Christmas Mystery Gifts

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Update:  Scroll to the bottom to see a completed Mystery Gift!

We were shopping in Kohl’s last week and Danny spotted an item that we could do!  It was a shutter painted and prettied up and is used for displaying Christmas cards and/or photos.  So, off to the resale/flea markets we went!  We found exactly what we were looking for in the first flea market we visited.  That doesn’t happen often!

We now had what we needed (except for prettied up part, but that will come later) to make some great Christmas gifts for 6 lucky family members and friends.  LOL

We decided to make a contest out of it for our facebook page.  It took less than an hour after posting the contest for someone to guess what Danny was making and to win it!  molimestonepaint_ruralamericaThe winner will receive a 6 oz. jar of “Rural America” the color we used on the shutters.

Here’s Danny working on the mystery Christmas gifts.  You’ll notice that with chalk-based paint you can paint anywhere without worries…..even in a remodeled basement!  We will dry brush distress the shutters with “Sunday Silver” and will post a photo of the finished projects when complete.

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Good job, Danny!  Love the one that is now hanging on our wall.  ; )

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November Class Projects

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The projects below are from November’s Make & Take It class.  They are now in place in the participants’ homes.  Very nice.  I will add more as I get them.  See photos from the class.

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Paint display at Gift Emporium & CAFE’, Sullivan, MO.  A variety of colors are available there for purchase.

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SharSum Paint’s First Make & Take It Class was Fun!

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SharSum Paint conducted their first class, November 2015, in a friend’s awesome shop area at her home.  Nine “students” were there and had a great time learning more about chalk-based painting and actually painting a project they brought. They had so much fun, they are ready to attend another in January.  In January, we will explore more with waxing and distressing techniques.

We will also be conducting classes at Gift Emporium in Sullivan.   We will plan on starting these classes around noon, so be sure to bring not only a project to paint, but an appetite, too.  Class sizes are limited to no more than 6-8.  Please check the Painting Classes link on our website menu for the next class.

Are you interested in hosting a painting class party in an area of your home with you and your friends?  In winter, do you have a heated garage or a basement just crying out for a paint party?  We can paint just about anywhere so you can be the judge on the best place and the number of friends (no more than 10).  Contact SharSum Paint (sharsumpaint@gmail.com)  for more details.

The biggest lesson to learn when first painting with chalk-based paint is paint in thin coats.  This will help your paint dry quicker and make a nice smooth chalk like finish.  The projects for our first class didn’t have time to dry enough for waxing, but as soon as they have waxed their projects and sent pictures of them, I will post their finished projects here.  For the next class, we will have hair dryers available for speeding up the drying process.  And remember, apply chalk-based paint in thin coats. This process is different than trying to cover an area in one coat.  You may need several coats, but the end result will be beautiful.

In the meantime, enjoy seeing this first group’s re-purposed objects come to life in the beautiful colors offered by Missouri Limestone Paint.

 

 

Some quick Friday projects

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I’ve been playing with painting projects today using my chalk-based Missouri Limestone Paint. I tried out a distressing technique I hadn’t tried yet called dry brushing. I like how the “French Roast” color breaks up the flatness of the “Rural America”.  The candlestick was an old Home Interiors piece with a white glass center and a design painted on it. I got it for $.50 at a resale shop. I got the shelf at a resale shop, too. I’m loving doing the “junking” that comes along with painting. I love the candlestick with my Thanksgiving display. I also made a dry erase board by painting the back side of a picture frame. I used “January” for the glass and “Farmhouse Green” for the frame.  Who knew you could do this? This lady did. And the sharpie really did come off with hand sanitizer. Makes you wonder what’s in that stuff, doesn’t it? Here’s my inspiration for the dry erase board.http://www.thepurplepaintedlady.com/2012/06/3362/

Click on each image for a larger view.

Do You Need a Project to Paint?

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Do you need a project to paint? Gift Emporium & CAFE’ has unfinished decorative birdhouses for sale. I just painted and waxed one in the color “Trading Post” and it painted beautifully in just one coat. This one is going to Gift Emporium & CAFE’ as part of the paint display, but if you would want to buy it already painted, I’m sure Michelle would sell it to you. : )

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Gift Emporium in Sullivan is Carrying our paint now!

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Gift Emporium & CAFE’  – 228 South Highway 185 – Sullivan, MO  63080

is now carrying SharSum Paint’s chalk-based paint from Missouri Limestone Paint Company. Be sure to stop by Gift Emporium to see the beautiful display of paint Michelle created (right by the font door) and purchase a jar or two or three. : )

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We guarantee you will love it! Missouri Limestone Paint strives to keep prices reasonable and we want others to enjoy painting with chalk-based paint at a price we all can afford, so a 6 oz. jar is only $5.99 and a pint jar is just $15.99. The color chart is available there and we can order even more awesome colors. Just let Michelle know what other colors you’d like to see. BriWax and a paint starter kit are also available for purchase. Be sure to enter our contest on our SharSum Paint facebook page, if you haven’t yet, to win a 6 oz. jar of paint. You must Like our page and tell us whose pic is on the profile. : ) You also must be able to pick up your prize if you win. Contest ends when we have 200 Likes. Thanks!

