Evocative Vintage: distressed

Friday, April 12, 2013

I mentioned the other day that I am creating a few things to use in my kitchen once the remodelling is done.
The work on my kitchen extension is starting this weekend...yay! My garage is stacked with building material. Tomorrow first thing I am taking before pics!!

This simple little trug is another piece done!

I found it on the fleamarket for about $2 and wanted to give it a chippy paint effect!

I added the definition of TRUG to the side!

I distressed the heck out of it using a credit card!

You can see the effect of the distressing with the credit card to make it look chippy...yummy!

It would look nice filled with fruit, veg or pine cones!

Dreaming of a farmhouse kitchen!:)

You can often find me at these fabulous parties:

Rain on a tin roof - give-me-goods-monday

They love me at Transformed Tuesday
Coastal Charm Nifty Thrify Tuesday

Youre-gonna-love-it-week-Tuesday - Kathe with an E

lizmarieblog - inspire-me-please

The Honey Suckle Bus Stop - Moonshine Monday

The Graphics Fairy - Brag Monday

Feathered nest friday

Serendipityandspice - Manic-Monday

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Woo Hoo! My revived French inspired blanket box

Hello and welcome back!

Lightbulb moment!

Just realised that so far this year I've been able to do a post at least once a week.....HIYA!!!!

It does mean having to work a couple of hours every night...so I am holding up 2 jobs....not bad for a 52 year old, I reckon!

This blanket box sat in my garage for over a year. I found her in a neglected and abused state and she went through more pain and suffering during our move! I finally decided to give her some much needed LOVE!

Here is the before!

BLAH brown,amputated leg, rough around the edges, brassy handles, scratched up, water marked...this gal lived a hard life!

I did surgery on her leg with Gorilla wood glue and filled all her nicks and rough edges with Liberon neutral!

I gave her a few layers of creamy white color and a wash of 'Dusk of days'over the top! I applied some gesso over the hardware followed by the same color I used for the top!

Next I used the graphite method to transfer the French Typography to the top of the blanket box!I went over the words and scrolls with my paint pen. The image is from The Graphics Fairy.