Before & After: Tall Side Table

This is a great side table of sorts that my mom found at Goodwill for me. It just needed a little love. Before:

During (how cool is it that the top swivels.  I wonder what this was used for...):

 After:

Before & After: Bed Side Table

 Has is really been so long since I have blogged? Wow!  Sorry for the poor quality of these first couple of pictures...I guess I was so excited to paint that I didn't check to see that the picture actually came out!

The Before of a charming little side table my mom was nice enough to give me:

During:

After:

I forgot the Before, but here is the After: Framed Mirror

I love Annie Sloan's Duck Egg Blue paint.  It is my favorite...I just finished a mirror and I really love it.  I forgot to take a before but I have a during, with my two helpers....

 These are my painting shorts.  They show some of my favorite paint colors!

 And the After:

Before & After: Vintage Shabby Chic Side Table

Ahhhh....My creative juices are flowing and I am so glad I am painting again.  My mom, who obviously loves me very much , found these beauties.  She was at Goodwill, she bought them, and then immediately brought them my house.  I immediately painted them, and was happy.  Painting and distressing is so therapeutic! 

Before:

 Seeing this reminds me just how brown our living room is.  The plans to change that are already in the works.

 During:

Our table that is going to be painted is in the background...Sorry for the weird angle on this one.

 After:

 I love this little darling side table to pieces... {sigh}

 Excuse the crooked lamp shade.  I was too focused in on the throw back vibes of the side table and didn't even notice!

 I brought it out in to the sunlight to show the true color. 

I am going to have to name this Darling #1 and I am selling it for $45....I am still working on Darling #2.  More on that later.  Back to painting...

I heart Craigslist!

I am amazed at the response I have gotten already from listing my furniture on Craigslist.  The table and chairs (otherwise known as my beloved...) are going to be picked up next week from a sweet young couple buying their first home.  My creation is a memory in the making for them!!!  Exciting!  My side table is going to be looked at tomorrow by a lady that is really excited about it and if she doesn't buy it there is another lady that wants it!!!  I got an email about the desk but her hubby has to okay it so not sure how that one will go...But I am so excited that people love my stuff as much as me!!!!  Back to painting...I have a bench that I got off the side of the road that is a gem...That is next to go on Craigslist...and of course here!

I am trying out Craigslist...

I have decided it is time to get back into selling my creations and I am giving Craigslist a try...But if you are here and you are interested contact me!

I am so in the mood to paint..but I am in the middle of simplifying our home.  In other words we have too much stuff and I am trying to get rid of some of it!!  I have several pieces of furniture that I haven't really tried to sell since the fall (moving 2 times in 4 months makes you not want to do things like that).  We are settled (kind of...besides all the stuff I am weeding out!) and I am ready to sell a few pieces to make room for new ones to paint!  Here are a the items I am selling:

 My beloved table and chairs.  I am in love with this set.

So much so, that when I didn't sell it last fall, I put it in our house and having been using it ever since.  I am glad I had the opportunity to use it. 

 It was the first table I had painted and distressed and I wanted to see how well it would hold up with the wax finish I gave it.  It has held up brilliantly!  No stains from glasses or grease or anything.  

 I am only selling it because we have another table and chairs, that Jake claims too many memories are attached to it, to sell it.

And I get to paint and distress that old table.  I am ready to settle back into painting and our old memory making table is my next project.:)
 I am selling the table and 4 chairs for $250.

The next piece I am selling is this sweet side table. I love the color and the curves on the side.  Another piece I am sorry to see go, but I am sure someone will love it as much as I do!  I am selling it for $35.

I have no good pictures of the next piece...Sorry for that, but I think you can get the feel of this old school desk..

 Here it is at a craft show...This picture is a little better.  It is a fun little red desk and the distressed color underneath is grey.  I am selling it for $30.  I am actually selling the chalk board in front of it too.  It is $12. 

 I have a lot of frames, chalk boards and some other fun stuff if you are interested!  Leave a comment if you are interested and I will get in touch!

I am still here...

After a few months of not painting because of moving twice...(yes we have moved twice since my

last post.  Long story...)..I painted.  A tray.  Just a tray.  And it was AMAZING to be painting again.  I know that sounds crazy but a little tray made me so happy.  I am getting back into my love of distressing.  I found a bench on the side of the road that is going to be an amazing transformation.  I am going to paint it yellow...and my desk is going to be yellow...I am so excited to get back to painting!