Dry-Brushed Chalk Paint Buffet

I’m telling you I’ve been a painting machine the last few days! I can barely see the skin on my hands from all the chalk paint colors covering them.  It’s been. a. blast. I truly hate I can’t find the before of this one– I found this...

dry brushing furniture | video tutorial

Waaay back when I revealed the Wisteria-inspired chest of drawers (the one that graces the cover of my ebook), it became the focus of lots of furniture painting questions for me. A couple of weeks ago, I revealed this french chair, and same thing.  Time to create a...

meeting Annie Sloan & counting sheep antiques

Going to Boston last week to meet Annie Sloan was definitely one of the highlights of my year. I remember the first time I opened up a can of chalk paint last March.  My good friend, Miss Mustard Seed, had told me about it the week she first blogged about it…and...

a french chair makeover

Since I’ve been taking a few pieces back to my window space at Troy Antiques, I’ve been on the hunt. You know what I mean.  Like…everywhere I go there seems to be something screaming, “paint me! paint me!!” Like this beauty, of course....