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Christmas Ideas Tour and Samaritan's Purse VW Auction Giveaway

What a busy and exciting week here in the blogging world!

A few months ago my friend Larissa from Prodigal Pieces gave a waterfall dresser a Volkswagen Bus makeover and named it BEEP.  It was such a success that she's done it again by introducing BEEP II.  What makes this makeover extra special is that it is being auctioned off on eBay and the proceeds are being donated to Samaritan's Purse!


We are keeping our finger's and toes crossed that the Samaritan's Purse VW Auction brings top dollar for Samaritan's Purse before it ends on Sunday, December 6th.  If you would love to see BEEP II sitting in your home and want to support a wonderful organization this holiday season, please PRESS HERE for a link to the auction.

If that's not enough, Larissa is also offering a $350.00 Prize Package Giveaway to one lucky winner! The winner will be announced on Friday, December 4th.  You can enter the giveaway by pressing HERE.

Both the auction and giveaway are open to U.S. residents only and BEEP II will be shipped to the winning bidder for FREE.

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The second exciting thing happening in the blogging world this week is the Christmas Ideas Tour. Starting today and running until Thursday, 28 bloggers have come together to bring you holiday decorating inspiration!  


Today's theme is Holiday Mantels.  Press the links at the bottom of this post to see how each talented blogger decorated their mantel for the holidays.

Be sure to come back tomorrow for Holiday Tablescapes, Wednesday for Holiday Wreaths, and Thursday for Thrifty Crafts.  I'll be joining the Thrifty Crafts leg of the tour so I hope you come back for a visit on Thursday to see what idea I came up with.

Told you it was a busy day in Blogland!  

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DIY Sunday Showcase Party and Features {November 28, 2015}

I hope all our friends to the south had a very Happy Thanksgiving with family and friends.  Now we can officially Let The Holidays Begin!

 Bloggers this is a great link up to showcase your work because not only will it appear on this blog but on the blogs of our five co-hosts. That's six opportunities to have your work featured!

Join us and share your favorite DIY Projects, Crafts, or Recipes.

The party goes Live every Saturday at 5:00 pm CST and runs until the following Wednesday.

MEET THE HOSTS

              

Jennifer at Pink When


Erin at My Crafty Spot

Wendi at H20 Bungalow

Alli at An Alli Event
Marie (moi) at The Interior Frugalista

♥♥♥ Our Features From The Last Party ♥♥♥

If you are not one of the six featured here today you may have been featured at our DIY SUNDAY SHOWCASE TALENT BOARD on Pinterest so be sure to hop over there as well!

MY PICK:

Vintage Hinge & Jewelry Christmas Ornament
VINTAGE HINGE & JEWELRY CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS by The Painted Hinge
Oh my gosh, how gorgeous are these rusty hinge ornaments!  Michelle gave them the perfect combination of rust & glam.  These would look amazing on my tree.

JEN'S PICK:

Lemon Orzo Shrimp Bake | Cooking on the Front Burner
LEMON ORZO SHRIMP BAKE by Cooking On The Front Burner

KATIE'S PICK:

DIY Rustic Wooden Stocking with attached tin can to display a festive floral arrangement! Perfect addition to your rustic holiday decor. livelaughrowe.com:
RUSTIC WOODEN STOCKING by Live Laugh Rowe

ERIN'S PICK:

reindeer grahams vertical
GRAHAM CRACKER REINDEER TREATS by This Mama Loves

WENDI'S PICK:

DIY Birch Branch Christmas Tree | View From The Fridge
BIRCH BRANCH CHRISTMAS TREE by our co-host Katie from View From The Fridge

ALLI'S PICK:

Easy DIY Paper Covered Letters | The Everyday Home | www.everydayhomeblog.com
PAPER COVERED WOOD LETTERS by The Everyday Home

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PARTY RULES:

  1. Follow your party hosts.
  2. Post a maximum of 3 of your newest DIY's.
  3. Linking to the party allows the hosts to possibly PIN your project to our DIY Showcase Pinterest Board, use your project in a round-up post (with direct links to your post), as well as Feature your project in the next DIY Sunday Showcase!
  4. Please Do Not Pin from the party, instead go to the original blog post.
  5. In order to be featured you need to grab the button or link and copy it onto your post or in your link party page!
NEWDIYBUTTON So let's get this DIY Sunday Showcase Party started!




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Old World Clock Face Table with an identity crisis

This poor Queen Anne table has had so many makeovers that it has an identity crisis. The first incarnation was in 2013, after acquiring it from a neighbor. It was one of my first furniture makeovers and I cannot help but laugh because the poor thing looked like a frog. Thank goodness my furniture makeover skills have improved because its final incarnation painted black is quite lovely as an Old World Clock Face Table.

Queen Anne Old World Clock Face Fable

Old World Clock Face Table


Before getting into the details of the final makeover, let's take a little trip down memory lane...

Queen Anne Side Table with three looks

Makeover #1 - The Frog Table

On the bottom right in the photo collage above is what the table looked like when given to me by a neighbor.

