WOW us Weekend Week 3

Welcome to our third weekly Wow Us Weekend Link party! We are finally stocked with Miss Mustard Seed’s Milk Paint and look forward to seeing an even greater variety of projects! This past week, my favorite piece was this fabulous chair refinished by Maureen...

Extreme Color

This is the dresser and here is the story. Late this past summer, one of my dearest friends from back east  (who I write about all the time because we are kindred spirits in the picking world) came out to California for family vacation. She was on her way...

Wow Us Weekend 2

Welcome to our Second Wow Us Weekends!Like all new endeavors, they tend to start out slow, and since last week was our first, I wanted to make sure that all the kinks were worked out before we really pushed for new links. With only two edits to the post, we went...

French Style Settee

Last December, my husband and I spent the Christmas break re-decorating our living room. One of the fixtures in that room was an antique settee that has been in my husbands family for generations. That’s it…underneath the mirror (this is the pic of...

Wow Us Weekends

It’s time to PARTY!!! Our Grand Re-Opening and Ribbon Cutting Ceremony is tonight and we have so many exciting things happening! Live music, raffle drawings every 30 minutes and three HUGE grand prize gift baskets! Plus, next week is my two-year...

Musically Inspired & Maximizing Paint

We call Annie Sloan Chalk Paint “liquid gold.” At $40 per can, it’s not something to be wasted! I am passionate about the product and about teaching people how to use it properly…about how to maximize their can so not to use more than...