It’s kind of a financially depressing time…

30Sep08

It seems like the last few days have been filled with nothing but terrible financial and economic news.  And honestly, I don’t understand all of it.  I’ve read the articles, but I just don’t have a real grasp of the details of how this happened and why, and I don’t even really think that the [...]

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The nightstand

26Sep08

This is actually the piece of furniture that got me started on my painting spree. I picked it up from a freecycler, sight unseen, and was pleasantly surprised to find that it was solid wood(except for the top, which is a sort of formica…or something like that!). I was unsure of how well [...]

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Tags: painting

Some cheap(and green!) wall art

25Sep08

I buy an Ansel Adams calendar every year(after Christmas, of course, when they’re 50% off!) and this past Christmas, as I was getting ready to recycle the calendar, it occurred to me that it’s kind of a shame to throw away these lovely black and white pictures, which are on nice, heavy duty paper. [...]

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Tags: reusing

Rescuing a vent cover(with paint, of course!)

19Aug08

It’s spray paint this time, though. Spray paint and I go way back….I was spray painting stuff long before I got on my latest furniture refinishing kick. A number of years ago when we lived in our townhouse, I changed all the doorknobs to a brushed nickel finish. It looked great, but [...]

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Tags: reusing

A little more painting

28Jul08

Antique lovers, you will probably want to leave the room for this post. Consider yourselves warned.
I’m about to post pictures of an antique dresser that I (gasp!) painted. In my defense, I got it from freecycle, and it would have been against the freecycle code of ethics for me to sell [...]

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Tags: freecycle, painting

I’ve been painting again.

21Jul08

Those of you know know me in real life will not be surprised by this because for the last several months, I’ve been on a roll with the whole furniture painting thing. For some reason, we’ve been blessed to receive an awful lot of solid-wood furniture recently on Freecycle…since March, we’ve gotten four dressers, [...]

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Tags: freecycle, painting