tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80940577368603898592024-02-19T08:05:53.153-08:00Sentimental RedoDeanna@SentimentalRedohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00534362573577383269noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8094057736860389859.post-69988594770564802832015-01-28T14:39:00.001-08:002015-04-07T18:53:33.753-07:00It Rained - IN MY HOUSE!!!!I know it's been forever since I posted here! To be honest I was sick for most of 2014, but I don't like to post much of those details on this blog so if your curious I plan on also updating my <a href="http://oldcrohnies.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Diary of a Crohnie</a> blog later today....... yea, it might happen. :)<br />
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Any-who, last summer we started a remodel, you know me I don't have photos. Part of the remodel required us to extend the eves on our roof. So over Labor Day weekend we removed the west side of the roof and extended the eves. Kurt put tarps, and weighted them down to protect from the foretasted rain and he left the house.<br />
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10 minutes later the tornado sirens went off, and it was raining IN my house!!!! 15 minutes after that Kurt got back home, he would have been home sooner but her couldn't see! The rain came down sideways, the wind was so bad. In town was flooded. Friends that had been here helping roof were calling, and they all came back to help clean up. It was crazy and I didn't get a lot of photos but here is one I did get:<br />
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This photo was taken the next day. This is where my bed used to be. My bed that was now a giant sponge. I didn't know water could do so much damage in just 15 minutes! The entire west side of my house was ruined! Thank goodness we had home owners insurance, and thank goodness we had photos of the tarps on the roof or they wouldn't have covered the damage. </div>
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It was awful and scary and I am still living with a partially finished house, but there were some bright sides. The reason we had done a bump out and needed to extend the eves was because we had moved our basement steps, so that we could eventually move the kitchen. We are not wealthy people, and we were doing the remodel as we could afford it. After the water damage though everything we had already done had to be ripped out. Every wall on the west side of the house had to be ripped out. Including my master bedroom, which is where we wanted to eventually put the kitchen. So we decided to take out a loan and push up our remodel. </div>
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Remember this shot of my bedroom:</div>
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Well right now this same area looks like this:<br />
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That window back there on the left, is the same window on the left in my bedroom photo!! Honestly it's just slightly farther along then that, but it's really hard to keep a clean house while living in a remodel so I'll take photos again after the counter tops get here. :) <br />
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One last photo, I want to say how thankful we are for great friends and family. This was the crew of people that showed up the next day to help pull off everything that was done the day before, remove the soaking wet insulation and then put it all back together again.<br />
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Many of them were here late the night before helping with clean up inside the house! We are truly blessed. Deanna@SentimentalRedohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00534362573577383269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8094057736860389859.post-51457423962762538622013-09-10T08:00:00.000-07:002013-09-10T08:00:07.404-07:00The Little Red RockerRemember yesterdays tease with the messed up child's rocker. Just in case you missed it here it is again:<br>
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It's sad right? So the first thing I had to do was get the old woven seat off. I just used scissors and cut it at both on all four sides. It was very brittle and smelled funky, I threw it into the fire pit when I was done, it's so dry it should make fantastic kindling to start our next fire. </div>
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Then I washed the chair down, just having the seat off and a good cleaning the little rocker was already looking better!</div>
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This was going to be the piece I did two colors on and then wet distressed to show the color underneath. Yea, things didn't work out that way. I put my first coat of Valspar's Ultra paint + primer in <strong>Cooper Molera Fandango Red</strong> on the chair and loved it. The paint went on sort of thin and the wood grain showed through the paint, and I just loved the look.<br>
