tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45856586614984626352024-03-06T19:34:08.831-08:00bad rabbit vintage - painted furniture with attitude Daena from Bad Rabbit Vintagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15802143001842363386noreply@blogger.comBlogger238125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585658661498462635.post-30246514242928573482015-11-29T13:28:00.000-08:002015-11-29T13:28:56.661-08:00The safari-thing gets a facelift!I have fallen into a terrible habit of not taking "before" pictures of anything. Not to mention photos of the steps and mistakes on the way to "finished." When something is finished and I'm setting up the tripod, then I think about all the opportunities I had to show the <i>good, bad</i> and <i>ugly</i>.<br />
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Next time, I vow. Next time.<br />
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This baby was done in a distressed leather finish all over. I could only envision it in a safari style decor.<br />
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Isn't the detail pretty? I kick myself because I experimented with crackle on the sides but never took pictures.<br />
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The brown leatherette (or whatever) covered the safari-thing inside and out. I left some here because it was a nice accent to the white.<br />
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This deck Oops, Safari-thing, has so much shape and the original brown highlighted it beautifully<br />
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<br />Daena from Bad Rabbit Vintagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15802143001842363386noreply@blogger.com53tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585658661498462635.post-5123947256268848422015-10-19T11:18:00.001-07:002015-10-19T11:18:23.757-07:00Our herione runs .... and .... and .... she FALLS?<span style="font-size: small;">Yup, she falls. We've seen it in movies hundreds of times, SHE FALLS? <i>Really? </i> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Oh, my ride is here!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I was walking across the living room to grab the vacuum and my super-grip shoes super-griped and down I went. I won't be painting furniture any time soon. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Out past my temporary work room we go. Good-bye furniture!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Listen to your mother: always wear clean underwear and big sunglasses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Notice the bare leg. Another favorite pair of pants were cut off me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Meanwhile, down at the pasture, the helicopter pilot didn't like the slope and headed off to the flat field down the mountain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Mr. Bad stepped into the ambulance for a moment to comfort me. (Can you tell how unnatural my right leg looks?) When I saw this picture I was amazed at how well stocked the ambulance was. I guess I was too shocky to notice during my ambulance ride back in February.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">So, back at the hospital with another broken femur. Good thing I only have two.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>Daena from Bad Rabbit Vintagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15802143001842363386noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585658661498462635.post-32321091573140047462015-09-09T06:56:00.000-07:002015-09-09T07:44:15.130-07:00Furnture and Horses<span style="color: #444444;">Does it seem like the days are only four hours long? I never complete my to-be-done-or-else list. That's the norm for a lot of people, I guess, but when <b><i>I</i> </b>don't get everything done I'm reminded daily by the furniture piled up in the driveway. I've been working under a canopy out there, except when it's 100°; then I stand in the garage and whimper. Heat is my only excuse. I can't pretend I forgot, as in 'Dresser? What dresser?' when there is a stack of them in the driveway.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">The heat has been terrible, not normal at all.</span><span style="color: #444444;">. And the air has been full of hideous smoke from all the big wildfires around us. I managed to get a few things done, including another deconstructed horse! But I am far below my usual productivity.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">However, here's a quick look at what I did manage to accomplish.</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">The Hutch Thing</span></span></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;">As is typical of me, I bought this hutch/armoire/thing without proper inspection. When I got home I found it was missing two drawers from the inside. For Pete's sake.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;">I fixed the interior, which I'll show in a future post, and updated the exterior. Now I like it.</span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">The <span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Ornate Table</span></span></span></span></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">This is the photo posted on a local online sale site. Seriously, I went to look at this table not realizing how garish it was. You can see the green paint, but in person, yikes. It was metallic mint, with metallic hot pink on the metallic gold. It wobbled and the marble top wasn't attached. But, I was sure it would sell if painted white. </span><br />
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(I was told that the original owner of this table had her whole house decorated this way.) <br />
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<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">After.</span> </b><br />
Sooooo much quieter. <br />
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<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">The Painted Dresser</span></b><br />
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When I saw this dresser on Craigslist I thought it had appliques but they turned out to be stenciled. As for the rest of it, well .........<br />
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<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">After.</span> </b><br />
Wanna know a secret? I didn't paint it at all. I sanded it down and just left it.<br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>The Rustic Cabinet</b></span><br />
<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Before.</span> </b><br />
I found this cabinet in a garage, buried under lumber and ... stuff. It took three people to get it out.<br />
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I forgot to take an 'after' picture so I had to go to the cabinet's new home - an old, 1800s, log cabin. And no, there is no outdoor loo, we had to go outside for photos because the cabin is kinda dark.<br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>The Second Deconstructed Horse</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">After.</span> </b><br />
He looks like a real horse. I carved his face and added a bead eye. Two bead eyes. Two.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">After.</span> </b><br />
I still need to trim his wild, wild tail. On this horse, I left the original rabbit fur mane.<br />
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We managed to get away from it all at Ocean Shores, WA. We<span style="background-color: white;"></span> stayed at a house with cell service in one corner of the dining room and no internet. YIKES! I had to relax! All I did was sleep and eat so I guess I needed the rest.</div>
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Between
projects and in stolen hours I've been working on something for myself.
