An Art Stand Fit For An Artiste!

17 Wednesday Oct 2012

Posted by Ugly Duckling in Homemade Chalk Paint, Image Transfers and Stencils

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homemade chalkpaint, kids art stand, painted art stand, portable art stand for kids, stencils for kids

My daughter is a little budding artist. She loves to craft too, and enjoys helping me with my painting projects. The other day, while working on something, she said: “I love being creative!” Um… me too! Last Christmas, she got a portable art stand from her Aunt. It has two drawers, which contain paint and pastels, in addition to a flip up easel for drawing and painting. She really likes it, so when one of the hinges came out, I thought I’d give her little stand a makeover while I was repairing it. I replaced the hinges and repaired a crack in the bottom drawer with wood glue and filler. Then painted the whole thing in teal chalk paint {homemade}. I added a few girlie stencils and then lightly distressed it.

My daughter wasn’t too impressed at first with the distressing {I tried to explain why making her art stand look “old” was desirable – I’m not sure I was successful}, but she was won over with the stencils, nevertheless!

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Secretary Desk and Homemade Chalk Paint

23 Thursday Aug 2012

Posted by Ugly Duckling in Desks, Homemade Chalk Paint

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chalk paint desk, diy chalk paint, painted secretary desk, painted vintage desk, shabby chic desk, vintage desk

I was recently at one of my favorite “furniture” thrift stores {this one is not really very good for anything else, but I’ve lucked out with furniture there several times} looking for a chair {which I did not find} and came across this little desk. I love the legs, but I really love the way it opens and COMPLETELY closes to hide “STUFF” if you want to. I love hiding “STUFF”! I think it’s a secretary desk, or something close to that, so that’s what I’m going to call it. It was in great condition and priced right, so of course I took it home with me!

I would have loved to paint this in ASCP Duck Egg Blue or Provence, but since I was hoping to put this desk in my kitchen “office” I wanted something that would work with my pedestal table as well as the colour scheme of the room {which is not painted yet, but will be Revere Pewter}. I also promised myself that I was not going to buy any ASCP until I used up some of the paint I already have in the garage. Soooo, instead I decided to mix Benjamin Moore Muslin with Ivory and make my homemade chalk paint {I use unsanded tile grout}. The color looks very close to the CeCe Caldwell Vintage White. I made the chalk paint pretty thick… this is it after one coat with some major distressing. I actually really liked it like this, but ended up doing one more coat and not as much distressing.

I like how the top opens and the back part flips up… it’s actually perfect for my computer monitor.

I’m now sitting at my new desk typing this post!

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French Postmark End Tables

22 Sunday Jul 2012

Posted by Ugly Duckling in DIY projects, End Tables, Home Decor, Homemade Chalk Paint

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Chalk paint end tables, french graphic end tables, french postmark end tables, shabby chic end table

I bought these tables months ago and boy was I relieved when they were finally finished. Not every project I paint turns out the first time around {believe me!!}. For these tables it was more like third time lucky. The first two attempts involved subway art, scrap booking paper and Mod Podge. It seemed the more I tried to complicate things, the less I liked the result. So, I decided in the end to keep things simple…

I used them in this photo to display my French Flower Buckets before I transferred the postmark image onto them…