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Painted Table

When my oldest was about 3 he took to stabbing the table with his
fork. I realized that instead of fighting him all the time I would just
get a different kid friendly table. I hit up all the garage sales in the
area and got a great table that came with 2 leaves and 6 chairs.

I sanded and primed the table then painted the entire thing white. I painted the edge of the table green and blue..

Next, I found a fun stencil and got a few more colors of paint. I covered the entire top of the table with the stencil.

While it was fun, it was just a bit too bold….Here is the entire top after I completed the stenciling.

I toned it down a lot buy dry brushing more white over the top and the edges.

After that I put around 5 coats of poly on.

And finally in the newly painted dining room (I will put a post up soon with these pictures).

I still need to paint the chairs. I am planning on painting each one a different color to match the colors in the table.

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Painted Crib

I promised a post about the pink crib in Miss Faye’s room. I love color and I love to make my world a  bit more colorful with paint, so I paint everything….and I do it often. There is no better excuse to paint than finding out you are having a girl after 2 boys. The first thing I did for the new baby’s room was to paint the crib pink (a little side note about the color pink….I strongly dislike the color for little girls. It has been over used soooo much, but I just could not find a color that went with the rest of her room. So, pink it is).

 It did take a few steps to get to this and to make sure that it would be baby safe, but like I said before I am obsessed with painting and love to do it!

Step one: acquire a crib. I bought a new Jenny Lind style crib (we had to trash the crib the boys used because it was a drop side and the company refused to send parts to convert it). Anyway, the crib needed a couple coats of primer first.

Step two: Primer….I used 2 cans of this.

Step three: Paint…I think I used 6 cans of spray paint.

Don’t forget to flip it over and paint both sides!

Step four: seal everything with a spray polycrylic.

Step five: Realize that maybe you should have painted the room before you painted the crib because now you have no where to put the crib!

Here is the crib now in Miss Faye’s room.