When I started refinishing furniture in early 2013, my preferred paint medium was milk paint. The table was painted in a combination of Miss Mustard Seed Milk Paint in the colors; Lucketts Green, Boxwood, and Ironstone.  You can find that makeover here in my post Curbside Find Upcycle.

The table sat in our living room for several months before I finally accepted the fact that it looked too much like a frog.

Makeover #2 - Vintage French Cloutèrie Table

By the second makeover, I had discovered Annie Sloan Chalk Paint and gave it a new look with the paint colors Versailles and Old White. I gave it some Parisian flair by adding a Vintage Cloutèrie graphic with the intention of using the table in our guest bedroom. You can catch that makeover here in my post From Curb To Français.

Instead, the table was given to my Mom when we moved her into a secured dementia suite at a designated care facility to add some personality to a rather institutional looking room. Unfortunately, it was receiving a lot of abuse and at one point the glass knob was walloped off and so it came back home with me.

Makeover # 3 - Vintage Clock Face Table

Thank goodness my furniture makeover skills have improved because finally, this poor Queen Anne table has a look that I can be proud of.

Clock Face Table with French typography

The table was painted again using Annie Sloan Chalk Paint but using the colors Graphite and Old White.

The broken glass knob from the previous makeover was replaced with this pretty floral ceramic one.

Queen Anne Clock Face Table Floral Knob

I went back to the Graphics Fairy and found the perfect French Clock Parts Graphic and French Cafe Typography.

Using my preferred image transfer technique, I printed the graphics and taped them onto the top of the table. Slipping a sheet of graphite paper underneath, I tried the graphics on the table top.

Using a script liner art brush and chalk paint in the graphite color, I painted the graphics onto the table. Wanting an aged time-worn appearance, I heavily distressed the graphics with 220 grit sandpaper and applied dark wax.

Old World French Clock Face Table

The lesson I hope you walk away with after reading this post is, it's just paint.

If you have a piece of furniture, whether it's been in your home for decades or something you recently acquired, don't be afraid to give it a new life with a can of paint. You're not going to ruin Aunt Martha's hutch if you get it wrong the first time.

That's the beautify of chalk or milk paint, if you're not 100% satisfied with the results, you can change the color with little to no prep. Brush yourself off, like I did...twice, and keeping painting until you're happy with the results.

Black chalk painted Old World Clock Face Table

Old World Clock Face Table Makeover

I'm sharing this project with these fabulous PARTIES.

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DIY Sunday Showcase Party and Features {November 21, 2015}

You guys are killing me! I had so much trouble narrowing down just one to feature this week and with almost 600 links to choose from, made the task even more challenging. You never cease to amaze me with your talent and I always walk away from this party each week with my head spinning with inspiration. Wishing my American friends a very Happy Thanksgiving!

Bloggers this is a great link up to showcase your work because not only will it appear on this blog but on the blogs of our five co-hosts. That's six opportunities to have your work featured!

Join us and share your favorite DIY Projects, Crafts, or Recipes.

The party goes Live every Saturday at 5:00 pm CST and runs until the following Wednesday.

MEET THE HOSTS

              

Jennifer at Pink When


Erin at My Crafty Spot

Wendi at H20 Bungalow

Alli at An Alli Event
Marie (moi) at The Interior Frugalista

♥♥♥ Our Features From The Last Party ♥♥♥

If you are not one of the six featured here today you may have been featured at our DIY SUNDAY SHOWCASE TALENT BOARD on Pinterest so be sure to hop over there as well!

MY PICK:

Flower table paint makeover
TABLE MAKEOVER - PAINT & SCRAPBOOK PAPER by What Treasures Await
I love everything about this gorgeous makeover.  Crystal did such a beautiful job on this piece!

JEN'S PICK:

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THANKSGIVING TURKEY PLATES by Bloom Designs

KATIE'S PICK:

Make your own Christmas Hoop Art- Easy to follow tutorial included
CHRISTMAS HOOP ART by 24 Cottonwood Lane

ERIN'S PICK:

Thanksgiving Mantle edited
BE THANKFUL VINTAGE WINDOW DECOR by Giggles Galore

WENDI'S PICK:

After Repurposed Art by SnazzyLittleThings.com
MAKING OLD ART BEAUTIFUL AGAIN by Snazzy Little Things

ALLI'S PICK:

cracked patina nightstand
CRACKED PATINA NIGHT STAND by How To Nest For Less

If you've been featured here today copy our Feature Button!


PARTY RULES:

  1. Follow your party hosts.
  2. Post a maximum of 3 of your newest DIY's.
  3. Linking to the party allows the hosts to possibly PIN your project to our DIY Showcase Pinterest Board, use your project in a round-up post (with direct links to your post), as well as Feature your project in the next DIY Sunday Showcase!
  4. Please Do Not Pin from the party, instead go to the original blog post.
  5. In order to be featured you need to grab the button or link and copy it onto your post or in your link party page!
NEWDIYBUTTON So let's get this DIY Sunday Showcase Party started!