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I'm not sure this is something I love about the paint on other projects but for this one it worked. It also contrasted great with the fabric I had picked out for the seat. I bet you all wondered what I was going to do for that. I rewove it, only out of fabric this time instead of fire kindling.<br>
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The colors were hard to capture with the cell phone so I may need to reshoot with the canon. Unfortinatly all my in house models are much to big for this little chair. If it's not sold before I finish the child's table and chair set I'm working on next maybe I'll borrow a smaller sized model. :)</div>
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And her insides were just as pretty:<br />
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I had a couple inspiration pieces in mind for doing an old trunk like this. One was this trunk from Ava Blake over at <a href="http://www.avablakecreations.com/2012/10/elegant-1914-trunk-makeover.html" target="_blank">Ava Blake Creations</a>:<br />
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And the other one was this one:<br />
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From <a href="http://www.inthefunlane.com/2011/03/grey-day.html" target="_blank">In The Fun Lane</a> although when I saw it on Pinterest I thought it was white, and I liked the idea of an all white trunk, but if you read the blog it's actually grey. Oh well, it was still my inspiration piece. :) <br />
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So here's how I combined these two ideas, and I would show you a really fancy photo here, but when I took my fancy photos I forgot to take a really good shot of the top of the trunk, so you get a cell phone shot:<br />
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I used two coats of Kiltz white primer for the body of the trunk. The graphics came from <a href="http://thegraphicsfairy.com/" target="_blank">The Graphics Fairy</a> and were done using black craft paint. I did end up using the same address as Ava did, which I didn't want to, but I needed the short, long, short line of it to fit between the leather parts. I looked all over the graphics fairy and just couldn't find one that fit as well. I don't have the link to the actual graphics I used but the date/address came from an old wheat sack graphic and the stamp came from a group of Paris graphics, so maybe that will help you find them in a search if you are looking. Then the peanut gallery chimed in and said that I should have left the metal pieces alone or paint them silver - yea, no. I did paint them a metallic white though and the peanut gallery was happy. <br />
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Here's a pretty photo of it at my neighbors pond. <br />
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I spent $14 extra to have that over sized print done at Office Max, I just knew I wanted it in there. I got it at <a href="http://bibigreycat.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Agence Eureka</a>, I love that blog, I can't read a thing on it but it's a fantastic spot to get vintage French graphics. <br />
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I decided I could probably make a fast sell of it if I advertised it to photographers. I knew it would make a great prop and has the added benefit of being able to be used as a furniture piece like a coffee table, and hold other prop storage, like all those baby blankets! So I grabbed one of my <strike>models</strike> children and made her come down to the pond with me. See this is how we get to the pond:<br />
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It sold an hour after posting it. <br />
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BTW this is my youngest daughter, my oldest said she's not going to pose for me on my furniture pieces for my blog. She says that makes <em>her</em> the prop and she wants to be the center of attention. Isn't that funny, true, but still funny. <br />
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Also did you notice that my daughters fingernail color changed between the two photos of her, we didn't have time before I lost light to take the polish off, but I did not want that ugly green distracting from her face, got to love photoshop! <br />
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So that's my Paris trunk flip. <br />
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Now I'm waiting for paint to dry on this child's rocker.<br />
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It's a mess, but don't worry I have a plan.<br />
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D.Deanna@SentimentalRedohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00534362573577383269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8094057736860389859.post-39131593027384771622013-08-17T12:32:00.001-07:002013-08-17T12:57:11.723-07:00Compass Rose TableI'm blogging from my phone again. I know it's crazy, but its easier to get to the photos I take with my phone this way. Oh yea, I put the big gun back away so you all ate stuck with cellphone photos again.<br />
