Did you notice I have a new avatar?
If not, meet Quandie!
My new avatar is compliments of Monica a.k.a. Kit Kat. Does this girl have some talent or what?
She brought this for me the last time we went garage saling.
Are you digging the blonde hair? The jaunty scarf? The fabulous multi-colored tail held at a proud angle?
I love them all, but my absolute fav part are the wings. Hello! Yep, I’ve got wings!
The results of my highly unscientific drawing for my ‘pay it forward giveaway’ are in … and the winner is … drum roll please … Victoria!
Congrats Victoria!
I found this old cupboard door at a garage sale in the MacGrove neighborhood a couple of years ago. I originally painted the inset with chalkboard paint, added a chalk pencil design and put it in my occasional sale for $22.
Nobody bought it the first year.
Nobody bought it the 2nd year.
I had a couple of people ask, is that design permanent? No, it isn’t. I think that was the wrong answer. Or maybe it was the right answer, but they didn’t want chalkboard? I’m not sure.
Either way, it didn’t sell.
OK, I can take a hint. And I was bored last night so I decided to restyle it. I sanded it down and casually slapped on a few layers of milk paint. I don’t normally paint over existing paint, so this was an experiment for me. I got a lot of chipping over the original paint, but not much at all over the chalkboard paint. Interesting. I had mixed the final coat of Linen a bit thicker than usual and dried it with a blow dryer to get some crackle going on.
But, I was aiming for super chippy, layers of ‘age’ and slightly grungy. A little scraping, sanding and dark wax later, and that is pretty much what I got.
I added a French Market stencil and presto chango, a fab new sign.
I’m kind of loving it in my own kitchen. I might just have to keep it now.
q is for quandie 