So many projects - so little time!

I have been working on so many projects lately and haven't posted for so long. Nothing is completely finished! I am hoping to be finished with them in the next few days. We finally got all the tile down in my kitchen, we got all the trim work done this week, so it is pretty much done, except the the styling, and then pictures. Last weekend I spend all day Sunday painting my laundry room. I thought, "this is a small project", it should only take am few hours! Wrong! We moved the dryer out, but not the washer, so all day I was moving the washer back and forth and back and forth to get where I needed to paint. We have 9' ceilings in this house, so I have to get the ladder to reach the ceiling to paint the trim, moving that thing around with the washer still in the room was a challenge. Of course once I got the walls painted the baseboards and the door frames looked like crap so I had to paint them too! Anyway, that two hour project turned into an all day project! I don't know about you, but, I always figure I am going to get twice as much done in a day as I actually do! I can't wait to show you the restore chandelier I bought that is now hanging in the laundry room! It is so awesome! My "biggest fan" thought it was the gaudiest thing he had ever seen when I picked it out at the restore! He should know better by now... to say things like that! It is just a challenge to me, to make it awesome! I also have two arm chairs that I finished, I have taken the pictures now, so will be posting that soon also! What a transformation they are! Later... Pictures to be posted soon!

Pinata Color - My New Favorite Paint

While out cleaning up my deck today getting ready to shoot the pictures of my Outdoor Candelabra, my attention was drawn to the wall hanging that has been in the deck area for several years.  When I bought it at the store, I thought it was so cool looking, but when I got it home and hung it on the side of my house, it was just blaaaa. No Pop, no Color!  The siding on my house is a brown color and it just sort of blended in.  I have been debating (at least 3 years now) what to do about it, I wanted to paint it, but really didn't know with what. The discovery of Pinata Color Paints entered my life recently. I first saw it on someone's blog, but i can't remember which one, sorry, and became really intrigued with then.  I took my 40% off coupon straight to Dick Blick's and got me some.  I didn't really have a plan of what I would do with them, but I knew I would come up with something. When I looked at this wall hanging today a light bulb went off..  A match if I ever saw one!  This literally took me about 30 mins, if that, to take off the wall carry it into my garage and  paint it with the Pinata Color Paints..  It is so much better!!! I just wish I had taken a picture of it hanging on the side of my house, so you could have seen how Blaaaa it  really was.

Before 

after

I used the Calabaza Orange on the stars the Sapphire Blue on the Moon, and Lime Green on the tendrils to the starts!  What do you think?  Not bad for a 30 min. project that I have been thinking about for 3 years!!

Look at the difference this paint makes

Some more pictures!  I am so excited about the possibilities of this paint.  It can be used on just about anything, metal, plastic, leather, glass, and polymer clay and more I am sure.  The colors are so vibrant, but transparent at the same time.

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Rusty Old Plant Stand to Beautiful Outdoor Candelabra

I finished two projects today.  This is the first one.  It has been a while since I have gotten to work on anything, it was a beautifully warm day here in Southern Indiana, and I could not wait to get out into my garage, I mean my,  Studio.

 I found this old Plant Stand at my favorite junk  treasure finding Story.  I really would not have known what the heck it was if it had not  had "Plant Stand" written on the tag.  When I first saw it, I thought it would look cool as an outdoor candelabra on my deck. So this is the before.

I took it apart (which was really easy) and spray painted with  Rust-oleum Metallic Black paint on the wrought iron parts, and Rust-oleum Hammered paint and primer in the color Rosemary (which is a new color to me) on the wooden parts. The Rosemary is a very soft color of green. I really love this color.  Here are all the parts after painting.

After assembling all the parts (it only took me 2 tries to get it put back together right) I loaded it up with all the short, chunky candles I had on hand and put it on my deck!  What do you think?  Not bad for $4.99. huh?

I waited until it got dark, so I could light the candles to see what it would look  like

I " like"  how about you?

Of course we will have to be careful around it when the candles are lit, and of course no little ones around.

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Texas Caviar

WARNING - THIS DISH IS ADDICTIVE!

This is a family favorite and the most requested dish to bring to parties.  The best part is that it is so simple to make.  When I am at the store to get the ingredients to this I just remember that there are SIX ingredients plus the marinade and I usually have the ingredients to the marinade on hand.  Here is the Recipe!  It is a little sweet and and little spicy.

1 Can of Black Beans
1 Can of Shoepeg Corn (or white corn)
1 small jar of Pimentos
1 Can of Blackeyed Peas
1 Medium Red Onion (Chopped into small pieces)
1/2 cup to 3/4 cup of Pickled Jalapeno Peppers (chopped into small pieces)

Drain all ingredients into a colander, and then pour into a bowl with a lid.

Marinade


In a small sauce pan:

1 Cup of Sugar
1 Cup of White Vinegar
1/2 Cup of Olive Oil

Heat Marinade ingredients until sugar is melted.  Cool for a few minutes and pour over ingredients in your bowl with a lid, place the lid on the bowl and put in the fridge overnight or for at least 6-8 hours.

When you are ready to serve,  dump the whole concoction in your colander again to drain off the marinade, THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT! (I didn't do this the first time I made it, oopps! I didn't read the instructions). Pour into your serving bowl!  Serve with Scoops, or it can also be served as a side dish.

