It's All Coming Together...

I've really been MIA!… a month and a half since I've posted!?.  sorry about that folks!… I've been working like a piggy wig every weekend... and evening for the past few weeks on items for the Vintage with Flair sale!…  It's approaching faster that I would like it to be!… really should have been working over the winter with more focus…

A devastating blow came my way when I discovered that you can't put Milk Paint overtop of a stain blocking paint like a kilz… the Milk Paint dries so quickly and is so dry that it just pulls the primer right up!… So the dresser sat aside for about a month and a bit… But in the past couple of weekends I managed to fully sand the dresser and I went back at it with Chalk Paint… I much prefer the ease of Chalk Paint over Milk Paint on repainted surfaces… I find Milk Paint works on raw wood great… Milk Paint is just to chippy on refinished furniture in the end for me...

The Feathering logo stamp has arrived!… I'm still so in love with my logo!… and with Juke Box Print!… 

I've completed a number of smaller projects… many being chalkboards… I have chalkboards up the whazoo!… chalk board trays… chalk boards in gold frames… chalk board windows… 

Now here some some contradiction… I said that Milk Paint was too chippy for me yet I fell in love with this totally chipped to bits metal garden chair!… BUT!… it's different!… this is legit chipped with age… it would be beautiful on a front stoop with a big pot of lavender sitting on in!… 

I've fallen in love with gold spray paint… the top edge of one of my doily bowls was made with pink string… It was cute and all but I had the thought to hit the edge with the gold spray bomb… um the results!?… the tits!… gold ombre look!… 

Here are a few more progress shots… more details and some tutorials to come after Vintage with Flair… just no time right now… no time… as I sit here blogging!… hehe but let me explain… I sat down on the couch here with the kitties shortly after 6am this morning… still tired but knowing I have a long list of items I want to work on… complete this weekend!… so I got a snuggle from Pickle and rolled my tired self out of bed… I thought to sit and blog because 1) it's been quite awhile since I've blogged and 2) it's a nice and easy way to wake up instead of jumping right into working on something… 

The house is literally overflowing with items for the sale… I have two dressers in the kitchen… a kitchen table in the front living room… it's starting to get a little overwhelming!…  The basement is still a workshop… and I've even taken over the deck and back parking pad for workspaces!… 

I'll have to do a tutorial on paperbacking picture frames in the coming weeks… it really is simple and it makes for a nice clean finished and professional looking product...

Here are a few of the beauties that I'll have available at the show in a couple weeks!… Squee!… I'm really getting excited now!… nervous but excited…

Also before the sale I have to take a lot of item photos for my records and for some images for the proper website that I need to develop… I've chalked my logo out LARGE on the kitchen wall just for the pictures I need to take!… sooo in love with this logo!… THANKS AGAIN! Cynthia!… 

Pickle and I are building up our tool inventory now… I added this beauty of a orbital sander… he picked up a great jigsaw… and I think a table saw is in our near future… 

The mouse sander is great for small things… and for small areas but it just doesn't sand big areas quick enough… I had this nasty old purple table with a crazy thick wax on it… the Milwaukee quickly took away the nasty and I've created this sweet little butcher block top farm table...

Just a little sneaky peak… I don't want to give away everything that I'll have at Vintage with Flair… You're just going to have to come to the show… or if you live nowhere near here you can check out my blog to see my booth all set up… and as I mentioned there are many tutorials in my future of the projects… so stay tuned!… 

I really have to get better with taking before pictures… I get so excited when I get some treasures home that I pull them apart and start sanding right away… no before pictures AT ALL!…  I did get a couple progress shots recently as I'd enlisted Pickle to help me make some nice clean cuts… he's so particular and careful… I'm a little more airy fairy and I'll measure once and make 20 cuts… hehehe… he really is the yin to my yang!

Here's the heart breaker all sanded down… man when that paint started peeling up after I put the Milk Paint on top of the stain blocker my heart almost stopped… but I've sucked it up and now she's a beauty… I'll save the after shots for after Vintage with Flair!… 

She turned out fabulous!...

So… life outside of 7-4 work and 5-10 every night at home and the past 8 weekends has been non existent… I did stop one night for Bunco with the ladies… 

Last weekend I was able to get this beauty made… I'll have only one available but I look forward to building more of these… I wouldn't have made it through this one without my Pickle!… it's really interesting HOW people think of things!… we would have taken two completely different approaches to building this… but in the end we used a combination of what we each thought… and it worked out nicely… 

Now I just have to figure out if I'm going to leave the bottom half of the table nice and crisp white or if I should distress it!… I'm sort of torn between the two options!… what do you think?…

