How to Create a Sea Swept Finish with Salt Impasto Artisan Salt Impasto is a powder that can be mixed with any water based paint to form a paste. When applied to furniture or other decor surfaces, it creates a textured finish similar to the sea sprayed salt washed up...
Easy Farmhouse crate I bought several of these wooden IKEA crates a while back, and have been using them as stacked shelving storage for some of my paint products. But since moving into our new house 6 months ago, we’ve built garage shelving for my paint stock,...
TV Tray Tables Before: We’ve had these TV tray tables since we received them as a wedding gift over 27 years ago! They’ve kept pretty well, although somewhere along the way, one was broken beyond repair. So we were left with three sitting on the stand that...
This plain index card box was one of my recent op shop (thrift store) finds, and I thought I’d use it to show how easy it is to turn something so plain, into a beautiful French Provincial style decor piece. Supplies used for this project: thrifted index card...
Piano prop before: When Bethany, Director of Alabaster Theatre, contacted me to see if I would paint a piano prop for their upcoming musical, I wasn’t prepared for what showed up at my studio. Bethany’s Dad took an old TV cabinet, pulled it apart and added...
Before I started carrying these lovely paints, Alison from Artisan Paint Company in Australia, kindly sent me some of her beautiful chalk finish paint products to try. I enjoyed playing with them in my studio and in our painting workshops. This is a piece I painted in...
