PB Knock-off

I love Pottery Barn....I collect their catalogs until they stop sending them because I never buy anything....

This lantern makes my heart flutter....the simplicy of it......but the price tag also makes my heart flutter.....it's not even near my price range....not....even...CLOSE!

But over at The Hand-Me-Down House, Amanda shows you how to take this:

and transform it into THIS!!!

She has an amazing tutorial HERE.

Side note: You can find those brassy lights at your Habitat Restore and also a lot of Thrift stores for next to nothing!



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Cupboard Door Picture Holders

I've been dying to do this project!!  I first saw it on The Creative Crate months ago and couldn't wait to try it!

The first stop was to the Habitat Restore where I picked up these old cabinet doors for about $0.50 each!

I cleaned them up and sprayed them first with Rustoleum primer...



...and then Rustoleum Blossom White...

I let them dry.....for like 3 weeks because I didn't have time to get back to them!.....and then I added my trusty mix of glaze.....truly about 1/6th of this can has lasted through 5 months of projects!

...there's no special technique to glazing...it's like The Karate Kid..."wax on, wax off!".....

...wipe on your glaze to a level of thickness that you prefer....if you wipe on too much then wipe it off!

....note the difference between the glazed wood and the sprayed wood....the glazed wood really has dimension to it.....







...drill holes where your ribbon is going to get pulled through....I used two sizes of bits...

I went through first with the smaller one just to get the hole for the ribbon started and then made it bigger with the larger bit...

After a number of failed attempts to get the ribbon into the hole (and not finding a lick of tape anywhere to tape off the end!)............I decided to push it through with a toothpick....it worked great!





I tied my bow and attached my magnetic clip with a little bit of Gorilla Glue.....awesome stuff!

Stacie at The Creative Crate used 8 x 10 pictures, but I only have a 5 x 7....her doors must be bigger than mine...

Now I just need to get some Black & White photos of my kids to fill the empty spaces!



Linking to:

DIY Project Party

   

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Family sign

I love the Habitat Restore.....yes, it is overwhelming because it is SOOO big, but again....I go and shop with a purpose....I take a list telling me exactly what I need or I just wander around completely lost!

On this trip, I was looking for a cabinet door.   I forget how much it was per linear foot, but after the salesperson measured it, this door was only $0.80!!!  (And there were TONS of doors!)

Now I will tell you the correct way to do this....not how I did it because I was RUSHING!

Prime the door!!!  I didn't prime it and I started with Krylon's glossy ivory and I got these weird little bubbles all over the door.  In fact, I left it in the garage for days because I thought that I ruined it......but YOU CAN'T RUIN SPRAYPAINT!!!  A little bit of sand paper to rough it up and you have a completely new surface ready for its new coat of paint.

The second time around I decided to use Rustoleum Heirloom White.....it's a satin finish and really looks nice!  I think that I prefer satin....I'm just not a glossy-type girl.

Once again....at this point, I was not planning to start a blog, so I have no pictures.....but imagine a piece of wood now a lovely shade of ivory!

After letting the spray paint dry (which I didn't!), add some Minwax stain or my new favorite....Behr antiquing glaze.  I just rubbed it on with my son's old t-shirt.

I find that the antiquing glaze is thicker and allows you to add more depth to the "antiqued" look.

I wanted it to look really old, so I left so clumps and streaks. 

Then...I started to sand and rough up the board.

I thought that I let it dry long enough so I went to apply some of Jill's vinyl over at Utah Vinyl....alas....I didn't wait long enough and the spray paint was wet and pieces of paint pulled off and it was a complete disaster!!!

You can't see.....but the vinyl sticky paper pulled the spray paint off between the FAMILY letters.  I ended up spraying a blast of paint on a paper plate and using a watercolor brush to pull paint off the plate to fill-in the holes where my paint was pulled off.  I then just glazed over it again.....mistakes are ALL part of the charm!  (At least I just keep telling myself that!)

The vinyl cost about $5.00!!  So in all (since I already had spraypaint and glaze)....the project cost $5.80!!!



I'd like to drill holes at the top and run a pretty ribbon through it and tie a bow hanger on it! 

Wouldn't this be a gorgeous Christmas gift???

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