Oh I did take a second break one evening!… not until I'd ironed what felt like 800 metres of fabric though… that was test on the ol patience that's for sure!… I found theses amazing Vintage Acme Dingo Daisy cowboy boots and had to go and pick them up… nice and broken in… perfect fit!… it only took six years of living in Alberta to get into the cowboy boot thing… but I'm here now and I've arrived in style!… these beauties go perfect with the dress I have for Vintage with Flair!…  and then they'll be accompanying me to the Calgary Stampede this summer!… 

Okay it's time for me to get up off this couch… and onto my to do list… and then into some projects!… what have you got planned for this weekend?!. I'll be here plugging away!… 

xo

Lacey

Who doesn't like a good party?  Let's get our link party on:

Oh Hi!…

Hi!… I've been MIA… I know… I had gotten some major progress on the logo with the ahhh-mazing Cynthia over at Green Couch… and some project work done… some treasure hunting finds… and then I got sick… 'er was in a load of pain… Spent an evening in emergency… then a few days in bed… am in the process of switching jobs… and had a weekend away with my Pickle… oh fuck… also my Mac had a massive meltdown the other night… iPhoto won't start up… I have to do some recovery thing… 88GB of photos are currently in limbo… luckily I put about 15,000 photos onto my external drive recently… but my photo stream was going into my library… I take A LOT of photos with my phone… Some quick snaps that I yanked off my IG using capture… and put into aperture… then exported as jpgs… feck!… 

Here is my hospital visit collage… some fentanyl via IV and they got the pain under control… couple blood test and then they sent me packing with some Percocet… and a few days of sleep seemed to help… I have to follow up with a family doc… finally getting one in June… yep… June… 

Pickle has been at work for what seems like day and night for the past two months… so he took this past Friday off… and it happened to be my EDO so we hopped in the truck and headed to Montana for a couple day get away… 

Here is the favourite of my finds from Montana… a sweet old electric fan… IT WORKS!… and it's colour is just beautiful… a few light scratches and dings… nothing major… just enough to show it's true age…

And my most exciting of news lately… I got my logo finalized!… here she is… just a small little version for you to take a gawk at… FaceBook page… and legit website to follow… I was hoping to get it all sorted before the Vintage Show in Priddis in June but I don't think I'll have the time with the rest of the work that I need to do to complete the items for my space in the show!… let's see what I can get done in the next 8 weeks!… EEP!… wish me luck… and stay tuned for lots of projects… and lots of before and afters… 

xo

Lacey

And The Winner Is...

Congratulations!… Jo of Let's Face the Music blog!…

I'll be contacting you via email with the details!

Thank you for everyone who entered!

Now go check out Jo!  Here website is HERE!
Follow along as Jo and her Hubby refinish their beautiful old home!

xo

Lacey

Enamel House Number Giveaway...

Well aren't you lucky that you've just stopped by!… I've been contacted by the amazing people over at Ramsign to host a giveaway for my lucky lucky readers!… 

Ramsign is a small Danish company that specializes in manufacturing and selling classic enamel signs (house signs and house numbers) based upon original designs and techniques!… 

The signs are still produced by hand with the original stencil technique and porcelain enamel…

…check out the Ramsign website HERE… for more information on their signage production… 

Soo… one of you will win a house number of your choice… up to 5 numbers long!…

You have many choices for colours - Metropolitan, Highlander, Arrowhead, Lighthouse or Engelhardt… 

There are a few ways to get entries into the draw for your chance to win a Ramsign Classic Enamel Sign from Feathering My Nest… do one, two or all three if you want three entries… it's up to you how much you want work for entries!… 

First Entry - Comment on this post telling me what your favourite sign is - what one do you want if you win!?. after you head over to the Ramsign website and scope them all out… 

Second Entry - Become a follower of my blog and leave a comment saying that you've done so… 

Third Entry - Go and "like" Ramsign on Facebook… then… you guessed it!… come leave a comment here saying that you've done so!… 

You've got a week to get your entries in so skedadle!… Winner will be announced next Sunday April 7th!

xo

Lacey

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Chalkboard Top Table...

Another project complete!… chalkboard seasoned and a design drawn on!… glass cleaned up and dropped on to protect the chalk and she's ready for the show in June!… 

…but first a quick recap of how it looked… and what I did to get it refinished!… check out the previous post for some additional in progress shots!…

It stated out as a more than well worn old table… all of the veneer on the top was chipped and lifted all over the place…

We… Oliver and I (clearly)… flipped it over and removed the trim as it was only screwed on… luckily there was no glue to fight with… once this was off I scrapped all of the remaining veneer off and was left with a flat wood surface… as it was going to be a solid colour I didn't mind taking all of that top veneer off… 

I hit it with a couple of coats of Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint in Grainsack… the first coat I also used some Miss Mustard Seed Bonding Agent… as I didn't want to do much sanding before getting at the painting!… 

Once the couple of layers of paint were nice and dry I gave it a light sanding and chipped off any spots that were lifting… then for the fun on the top… as the trim sits in slightly from the edge I taped the edge to keep it grey… 