If you would take our Interest Survey (see the menu on our website) and let us know the color choices you’d like to see, we can make sure we stock popular colors.

We will be scheduling some Make and Take classes soon, so watch our Facebook page and our website at http://sharsumpaint.com for upcoming classes.

Be sure to click on the link on the upper right of this page to follow our blog to keep updated on what is happening next with SharSum Paint.  We hope to make the paint available in several counties surrounding Sullivan soon.  In the meantime, check out Gift Emporium and CAFE’ and our paint display there!

Be Sure to Like and Share our SharSumPaint Facebook Page.

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A new “Junk” store to check out!

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Sandy Marchetto dropped by today to deliver my essential oil order (Peace and Calming and Cedarwood).  Of course, I had to open them and they both smell great!  I can’t wait to diffuse these.  Tonight I will try one or a combination or blend with others. It will be a great night to diffuse after working all day on my bathroom re-do. I can’t wait to relax with the diffuser going and watching Episode 3 of Catastrophe, an Amazon Prime series daughter-in-law Daphney recommended.  Very funny!

Sandy mentioned her cousin had a facebook page (look up Junkin Treasures by Jen) and has opened a store in Union, Missouri.  I looked at her facebook page and saw a beautiful buffet just like I was searching for when I was looking for one for my bathroom vanity project.  The price is $125 so if anyone is in the Union area and looking for a buffet, you might want to check this out! Click on my bathroom vanity project to see how I’m transforming an old buffet into a new vanity for my bathroom.

I’ll be stopping by Jen’s store for sure the next time I’m in the area.

Kerr Canning Jar Vase

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givethanks_fallOne more project tonight.  I was on a roll today finding projects to paint and re-purposing things from around my house. This one only cost me $.99 and that was for the fall font.

Silhouette fall font – purchased from Silhouette store for $.99.  Re-designed the letters on my Silhouette Portrait machine and printed on brown contact paper.  Yes.  I have one of those, too.  I make a lot of projects with my Silhouette machine.  I love that thing!

Ribbon – from a stash I kept when making bows for my grand daughter, which she basically never wore.  She hasn’t ever liked bows.  But I saved the left overs.  Remember, I’m a teacher.  We don’t discard.

Chalkboard – you will recognize it from the project I made earlier today.  Just erased one message and added a new one.

Pumpkin with air plant – bought that from a Vintage Market earlier this month.  The other side is a jack-o-lantern!

Flowers – Stole those out of an ancient arrangement I had.  I may need to re-arrange that one a little to disguise the holes I left.

Kerr Canning Jar – bought for Young Living Sugar Scrub.  Yes, I like  essential oils, too! I gave this jar two coats of off white chalk-based paint I had left over from other projects.  It was a little thick, so just added a bit of water and it was fine.  Then I sanded the jar a bit with 220 sandpaper and added the fall letters. I tied a ribbon around it, stuck in the flowers, made a vignette with my chalkboard, pumpkin and jar— and there you have it!  A beautiful fall arrangement. Don’t you agree?

Chalkboard from a Cabinet Door

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I was looking for ideas for class projects using chalk-based paint that is so popular.  I had to look no further than Pinterest and my basement. Pinterest sparked the idea that I could paint a cabinet door.  I happened to have 6 of them in my basement.  Don’t ask. I’m a former classroom teacher.  I save things.  You never know when you will need them.  And, see….I needed a cabinet door. The upside down copper drawer pull was a left over from our kitchen remodel.  I didn’t miscount.  I realized later the way two drawers were installed, drawer pulls on either one wouldn’t allow the other drawer to open. Hmmm.  Twenty-nine years in this house when we did the makeover last year and I never noticed this before.  But, then, I never had drawer pulls on my kitchen drawers before.  Click here for a peek at our kitchen makeover.

I will say that a chalkboard idea might be better using chalkboard paint rather than chalk-based paint, but I didn’t have that so I thought I’d give my Missouri Limestone Paint a try.  It worked just fine, thank you!  And, with grandkids, I just happened to have a fat piece of chalk.

So, with no expense, and using left over Missouri Limestone Paint in the colors of “Homemade Ice Cream” and “Something Blue”, missourilimestonepaint_chalkboardI have a nifty little chalkboard sign for a kitchen or entryway or wherever you’d like to put it, and to show my “students” when I teach my classes.

Chalk-based paint is definitely not just for furniture.  See my Chalk Paint Project Pinterest Board for more class project ideas I’ve been collecting.  Of course, I added this great idea – can’t lose it! I can’t wait to make some more example pieces!