This is a great appetizer with scoops, I have one friend that just eats it with a spoon!

Enjoy!!

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Teal (End) Table - Boonville, IN Poison Table

Here is another great auction item that I purchased a few weeks ago.  My biggest fan was with me at the auction and we thought this little end table would work great in our sun room between our two lounging chairs.  We put it in the back of my XUV and brought it home.  When we opened up the back to get it out there was this horrible stench!  Ewwww! What was that smell?  I don't know, but this little puppy got banished to the great outdoors for a few days to air out.  I had just read on someone else's blog, sorry but I can't remember who's, that the cure for stinky furniture was to let it air out outside a few days, and if you have some sunshine that is even better.  It worked great, nary a smell too it now! Here is the before picture:

Airing that Puppy out!

I decided on a teal colored paint that I already had in my stash, the colors in my sun room are browns, oranges, tans, so I thought the teal would add a nice pop to the room, plus I already had it. Recently I had been stalking  looking through the Graphics Fairies Blog here and had been wanting to use one of her wonderful graphics on something. I found this graphic that I thought would look awesome on this end table. The Graphics Fairy has tons of FREE graphic for the taking, did you hear that, they are FREE! I also searched her blog for some instructions on how to transfer these babies with ease and you can find that here.  I needed to make the image bigger so I used her advise on that also by going to this site http://www.blockposters.com/ to make the image the size that I needed.  It was really easy, and I did it all by myself, I was so proud!  I used the transfer method where you use a pastel to scribble on the back side of your copy. I taped it down on my piece and traced the image on.  In the tutorial they suggested using a pastel, which I did have, but if you don't have any pastels,  I don't know why a crayon would not work.  Since the top was black I used a piece of chalk to get the outline of the shield traced on first, and painted the shield a creamy white, then used the pastel on the rest of it to transferred it onto the white shield.

chalk outline

Pastel scribbles

Be sure and check to make sure it is all transferring.  Oopps, I need some more  pastel there.

Using various sized paint pens I filled in the lettering

Here is the top finished:

The end table in my room:

This is my comfy lounge, blogging spot with my laptop

Fancy little knobs I had laying around.  Sprayed them with a metallic charcoal grey and then Painted the center (wood) part with that creamy white and used the paint pen to make the hash marks.

Since this guy had that "stinking" problem, before I painted it, I washed it down really, really well, and then sealed it on the underside of the  top and underneath, and inside the drawer with a poly spray-on, just to be on the safe side.  My biggest fan said I was NOT bringing that thing in the house if it remotely had any remaining stink to it! I primed it with black, painted on the teal, distressed it a bit,  glazed it with a watered down black paint,  and then  used paste  wax all over. What do you think?

POISON, BOONVILLE, IN  TABLE

Here is another little project I was working on at the same time.  This graphic was also on the Graphics Fairy blog.  I thought it was a hoot and just had to use it somewhere.  Booneville, IN is just a few miles down the road from where I live.  I believe I read on that post that "The Graphics Fairy", herself, used to live right down the road from me in Boonville, IN!  I should message her about that! (note to self)

I had this piece of wood lying around.  I think it was a shelf at one time.  Found it AND the base of this little table at my favorite junk shop. I think I paid a whole $2.50 for both the of them.  So here it is:

This

Plus This

                                      

Equals THIS

The top

Distressed

Before Distressing - I kinda messed up on the "S", so needed to do some distressing  to hide that little  bitty mistake!

So what do you think of my little  BOONVILLE, IN POISON table??

Thanks for looking, came back often, to see what I have been up to!  I have been busy working on the two side chairs that I bought at my favorite junk shop.  They are almost done!

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Beautiful in Black (Arm Chair)

This nice arm chair came from my favorite junk shop, and it was really in need of some LOVE!  I was so excited when I found it,  I didn't look it over too well.  I just wanted to make sure it was not wobbly. I really need to curb my enthusiasm, until I give things a good once over, because there was a couple of slight flaws.  Evidently some one had tried to give it some LOVE before me, and did a pretty good job of making it sturdy. It wasn't a bit wobbly, due to the  nice "fix-it" job on the bottom rung. Here is the before.

This is the seat that came with it. It did not fit right, that was Flaw #1
 Can you see flaw #2?  The two bottom rungs did not match!  One was just a DOWEL ROD! What the...? I had to come up with a plan......

Instead of trying to hide it ( which probably wasn't going to happen), I decided to make it stand out.

Chair Rung (AKA DOWEL ROD)

 Here it is after some sanding and a new paint job, with my homemade flat black chalk paint.

I cut that new seat for this guy, the one that it came with was pretty nasty, and I really did not want to try to fix it or even touch it! It went straight to the trash.   I am kinda thinkin' this wasn't even the same type of  seat that was original to this chair.  It may have been rush or leather, because the new one still doesn't want to fit right, but  it's better than the one it came with.    I may have to do some more work on it now that I see the close up pictures.  Anyway, here it is all dressed up.

Nice chunky legs!

(The fabric was a great deal at the Auction House, BTW)

I accented the little balls on top with  red to tie in with the seat fabric and "the stand out"  dowel rod, Ahemm,  Rung.

It is almost as CUTE as my Grandson in the picture above it!  Don't you think?

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