Giveaway ON!!!

Yay!  We did it!  We not only reached 500 followers on our Facebook Page...we surpassed it!  So exciting!  Thank you for making it happen!  We love our followers and customers so...the giveaway is ON (doesn't include the bench or basket shown in the picture)!!! 

It will run through May 20, 2015 so go...go...go... get entered! this Rafflecopter giveaway
And good luck!!

Giveaway...COMING soon!!

We're at 492 followers on our Facebook page! SOOOOOO close to 500!!  Let's get there and then...we'll have a giveaway!!

Once we get to 500 we'll start a giveway for an 8oz chalk acrylic paint (your choice of colors), a 4oz Vax and an R16 ClingOn! Paintbrush!!  This is a great starter kit for newbies or a way to try a new color and have a little extra Vax for those regulars out there!  And the paintbrush...the round ones are my new favorites lately!  You're going to love this brush!!

So...refer your friends, family, neighbors...help us get to 500 and then be watching for your chance to enter the giveaway!!

Cling On! Paintbrushes Restocked

Exciting news!  I just got a HUGE order of Cling On! Paintbrushes!  The Antique Gallery of Mesquite and Amazing Again Furniture are both restocked with brushes.

Look at all of those lovely brushes!

I've been using the same brushes for quite a while now - P20, P16, F30, F40, and O35.  While they are still in great shape, a few are starting to show some signs of wear.  That's pretty darn good as most of them I've used for probably about a year now.

I have always preferred the flat brushes for most of my painting.  Of course the bent brushes (P20, P16) come in handy for many different areas of projects.  Here is an example:


But...as I was unpacking the new brushes I picked up a couple of the round brushes.  In particular, the R14.

 I LOVED the way it felt in my hand!  I can't explain it but it wasn't too big, wasn't too small - just felt really comfortable. I thought maybe it was going to be too small so I picked up the R16 and moved it around in my hands but the R14 just felt better to me.  This will be different for everyone.

I knew I had to try it next! I have been working with it a little bit this morning and LOVE IT!  It's my new go to for sure!

I hope you'll try a Cling On! very soon!  These brushes are sturdy.  They don't lose bristles.  They are easy to clean - especially with Scrubby Soap.

Here's a picture of the whole array along with prices.  I don't carry all of the brushes - but I have quite a few now.  I also do not carry the brush keeper.  I personally just keep mine in water while I'm using them.

Throw Back Thursday: Popcorn and Candy Party

An email came out today asking for help during Teacher Appreciation at my kids school.  They ask people to sign up for a day and shower the teachers with goodies in the lounge.  You can do it however you'd like - bagel breakfast, chips and dips, salty and sweet for example. 

This got me to remembering when I volunteered to do a day a few years ago.  In did Popcorn and Candy.  Go HERE to read all about it.  Here are some pictures from the day.

It was a TON of fun...but I also put a TON of work into it.  I wasn't running a business back then and had a little more time to do all of that.  I'd like to do it again this year - any ideas?  I just know myself - I can't do it just a little bit.  I have to go all out with decorations and all.  Hmmmm....

'Tis The Season

It's that time of year again...busy, busy, busy while feeling awful, awful, awful from allergies!  Uggghhh....

I don't know about where you live, but when I walk out to my car these days it is COVERED top to bottom in yellow dust.  No wonder my throat is scratchy, nose is either running or stopped up, and eyes are watering!  So what is about the worst thing you can do in that situation? Be outside...right?  Well guess what I get to do a lot of?  But when they are so cute...what choice do you have?

This guy started his season this past weekend and they won!!  It's his first season of machine pitch after one season of t-ball.

It's SO fun to watch them play!  They're so little but then they walk up to the plate and kick at it like they see the Pro's do and it just melts your heart - even while you're having a sneezing attack!

This one starts her softball season this weekend!

Luckily, I have one whose activities are mainly inside ones!!  She taught herself to play the Downton Abby song!  I love listening to her practice!  She will be starting the bassoon in the school band next year.  Now THAT should be interesting! Haha!!

Coming Soon!! Beautiful Painted Sideboard

I can't wait to get this baby out to the Antique Gallery in Mesquite!  Just a few finishing touches and it will be ready!

Here is a before picture. It is an American Drew sideboard that I bought it on a Facebook Neighborhood Yard-sale group.  Don't you LOVE those?  The girl who I bought it from actually knew a few friends of mine.  I feel a lot safer buying things this way versus Craigslist.  Although, you have to be just as careful and smart no matter which you use!

I painted it in Alamo White Chalk Acrylic Paint all over.  Then I painted the drawers and top with Buffalo Brown Chalk Acrylic Paint. Next, I mixed Hazelnut ReVax, Black ReVax and Brown Bronze Shimmer together and painted that over the Buffalo Brown.  This not only protects it but gives the top some depth and shimmer.  I just love the way it turned out!

I painted the handles with a base of Cali Taupe Chalk Acrylic Paint and then added a touch of Vibrant Gold mixed with Hazelnut ReVax.

Shabby Paints Texture - Wood Filler

Even though Valentine's Day is over, I'm still thinking about love.  I have a new product that I love and a new finished piece of furniture that I love!  The product is one that I haven't talked much about - Texture.  I haven't talked much about it because I haven't used it much!  But it's a versatile product that can enhance your projects.  And like all of our products, it is NO VOC and Non-Toxic so you can feel perfectly safe using it!

For example, it can be used with stencils.  Place your stencil down and fill it in with texture, then paint!  I makes the piece look raised.

It can also be used as a wood filler.  A friend gave me this cute table - so nice of her!  She didn't even charge me - she just wanted it out of her house!

But some of the top was coming off.

So, I got out my texture and started working on it.  I would spread some on with a tiny little spatula that my mother-in-law stuck in my stocking and let it dry.

Once dry, I would sand it but it would sand down too far.  Since it was my first time to try this, I was being pretty conservative with it and kept thinking I was done so I'd paint and quickly notice it wasn't quite even.  After doing this a couple of times I asked my husband for help.  He said I needed to put way more on and build it up higher than the top of the table and then sand down even to the table.  So I started layering it on, letting it dry, layering it on, letting it dry...finally I felt like it was high enough to sand it down evenly.    That seemed to do the trick!

Then I painted the entire thing, distressed, and finished in in a coat of Vax and then a coat of Black ReVax.  I love how it turned out!

I can't wait to put it the shop and see if it sells!!