Nancy’s Ramblings

It’s Friday morning, and I am already looking forward to the secret treasures that I may find at yardsales tomorrow.  In my home town, this is the best time of year to search for all types of eclectic things that I dearly love.  Old furniture to be painted is probably at the top of my list.  Here are a few pictures below of great deals I have gotten at yard sales.

This chest sure didn’t look like this when I purchased it.  It was very worn, dark wood which had no signs of any sort of finish left on it – which makes me VERY happy.  I knew as soon as I laid my eyes on it that I would paint it “Granny White” (a color mixed after matching an old armoir in my Granny’s White’s house). 

Want to know how I did it?   After painting it and distressing it with my palm sander by going over the edges just as wear would have done through the years, I watered down a little of my green and brown acrylic paints, and rubbed some of each on the edges all around and a little in the middle.  I wanted it to look like it had been painted years and years ago and had worn off with age.  Then I rolled a couple of coats of polyacrylic – matt finish.  This is one of my favorite things to do besides making and selling wreaths.

Here are a couple of more tables I have snatched up at yard sales.  I probably didn’t pay more than $3 or $4 each for these.  Of course, I painted them and this time I added some flowers.  Now don’t tell me you can’t do that…..  I think I’ll make a video about painting yard sale finds and sell it along with my Wreath making Videos….  you’ll see how very easy it is!

I put flowers and leaves on the table to the right.  I just know you could do this too.  I am not an artist – or maybe what you might call a primitive one.   That is the look I prefer anyway.

The one below was so much fun painted stripes around the edges.  Looks like it was hard, but no, I did that in just a few minutes!  You can’t see it from the picture, but the table has a groove arount the top edge, so I used that as my guide for the edge of the stripes.  Then I used an inch wide brush and went around painted the green stripes, then filling in with the yellow striped.  Of course, I distressed it a little by rubing some watered down brown paint and rubing it around the edges.

 One of my twin sisters, Sandra just called and she is coming tonight to spend the night with us.  She just lives an hour away, but she is tired of me finding all of the great “stuff”.  She wants to get an early start with me in the morning.  Now if I can talk my other twin sister, Susan into get up early enough – the three of us will really have a blast in the morning…. even if we don’t find anything.  Ha, Ha… that’s a joke, I never come home empty handed.

I’ll let you know tomorrow what great deals you come home with. 

Just a little update on Yard Sales for today:  We only got to go to a few – my sister became ill and had to go to the emergency room.  So, we’ll all leave out early next Saturday morning searching for GREAT finds!

Smiles… Nancy