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We bought it new 10 years ago. Back then the girls would fight endlessly over who got to sit next to mom. Tired of the fighting every time we sat down to eat, we switched from a small rectangular table to this round one. Now both girls could sit next to me. </div>
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So I replaced it with an old rectangular claw foot drop leaf, I'll show it to you some day. Today we're talking about the round table. I tried to sell it as is, but no one was interested. So I decided I might as well paint it, if nothing else it will be a learning experience. </div>
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But taking photos of inanimate objects has it's own rewards. <br />
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PS & FYI all photos were taken with a canon 5D and a 24-70 2.8L lens. Shot using aperture priority set at 2.8.Deanna@SentimentalRedohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00534362573577383269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8094057736860389859.post-63488571346853074532013-08-12T10:58:00.000-07:002013-08-12T10:58:05.208-07:00My Granny's Table<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have had this little side table for a long, long time. My grandmother, who we referred to as Granny stripped it years before she died in 2007. When my parents downsized and moved out of the house they shared with my grandmother they gave her table to me. It has sat in my room next to my bed ever since. <br />
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Surprisingly I even have a photo of it in there. Like the rest of the house this room is a work in progress.<br />
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I gave the piece a light sanding then I stained the whole thing with MinWax Jacobean stain. When it was dry - uh mostly - ok, it might have still been a bit sticky in a few spots! I'm not very patient. I dry brushed it with my own, really crazy mix of paints. I'll give you the top secret formula, are you ready?<br />
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1/4 cup Kiltz white primer<br />
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I told you it was crazy! A much easier way to get this color would be to buy ASCP Duck Egg, but I didn't have any and don't have a retailer anywhere near me, so I used what I had on hand. <br />
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I'll finish it in a soft wax, but I haven't done that yet. I like to wait a few days to be sure the piece doesn't have anything else to say to me. I haven't decided it I like the blue table against the blue wall yet. Maybe it will change a little more, we'll just have to wait and see. <br />
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D.Deanna@SentimentalRedohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00534362573577383269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8094057736860389859.post-28413198759208698642013-08-05T22:23:00.002-07:002013-08-05T22:29:30.012-07:00The Flip Contest!Last month I found out my town was having a FLIP contest. Each team had to come up with three items to flip. 1) an item made from pallets 2.) a man cave item and 3) a storage item. We had to keep track of expenses and we had to sell our items on our main street during something our town calls "Market on Central". The winner was the team that made the most income after expenses. <br />
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Here is my man cave item and below it I added some photos of what it looked like before we started. <br />
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We decided to do a tailgate bench for out man cave item. The tailgate was the most expensive item I purchased to flip at $40, but we made up for it by using salvaged wood $0. It was the last thing sold, but I already have orders for 2 more, + I want to make one for myself, only I want a blue one. </div>
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Next up our pallets, I decided to go for a low set coffee table:</div>
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If I were making this for myself I would have put it on huge casters, but those casters were $30 each and I got these little ones FREE at a garage sale. I also got the pallets FREE off craigslist. I will probably never ever get to make one for myself though, because my husband says he's never ever going to work with pallets again. It was fun for me to paint and stain though so I had fun with the project. It was the 2nd thing gone and actually sold to the lady in the booth next to us! <br />
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Last and most difficult for me was the storage item. I just had so many choices for this one. A vanity, two dressers, a door I could make into a hall tree thingy. I finally decided on the vanity, but I also decided the vanity should be a desk:<br />
