I am a really bad blogger. I've been MIA for 3 weeks! Anyway, I haven't finished my Coco dresser. It's been raining on my days off. I started on this little side table. I painted it in Old White and then, since I didn't have $100 to spend on the beautiful Paris in Springtime stencil, I got out my overhead projector and did it with a transparency that I made based on the same poem. I used French Linen for the lettering. It turned out okay, but I am not the best painter when it comes to tiny details. I seem to get the paint too thick in these little lines, which is why I like to use paint pens for this sort of thing. Anywhooo, I distressed it and clear waxed it, and will probably dark wax it as well. It didn't turn out exactly like I wanted, but my little table was only $7, so it was worth the experience.
I also did a cute little bar stool in Coco and used a black paint pen for the graphics.
I really like how they both turned out. I thought of you this weekend when I attended a French Flea Market. They had some beautiful colored bottles sitting in a window adorned with "sacred" jewelry. When I blog about it you'll see the pictures. I want one!
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to see that post, Patricia!
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