Roman Numeral Clock Coffee Table

It's finally FINISHED!!!  It only took me a week to finally get it done, but here it is...  My clock coffee table!  We had our ups and downs during that week and the stenciling was a pain, but in the end it turned out just the way I imagined it would!  Mom and I took it up to The Blue Moon yesterday so that it would be there for the "weekend warriors" and hopefully it won't last long!  We only have a 10x10 space and we have more big furniture projects coming and these have got to go!  :-)

One thing that I did learn in the stenciling process is don't use the same paint you use on the furniture... which I did.  When I went to Hobby Lobby to get the stenciling stuff, they didn't have the stenciling paint color that I needed so I opted to use what I had (you know, beings that I am all frugal and stuff).  Well, don't do it.  The paint dried on my stencils, even though I put them in water after I used them until I could clean them.  Uh, yeah... didn't work out so well.  I am going to try some paint thinner on the stencils and see if I can get it off like that, but I have a feeling I will mess up my stencils.  Not a good thing.  (I will have to update this when I try and let you know what happens to my stencils.  Hopefully they won't melt or something disasterous happens).

I wanted to stencil around the design in the middle, "There is a time for everything" but at this point aggravation had set it and it wasn't fun anymore so  I decided to go with what I had.  I think that I will visit the Graphics Fairy next time.  :-)

Miss Mustard Seed Milk Paint

I can't tell you how excited I was today when the doorbell rang and it was my local postman with my Miss Mustard Seed Milk Paint!!!  I am so pumped to use it!  I have seen some furniture that has been painted with it and it just looks totally awesome!  If you don't know what the final product of milk paint looks like, it looks like this...

©Miss Mustard Seed, image found here.

As I was "surfin" on the net, I came across this awesome new blog called HollyDo.  She had tried out the paint that I just bought by Miss Mustard Seed and re did this cool looking piece of furniture and it turned out fabulous!  I just had to post it because I am so excited about trying this new kind of paint.  This is the piece that HollyDo did (does that even sound right, lol!)  I just LOVE that chippy look!

Isn't that just amazing?  I love the look that the milk paint gives.  It's spotty and crackled and just looks really old. I can't wait to try it out my first piece! 

Click here to visit Holly's blog for more!

All pics are ©HollyDo.blogspot.com

I have an idea of what I want to paint, but it is a little expensive, so I want to make sure that I don't waste it.  Here are some of the colors that they have available.  

By no means am I some kind of rep or getting paid to promote this or anything.  I just discovered this really cool paint and wanted to share it with you.  You can find Miss Mustard Seed's paint here or look to the right of my page and there is a button that you can click to get to the order site.  I will be posting my project very soon!!!  I am so PUMPED!!!  :-)