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It turned out soooo cute! I love the mirror as a chalkboard! 12 hours before the sale started my oldest daughter was telling me to keep it and flip something else! ummm, NO! It was actually in pretty good shape, but I did have to glue two of the drawers. I stripped the top and did a darker stain then painted the rest, distressed and sealed with wax. Clear wax on the painted areas and a dark brown wax on the desk top. I also talked the lady into buying it by promising to go to her home the next day and monogram it for it, that sold it! It was actually the 1st thing to sell in the whole competition. <br />
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I WON!!!!! <br />
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We made a $222 profit after expenses. I sold everything and I did let them go for a little less then I would normally, but it was a contest and I wanted to win! I won a $500 gift certificate to <a href="http://www.lilygraceoncentral.com/" target="_blank">Lily Grace On Central.</a> Both teams also got $20 gift certificates to a local restaurant, and of course we got to keep any money we made from our sales. <br />
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All in all it was a fun event and I would have enjoyed it even if I didn't win. I have already been to Lily Grace and picked up a few new things to flip, maybe I'll even remember to blog about them. :)<br />
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Happy painting! <br />
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DeannaDeanna@SentimentalRedohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00534362573577383269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8094057736860389859.post-35216747024154864312013-07-10T11:59:00.000-07:002013-07-10T11:59:45.903-07:00A Little French ZebraA year ago I posted about the painted lady, a tall white dresser that took a walk on the wild side.<br />
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You can read about that redo <a href="http://sentimentalredo.blogspot.com/2011/06/painted-lady.html" target="_blank">here</a>. </div>
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My daughter fell on love with the painted lady and begged me to keep her. Not only keep her but redesign a whole room around her. Of course there were other rules I had to follow with the room to. It not only had to be zebra to match the dresser but it also had to have Paris in it. She absolutely refused to let me take out her vintage four poster bed that she "helped" me redo when she was in preschool. There had to be a place for her dog, her books and a desk. The desk HAD to be a secretary and had to have a place for her to put her magic potions and fairy dust. Oh yea, she also wanted a chandelier. <br />
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Chloe's room is really tiny and hard to put furniture in. To get the most floor space for her the best place for her bed is to have it's side pushed up under the window at the far end of the room. To give you an idea of how small the room is, with her bed pushed sideways up against the wall, centered under the window, there is less then a two foot gap between the wall and her twin sized bed on either end. I really, really wanted to do a built in daybed here. No way, she said. I'm keeping my bed. </div>
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So the challenge was how to get the built in look I wanted but let her keep her beloved four poster shabby chic bed. </div>
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To get the look of a built in daybed I attached a wall to wall valance to the ceiling, hung cutens from either end, and a small plug in chandler from the ceiling above the bed. For the valance the fabric was stapled to a 1x1x8 board that was then screwed into the ceiling with drywall screws. The sides were folded in and then stapled directly to the walls. The trim was put on using double sided fabric tape. One of her favorite parts of a four poster bed was being able to drape it with fabric and create bed 'forts' with it. Did I forget to mention that was also one of the things I had to put into this room? </div>
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Behind the valance the curtains are hung using a wire and wire clips that slide across the wire. This lets Chloe close her bed curtains and hide out in her bed. I often find her bed this way with a couple giggling girls in it when she has friends in it. </div>
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There are a few other secrets in this room. Remember I had to have a place for the dog? We used a roll out drawer we picked up from IKEA a few years ago. Chloe used to use it to keep toys under her bed. It has been painted and repurposed into a dog bed. She loves having a place for her dog to sleep in her room at night, but able to put the bed away for extra floor space during the day. </div>
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Now take a look at the room photo at the top, and compare it to the photo with the dog bed. See the artwork behind the bed? It's her roller shade. I used a sharpie marker and drew this zebra right on the shade. When pulled down it looks like there is framed artwork above her bed instead of window, but when she needs more light in the room she simply pulls the 'artwork' and lets the sun shine in. <br />
