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Monday, April 29, 2013

Not your Grandma's highchair? Pantone's Emerald 



 Ok I am not your normal Grandma either,yes I have grand kids and I would be happy to have anyone of them use this. But they all are way past highchairs....I like color and I like bold. I love shades of turquoise and greens!! Their are a couple of blogs that I need to put on my sidebar and a face book page where they do nothing but....Turquoise!!! now don't laugh to much as I show you all the stages this highchair went through....so what is your opinion?
I used several colors on this but the final is Pantone Emerald,suppose to be the color of the year, I added and played with some Craft paints in a copper tone. Looking to get a patina of copper that has patina. I like the color and I have a bench I would consider painting in this tone for my own home. So want to see how this all started. I let furniture talk to me,telling me what they want to be. Call me crazy( Willie Happy 80th Birthday) I will take crazy. But this highchair was not a piece I wanted. Thus trouble in what to do. I have a friend who has a sister who bought a place AS IS and inherited a lot of stuff. Some good some not so good....So I bought some of what she needed to clear...so take a look

Yeap a brown paint say 60"s this is a older style but you tell me when. Stage one was a white paint. ASCP was great for covering all the brown.You can see this is stage one, after cleaning,sanding and fixing leg and resetting the tray...yes got to love helping other folks stuff. 

yes working late and not a great pic...get real this is how it goes...so now all white some would say OK but not me....I like fun stuff not just paint it white....of what I see so much of .

OK now I am CeCe Calwell Kentucky mint that I  like but can't figure out what it really looks good on...and then a stencil and though bet they would use for plaints and such...but once I started said to myself this looks cheesy...yea amateur hour the stencil OK but the flower not so much. SO?

I took some of my embossed wall paper ant cut and fit it to the tray. This has been painted and then touched with accent for the look I was going for. I used Mod Podge heavy seal twice so it can withstand clean up if used for it's intended reason. But also I see this on a porch with plants in the seat and on the tray....maybe even hanging of it....

I have to say this is a pretty little highchair. Great turns and legs and curves. I hope some one  decides her little girl needs this one. Emeralds are for a Princess and this would be fit for a 
Princess, or Empress or she has been sealed,fixed all nails resest ready for her next home. I am thinking 60.00 for solid wood ....what say you????

OK spring who is ready...this is my sign

OK Jazzy has been flirting for a week or so...but had not bloomed until yesterday....this plant started as a 3qtr pot....and now O 15 years later we have Jazzy who gave the folks that did out siding and the guys who put up new gutters....a head ache cause she is one big girl

If I could ship you how she smells think Jasmine,waifing across the fields....she is a star Jasmine. She stays green year round in our Central Texas and each she puts out new vine...the brighter green in new and underneath is a dry vine that supports her weight...I would say she is on the way to Obese...but I still love her....but we have to pull her back and wrap again..of our house would be covered...LOL
PS do you like my new camera...better pics I think....Happy Spring to all and leave me some comments on what you think...I need to redo my blog...got some ideas.......?

I want some ideas on my blog redo...I won't flip my lid. I just don't want to start and go through 4 or more redo's like this highchair.....plus if you find some makeover,refresh,re purpose fairy's send them my way cause this is just a little of what I still have to paint and recreate...Crazy yeah I am!
Yes stacked in the corner...and 15 frames in the rafters and 4 shutters outside and a small chest off to the side and two big pieces in my garage...and more sitting outside my door to the deck...I need Samantha from Bewitched who remembers that...PS that tray I going to stick on top of a TV tray so it spins for a garden lazy Susan....Crazy is right., By for now lets see what Kalamities I can find....

Friday, April 19, 2013

Where have you been? Did you miss me...???



 THOR TURN AROUND AND SAY HI, YEAP GOT TO GO CHECK OUT THE WORK CREW SEE THE LITTLE CORNER OF THE TRUCK, OUR HOUSE WAS 50 BRICK AND THEN HARDIBOARD, NOW SIDING REALLY GOOD SIDING WITH EXTRA INSULATION AND MY HUBBY NO MORE ON A LADDER GOING UP AND DOWN A TALL REALLY TALL LADDER....NOW THOR TURN AROUND DO YOU LIKE THE MAKE  OVER ?
MY LEG WAS BROKEN OFF, THE DRAWERS BOTTOM OUT, AND THE LEATHER SO SAD, NOW PRETTY LEGS LOVE THOSE LITTLE WHEELS. THE DRAWER FIXED AND THE LEATHER ALL WAXED AND THE COLOR CAME BACK RICH RUBY RED. 
YES I PAINTED THE DRAWERS AND THEN MUSIC SHEETS REALLY OLD TO MATCH THE AGE OF THIS SWEET TABLE. YES BOTH SIDE OPEN...I LEFT A LITTLE OF THE REAL WOOD SHOWING TOO..I LIKE HER AND THE LEATHER INSET IS COOL...

 SPRING IN TEXAS. MAY I TAKE A MOMENT AND SAY A PRAYER FOR WEST TX.  WEST IS ABOUT 45 MINUTES NORTH OF US. WHEN YOU DRIVE I35 YOU DRIVE THROUGH THIS GREAT COMMUNITY. THE BEAUTY OF DOG WOODS ARE GOOD PLACE TO SIT AND PRAY. THE YARD IS REALLY LUSH RIGHT NOW. SUN AND WATER
 WELL HELLO THEIR PRINCESS WHAT A SWEET LITTLE TABLE. GREAT SHAPE AND SIMPLY GREAT COLOR FOR A SIDE TABLE. LITTLE DEPRESS LOT OF PRETTY
 LOVE THE LEGS THE TURNS SO USING A MIX OF COLORS AND DARK WAX AND A GREAT MIX....LIKE THE LEAVES WE BAGGED 30 LARGE BAGS FULL OF LEAVES...WAS I CRAZY O YEAH WE PAINTED OUR LIVING ROOM TO, YEAH THOSE REALLY TALL CEILINGS AND DID THE "NO YOU DIDN'T YES WE DID COVERED THE FIREPLACE...IT IS STILL THEIR YOU JUST DON'T SEE IT..FINALLY WE HAVE SEATING FOR OUR FAMILY! YIPEEE
 THE PURPLE LANTANA IS IN BLOOM THE PURPLE IS ONE THE DEER WILL NOT EAT
 SO DO YOU LIKE THE PRINCESS...O YEAH LOOK HOW SHE STARTED....BETTER?
 SO LIKE MY FACEBOOK INSPIRED STORAGE UNIT. SHE CAME FROM GALVESTON AND WAS UGLY GOLD FROM THE 60'S.SO I PLAYED.TURQUOISE HAPPY AND THEN  ACRONYMS USED WITH EMAIL,FACEBOOK AND TWEETS....ONLY NICE ONES. I PAINTED THE INSIDE THE SEA BLUE GREEN AS SEEN IN THE LIKE SO CLEAN INSIDE AND OUT. SHE HAS A CHALK BOARD TOO,OLD CABINET DOOR. I THINK PERFECT FOR A PRETEEN TO YOUNG ADULT...WHAT YA THINKING CRAZY
I DID TYPE UP ALL THE MEANINGS FOR EACH ACRONYM HOPE YOU <3 THIS. SHE IS ON LARGE WHEELS TO...SO USE FOR A OFFICE PIECE....I THINK SINCE I FOUND HER BY THE GULF. I WAS TRYING TO GET THAT WATER COLOR. 

BOTH SIDES HAVE FUN WORDS CAN YOU GUESS WHAT THEY ALL ARE, DO WHAT I DID LOOK UP A LISTING...28 PAGES HEAVENS I DID NOT CHECK BEFORE I PRINTED. SO XOXO FOLKS



SO YOU HAVE TRADITIONAL, YOU HAVE SHABBY IN BLUE AND YOU HAVE FUNKY FACEBOOK FUN....SOME PRETTY FLOWERS...AND A SOME FYI ON WHAT I HAVE BEEN DOING..AND I LEFT OUT A LOT...I HAVE LOTS OF STUFF IN THE WINGS HOPING A FAIRY COMES HELP ME, I HAVE A STASH OF 15 FRAMES. HIGH QUALITY AND I WISH I DID BETTER CARPENTRY WORK....

THANKS FOR STOPPING BY AND IF YOU HAVE A MOMENT,TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK....I CAN TAKE IT I WAS IN MANAGEMENT FOR 38 YEARS I REALLY CAN