Lovers OF Louvers Will Love This Project Using Annie Sloan Chalk Paint

Well-In the end it looks pretty good

if I do say so myself.

Remember when I painted the little black TV white here?

Well, I picked up a little chest from a thrift store to set it on.

However, it was so ugly I kept it covered with 

Gramma Hazel's piano scarf.

Not wonderful but tolerable.

The fringed skirt hid this beaut!

Now, I am not one to paint GOOD wood furniture.

This is NOT a good piece.  It has a cultured wood top.

Anyway, I gave her a ride to the kitchen

using the finest moving technique known to man 

to keep from scratching the floor.

Maybe I could patent that technique and sell it?

Anyway, you can tell the old boy is out of town

because I painted it IN THE KITCHEN.

Up she goes to the top of the kitchen table.

She is perched on little painting triangles from Home Depot.

Here she is after two coats waiting to be waxed.

I might have muttered a couple of 

bad words to myself trying to get paint

in all those louvers-to say NOTHING

of the words I might have muttered

trying to BUFF THE WAX on those things!

While she was waiting to be waxed

SOME ONE "might have" 

spray painted the hardware

in the garage while the old boy was out of town.

Finally, waxed and hardware reinstalled 

she is moved back

to the little sitting room 

where she is used to store

all my loose leaf binders of ideas.

Did I mention I painted inside with 

Annie Sloan's Old Violet

which looks quite blue in this picture.

So, there she sits.waiting for me to light a fire

and watch Downton Abbey...

or any old Robert Redford film.

Do you see that rock down there on the left?

That is a huge piece of Amethyst -

a gift from my son and his wife brought back from their honeymoon.

Isn't it gorgeous?

It was the birthstone of my brother and my father.

A piece I hold dear.

It is full of dazzle in the daylight and so gorgeous.

MamasBoy ALSO brought me a large

piece of petrified rock that sits on the

other side of the fireplace.

As if the rocks in my head aren't enough.....

Speaking of dazzling...

MyHero will be quite be-dazzled when he gets up this morning.

I might, or might not, have

a few new treasures to show him that I found

while he was out of town.

un-huh-

Maybe if you are VERY GOOD 

and promise not to 

run your finger along the edge of the cake

and lick the icing off 

because you think no one will notice-

well, I just might share my 

new finds with YOU, too!

Happy Monday!

Am I the only idjit in the world that loves a Monday?