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I spent a wonderful part of Sunday afternoon creating a new board on Pinterest!!! I am spending more and more time there and have now included time for it in my weekly calendar!!! Oh yes I did!!!
I know that you are feeling the same way…just admit it now and save us both a lot of [...]
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Procrastinator’s Party
You know I have a hundred thousand ideas running around in my head at any point of time…these can cause me to put things off or delay the pleasure of completing a project or reimagining. So I have come up with an idea (of course) to remedy this…what I call a Procrastinator’s Party! In [...]
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The redo of my Hoosier cabinet…Taa Daa…
I restored this vintage Hoosier over a 6-week period. This is what mine looked like when I bought it for $60…
the in between…(work)…I stripped away years and years of paint. About 6 coats of stripper were necessary.
Then I sanded it well…
I had to repair the tambour door…I used book [...]
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Ghosts of Furniture Past ™
a new feature here on C8C…featuring furniture updates, redo’s, repurposing…it will be a website of its own very soon!!! I own it.
For the past few weeks I have been doing a complete restoration (as close as I can get it) of a Marsh Hoosier cabinet. This is what a Marsh Hoosier [...]
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Guest GhostBuster Lesley Anne Kinney
Chest of Drawers with Chalk Paint by Annie Sloan
It was in reasonable condition but had years of grime and polish on it.
I cleaned the piece with Mostenbackers Lift Off® (from Home Depot). On the top and legs and any area I wasn’t painting, I lightly sanded. It only needed very light [...]
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