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It was months before I could find a secretary within my budget. When I finally found one it was in rough cosmetic shape and Chloe hated it. Once it was painted though she decided she loved it. <br />
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To keep with our 'hidden suprises' we decided to pop the inside of the desk with a bright pink.<br />
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She has a little shelf behind the head board end of her bed to put her cell phone, glasses and what ever else the little eccentric thinks she needs. We plan on hanging more shelves or maybe a book shelf on the foot board side of her bed, but haven't gotten to that yet. For now the many books are taking over the drawers of the desk, so this is something I need to get to soon! </div>
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So there you have it, the gone wild eccentric room of a 10 year old girl the painted lady has moved into. </div>
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When I started working on this chair I didn't realize how hard it was going to be. Once I pulled all the fabric off I realized the back of the chairs must have originally have been caned. There was a deep grove where the caning would have gone and the back of the chair wood was extremely hard. It took me hours to get the staples out, and I had to order a pneumatic staple gun to get them back in!</div>
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Deanna@SentimentalRedohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00534362573577383269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8094057736860389859.post-67412576570792007342011-07-23T10:10:00.001-07:002012-02-17T01:04:17.122-08:00The Difference Between Husbands & WivesI'm not talking about the obvious differences. :) I'm talking creative/decorating differences. My husband and I only have one big difference really. I like things to be pretty, clean and organized. He likes things to be functional and doesn't really care what they look like.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"> This is the current object of my discontent.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLY_D7Pop6al0O6nPWfjxq0nRENnPdiVXss11QBLLLPBBzNR1RQZVYtQUkGL2ZtzjN0Zr48eH1It8WZ1EVG4y_8iOdRx2Rz9HdhrWjbTwMVMT8CK25gMA5lSQ1sNQaBovIdL2PO-Uzniei/s1600/keys3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLY_D7Pop6al0O6nPWfjxq0nRENnPdiVXss11QBLLLPBBzNR1RQZVYtQUkGL2ZtzjN0Zr48eH1It8WZ1EVG4y_8iOdRx2Rz9HdhrWjbTwMVMT8CK25gMA5lSQ1sNQaBovIdL2PO-Uzniei/s1600/keys3.jpg" t$="true" /></a></div>My husband NEEDS this because he likes his keys to be hanging just inside the door where he can reach them. I can't tell you how many times I have taken it off the wall and had it magically reappear. I don't know how someone made something so small but that so easily hit my biggest pet peeve button. The name of this should not be "key and mail organizer" - it should be "The Clutter Displayer" <br />
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<strong>Today's yard sale find list</strong>, most of these things will be featured in upcoming projects & will be posted later.<br />
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Cabinet/shelf - .50¢ (this might turn into the new key holder)<br />
White twin bed skirt - .75¢<br />
Southern lady - $3.00<br />
Wicker bowl/holder thingy $4.00<br />
Round Table $4.00<br />
Side table with drawer $5.00Deanna@SentimentalRedohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00534362573577383269noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8094057736860389859.post-30275925080909646622011-07-06T14:16:00.000-07:002011-07-10T08:21:12.737-07:00Another yard sale find hard at workI found this little Holly Hobbie cradle a few weeks ago at a yard sale. I left it just as I found it, even with the cutter quilt laying inside it, then put it to work on the studio floor.<br />
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And this is the same wall and the same fabulous vintage print after I pulled the tape down. The white is West Highland White from SW and the Grey is Reflection also from SW, both in a satin finish.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">So I gave her a new fur coat.,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And a pair of black high heals.</div><br />
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I was going to sell her when I was done with her but my 9 year old is begging me to keep her - and of course redo her entire room to match! For now I will let her hang out in the studio and let her paint harden up. Besides she loves it when clients come in and tell her how beautiful she is. <br />
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I had a good mothers day but a looooong weekend. It has been a long time I have been required to do any manual labor, but this is what I worked on this weekend. It looks like I'm having a yard sell.<br />
