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A video on spray painting pumpkins (and Ava is a star)

I am scheduled to be on the local morning TV show called "Kansas City Live" again this Tuesday. On the first show, I showed how to paint a chalkboard. You can see that blog post with the video footage here. For this show....I am demonstrating different ways to paint pumpkins.…

October 1, 2012

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Desk transformation…..and my favorite color of RED paint

We just finished painting and glazing this red desk. I found it and this pile of treasures from a garage sale that my momma recommended I go to! SCORE! Thanks, mom!!! I had the Magic Brush girls paint it for me in Sherwin Williams Red Bay. It's my favorite red as long…

September 28, 2012

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Fireplace tile: you CAN paint it!

(Fireplace tile BEFORE) A few weeks ago, we had a client who asked us to paint her fireplace tile that is shown above. The tile is pretty standard for Kansas City. I thought it was gorgeous. But, it was just too dark for her....she wanted more creams and whites and beiges…

August 6, 2012

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Tale of 2 chalkboard tables

I know my blogging has been sporadic at best for the last 2 weeks. I am blaming it on my pictures loading sideways on every post I attempted. I thought I was getting close to loosing my salvation, so I backed off posting. HA! Anyhoo...... This post may…

April 16, 2012

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We can paint/stain your brick/stone fireplace

(before) We had a client who had this beautiful fireplace....but she wanted the stone to be warmer.....less gray. (after) So we used Stain and Seal from Faux Effects in a few different colors (American Walnut, Van Dyke and Rich Brown) to stain right over it and warm up the color palette.…

December 20, 2011

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Spring wreaths hate me.

Every stinkin' time I get a beautiful wreath on the front door.....Mother Nature wrecks it. Seriously....this wreath was beautiful last week. But I thought I'd be cute and put it on the outside of our front door. Forgetting about that little thing called "rain". And "wind". Now, in the words…

March 23, 2011

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I decided to get on the tissue paper ball bandwagon before it was over

Last fall, my church had a women's conference that I was asked to decorate for. The theme was "Freedom in Every Season", so we decorated our church lobby for each season of the year. My personal season was "Spring". (my beautiful momma and I in the…

March 20, 2011

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Sage green buffet makeover

I thought this buffet was pretty to begin with, but my client was ready for a new look. After considering several faux options, we decided on a soft sage green finish. Here is her buffet today: (This post contains affiliate links for products I used, love and recommend!) A…

March 16, 2010

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Bombay chest makeover

Check out my Bombay chest makeover! This post contains affiliate links for products I love to use and choose to work with. Any purchases help support my blog and furniture makeovers-- thank you! Here is my client's bombay chest before. And here it is after. First, we deglossed…

November 21, 2009

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Ode to a ping pong wreath

Do y'all remember my beautiful wreath? Do you remember when last week I came home to this?? (the hot glue melted a bunch of the balls off): Then in typical "it's-supposed-to-be-spring-but-it's-gonna-snow-2-weekends-in-a-row" style, Kansas City got a little of this: And did I mention that I have 3 of these?: Lessons…

April 6, 2009

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