Piece of Work Wednesday Furniture Link Party Number 46: Mint Green for Michelle!

Happy POWW!  Starting the party early today as I have too much to do later... It certainly has been quite the week here, and I am kept busy with VBS this week as well (I am the photographer!)  This weekend is also already booked with deliveries, baby shower, house hunting, and spin class.  It's only Tuesday and I am already looking forward to a slower pace next week.  I also can't thank you all enough for the prayers I know you are sending out for Cora.  Hopefully we will know this week if Andrew or Grace will be a bone marrow match.  I will keep you posted on that as well if there are any fundraising efforts that are put forth.  If one of the children is a match, Cora will be home for a few weeks in August before the transplant which would be at the end of the month.   I will happily find out what items might be needed and people could ship them to me, and I will deliver to them.  Anyhow, I will certainly keep you all  up to date, and am so grateful for all of you.

Over a month ago I found a great bowfront dresser on craigslist for $50.

When I went to pick it up, the seller removed her clothes and realized there was a hole in the bottom drawer and asked me if I would still take it if I could have it fro $20.  Yes please! I know how to replace drawer bottoms, but since this was a curved front drawer bottom I wanted a hand from my dad.  A couple weeks ago I finally was able to get to my parents house and my super handy dad who can pretty much figure out anything helped me with it.  So once the drawer was fixed, it was ready!  I had a plan for it, but sometimes plans don't always work out.   I hit some glitches.

After I commented on this post by Michelle, which featured beautiful images such as this...

Michelle asked me if I had ever painted anything mint green.  I had, but it had only been the inside of a cabinet.  I thought I would give it a whirl.  I mixed up some Annie Sloan chalk paints- some Provence, some Antibes Green, and some Old White.  And it created a beautiful mint green color!  I started to remove the hardware. 

Glitch one: One screw was so stripped that it was not coming out.  I put all the rest of the hardware back on and decided to paint the hardware with it.  Thankfully chalk paint sticks to metal!

So I painted it all with two coats of my custom color.

Glitch two:  It was such a pretty color, but I wanted to antique it a little more after distressing so I waxed it and then I tried the Annie Sloan dark wax and I hated it on this color.  My soft pretty color went from a soft pretty mint green to a dirty green.  So I painted back over it and was happier again.

And here it is now... it's not my favorite color, but it certainly was fun to do something in this mint green.

So whatcha got?

RULES:

1. Furniture PROJECTS only.  No crafts.

2. Must be a new project to this party- it can be an old post, but never before linked here.

3. No Etsy shops

4. Must be a follower here.

5. Must link back by either placing my button in your post or sidebar, or a text linkback will do, too.

6. Leave some comment love for other party-goers!

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