You might remember me talking about my PUC's - Projects Under Construction. Well, this year, I hope to complete 40 of them. Some are easily completed, others will take the whole year. One of the ones that will take the whole year is a 9-9-9 Challenge of books to read. The challenge: To read 9 books in 9 different categories in 2009 for a total of 81 books, but you can have at least one book overlap in each category which would give you 72 books. But I'm going with 68. It's still 9 categories but I've adjusted the number of books read to something that I feel I can do without stressing to much.
One of my projects for this year was to get new lampshades for my pair of vintage marble lamps. I was lucky enough to have my MIL ask me what I wanted for Christmas, so I received a giftcard to Lowes, and after the first of the year, I picked out two pretty shades. Then the next step was to paint the two endtables that the lamps sat on.
Here you have the lampshades, the endtables and just a few of my books!
The tables were originally white and pretty dingy. I have been trying to come up with some kind of style that I think I would be happy with and also Hubby. He doesn't understand my fascination with the old things, but I thought that the blues and greens would add some soothing tones to everything.
It's hard to see from the above picture, but after painting the endtables blue, I added a dry brush technique with silver paint. I love it!
The tables were originally white and pretty dingy. I have been trying to come up with some kind of style that I think I would be happy with and also Hubby. He doesn't understand my fascination with the old things, but I thought that the blues and greens would add some soothing tones to everything.
It's hard to see from the above picture, but after painting the endtables blue, I added a dry brush technique with silver paint. I love it!
This is one pf a pair of vintage drapes that I've held onto. For now, I have literally used thumb tacks and attached them to the wall, but lately, I've been thinking about using one to make a comforter for the bed and using the other as a shower curtain.
And the next thing that I started working on was an interesting technique I saw at 2cre8art. I haven't totally completed the task because I haven't used the wonderful background to make any ATC's or anything, but I love the technique!
I have a confession on this one. One of the steps is to use a spray bottle with water to dilute the colors. I didn't have an empty one, so I poured out the contents of a bleach/water solution and then rinsed the bottle, but didn't think to rinse the nozzle part. So when I sprayed, I got bleach water which turned some of the paper pink. But, hey, I meant to do that ;0)
I used one of the vintage hymnals for this technique also with some other vintage pages. I have some of the hymnals fpr sale in my Etsy shop if anyone would like one. I just love feeling the paper in those books!
