Paste wax finish and Vintage Inspired French Hotel Knobs

An actual piece of furniture all finished and ready to show off my fancy knobs!

This piece is EXTRA special because I only paid $15 for it!

Yes, the top was cracked!

But a little gorilla glue and some nails fixed it right up!

It started out as this- welll, I did start brushing primer on the side of it before I remembered to take the pic, but you get the idea!

Hmm, -the previous knobs had two screws- have to work some magic with wood putty, sander and a drill to make it ONE hole for these Lovely knobs!

 (These are my NEWEST knob design available in my etsy shop)

More primer

Some lovely blue paint with ivory details, a heavy hand with the sander and a coat of clear paste wax and dark paste wax and it is DONE!

A few pinterest pretties

I managed to grab a few seconds to admire pinterest- so much fun! -Had to share at least a few lovelies with you all!

BTW, I have been really erratic in my posting lately but I have been trying to get a bunch of projects done by the 21st of May. I'm really trying to get some good pics of them as I finish each so that I can do a tutorial style post on each of them just for you!

(Another little tidbit- I FINALLY, FINALLY found the pieces I have been looking for to finish up my mystery project. You can check out the original post here and hopefully I can get the fun reveal-slash-tutorial posted! Can't wait!)

Fabulous crisp, clean tiles!

Image from nestegg.typepad

Lovely little bit of relaxation heading my way?

Image from littlebluedeer

Stunning or what? I am lovin this vintage dress!

Image from tumblr

Anthro Mirror

One of my previous posts had promised an Anthropologie Knock Off Distressed Mirror.

Weelll......

Here it is!

I had so much fun with this!

-AFTER the mirror finish was distressed!

I just used paint stripper and a scraper (outside of course)

to distress the back of the mirror.

The frame was a plasticky gold thingy that I primed and painted gray and finished with a whitewash that I wiped off of the raised edges.

Then came the fun part,

spray the back of the mirror with spray glue,

lay a pretty piece of floral fabric on it and smooth out bubbles,

Snap the mirror and the backing back onto the frame and

VOILA!!