LOOK WHAT I FOUND AT MY OWN YARD SALE european finished desk

She creeped into my dreams last night so first thing this morning I checked my work schedule

finding it was going to be light so away I went to rescue her from the left overs in the yard sale tent.

Some of you know we hosted a fairly good and definetly fun yard sale this past weekend,

in the RAIN!

We met lots of great ppl and some of my followers.

Leigh and George got to chat extensively about both their european trip tours.

Leigh is such a nice lady and is looking for antique wood corbels.

Does anyone local have suggestions?

Victoria and Pursie stopped in with family. I got to have a great chat and share some other

projects going on inside.

Sis and KC were a big help especially after we all attended a spa party Friday night

that ran quite late for our early Saturday morning start.

Now to the project at hand.

She was already painted white but tired and chipping exposing the cream color

painted underneath.

I spent the beautiful sunny day hand sanding all the details and belt sanding the top

down to bare wood to take the walnut stain.

New perfect hardware, and a walnut stain wash all over the body really finish this piece off.

BUT WAIT!

its not really finished till it gets a beautiful sprayed clear coat tomorrow.

UPDATE:

the finished piece with kewl drawer liners can be seen here

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YOUR VERY OWN CHARM beach shell charm tutorial

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Minggu, 12 Juni 2016

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Yesterday I showed you my beach charms and

promised to show you how to create them for yourself.

So without further ado,

Here is your step by step instructional how to make

 a flower charm from common beach shells.

I started by dividing the shells into different sizes.

 I then went and found the Krazy glue and tweezers.

 I started with one half shell and with a drop of glue

to the rounded

 bottom edge attached a second half shell kinda off set.

I used the hinge of the shell to mimic the look of each petal tip.

 The tweezers helped to keep my fingers

from getting glued together or glued to the shells.

As it sat on my work surface I dotted the glue

  on each new petal then holding the center

portion with the tweezers I pressed it onto the new

 petal letting the glue dry for a few seconds.

Continuing to use this technic I moved around the

 center part of the bloom added new petals. 

 Once the center started to get bigger I then

 changed my method by adding the new petals to the center portion by having it sit on the work surface and slipping each new petal underneath the edge.

By now this is what the back is looking like. 

 Keep going.

 and you will end up with this.

Next in the beach shell installments we havevotive holders found here:

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