Duck Egg Blue

Thank you so much for all the fabric love. I’m so grateful to have such wonderful friends (even if you’re online!). I’ve always felt such love and encouragement from you in this online space and I hope you know how much I appreciate it!

The winners of the Wallflowers giveaway are:

Jeannie Gan, Katie Ellis, Sarah Dull, and Robin…I emailed you ladies!!

I bought this little dresser at Goodwill downtown Seattle a few weeks ago. I actually liked the way it looked before but it needed some sprucing up.

This was my first time using Annie Sloan chalk paint. There is a lot of info on the internet about Chalk Paint…but basically you don’t have to sand or prime and it leaves a matte almost chalk-like finish.

I love almost everything about this paint. I love the colors it comes in, love that you don’t have to sand, love that there was almost no odor so I could paint inside, love that it went along way…I used maybe 1/4 of the quart on this dresser, and love that it dried fast!

I don’t love the price (it’s almost $40 for that quart!), it’s only in boutique stores, and it really should have a topcoat over it to prevent watermarks/chips. I put a water based polycrylic over the paint to seal it and make it durable…or wax works well too but is more labor intensive.

All in all I’m really happy with the result and I’m sure I’ll be using chalk paint a lot more…if only because I don’t have to haul the furniture into the garage and sand/clean/prime it before hand!

Hope you all had a nice Halloween!