“Meet the Artists” Preview

Hi there, dear friends,

I barely slept a wink last night, thinking about my to-do list for Thursday night’s Meet the Artist event.

You know how it is, when you are getting ready to throw a party, you worry about everything!

I ask myself, will anyone show up? Especially, since it’s supposed to rain part of Thursday. Oh dear!

But, as always, I know it will all work out. Bob is going to be smoking turkey and tri- tip for sandwiches and a couple of wonderful guys are pouring their best wines.

Steve and Jarl are wonderful artists, from Sausalito, California, and just really nice people! If you’ve never been to Sausalito, I hope you’ll add it to “the list”. It’s a gorgeous town that looks across the San Francisco bay, at the city. Stellar!

Really beautiful treasures, all priced under $500.

In case you’re wondering, that’s well below their Bay Area pricing. But don’t tell anyone!

Hope you can join us Thursday night!

Hugs,

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A Milk Paint Give Away at The Rustic Pig

I sit here, talking to you, working on my second “fun size” pack of gummy bears. I purchased this packaging, thinking that it would minimize my gummy bear consumption. Fat chance!

I just have more wrappers to deal with. Think of the land fill issues, Barbara! For heavens sake!

Where was I? Oh yes, speaking of pigs, I’m sponsoring a milk paint/wax brush giveaway, over at The Rustic Pig! Claire, the darling face behind the blog, is a furniture painting mad woman!

So, if you didn’t think your Mother’s Day gifts quite hit the mark, go get yourself some paint love, over at Claire’s!

And if you gave up on winning anything, a long time ago, like I have, just order what you want and the shipping’s on me!

In other big news around The Treasured Home, furniture is flying out the door! In the first six months of business, I had to get down on one knee and plead for mercy. Now, it’s like….better! Thank you dear guardian angel!

In preparation for the big whoop-d-doo, Thursday night, (Meet the Artists) in case you’ve been asleep at the wheel, I’ve been sprucing the place up a bit! Mr. Wonderful installed a curtain rod for me today, so I could add a bit more softness to all the hard edges in the shop space.

More painters drop cloth beauty, just like the original drapes I hung to cover up my little work shop mess.

Of course a day without furniture painting, is like a day without sunshine, so I gave this old chair some two-tone love. I think she’d be real sweet with this handsome new (old) spindly desk!

Well, I guess that’s all for now. Remember to reserve your spot for Wednesday’s Free 1- Hour Paint Workshop!

Hugs,

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How to Paint an Aged Finish

Happy Mother’s Day dear lovelies!,

It’s actually the day before Mother’s Day, as I write yet another spell-binding post, chronicling the life of a scavenger/furniture painter.

My back’s on ice and I’m pretending my diet Pepsi is a Mai Tai. Not easy.

Several months ago, in fact, before Christmas, someone brought two table bases to the shop. Identical, old, small table bases, covered in multiple layers of lead paint.

Just precious table bases, that needed to be stripped, in the worst way.

But, since I swore that I would never strip another piece of furniture, as long as I lived, Mr. Winderful stepped up to the plate.

I don’t know if anyone will mistake these table tops as the real deal, but this would be a sweet kitchen table!

I started with a warm gray and once dry, applied clear wax generously. While the wax was still wet, I applied a cream color, with a rag, to the table top, working in sections.

After I blended the paint and wax, I used a mocha brown, here and there, to warm things up. What do you think?

Hope you really enjoy tomorrow. Continued blessings, throughout the week!

Hugs,

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