I started to tell you about projects with my last post and then I got side-tracked into thrift store tales. But I'm back to projects, cause I'm pretty happy with them.
First, wedding projects. I made a list the other day and it was so long and scary it got me busy yesterday afternoon. That and realizing that JC is going to be home for the winter soon and reclaiming the garage and workbench, or at least half, and I've been collecting projects all summer long. That's what I do in case, you know, there is a sudden project drought. I hoard projects, like books, since you never know when it all might dry up. It is a sickness.
Wedding.
You know the snow-dusted branch lights I bought. You've seen the french flower buckets from the wholesale floral supply. But something wasn't right. The buckets, in all their tin glory, were just too bright, too silver, too shiny. I searched the internet for solutions and tried spraying bleach on them....didn't much like that look. So I started thinking about what color I'd want them and it came to me that a chalky black would create the gray I'm searching for. Chalkboard paint!
Shiny galvanized bucket...
A couple of cans of Krylon Chalkboard Paint (you need at least 2 coats)...
Equals nice, black, not too shiny flower buckets. Let them cure a day or two, then prime with chalk - just rub it on and wipe it off with a rag...
The chalk takes down the black, takes down the shine even more, and now.... you can write on them. I love these, they are going to be perfect. And, they are all painted now.
Check!
Southern Charm is helping me make sachets for favors and my mom II recently brought me a huge bag of lavender from her garden.
Yesterday this became this:
Quite a lot of lavender to mix with flax seed for linen sachets. Today's list includes stamping the linen fabric I picked up last weekend at Mill Ends. Beautiful, drapey linen I'd like to go back and buy yards of. Just in case they stop making linen.
You might remember this little project with the rusty crystals...
That are now clean...
And hanging. I have one last thing to do to this and that is to add some chain so that it doesn't hang by the fixture... which doesn't really seem like a good idea.
A lot of these things I did yesterday were merely a matter of finishing up what I'd already started. I do that a lot. It drives JC crazy to see my in-progress projects sitting around. I don't know why I don't just finish them... the drought thing, I guess.
I had this little box I bought for 50 cents. Cute, slighty rusty, oxidized blue.
And a drawer pull from Anthropologie, on sale. LOVE these!
Enameled, like little flowers. I have a larger, single pull as well... no plans yet for it.
Pried the handle off...
Drilled holes and replaced the handle with the cabinet pull.
So easy, so cute. I also drilled my holes for my book covers, but discovered that what I thought I had (an eyelet setter) is not an eyelet setter for the tiny eyelets we're using on our soldered books. So it is off to the local Ben Franklin store today in hopes that they have an eyelet setter. Just when you think you have every tool imaginable... you find you need another.
Other projects that progressed yesterday were the two bedside tables for the GROG we bought well over a year ago at our neighbor's yard sale (yes, yes, I KNOW!). They got a coat of stain and will be finished today. Part of the reason they sat so long is because JC had to do some repair work on them and in my defense he did not get to that until this past spring. Really. And I slapped some walnut stain on my disppointing Dansko clogs - the ones that have the cute western pattern but are scuffing up to the point of almost getting rid of them.
I've been pondering how to save these... I feel like they need a toe cap.
Well, I have projects planned for today, too. JC is back tonight and tomorrow will be busy getting hay and getting Rhea home. I squeezed in a little ride on the cranky mustang late yesterday and will have to make time every day now for groundwork, riding, and just spending T-I-M-E with my horses.
OMGOSH!!! Love it all, Vickie!! Can't wait to get my hands on that lovely linen and your sachets ON!!
xxoo
Posted by: Shari French | October 29, 2011 at 10:02 AM
ok,,that sounded funny,...but you know what I'm a talkin' 'bout!
Posted by: Shari French | October 29, 2011 at 10:02 AM