Last year I went to France with this idea that I would go to a flea
market and find a 100-150-year-old toy horse at a reasonable price, and I
would come home with a big stupid grin on my face. Bwah ha ha ha ha.
Not.<br />
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What I found were merchants anticipating my
arrival and the three horses I managed to find were so ridiculously
expensive that I was stunned. And they weren't even the type of horse I
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This
old playground horse was the best horse I found. For several thousand
dollars he could have been mine. I would have been over-joyed to bring
this horse home. But alas.......</div>
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Back
home in Oregon I looked briefly on ebay, France's ebay, as well as
Denmark's for a horse. But seriously? People were so (shock!) dishonest!
My Made-in-Bali rocking horse was being touted as a 'Victorian antique'
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My Made-in-Bali rocking horse........ hmmmmmm.......... what if.............. I bet I could.........? And so I did.</div>
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The wheels were turning and I couldn't stop myself. I was imagining my horse getting older and older!</div>
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was winging it. First I sprayed it white. Then I sprayed it black. Then
I painted over it with Paris Grey chalk paint. Next time I'll paint <i>after </i>the carving is done<i>.</i></div>
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Once the paint had dried, and armed with a mini belt sander and mini re-cip
saw, I went to work. That crazy, carved mane was first. I sanded down as
far as I could, then it was time for the saw. heh heh heh. Chunks flew
everywhere. Big chunks! For being tiny, those tools have some real
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was almost two inches of wood to remove. I just kept at it with my
mini-recip saw until the blades gave out. They kept bending, I kept
straightening them out, over and over until they just pooped oit.</div>
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Almost
there. I had to use a small triangle sander around the face. And in
tight spots I used my mini belt sander. Have you seen them? They look
like a Sander-on-a-Stick. Love that thing.</div>
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the new mane I used actual mane from my mini horses. This whole process wasn't as easy as I'd hoped. I had glue all over the mane and my fingers. it was a gooey mess. This old horse came close to having dreadlocks.</div>
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I glued some burlap on and sanded it down to simulate the layers old horses have. I
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<span style="font-size: small;">The layers of paint<span style="color: #444444;"> </span>and the patina from age are too lovely. I adore the peach coming through the green and yellow. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #444444;">But what to do with it?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #444444;">Benches seemed to be the only thing but there were two sticking points that kept me from doing a bench.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #444444;">• The uncomfortable straight-up-and-down back</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #444444;">• Cutting the foot board in half to make arms.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #444444;">I didn't want to cut any part of this bed. </span></span></span></div>
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It was beastly <i>awful</i>. That's being kind, too. You can see my
crazy attempts <a href="http://badrabbitvintage.blogspot.com/2012/04/okay-i-dragged-it-home-now-what.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #444444;">My mistake was wanting all my treasures on display. I couldn't cull anything. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> I used cardboard boxes, wood planks, brackets, 4 x 4s, clamps and a good dose of ugly. It stayed that way for a couple years. It was a rickety solution at best and either the headboard or foot board would fall sideways. One leg of the headboard wiggled off the wood plank and punctured down into the cardboard box. Putting it back together was hard. It was heavy and awkward trying to maneuver everything without moving the bed. And the bed was way too heavy to budge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">But the bench idea was always in the back of my mind. Finally, I came across a woodworking blog showing the foot board in front, upside down.</span><br />
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<a href="http://diybydesign.blogspot.com/2015/08/sizzle-into-summer-its-party-228.html" target="_blank">diy by design</a><br />
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I used up all the seat in my 2nd-hand recliner within weeks. I was sitting on springs. Okay, so that's why it was for sale on Craigslist. I get that. The hunt began for used-recliner-number-two. I never thought of myself as a recliner girl but having to elevate both legs changed all that. My feet and ankles would look like Fred Flintstone feet. </div>
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I set myself up on the sofa with pillows, cold packs, remote, iPad and waited for the swelling to go down. Then I couldn't get up. There wasn't room to prop myself up on my elbows. I couldn't swing my legs over because my broke femur caused too much agony. My walker was out of reach. And while I was wearing a Life Alert, I didn't want to call and say I was laying on the couch and couldn't get up. Seriously.</div>
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With a friend, I went to look at this little cutie. (No overstuffed, over-big recliners for me. It had to be CUTE!)</div>
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The little cupboard was up in the seller's garage attic. I couldn't go up there because of my walker but my girlfriend did and she took pictures. I asked them to bring it down for me. Want want want.</div>
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The baby-boy-blue was bad enough but someone had put wallpaper on all the panels and someone else had tried to tear it off. The old, exposed glue attracted dirt and bug parts and was kinda disgusting.</div>
