More painted bits and pieces! The Annie Sloan way........

Car boot buy for £3

Auction buy for £1

Forgot to take pre paint pic but the others I have show the before- I got these at an auction for £2 for the lot!

Mushroom colour with thanks to my Mums recipe! And Chateau Grey.The candle stick has a gold paint rough detail and the table has mushroom trim- this was my first lot painted with thinned Annie Sloan and I do like the finish when using the paint this way- more coats but less brush marks.

Decoupage tin trunk

So I have a number of old tin trunks that have been around for years, handy for putting stuff in but they have rusted and been knocked about a bit.  I decided to try some decoupage on my smallest trunk and this is the result........

So I sanded the trunk to get off loose bits of rust and paint......

I undercoated it and painted the brackets, fixings and detail in old brass paint

I then covered the whole trunk in index pages from an old atlas to give me a base to work from and then added maps, pictures and some Graphics Fairy images 

The clasp to close the trunk was missing so I threaded some black ribbon through the holes , if I come across a clasp at any point I may replace it but I quite like the look.  I then brushed some brown pastel chalk over the whole thing to age the colours then varnished a few times.  I really love the finished result.

The Macaron story continues......

Well folks after a wonderful start to Macaron making things went pear shaped (or none Macaron shaped!!) various techniques, books, blogs later could not explain my problem - flat, empty, soggy, no feet, would be macarons!! Lots of ground almond and egg white later I decided to contact my mum!!!! And what a success that was- again my search for macaron heaven came true!

Now my quest is ended- I may try again some time!!
Thanks Mum!

Macaroons!

Well after Lewis bringing home (yes his month in Europe did go quickly!)  a lovely book- Irresistible Macaroons- what could I do but make some!!

Not perfect by a long shot but lovely!  I really like this book as there are 10 steps to follow to making them with a good trouble shooting section if needed!  Lengthy to make, yes, expensive yes but lovely YES!! oh and where have they all gone ?
Lovely B&Q staff are my taste testers- yes Gary took most of them to work!!!  Saves the waistline here I suppose! Maybe I will try some more for the village hall sale this weekend- what flavour?  Hmm maybe yellow with my lovely home made Lemon Curd...off I go then.....

Scandinavian pink inside!!!

Not a briliant picture but just to show the pink interior of my little cupboard- hmm lovely raspberry pink!!!  This little cupboard is now nicely nestling in my sewing room, fullup already of sewing etc stuff!!

Annie Sloan & Graphics Fairy = lovely sewing cupboard

 So this is a cupboard I was given a while ago- all the things I could do with it.............

 Used Graphics Fairy scissors- added a little dark wax to them and stuck them on..........

 Added a little handle I had........

 Will be a cupbaord for my sewing paraphinallia which is copious in its quantity!  I have painted the inside Scandinavian pink. more photos to follow of this!

Oh and a tray in the making- just cannot stop!!

Painted table

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My first bit of furniture - the learning really begins......... So this is the little dark wood table I got for a few pounds a while ago.  I Annie Sloaned it ........

and then added 2 decoupage maple leaf emblems from Graphics Fairy and distressed the whole thing.  I think I got a bit heavy handed on the lower part of the table but hey that is how it goes!  I could do with some dark wax to finish so may get some soon as I think it would mellow it all a bit further.  I have to say I think I need some more practice with the finish- lots of brush marks evident- although I think it adds to the knocked about look!!!!!!!!

 I wasnt sure how the decoupaging would work out but seems ok and took the wax really nicely.

So for my first large piece, not bad, need more practice so the next project begins.....