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Made It My Own encourages people to put their spin on a piece of furniture or item of decor using Annie Sloan products then share their creation to help inspire others…and there are $100’s in prizes up for grabs too! Painters are encouraged to upload a pic of their finished work directly to Annie’s online gallery and to share socially using the hashtag #MadeItMyOwn.

Which is why I was excited to learn about Annie Sloan’s Made It My Own campaign. Sometimes I miss that creative outlet badly! Though with the growth of my blog, and, more pertinently, the emergence of my little family, came the gradual demise of my blossoming furniture “business”. I kept some of the funny moments for you but you'll be please that I whittled 5 hours of media down to one for you WITH chapters so you can skip to any section you'd like more information on.Some of you may not know that when I started this blog, I was up-cycling and on-selling A LOT of furniture. I painted this dresser over the course of 4 (Hilarious!) Lives. The above step is kind of hard to explain but hopefully, my video will help. I like the spray bottle because it allows me to hit an area without having too much paint at once and then I just wipe away the excess with a rag if there is any. You can use a spray bottle like I do HERE or you can use a mister. You are basically adding a final wash or glaze to the piece. Did you want a bold pattern like I did HERE or a more subtle pattern like this chartreuse dresser? SO for this round, I want you to mist the area you are going to work on and then use the tiniest bit of paint.

Chalk paint 2 color distressing full#

You basically have got your piece at this point but now you need to make sure you've got full coverage and all your highlights and low lights are exactly where you want them. I'm trying to paint something that you cannot find ANYWHERE ELSE. I'm not trying to paint something just to save money or just to change the color of a dresser to match the new throw pillows. They look like they just came off the showroom floor.Ġr a pottery barn catalog! If all you are aspiring to is to get the perfect single color finish that looks exactly like a machine painted it and you can find it at any furniture showroom in any mall then we have different goals, my friend.

I see so many pieces all over my IG page are 'perfectly' panted. I always think that we should do a good job and hand over perfect work to our clients who have entrusted us with their cherished pieces, but if the goal is to make it perfect without making it art, I think we have missed the mark. I always think that the problem is perfection actually and not in the way you. You need to be painting furniture on a daily basis and trying as many things as possible. I'm just saying that if you want to sell your work, you've got to paint a BUNCH of hutches and practice the skill of furniture painting. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.” Ira Glass

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And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. “Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me.