Giveaway

Win all of this!!!

In case anyone is still around here reading!

I have a giveaway going over on my FB page! I'm there all the time! Come hang out and enter! 

Http://Facebook.com/shopdesignsbydaisy 

Furniture

I've been working on lots of small furniture for Sweet Ila Mae's barn sale! 

Mostly I wanted to have some pieces to build my booth and to display all my small stuff! I'm soooo happy with how all of it turned out!

 I'm pretty much a novice at furniture painting. I painted a lot of stuff when I was younger, but I knew nothing about how to paint, proper types, top coats, etc. so these are my first successful pieces! ;) 

Almost of this was painted with DIY chalk paint (made with plaster of Paris), with the exception of the white sides on the tall dresser below. That is CeCe Caldwell's Chalk Paint. All are waxed with CeCe's clear wax. Love. Love. Love that wax!! I use it on everything, and its lasted all these pieces plus more, with just under half a can left!!

Tall dresser and nightstand...

See my messy garage?!

All "distressed" areas were dry brushed. It looks 10 times better in person! The hardware I sprayed with oil rubbed bronze. Makes a world of difference! I got both of these pieces from friends and they were very well-loved and used. Almost vintage! 

This bench had nasty maroon carpet stapled to it. Super. Nasty. You could tell the bench was handmade though and it had potential. My mom picked it up at a yard sale.

Now it's cute, stripey, and has some signs to match!!

Cute nightstand, stripped the dark top which had nasty maps mod-podged on it and whitewashed it a bit. And small round table was previously dark stained too. Looks beachy and frenchy respectively now! This was the only photo is snapped before I stored them away for the sale, but it's with lots of other cute stuff headed to the barn sale too! The hardware on the nightstand just got a quick whitewash and sanding. It was decent to begin with

Gray and cream bookshelf. Previously with heart cut out doors. 

Ignore this mess in the garage! This is going to be "my desk" at the sale. It was a beast to paint with the beaded sides so I just sort of slapped it on and it ended up cuter than I expected! I still have a board I'm going to add to the back with my logo. 

Oh, one other exception, this piece was spray painted on the black part. I didn't have the patience to hand paint it!! It looks great though! Distressed beautiful on the edges and sealed with a polyurethane. The top is DIY chalk paint and waxed though! 

This piece I worked on awhile ago and it's been a makeshift night stand for the hubby. It's a little too girlie though, so it's headed to the sale!

Only a couple more pieces to work on...if I get to them! :) If not, I think this is plenty! My booth is only 10x9 and will have lots of other stuff, vintage goodies and of course my signs!!

Mr. & Mrs.

Here's a few new signs I've made for the up coming barn sale (search "Sweet Ila Mae on Facebook!) that are Mr. & Mrs. designs. Plus a few that are sold that I've made and not posted about before!!

Slightly different from the one below...

Planning to make a few more soon!

Beachy signs

Working on LOTS of stuff for an upcoming sale!

Here's some new beach designs!

Also working on painting some furniture for my upcoming sale. This sweet little bench is one piece I've recently completed!

I'm going to try blogging from my iPhone with the app, so it's not going to be the prettiest or with the best pics, but better than nothing!

I'll try to blog from my computer soon about the sale so I can do a link but if you are really interested, try copy and pasting this link! Not sure if it'll work but worth a shot! ;)

https://m.facebook.com/#!/page/about.php?id=545976182086959&__user=1446840443

Commenting.....and Catch me on Facebook!

I've had to turn my comments to no anonymous users! I've been getting around 20 emails a day with spam comments on my most popular old posts! I hate doing it since I want anyone to be able to comment! Even if I'm not posting, I'm still around to chat!

And you can always see what I'm currently up to on my Facebook page, I'm around there much more!

Day 30 & 31- A Giveaway!

Forgive my lack of finishing up 31 days!

Le'ts have a giveaway to make up for it!


You can win your own set of blocks in any colors and word of your choosing (up to 5 letters)

 

Other examples here

 

 

 

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Day 29- Various Christmas Signs

To finish off our Christmas segment, here’s a bunch of random Christmas signs that I have made that didn’t fit into the other categories!

 

 

 

 

 

I made all of these using this method.