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Dawn and hot water took off the wallpaper and glue. Clorox cleaner took off the rest of the dirt, and sanders smoothed it all out.</div>
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<a href="http://diybydesign.blogspot.com/2015/08/sizzle-into-summer-its-party-228.html" target="_blank">diy by design</a><br />
<a href="http://www.villabarnes.com/" target="_blank">villa barnes</a><br />
<a href="http://www.thededicatedhouse.com/2015/09/make-it-pretty-monday-week-149.html#more" target="_blank">the dedicated house</a><br />
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Daena from Bad Rabbit Vintagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15802143001842363386noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585658661498462635.post-52584788576774942092015-06-27T16:44:00.000-07:002015-06-27T16:45:02.164-07:00Geez, I'm a bozo<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;">First off, let me say I have never dropped my cell phone in the toilet. Okay? <br />So I'm not a complete bozo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have a girlfriend who saves emails from
me that make her laugh. And many times I have thought when she reads
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Wow, and this was like my maiden voyage after breaking my leg. Picture in your mind: me thunking around, painting this while using a walker. It was challenging.</div>
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I mixed the color from what I had on hand and I added chalk the <i>second</i> time I painted the top. Because I didn't sand enough, the laminate was too slick for paint to stick to.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I was able to rub the paint off the entire top. The drawers were sanded by a girlfriend<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">.</span> <span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">T</span>hank goodness<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> I wasn't sanding the entire thing. I shudder <span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">to think.</span></span><i><br /></i></span></div>
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For the accent trim, I wanted to be subtle instead of painting a coordinating color. I tried a few things but ended up using silver metallic wax. The photo doesn't to it justice.<br />
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I almost passed these up because I thought they were press board and laminate, then I tried moving one and that baby was heavy! So I looked closer and they were hardwood. Beat-to-crap hardwood, but none the less. But why would anyone paint something to look like laminate?<br />
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Aside from the warped and broken top <i>(above)</i> there were a couple pieces either chewed up or missing. I fixed all that and set my visiting girlfriend on painting them.<br />
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I didn't take pictures because we've almost all seen the dread tannins from Mahogany. Still, we watched with dread as our white paint turned pink.<br />
Kilz primer fixed all that, then the white "chalk-like paint" was reapplied.<br />
The pulls were painted Oil-Rubbed Bronze, the tops were painted with Fat Paint black mixed with craft paint brown.<br />
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Some distressing - I had put wax on at the very start.<br />
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The finished nightstands are at a new home. <br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">Few things slow you down like a broken femur.</span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444;">It's </span>been a looong four months. I'm not totally healed yet but I don't have to use a walker any,ore.<br />
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Hallelujah!<br />
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Now that I have a cane I can go to garage sales again. And going to garage sales means buying furniture, right? And what happens when you have too much furniture?<br />
Something has to go. At my house any new thing starts a chain reaction: this will go here, that mean's that has to go over there, and now <i>that</i> has to go ..... out the door.<br />
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I can't decide because I want everything and an addition to the house to put it in. So I need help.<br />
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A low table from France.<br />
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Apothecary cabinet<br />
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Small primitive cabinet<br />
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Deceon"s bench<br />
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Yes, yes, I AM taking a break, as I said in my last post. This is one of those random posts.<br />
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First off, I realize that people are assuming that cancer is the reason for me taking down time. Oh no, it's much worse than that. I was in a car crash and broke my femur. Later I'll write a post about my 15 fun-filled days in the hospital and how I've grown to love my walker. And my Grabber - one of man's greatest inventions! Who knew?</div>
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Meanwhile, let's look at furniture. I can only work on small things now, so I decided to put a transfer on this little table. This table really was found in pieces at the back of a barn. My barn. I ran across it when I was looking for hardware and looking in all the boxes. There it was, legs taken off, one leg broke in two. I have no idea where it came from or when.</div>
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There is no before picture...... again. But you can pretty much see what it looked like pre-transfer.....<br />
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because I didn't sand or paint the table. After I fixed the broken leg and put the table together, I thought it looked perfect as it was. So authentic! <br />
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We lovers of milk paint strive hard to get this patina.<br />
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Here we have the finished table with the transfer.<br />
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The chippy paint texture showed right through.<br />
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Even big areas showed through.<br />
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So the new table joins the other little blue tables that I can't seem to part with. <br />
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What to do, what to do....... I think the one in the far left of the photo will be the one I keep. I painted it a few years ago and couldn't bring myself to sell it. Since then whenever I approach it with a tag I get the screaming heeby-geebies and can't do it. Although I occasionally have it on etsy at some ridiculously high price that no one would pay. They would have to love the table as much as I do.</div>
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Linking to:<br />
<a href="http://www.shabbynest.blogspot.com/2015/03/frugal-friday_26.html" target="_blank">shabby nest</a><br />
<a href="http://missmustardseed.com/" target="_blank">miss mustard seed</a><br />
<a href="http://www.frenchcountrycottage.net/2015/03/feathered-nest-friday_26.html#more" target="_blank">french country cottage</a><br />
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Remember this Photoshop mock-up?</div>
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Here it is in real-life, painted and ready to go.<br />
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Now here's my mock-up of its little buddy.</div>
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And below is the real thing.<br />
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Who can resist a matching nightstand?<br />
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After procrastinating for over a year, I finally have these two out of the garage and ready to go to my booth at Collector's Market. Oh how I love seeing some new empty space in the garage. Even though I tend to fill it really fast. Infact that reminds me - I haven't looked at Craigslist yet today.<br />
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So cute together.<br />
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You can really see the change in light here. I took these pictures over the course of two days and the sun finally hit during this shot.<br />
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Normally I tell what paint I used but this time it was such a hodge-podge of custom mixes, paint samples, black washes, black glaze, pewter glaze, spray paint and heavy sighs that it wears me out thinking where to start. So let's just say I used it all. Everything within grasp. And if it wasn't right, i mixed it together. Acrylic, chalk, faux chalk, latex, you name it, it all got mixed together.<br />
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I spray painted the pulls with a dark gray primer and covered that with a clear matte poly spray.<br />
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I let the brush strokes show so they could catch the glaze and washes to add some texture.<br />
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At one point I ran out of black paint so we drove down to a local hardware store where I knew they mixed paint. The color chips only went to a dark graphite which the sales associate assured us was really black. I was skeptical. He mixed it and added extra black but it just looked gray to me. I found a can of Rustoleam black decor paint and went back to see how the mixing was going. Sure looked gray to me. He assured me it would dry to black. Hrumph. It's been two weeks and it's still gray. It will always be gray. How can a paint company not have black?<br />
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Really, to top it off, it's a very unattractive gray. Thank goodness for my can of decor paint.<br />
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Here's the finished dresser.<br />
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And its trusty sidekick.<br />
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A friend of mine, when she saw these pieces, said the style looks like a cross between Industrial and Vintage. Huh, I hadn't thought of that.<br />
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Mr. Bad gets home tomorrow so we'll load everything up and get it moved to my booth. Another day of moving furniture! Can't wait!<br />
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Sharing with:<br />
<a href="http://shabbynest.blogspot.com/2015/02/frugal-friday_19.html" target="_blank">shabby nest</a><br />
<a href="http://missmustardseed.com/" target="_blank">miss mustard seed</a><br />
<a href="http://www.frenchcountrycottage.net/2015/02/feathered-nest-friday_19.html#more" target="_blank">french country cottage</a><br />
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Daena from Bad Rabbit Vintagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15802143001842363386noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585658661498462635.post-69399997701700546192015-02-06T10:00:00.000-08:002015-02-10T16:31:30.485-08:00Using Photoshop to problem solve.<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #666666;">I thought I'd share my solution to confounding paint dilemas. Sometimes I look at a piece of furniture and think, "Well, there's about a 100 ways I can approach this. Where do I start?"</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">I've just started working on a dresser that has been in the garage for over a year. It has a matching nightstand and they both have a lot of Art Deco/mid-century </span><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="color: #666666;">detail.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">But I procrastinated. I had this idea that I would strip areas and paint others to have a pretty white-and-stain look. But since I hate stripping furniture, I never got started. Until about a week ago. I stripped the areas I wanted stained and discovered to my horror that every kind of wood had been used to make this dresser and the fake pecan finish had hidden it completely. The nerve!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">So I gave it a shot but each type of wood took the stain differently and with a gigantic sigh I was on to Plan B, what ever it was.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">I have a system for figuring out color-ways on complex pieces of furniture, using PhotoShop. It keeps me from diving into something with wild abandon only to repaint when a clearer mind prevails. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Here's how that works. Or doesn't work.</span><br />
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{Maybe, but this is a manly dresser.} <br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">It's a chance to get the crazy ideas out of the way. It's also a chance to happen across something to save for a different, more appropriate, piece of furniture.</span><br />
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{Too dark}<br />
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{Hmmmm}<br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"> Winner! This is what I decided to do.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">If I'm painting something for someone else it really helps to be able to email comps.</span><br />
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{Mustard on your elk, anyone?}<br />
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{Dated before it began} <br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">This is the final painted desk, ready to go.</span><br />
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{The requisite bad idea}<br />
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{Metallic. I'll save this idea for later}<br />
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{I like!}<br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">This is the final painted desk. It's pretty darn close to the mock-up.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">I don't have all the versions I did for Walter the Clock but believe me there were many!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">This was the final Photoshop mock-up I did, from here I winged it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"> Ahhhh Walter, I miss you, clock.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Stay tuned to see if that dresser ends up looking anything like the mock-up!</span><br />
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I've been ambivalent about writing posts lately, ever since my blog ran away with me helpless on its back. Didn't feel like getting on that horse again. Some of you may have seen it - suddenly Blogger posted all my drafts. There they were, half thoughts, typos and bad ideas, posted for the world to see. It happened as I was trying to figure out how to change labels and delete some of them. Well, whoops already. It got away from me. Blogger couldn't have made it more convoluted if they tried.</div>
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But here I am, back because I can't hold a grudge. Plus I want to show my childs washstand in its newest revamping.</div>
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I was searching through Graphics Fairy, looking for an image for a totally different project, when I came across this one. I was pondering how I could use it when I looked up and saw the little washstand across the room, and thought AHA.</div>
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Now the washstand has a bit of European flare.</div>
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This is one of the prettiest images I've seen on Graphics Fairy.</div>
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I took the oval from the original image and used it for the drawer.<br />
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The graphics aren't this bright in real-life, The image of the single door panel, above, is the best representation. Now I am wrestling with whether or not I should put something in the side panels.</div>
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I'll give it another day then I'll decide about the side panels. After that, it's for sale. As always, I wish I had space for it, it's always been one of my favorites.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: black;">I <i>knew</i> I'd do it. I couldn't stand looking at those blank panels. But before I did anything I did some research on Swedish antiques and French antiques to make sure the side panels were painted. They were so I did.</span></span><br />
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I think the decorated side panels add a lot to the piece. Not to mention, I feel better about it.<br />
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The side image is from the 'landscape' catagory on Graphics Fairy.<br />
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I decoupaged the images onto the cabinet and rubbed a little too hard here. I hardly ever decoupage so I thought one boo-booed panel out of 7 was pretty good.<br />
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After my fix: It's not perfect but it's better. I should have thought to fix it before I put the top coats on. Oh well, next time. My quick fix when I rub part of an image off is to fill it in with colored pencils. It works a lot better if you aren't trying to color slippery top coat! LOL<br />
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In my last post I said I needed to quit trying to do 8 things when there was only time for 2. Oh irony of ironies. Writing that post was number 3 of the "Seven impossible things I did before breakfast."</div>
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I am attempting to slow down, I really am. Lately I have congratulated myself on small victories, even as small as having my signature actually LOOK like my signature. But on that morning ....... I was on a tear </div>
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I worked on my on-line class project. I'm so far behind .... well, so far behind you can't get more behind. I might re-register and start over.</div>
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I photographed 6 pairs of boots from every angle for craigslist and ebay. I can't wear heels anymore so check Medford's craigslist if you're a size 9.</div>
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I ran string lights around my hutch and church windows. So pretty. We really like using string lights for soft lighting in the evenings.</div>
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I made bread pudding muffins. I had never made bread pudding before, much less muffins. In fact I don't bake so why I suddenly had to do this, I'm not sure. Just to see what happened, I guess. They turned out yummy but collapsed like a souffle. Did I do something wrong?</div>
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From there I shopped for jeggings as fast as I could. I was Speed-Shopper. Time was running out. I had 15 minutes to get to treatment.</div>
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But WHERE are my pictures? <br />
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Geez, everything was going against me! My bad habits caught up with me, big time. I name the file folder something that doesn't come close to the blog post name. I name the photo images something vastly different from what I've been mentally calling the piece of furniture for weeks. Oops. Can I remember what I named them? No, not often enough apparently.<br />
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But, when I <i>do</i> remember? <br />
I'm <b>always</b> in a hurry so I end up naming photos the minimum I need to be able to grab and post them. And when I did a search for the elusive image, what came up?<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">an example of my frustration:</span></i> <br />
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The best part? The one I wanted wasn't there. </div>
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NEW RULES! Name things according to the blog post name AND what the subject is. And use tags for godsake. cripes. Just use the friggin' tags. And don't try to do 7 things when there is only time for 2.</div>
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Then I realized that the most recent photos were still on the old hard drive removed when my computer was sent in for repair. sigh I have Time Machine backup but I'm far too swamped to go figure all that out today. (Make that 8 things to do.)</div>
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Even I thought I was crazy when I brought these home.<br />
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I have a soft spot for old radio/stereo cabinets.<br />
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Cheerful and looking for a new home.<br />
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There is a weird story behind these pieces. Buy me coffee and I'll tell you.<br />
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Bought it anyway and it turned out just fine.<br />
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This bed made me wish we had one more bedroom.<br />
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But it went to a really good home.<br />
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Mr. Bad had some major raised eyebrows when he saw this baby.<br />
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Ironically, it became his dresser.<br />
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It was the pulls that sold me.<br />
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It went to a new home in a day. Why can't I always pick 'em like that?<br />
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Again, facelift by Ce Ce Caldwell.<br />
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This was part of the weird story I mentioned above. For a donut AND coffee I'll tell the tale.<br />
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Duck Egg Blue from Annie Sloan is such an awesome color.<br />
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The most recent item I painted has no before shot. But it's a nice color to finish up with.<br />
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Linking to:<br />
<a href="http://www.savvysouthernstyle.net/" target="_blank">savvy southern style</a><br />
<a href="http://missmustardseed.com/2015/01/furniture-feature-friday-favorites-link-party-50/#" target="_blank">miss mustard seed</a><br />
<a href="http://www.shabbynest.blogspot.com/2015/01/frugal-friday_8.html" target="_blank">shabby nest</a><br />
<a href="http://www.frenchcountrycottage.net/" target="_blank">french country cottage</a><br />
<a href="http://www.thededicatedhouse.com/2015/01/make-it-pretty-monday-week-126.html" target="_blank">the dedicated house</a></div>
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Anyone who has followed my blog knows how I bounce back from just about everything. <br />
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<i>At this point let me just say that there were times during the last 7ish years when I wanted to run screaming into the</i> <i>woods</i>. Right?<br />
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cancer, from my point-of-view, is like being on an old-fashioned roller
coaster. The wooden kind that just went up, up, up and then plummeted
down, G-forces being the only thrill element. You have faith it will go back up.<br />
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But it WILL clank to a stop. And that's when you get out the ignored Advance Directive paperwork. Let friends and
family know. And then, as was my case, you are told a new treatment has appeared on the
horizon. Then you call back friends and family. Stuff the Advanced Directive back in the folder.<br />
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So here I am, all dressed up with my furniture, and nowhere (new) to go. This morning I googled "Thursday link parties", not knowing how that would work, and on the first page I saw a <b>Link Party Directory</b>. Score! I clicked through on about five, maybe six, parties and they weren't there. There was no party. There was no mention of a party. There wasn't so much as a cookie recipe.</div>
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I took my furniture and came home. sheesh! I'll go back to the search results later and look at some of the other links. But for now I just wanted to share my pain. :-)</div>
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<i>OH!</i> And here's another thing!!! (Yeah, yeah, I sound like a raving lunatic) Do I ever feel like I don't get out much! I <b>did</b> find a link party last week ....... I think ...... but instead of the lovely thumbnails of projects there were simple instructions to click the "hashtags." Sorry, what? I can't tell you how many times I scrolled up and down and refreshed. #&*#@ hashtags anyway. Then I went on to other things and forgot all about it. UNTIL Mr. Bad had ESPN on and the sports analyst said to go somewhere and do something (sorry, I wasn't paying attention) with the HASHTAG. Get out! Hashtag? Really?</div>
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I kept it simple. I used C.C. Caldwell Alaskan Tundra and only did one coat. Next was a white wash, randomly applied. I then applied the gel top coat I have come to love and all the places where the paint was thin showed up.</div>
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Every now and then I paint something I want to keep. This dresser is one of those things, but onto Craigslist it went. sigh</div>
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I sanded the edges of the applique slightly and used glaze for most of the aging. I wanted a less-is-more approach to the distressing this time.</div>
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I used 4 different colors of paint for this 'simple' technique.</div>
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I left the brush strokes and scratches alone since they add to the aged look.<br />
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Again, very light distressing and almost no glaze, which is so much more realistic looking on this dresser.<br />
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Here's what I used. (My containers look well used, don't they?) I started with Sack Cloth and sorta slapped it on. Then I slapped on Plymouth Rock and kinda rubbed it into the Sack Cloth. Then, I dry brushed Navaho White over the entire dresser and when that was dry I washed a couple layers of Plymouth Rock over the dresser, using a rag to soften the white dry brushing.<br />
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After letting the dresser dry for a day or so, I put on a gel topcoat. This General Finishes gel topcoat goes on beautifully but has a strong odor and needs ventilation. Because of that, I'll keep shopping for a gel topcoat that's a little more user friendly.</div>
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Daena from Bad Rabbit Vintagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15802143001842363386noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585658661498462635.post-22881084467477760882014-12-12T15:33:00.000-08:002015-02-10T16:36:31.033-08:00A little craftsman dresser saved from the winter storms<div style="text-align: center;">
Well, maybe not so much 'saved' as dragged out of an old shed during a particularly nasty rain storm. There were also a bunch of chairs, of which I got two. And the best part, the real rescue I guess, was digging a vintage leather suitcase out of what appeared to be a burn pile. Oh yeah, in the pouring rain. Mr. Bad was less than thrilled with getting soaked over a suitcase we could see only part of. But it turned out to be fine but soggy and it came home with us. Me. </div>
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All that happened about a month ago when we took a left at a big Yard Sale sign and came upon the ickiest of estate sales. Icky. Dirty. Gloves-and-a-stick kind of sale. Anyway, out back was a shed with furniture and I walked back and forth to the house, in the rain, to negotiate prices with the ick ..... with the morose person slumped in a chair.</div>
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I've never seen such a dismal sale. I've been to sales where everything was dirty, piled up, strewn all over, what have you, and we shoppers would be laughing and carrying on like kids over the whole thing. This sale had people coming in then running for their lives.</div>
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But I got a dresser. Go me!</div>
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The unusual pulls are what caught my eye.</div>
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I knew I wanted to do a heavy distress on this piece but distressing down to honey oak wasn't nearly what I had envisioned. So, to get that nice, dark distressed look, I painted stain where I would later distress. I used stain so the dark color wouldn't come off when I sanded.</div>
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The light aqua color is Annie Sloan Duck Egg Blue mixed with American
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I did a couple washes of the white to get the uneven look.</div>
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Linking to<br />
<a href="http://missmustardseed.com/2014/12/furniture-feature-friday-favorites-link-party-48/" target="_blank">miss mustard seed</a><br />
<a href="http://www.homestoriesatoz.com/tutorials/tutorials-tips-link-party-189.html" target="_blank">home stories a to z</a><br />
<a href="http://www.astrollthrulife.net/2014/12/247th-inspire-me-tuesday.html" target="_blank">a stroll thru life</a><br />
<a href="http://myuncommonsliceofsuburbia.com/inspire-monday-38/#more-17240" target="_blank">my uncommon slice of suburbia</a><br />
<a href="http://knickoftime.net/2014/12/vintage-inspiration-part-168-vintage-christmas-decor-galore.html" target="_blank">knick of time</a><br />
<a href="http://www.myrepurposedlife.com/2015/01/catch-as-catch-can-195.html" target="_blank">my repurposed life</a></div>
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They said: "Apply a thin coat of wax over the chalk paint and wipe off excess. Repeat. Apply dark wax." And I did. Over and over, I did. Without questioning, I rubbed on that wax and buffed it to a glorious sheen and spent an hour or more catching my breath and rubbing my arms. whew.</div>
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Then came this nightstand and not a stitch of wax was applied. Why not?</div>
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Because of my red low-boy dresser with it's dull wax and repeated repaintings, that's why.</div>
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The nightmare is chronicled <a href="http://badrabbitvintage.blogspot.com/2014/09/what-i-did-on-my-summer-vacation.html" target="_blank">here</a>. I finally took all the wax off with mineral spirits and used poly. After repainting again, of course.</div>
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And another.<br />
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And another. On and on.<br />
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Then I purchased Altard's latest e-book on technique and imagine my surprise to find that this power-house of furniture painting has completely stopped using wax due to the same reasons I was using it less.<br />
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Well then. To wax or not to wax? If you have humidity or hot weather I'd be thinking twice. The waxed furniture I took to an outdoor show last summer, including my chippy table below, came home dull. I had to redo those pieces and I wasn't happy. No, not at all.<br />
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But that's just me.<br />
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Linking to<br />
<a href="http://www.tipjunkie.com/post/tip-me-tuesday-happy-crafters-share-12-9/" target="_blank">tip junkie</a><br />
<a href="http://www.homestoriesatoz.com/tutorials/tutorials-tips-link-party-188.html" target="_blank">home stories a to z</a><br />
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Daena from Bad Rabbit Vintagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15802143001842363386noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585658661498462635.post-42484811995869293762014-12-05T17:32:00.000-08:002014-12-10T08:57:18.765-08:00Before and after - my gray dresser<div style="text-align: center;">
This is just a teaser. I'm trying out my computer, freshly back from Apple. I was, for all intents and purposes, without a computer for a month or more. I was using my old Mini Mac but it didn't have my photos. Or files. Or anything.</div>
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My just-repaired-laptop was restarting itself over and over when I was trying to use it. It had an uncanny way of restarting at the worst possible moment. I can't tell you how many times blog posts just disappeared before my eyes. poof Edited photos. poof</div>
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Anyway, so far so good. No restarts. And so,<br />
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The flaws don't show in this photo. The veneer was hanging on by its finger nails. The drawers didn't even dream of pulling out smoothly. One drawer had to be held up to pull another out. It took two hands and a knee. Missing chunks of wood had to be sculpted back on. Yay Plastic Wood.</div>
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Layered paint, wet distressing and a gel top coat make for a second lease on life.</div>
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Linking to:<br />
<a href="http://missmustardseed.com/2014/12/furniture-feature-friday-favorites-link-party-47/" target="_blank">miss mustard seed</a><br />
<a href="http://knickoftime.net/" target="_blank">knick of time</a><br />
<a href="http://myuncommonsliceofsuburbia.com/" target="_blank">my uncommon slice of suburbia</a><br />
<a href="http://www.elizabethandco.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">elizabeth and co.</a></div>
Daena from Bad Rabbit Vintagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15802143001842363386noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585658661498462635.post-22664596691993833672014-12-02T21:58:00.000-08:002014-12-04T22:05:04.967-08:00I really need your help on this<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Some of you might remember my sewing table. It is/was one of my favorite things and I never meant to sell it. But, I had a sewing machine sized hole in my booth so we moved it in. Then I decided to be booth-free because of increasingly complicated treatment schedules.</div>
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So we moved everything out of the booth, some of it in Mr. Bad's truck. Well, he got home and discovered the sewing table only had 3 out of 4 drawers. One drawer flew out on the highway, no doubt a scattered mass of green slivers. We drove back and forth anyway, looking for it without much hope.</div>
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Since then I've kept an eye on ebay but haven't seen the exact drawer.</div>
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Then yesterday it suddenly occurred to me to send out a cry for help. So here I am, crying. For help.</div>
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It is the top left drawer that is missing. If anyone has one, or sees one, I will happily purchase it!! And send as a finder's fee an original art photo - of the finder's choice.</div>
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Isn't this sad? Does it bring tears to your eyes? It does mine.</div>
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If I can't find the exact drawer I'll have to find a set of 4 that are a close enough match that I can live with them. Either way I'll have to match the paint, and doing 4 drawers might be easier ......</div>
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So any help will be appreciated!!! Good luck and good hunting!<br />
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Linking to:<br />
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Daena from Bad Rabbit Vintagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15802143001842363386noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585658661498462635.post-71299665789721717412014-12-02T08:36:00.002-08:002014-12-24T23:56:11.933-08:00Happy Holidays to one and to all<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We don't have snow yet this year but to me the holidays cry out for the white stuff. Then it can melt so everyone can get to work. And to the grocery store.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a perfect world, right?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dog deco<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rating tutorial in the post below.</span></span></span></span></div>
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