveaway is still going on until March 15th at 12:00am (ohhh nooo that's tonight so hurry). The rules are on My Mistake post. After tonight I will announce the winner later this week. Good luck and have your own Makeover Monday.

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Numbered Hat Boxes & A Giveaway

Hi everyone. I hope everyone had a good weekend. It is Make it for Monday again hosted by Cindy at Cottage Instincts. Well my project is a series of white numbered hatboxes. I was inspired to do this thanks to A Beach Cottage, Sarah had a great post on a painted and numbered toolbox. I didn't have a toolbox, but I did have some hatboxes from a Christmas display. So I said to myself why not.

Here are the hatboxes before, rather plain. I think I bought them at Jo Ann's. So I picked a number font and sized them for each box.
Here goes the paint. I used some eggshell paint I had in my garage. I just made sure it was kind of matte.
Next I printed numbers on full sheet clear labels and cut them out carefully. I did this because my is not study enough to paint numbers. Anyway no one will ever know.
There you have it numbered hatboxes, great for storage and they look pretty too.
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Ok here is the giveaway.... wait for it.... A $50.00 gift card to Anthropologie. Yes the hottest store in blogdom right now. You ask how can I win this, glad you asked. I going to asked that you not only leave a comment to this post and all the others until giveaway end, but here is the twist. I'm going to ask you to favorite my blog also (If you already have me in your favorites, Thank you, your support means a lot to me, and you can just leave a comment), I do this because, this spring/summer I'm going to be doing more giveaways and I don't want anyone to miss out. So come an join the fun, great giveaways, fun and inspirational post, and a good way to meet other bloggers like yourself.
So go check out Anthropologie http://www.anthropologie.com and see all the great stuff. The last day for the giveaway is March 15th, so hurry.....

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Make It For Monday

Hi everyone. I had so much fun at the White Wednesday party, I decided to do Make it for Monday. Thank you Cindy @ Cottage Instincts for hosting this great party (I'll leave you a comment when I'm done).

Ok, this is my project. This is a chair I made a while back, but I thought it would be a good project for here. I wish I had a before pic, this chair started out as a Queen Anne chair (you know the ones, they are everywhere, I got it for $5.00). I wanted it to have a French flare.

I started by taking the chair half way apart, and adding old molding I had laying around.
In this pic it shows the new top I put on the chair.
I added a new center back piece (I can't remember the name right now) it was just a piece of wood cut to size, and some molding.
I added molding around the skirt of the chair, added some metal leaves to the legs, I had them in a junk box.
This is the back of the chair, more molding, wood pieces, and metals leaves.

I then sponged on some silver paint, glazed it, and then polyed it.
Finally I recently added this seat cover (yes I made the cover also). There it is a French style, silvered chair on the cheap. For more great projects go to:
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See you there. See everyone next time........