Dose of Sunshine

It is cold here today, and I am a sunshine girl!
Sometimes you just need a does of sunshine!

Sunshine…

with a little color, you can add a dose of it to anything.

We are going to take this dried out beat up table and turn it into a warm conversation piece.
Step one: Sand off the rough edges.
Step two: I spray painted the whole table because it had a very un-even finish. I chose gold so that when I distress, a little metallic will show through.
Step three: Start at the bottom with yellow(DIY Queen Bee) and begin blending up into orange (DIY Summer Crush) and then into red (DIY Marquee).

Step four: Turquoise on the top of the table (DIY Old 57) and blend yellow and red in sparingly.

Step five: Hand paint your sunflower, or any design you choose.
Step six: I chose to distress it back - you may or may not want to go with this step.
Step seven: Seal it up with your choice of sealer. I went with a polyacrylic because it needs to be pretty hardy.

This piece is available - if you need your very own dose of sunshine.

Screen Door Makeover

Sometimes age and sweet details, just need some color to truly shine.

My mom (finder of all cool things) scored this brown door at a yard sale. It needed some support on the back side but, don’t we all? LOL! A couple of small metal plates and a couple of screws had her strudy as could be.
Can we admire her detals? She has the sweetest scalloped frame, shuttered bottom, and I LOVE the letters and numbers left from a previous owner.
I imagine that this door slammed a hundred thousand times as kids ran in and out of it in the summer time…so, those letters and numbers are probably significant to someone in the world - they MUST be kept.

I wanted to highlight her scallops and her chippiness. Paperclay moulds helped me add fun details in the corners, around the letters, even the key holes by the door pull.
Then came layers of color. Turquoise, corals, yellow, copper, white -
The bottom was calling for flowers, so flowers it got!
I replaced the torn screen with chicken wire, and voiala ~
Now, this door will brighten up your front porch, or make an adorable message board to hang on your wall.

It doesn’t take much to go from old door to statement piece - this door is the perfect example.
If she speaks to you, she could be yours.