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Antique Waterfall Hutch

Today is Themed Furniture Makeover Day and the theme this month is Storage and Organization. This will be the third month I've participated with this talented group of bloggers who come together each month to breath new life into a piece of furniture based on a theme.

I knew my Vintage Art Deco Waterfall Hutch that I found this summer at a local online auction would fit perfectly for this month's furniture theme.

Black chalk painted waterfall hutch makeover

This poor thing had seen it's better days. The veneer was peeling and/or missing along the bottom and someone slapped a few coats of red tinted lacquer over the entire piece, yuck.  The glass doors are also missing.

Here is what it looked like before...

Antique Waterfall Hutch for Themed Furniture Makeover Day Before Makeover

See the red tint in the lacquer? Regluing the peeling veneer was an easy fix and the missing veneer was repaired with wood filler. The tinted lacquer, on the other hand, was a HUGE labor intensive challenge to remove.

Furniture stripper used to remove shellac from an Antique Waterfall Hutch

I used my go to Heirloom Furniture Stripper and it took several coats to remove the layers of lacquer enough that I could get rid of the leftover bits with a sander.

I contemplated replacing the glass doors and then for a hot minute I thought about building chicken wire sliders. In the end, I decided the open shelving looked better.

To dress up the back of the hutch I applied paintable wallpaper.

Curvy Paintable Wallpaper applied to the back of the Antique Waterfall Hutch

The interior was chalk painted in the color Vanilla Frosting from Country Chic Paint. Because it was hard to get into the nooks and crannies I spray painted it using my HomeRight Finish Max Pro Paint Sprayer.

I thought about painting it a vibrant pop of color but decided clean white would play better with the dark black exterior and make everything on display pop.

Interior of Antique Waterfall Hutch chalk painted in Vanilla Frosting using a Homeright Paint Sprayer

The exterior was brushed with chalk paint in the color Liquorice also from Country Chic Paint. It's the same paint color I used on the Black Old World Map Table shared in last month's challenge. I was really liking how the light wood complimented the black so I lightly distressed this piece to reveal more of the wood underneath.

Antique Waterfall Hutch painted with Liquorice Chalk Paint and stained with Provincial Walnut Milk Paint

The grain of the wood on the drawer front and side panels was too pretty to cover with paint so I decided to keep them natural. I applied one coat of Milk Stain by Homestead House Paint Co. in the color Provincial Walnut. I think it compliments the black beautifully.

I also stained the bottom door, but it made the hutch look too checkerboardish (new word) and then a light bulb went off in the old noggin.  What about creating a stained pattern on a black painted door?

Sure Marie, what a great idea and how are you going to do that without a Silhouette machine to make a reverse stencil? So I got creative and used what I had on hand.

Using a stencil, a stencil brush, melted beeswax for a reverse stencil on furniture

This isn't a technique I'll repeat anytime soon, but it did the trick. Santa if you're reading this, please pretty please with a cherry on top put a Silhouette Machine under my Christmas Tree this year - I promise I've made your Nice List!

With the door removed from the hutch, I taped a stencil onto the front.  In a mini crockpot lined with foil, I melted beeswax. Using a stencil brush, I essentially stenciled with wax rather than paint.

Once the wax cooled I brushed two coats of black chalk paint over the entire door. After the paint dried overnight I removed the wax with a heat gun on the lowest setting, dabbing the wax off with a lint-free cloth.

Milk Paint Stain, Black Chalk Paint, Reverse Transfer on distressed Antique Waterfall Hutch

To remove the wax from the stencil and stencil brush, I used mineral spirits and then washed both in warm soapy water. It worked but I'm not going to lie, it was a little time-consuming

Mineral spirits removes wax from a stencil and stencil brush

I lined the drawer with some pretty contact paper that I had in my stash.

Contact paper lined drawer on Antique Waterfall Hutch

The original hardware looked lost against the black so I added some pretty glass jewelry to glam the hutch up a bit.

Glass knobs add glam to the Antique Waterfall Hutch

Again using the HomeRight Finish Max Pro Paint Sprayer the entire piece was sprayed with two coats of Minwax Polycrylic in a matte finish.

The fun part was displaying and storing our antique silver and china in the hutch. Even though it's a small hutch it has loads of storage.  Besides it's intended purpose it could be used to store quilts and bedding. It could also be used in an office or craft room.

China or Bed Linen Storage in Antique Waterfall Hutch for Themed Furniture Makeover Day

I'm quite pleased with the transformation, despite it being VERY labor intensive.

Antique Waterfall Hutch After Makeover for Themed Furniture Makeover Day

Black chalk painted Antique Waterfall Hutch

I can't wait to see what my talented friends in the Themed Furniture Makeover Day group created for their Storage & Organization piece.


Press the links below to see their makeovers and pin directly from their blogs.

An InLinkz Link-up

I'm sharing this project at the following fabulous PARTIES.

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