Recently Finished and Misc Craft "stuff"

Old picture frames

beachy signs using reclaimed wood

My "Drip Pots"

Hand painted butterfly table

Orchid wall using African Mahogany

I got the idea after our trip to Costa Rica

Just a few different smaller things i'm trying.

I picked up some of these vintage orchard crates. I'm really into the reclaimed wood now.

I cleaned up one of them, applied a dry brush milk paint and a cherry blossom stencil. 

Now what?? Thought about putting in a lower shelf or little cubbies for scarves and such. 

And maybe some little hooks for jewelry. I dunno. Any suggestions???

kinda cool termite damage on the end. 

 After pulling the boards off, white milk paint and a beachy stencil with chalk paint. The flash just
kills it. I dunno. Kinda hard to read the words. Will have to go over in a different color.

                               Trying out the faux zinc technique.  Kinda cool.

I like doing mosaic mirror stuff on some pieces. I like the "Glam" look. These drapes I had are a perfect
match to this dresser! And that sliver frame I'm making into a mirror would fit perfectly with this!

 Ok so in between the wine bar/hutch combo from below, I picked up the maple hutch on the main page and this gem of a dresser directly below. Can't have too many irons in the fire now can we??!!

The ad on CL said "cherrywood dresser". Hmmmm,,,cherrywoood?? I doubt it. The pic wasn't that good so it was hard to tell. All the guy said is that it belonged to his grandparents.  

Since hubby had the truck and was out driving near the location, I 

asked him if he would mind picking it up. ANDDDDD I gave him a price.

Well, I think he is afraid to haggle. He Gave the guy less than

what he was asking, but more than the price I suggested. 

And after he got this thing home, I mentioned that I 

believed he overpaid......by just a bit! 

Behold, the, ahem, cherrywood, dresser.

                             Ribbon mahogany is more like it. With a really bad red stain job.

Gotta love her feet! 

                                               Ummm,,,,,not quite. 

        How about.."The- I- don't- know, the-dresser-with-the-really-bad-veneer-and-dye-job"? 

If this dresser was human and went for a make-over, the hairdresser 

and plastic surgeon would have major lawsuit on their hands. 

This poor thing looked like someone dipped her in beet juice!
I mean seriously, who does this???

You can't tell from the pic, but there is an inch space from the where the top part doesn't reach all the way to the back. I think there was a mirror piece that sat
back there. She was MIA.  And this veneer was peeling up everywhere.
Since it wasn't a nice piece of wood, and I had to paint this, I asked hubby to make a new top.
Which he did.

The pics really don't do justice as to how bad this piece really was. The sides were like the hide

of an alligator. No one sanded. Just dipped her in beet juice and called it a day. Sigh. 

Oh and just for info on the staining front, once you go red, fuhgeddabout it. Red does not budge. 

You can sand and sand, and that red is down in there! She's a not movin' !

Thats ok because I already had my eye on a design from Houzz.
  A beautiful black and white piece with nickel accents. 

You can see that here. OMG,,,I just fell in love with the look of that dresser!  I've already 

ordered the hardware. I got new keyhole  covers in the "Chippendale bat-wing" style. And I'm going

to get some nickel knobs to go with. Oh and wait until you see the
 black peacock (I know, black peacock?) fabric I got to go inside the drawers. This piece is gonna rock! 

So here's the new piece that Hub cut out for me. It looks identical! Except

for the beet juice color. I primed everything with Zinsser oil base primer in 

white and then went over everything again in a gray primer.After it was

dry,I gave it a fine sanding.  Hey, your final product is only

as good as your foundation.  I do a lot of sanding on all

my pieces. 

 So if you clicked on the link to the Houzz page, you will have seen the dresser that I'm

trying to emulate. The body got a few coats of Ben Moore "Black Satin". The drawers are

 painted a latex white (Divine Pleasure) .

Here's the fabric I found to line some of the drawers.
My cats are sooooo nosey!

                                             So here it is. All finished. Whoo! 
                    In case you forgot the inspiration, it's here.

I found this fabric online and thought the colors were gorgeous! I think that with black and white,
it's nice to have a bold surprise when you open up the drawer! And I just had to have an excuse to
use my new cobalt paint color!

This a hutch I got and plan to turn into a little wine bar/hutch combo-thing

                     The middle section that hubby is working with will be a wine rack. So the middle door will be gone and one of those X wine holder things will go in there. The upper part of the hutch will have those wood wine glass holders.  Put those glass doors back on or leave them off?? 

Look at my other hutch I did in black. Very similar to this one. Don't know if you can see in this pic, but that is a mirror for the back, which I'm keeping. 

                           
                              Any ideas on colors?? I will be selling this one...........

So...I started the paint...got the wine rack thingy done  (Thanks Honey!!).   Decided to put fabric on the back panel because the thing was so warped and ugly. Didn't think paint would even help.  So here are some more pics.

With doors?? 

without??? And I would put in a shelf on either side. 

Here it is with the top part. I will be painting the outside with ASCP in Coco. 

I was trying to decide whether to keep or lose the bottom 2 doors. I have a pic with both. What do you think looks better???

So the top is done and waxed. I'm happy with the way the color turned out. 

So this was a little dress rehearsal. I was trying to get an idea of what things would look like.  The inside black have not been waxed. It's such a crappy job to do  :(

It's getting there.  I'm trying to decide on which knob I like better.