BAM!… on with two coats of chalk board paint… then waiting… I'm not great at waiting… I just want everything to be finished RIGHT NOW!… tee hee hee… I just get excited to see the finished piece!… 

Once the chalkboard paint dried the trim was screwed back on… then I had to wait… I had to wait three days before I could touch a piece of chalk to the top… the night that it was ready to be seasoned I was late getting home from work but I went at the table anyhow… I had to work on it!… 

Even when there isn't anything drawn on it the dusty charcoal grey table top looks sweet with the grey paint on the rest of the table… 

…but I couldn't just leave it… so I hit up the Graphics Fairy to see what would look good chalked onto the top… Like I had done with the Tea Trolly top… tattoo stylee…  I transferred a rough outline in chalk onto he table top and then went at it with chalk… eraser and q-tips… the q-tips helped cleanup some small areas here and there and help me to get a little more detail that I can get with the fat chalk sticks… 

When I finished this up I was so excited… it took forever to fall asleep!… I can't wait to show this piece off at the show in June!… I'm so excited to see what people will think of it!… 

I've dropped the round piece of glass back onto the table top to protect the chalk drawing from kitty feet… and any thing that may be laid on the table top… I plan to sell this one with the design and glass on but the owner of can change it up as often as they like!… I think I'm going to end up with a few pieces that have chalk board areas on them… I really love the look...

Saturday morning my Pickle and I ran out to pickup a few more treasures that I'd secured… Here's a sneaky peak!… 

And this sweet petite dresser… at first I wasn't sure what I would do with it… if I would even paint it… but Chris and I talked about a few different options and came up with a plan!… ;)

This petite dresser would work perfect in a small bedroom… walk in closet… even in a dining room, living room or larger entryway!… it's not too small for a bedroom at all… and its definitely not too large that it can't be used elsewhere in the home… 

I can't wait to get this one started!… only I have to pickup some supplies before I can really get going on it… stay tuned for this sweet petite!… 

Today was a pretty chill day… Pickly and I got a few things done around the house and I had just run out my Clinique BB Cream so I made a quick trip to Shoppers to pick up a new tube… and well they had some deals on… so I picked up a couple of other items that I was running out of and got this sweet kit of samples for free!… and there are some large sized awesome treats in here!… 

To finish off the day I had a green soak with another Lush bath bomb… I love these things… 

How was your weekend?… get any projects wrapped up?… do anything for St. Patrick's day today?… 

xo

Lacey

Time to Party ;)

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Another Project in Progress...

Last weekend finished off with a nice Lush bath… what's not to love about a Lush Bath Bomb!?…  smells… so… good!… Tonight there is no time… it's late… we're pooped… I love getting an extra hour of daylight but I dislike losing an hour!…

I could have used one of these every night last week… Let's just say I much prefer my four day work weeks to my five day work weeks… this coming week is a four day work week… yay… 

Morning elevator outfit check!… 

Friday I went in to get my hair did - it was regrowth touch-up time… and well I've been getting bored of my hair as I've been trying to grow it out… so instead of cutting it off I had it toned super purply… it'll last a week or so before it fades back out to a blond… 

So… that table I picked up last weekend… I got at it this weekend… it's not totally complete as the chalkboard paint on the top needs to cure before I can season it but here is a sneaky peak of the table in progress…

The top veneer was done like dinner… terrible water damage… so I scraped it off… sanded the underwood nice and smooth… oh… not before taking of the trim around the top edge though… luckily it was only screwed on… no wood glue to fight with… 

Of course the kittie inspector had to check everything out as it was taking place… Mew!… 

I went at this table with Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint in Grainsack!… such a light delicate grey… 

Then, as the trim sits in a little from the edge, I threw down some painters tape to keep the very outer edge grey… then I hit the top with a couple layers of chalk board paint!… This table is gonna be cute!… 

I've got some mega chips… and the paint naturally crackles here and there… especially after being oiled down with Miss Mustard Seed's Hemp Oil… 

I'm picky… so I went in to do a little touchup here and there… The top has to cure for three days before I can season it and chalk out a design on the top… I'm going to sell this one at the Vintage sale in June… I'll chalk out something sweet and drop the piece of glass back on the top to protect it for the show… the glass will go with the table so that its owner will have the option to save their designs under glass if they wish!… 

And here is another sneaky peak… I have an amazing friend who has recently replaced their old wood house windows… ERHMERHGERD!… and guess who she bestowed these amazing old wooden windows upon!?… YEP!… meeee!… 

…check out these beauties!… eeep!… stay tuned!… 

Ooo… and I have some bird's nests coming… ya… I just said bird's nests… more to come on that too!…

OHHH!!… And I'm super excited… but I don't want to say too much yet but I have something in the works!… something exciting!… more to come real soon on THAT too!…

I hope you had a nice weekend!…

xo

Lacey