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  • Making the New Look Old

    Making the New Look Old



    I just love these sweet little salt and pepper shakers and wanted to do something fun with them ~

    Vintage buttons and vintage skeleton keys are some of my favorite things ~ So I decided to combine them into one sweet little vignette piece ~

    I bough this Patina kit at Michaels ~
    The first thing that you do is paint the entire shiny lid with a coat of the Blackened Bronze ~

    The next step is to put a light coat of Patina Blue Antiquing Solution while the bronze coat is still tacky ~

    Then when the lids are dry I fill them with vintage white buttons and tie the lid with seam binding and a vintage skeleton key ~

  • In Love with a Bathroom & Chalk Paint ???

    In Love with a Bathroom & Chalk Paint ???

    I have been really really wanting to

    go shopping in

    McKinney Texas for quite awhile now ~

    Today I decided to hop in the car

    and hit the road ~

    McKinney has the cutest old town square

    with great shops

    and the most wonderful old homes

    all around the square ~

    So I took quite a few pictures of the shops

    in the

    square and what am I going to show you ?

    A Bathroom !!

    I asked Patina Green if I could

    take pictures and blog

    because I pretty much adore their shop !!

    You can buy

    fresh breads and produce there,

    eat there and buy gorgeous

    home decor there ~

    But after gallons of ice tea on my drive I had to (check out)

    the bathroom there ~

    Ohhhhh my gosh I was in love !

    Maybe it is because

    we are in the process of getting quotes on our

    horrible, ugly bathroom ~

    Here are some pictures I took while about 4 women

    (probably dying) were waiting outside the door for me

    to hurry up ~

    These pictures were with my Iphone so not so great ~

    I will show you more pictures I took in a couple days of their shop and

    around McKinney ~

    I have to say what drew me to McKinney today in the first place

    was Annie Sloan Chalk Paint that is available at

    Lady Butterbug's ~

    Mr. & Mrs. Butterbug are pretty much the sweetest

    couple ever!!

    I signed up for a class and bought a kit and

    am ready to go!!!

    I am so excited to try Chalk Paint after reading about it

    pretty much everywhere !

    I found the old brush in one of the antique shops and had to have it just

    for pictures :) I am wondering if

    old brushes will be a new flea market hunt of mine ....