To see the rest of my 31 days of signs posts, check out these links,

Intro

How to make signs:
Day 1- Where to find wood
Day 2- Gathering your supplies
Day 3- Making signs using your own stencils
Day 4- Making signs using pre-made stencils
Day 5- Making signs with stickers
Day 6- Making signs free-handed
Day 7- Making signs with stamps
Day 8- Making signs with transfers
Day 9- Print a sign
Day 10- Making signs with cutouts
Day 11- Recap- 8+ ways to make signs

Beach Weekend:
Day 12- Beach Subway Art
Day 13- All You Need is Love and the Beach
Day 14 - More Beach Signs
Day 15- Small Beach Signs

Various Signs:
Day 16- Girlie Signs
Day 17- Dr. Suess Inspired Signs
Day 18 - Letter Blocks
Day 19 – Bushel and a Peck Signs
Day 20- You are my Sunshine Signs

Fall and Christmas Signs:
Day 21 - Fall Signs Part 1
Day 22 - Fall Signs Part 2
Day 23- Give Thanks Signs
Day 24- Christmas Letter Blocks
Day 25- Joy Peace and Noel Blocks
Day 26- Merry Christmas Signs
Day 27- Christmas Subway Art Signs
Day 28- North Pole Signs

I sometimes link up to these lovely ladies' parties:

 

 

Day 28- North Pole Signs

I love these North Pole signs! A little bit of Christmas whimsy, without being too cheesy!


I adore how the aqua shows up under this red sign, and I barely did any distressing to get it!









Funny story about this last one…I picked this piece of wood up off the side of the road! I loved it’s shape and thought it would be perfect for a sign pointing somewhere!


I made all of these using this method.

To see the rest of my 31 days of signs posts, check out these links,

Intro

How to make signs:
Day 1- Where to find wood
Day 2- Gathering your supplies
Day 3- Making signs using your own stencils
Day 4- Making signs using pre-made stencils
Day 5- Making signs with stickers
Day 6- Making signs free-handed
Day 7- Making signs with stamps
Day 8- Making signs with transfers
Day 9- Print a sign
Day 10- Making signs with cutouts
Day 11- Recap- 8+ ways to make signs

Beach Weekend:
Day 12- Beach Subway Art
Day 13- All You Need is Love and the Beach
Day 14 - More Beach Signs
Day 15- Small Beach Signs

Various Signs:
Day 16- Girlie Signs
Day 17- Dr. Suess Inspired Signs
Day 18 - Letter Blocks
Day 19 – Bushel and a Peck Signs
Day 20- You are my Sunshine Signs

Fall and Christmas Signs:Day 21 - Fall Signs Part 1
Day 22 - Fall Signs Part 2
Day 23- Give Thanks Signs
Day 24- Christmas Letter Blocks
Day 25- Joy Peace and Noel Blocks
Day 26- Merry Christmas Signs
Day 27- Christmas Subway Art Signs

I sometimes link up to these lovely ladies' parties:

Day 27- Christmas Subway Signs

I’ve really grown to love subway art! I’ve shown you some of my beach subway art here.

I made a few different subway art pieces for Christmas last year that I thought I’d share today.

I made all of these using this method.

To see the rest of my 31 days of signs posts, check out these links,

Intro

How to make signs:
Day 1- Where to find wood
Day 2- Gathering your supplies
Day 3- Making signs using your own stencils
Day 4- Making signs using pre-made stencils
Day 5- Making signs with stickers
Day 6- Making signs free-handed
Day 7- Making signs with stamps
Day 8- Making signs with transfers
Day 9- Print a sign
Day 10- Making signs with cutouts
Day 11- Recap- 8+ ways to make signs

Beach Weekend:
Day 12- Beach Subway Art
Day 13- All You Need is Love and the Beach
Day 14 - More Beach Signs
Day 15- Small Beach Signs

Various Signs:
Day 16- Girlie Signs
Day 17- Dr. Suess Inspired Signs
Day 18 - Letter Blocks
Day 19 – Bushel and a Peck Signs
Day 20- You are my Sunshine Signs

Fall and Christmas Signs:Day 21 - Fall Signs Part 1
Day 22 - Fall Signs Part 2
Day 23- Give Thanks Signs
Day 24- Christmas Letter Blocks
Day 25- Joy Peace and Noel Blocks
Day 26- Merry Christmas Signs

I sometimes link up to these lovely ladies' parties: