Good morning!! I’m very excited about today! Today I am guest posting over at Sunshine.life.love! Ashley at sunshine.life.love has an adorable blog, and she herself seems completely adorable, so head on over there and give her some love! Plus, I blogged about a few things there that I haven’t mentioned here yet!
If you are visiting from sunshine.life.love, welcome!! I am so happy to have you here, and I hope you like what you see!
So, just another heads up, I have scheduled my permanent change over to wordpress.org to happen February 28th! With all sorts of things happening in my blog life, and in my personal life over the next couple weeks, I just want to make sure my calendar is clear around the time of the switch, just in case anything goes awry… and since I have been my own computer geek through this whole process, something is bound to go wrong! 🙂 So please watch my posts carefully around that time, as I am still not sure if it’s possible to automatically switch all of you over there myself, so I may need your help. Plus, I will be offering a GIVEAWAY in the first week of the switch!
On to something more exciting… I showed off this frame at sunshine.life.love today, and I am going to share with you how I did it. I am SO pleased with this project, I am in love with it… so here you go!
I picked up this picture and frame at a local thrift store last week for $10. The lovely lady who rung it through said, “Oh! What a beautiful picture and frame!!” and I had to bite my tongue from saying “Not Yet!”
Frame, "before"
The first thing I did when I got home, was take the frame apart… anyone want to keep the picture? 😉
I washed it down, and went straight to work.
I gave it a coat of my Wythe Blue, from Benjamin Moore (the same color used for my Master Bedroom) and gave it some distressing. I wanted both the brown and the gold from underneath to show through.
I gave it a coat of Annie Sloan Clear Wax, and then a coat of Annie Sloan dark wax. This is how it looked just after I applied the wax. It scares me everytime!!
I gave the wax a good buffing with a clean cloth, and the next morning another buffing.
I took the cardboard that was holding the original picture in, and gave it 2 coats of Chalkboard Paint. This stuff is super easy to use, love it!… Attached a wire hanger to the back, and ta-da! Here is the “after” shots!
I needed something to write down the week’s menus, so I remember to take the meat out the night before… and also when I’m cooking and each individual member of the house takes turns coming into the kitchen asking what’s for dinner, I can now just say “look at the board!”
See how the dark wax gives such depth? I love the effect it has. I am in love with this stuff!
And I love the way the frame has finished off this corner of my kitchen… and no, I’m still not showing you the rest of my kitchen!! It’s still so not blog worthy!
Thanks for reading, and have a fabulous day!
xo, Leanne
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