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All that washing, sanding, spraying, painting had me turning in early every night! I also had a little session on Saturday. Not a day I usually do sessions but this one had special circumstances, so I agreed to let them come in on a weekend. The baby was happy and I got to use my new bad again so it all worked out. <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And here is the after</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div align="center">So here's how I used it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgibZnG-pMPuCPkPombsd6hub2g4jBg81WUkZ8PNjGUQAuUHAoKZCDprWk0wUwcUcoHyY0IG-Dhl2BCb5KpSXHyMIrriODq6K4CwlWyZqGMLQc_ifu7TVDiYRWHOeThTTqpERxUV9LPinxC/s1600/IMG_3700A.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="237" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgibZnG-pMPuCPkPombsd6hub2g4jBg81WUkZ8PNjGUQAuUHAoKZCDprWk0wUwcUcoHyY0IG-Dhl2BCb5KpSXHyMIrriODq6K4CwlWyZqGMLQc_ifu7TVDiYRWHOeThTTqpERxUV9LPinxC/s320/IMG_3700A.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
It doesn't really make as big of a statement as I wanted it to. I'm thinking I need to change the color. Maybe teal or a bright green. What do you think? <br />
<div align="center"></div>I party at<br><a href="http://www.missmustardseed.blogspot.com"><img alt="Furniture Feature Fridays" width="125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBETrxec49A1beJmqcSIklKJcqZ0DzhoWnjVJmCZ6uFrxt0vj3pkD26DE4_N7SIVoq5q807FC-Ht3nk0Y1kUWPSFzVKTdQ4vqSWLUzeBLN3b5FeHPC7I_cMEhOAk0x_GffO6YZNfkolPPa/s1600/mms_fff.png" height="125" /></a>Deanna@SentimentalRedohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00534362573577383269noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8094057736860389859.post-15579463269876682052011-05-05T08:16:00.000-07:002011-05-05T17:45:42.584-07:00Waiting For Paint To DryI was inspired.<br />
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<div align="center">Before</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdOAIL3nqr6HkCpmtd0hkBsdeam_oBXweCKNNPQT9omfI9w9KVm1FA818QmNgMWSSlZDAuFIrcYltk0002QNVDfb-SxSUDY6pekSUZH0I6m7LD9qiMKKl0lQ0D5RGjBQB3f_ZUD5116tcz/s1600/ChurchBefore.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdOAIL3nqr6HkCpmtd0hkBsdeam_oBXweCKNNPQT9omfI9w9KVm1FA818QmNgMWSSlZDAuFIrcYltk0002QNVDfb-SxSUDY6pekSUZH0I6m7LD9qiMKKl0lQ0D5RGjBQB3f_ZUD5116tcz/s320/ChurchBefore.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><br />
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Before I was a photographer I was a digital artist. I used to do these sorts of things all the time, only using portraiture instead of buildings or landscapes. Here's one I did for my baby C a few years ago.<br />
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So as I was waiting for paint to dry I was reading my blog roll. I came across <a href="http://www.fadedprairie.com/2011/05/inspiration-distressed-jewell.html">this post by Faded Prairie</a> showing the fantastic art of <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jewellofdistressed/">Distressed Jewell</a>. It reminded me of my old art days, it also reminded me of this photo I had of an old church. So I had to give it a try. <br />
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Distressed Jewell offers a whole slew of textures to purchase on her <a href="http://www.wix.com/distressedjewell/distressed-textures">website</a>, and some free ones through her <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jewellofdistressed/sets/72157625635752168/">Flicker account</a>. I however already have a whole library of textures so i used what I had on hand. Jewell's textures are fantastic though and I will be adding them to my collection in the future, but not right now. If I add them right now I'll spend all day playing in photoshop and I won't ever get back to painting! <br />
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My local photography specialty is newborns and small children. I have lots of toddlers in and out of here, so I have lots of small chairs. I had so may chairs I was running out of places to put them. Not anymore. This is my new favorite use of my small chairs.<br />
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Not exactly the style I was looking for but I have been looking for so long I thought I could make it work. Following advice from my "<a href="http://sentimentalredo.blogspot.com/2011/04/help-noobs.html">Help The Noobs</a>" post I taped off the fabric. I think this step took longer then all the rest put together!! <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And here is my Little Boy Blue Chair. I can't wait for my next little man to come in for photos - this week it's all girls though. :) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div> I gave it three coats of an oil based spray can primer, and a coat of spray gloss poly. Now here's my <strong>noobs question for the day:</strong> <strong>Can I sand the poly and keep the shine?</strong> I couldn't really tell where the spray was going and it got a little heavy and ran, so I have a few drip marks. I'm guessing I would have to spray another coat of poly after I sanded? Hopefully some of you more experienced redoers can help a poor girl out and offer some advice.<br />
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</div>The pattern in the fabric bothers me just a little but I'm hoping if I use a low enough aperture it will blur out enough not to be so noticeable.<br />
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And now, what makes me happy? <br />
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After further research on the subject *<a href="http://missmustardseed.blogspot.com/search/label/Ask%20Miss%20Mustard%20Seed">scouring Miss Mustard Seed's blog</a>* I decided to use burnt umber universal tint from Sherwin Williams as my glaze because my "Butter White" was very close in color to her SW Cream. I think I may have went a little heavy with the glaze but I still love the effect and the way the carvings now pop. I also love that it is very close in tone now with the fabric. I can't wait to put a baby on there. I think the newborn I have coming in this week will be too small for it, but the 9 month old should be just about right! I just hope she brings a great outfit to go with it! <br />
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When speaking about furniture restoration and redo's this would be me. So I'm <strike>begging</strike> asking you all for some help. We'll start with the easy questions.<br />
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This is a child size swan fainting couch. I bought it a couple of years ago on ebay. I liked it but hardly ever used it in my portrait photography, why? Well in photo speak it crossed keys and that drove me nuts. If I use it on a light background with a child in light colored clothing the dark wood draws the eye, on a dark background the light fabric was the problem. So I'm fixing the problem. I painted it a light creamy white, the actual name is "butter white" then distressed it a little, but now I think it needs a little stain or glaze to bring out the carving detail and darken it up just a touch. My noob problem is I have no idea what color to use. I see a lot of people use ebony stain on white, but this is creamy - would it still work??? <br />
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Next - don't laugh this ones bad.<br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Ok and finally we are at the "I may have bit off more then I can chew" section of the questions. What the heck do I do with this?!?!? :) </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4xzyASu-kWrBIUxyZvUCIixFtBADjC4tO6RCKdiLb98FXhgjEMIvU6TCcANXq2ymmiLRMuOQXdMWACX1EmKdL4r0SwtSrKqCoPWsEHuO0cn9UuDZYgHA8QCJymbuHKjC55rQA688XWFiZ/s1600/DresserB1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" i8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4xzyASu-kWrBIUxyZvUCIixFtBADjC4tO6RCKdiLb98FXhgjEMIvU6TCcANXq2ymmiLRMuOQXdMWACX1EmKdL4r0SwtSrKqCoPWsEHuO0cn9UuDZYgHA8QCJymbuHKjC55rQA688XWFiZ/s320/DresserB1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">It has so many issues I don't know what to do with, but I love the bow pulls and decals. (is that what those things are called?) However both pulls on the middle drawer are broken, as well as both wheels on the right side. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkXg43LRX_-V2gJq_DyyZvoiNAoS6krEO5UXFJxJ1IgmXtZt9yNcqxaOqEgqDzDz09eBTGSlXLW-DRZ1z6FvpsnFCw-ZsRND5hamQihkv02mmOUre8_Duq2Ox7zRvCaBeMbof2i_Xil3Rp/s1600/DresserB3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="183" i8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkXg43LRX_-V2gJq_DyyZvoiNAoS6krEO5UXFJxJ1IgmXtZt9yNcqxaOqEgqDzDz09eBTGSlXLW-DRZ1z6FvpsnFCw-ZsRND5hamQihkv02mmOUre8_Duq2Ox7zRvCaBeMbof2i_Xil3Rp/s320/DresserB3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">Can I get reproduction pulls to match the existing ones? Do I swap out those pulls for something like glass handles? Maybe I put glass handles on the top drawers and use two of the pulls to put on the middle drawer? Do I get new wheels or just remove all of them?</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">And the very, very worst of it:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmfrTRYXe848M5AH9YgW5OTArpkCLkOcDv6MbkNxQdKlQr0ATPVA1k2O-RloNytMbfni0lqOqV4ga1TR5qGP4G6MwuFyWheLzTERyLhNQBcEiaft_viAlWCpB-z2ria0PKiP8yhjMnqBlK/s1600/DresserB5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="195" i8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmfrTRYXe848M5AH9YgW5OTArpkCLkOcDv6MbkNxQdKlQr0ATPVA1k2O-RloNytMbfni0lqOqV4ga1TR5qGP4G6MwuFyWheLzTERyLhNQBcEiaft_viAlWCpB-z2ria0PKiP8yhjMnqBlK/s320/DresserB5.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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My first parties, thanks to Miss M for walking me through it! Now let's see if I can post a button.</div><a href="http://www.missmustardseed.blogspot.com"><img alt="Furniture Feature Fridays" width="125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBETrxec49A1beJmqcSIklKJcqZ0DzhoWnjVJmCZ6uFrxt0vj3pkD26DE4_N7SIVoq5q807FC-Ht3nk0Y1kUWPSFzVKTdQ4vqSWLUzeBLN3b5FeHPC7I_cMEhOAk0x_GffO6YZNfkolPPa/s1600/mms_fff.png" height="125" /></a>Deanna@SentimentalRedohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00534362573577383269noreply@blogger.com3