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Antique Dresser all GLAMMED UP

This antique dresser needed a FACELIFT and a little TLC. 

We dressed it up with a couple coats of silver paint and accessorized with glass knobs - Voila, it's ready for a Great Weekend!!

    

Girly Glam Vanity Dresser by Drab-to-Fab

  Sherry, from Drab-to-Fab  came by this week.  She worked on this piece at our place.  This cute dresser vanity was boxy and boring (aka "Drab").

 

 She took off the broken hardware and sanded the piece well.  To make the paint job less work, she mixed lavender paint into white primer.  This way she could combine two steps.  She applied two coats.  Next, she took a gorgeous Ralph Lauren stencil to each side and used a roller with a thin coat of white paint and stenciled each side.  (Rollers work well with stencils, because they apply an even coat of paint and do not push paint under the stencil, like a brush tends to.)

   

Knowing the hardware could not easily be replaced.  She used wood appliques to cover the large holes the old hardware left.  She applied several white appliques and some sweet porcelain knobs to the unit and even added two cute little legs to the front of the piece to make it appear more feminine.

Two coats of polyurethane SEALED THE DEAL!!

She's a miracle worker!

DRAB-to-FAB saves the Day!

Sherry,  from Drab-to-Fab was in working her magic again.

  

This beautiful dresser was sold before the paint dried!

  When we purchased this piece the mis-matched hardware left indentions in the wood.  Knowing how difficult this piece would have been to completely restore, Sherry just added some bronzy stencilling to cover up the marked wood and touch up some nicks.

 She replaced all the hardware with something we had on hand and this dresser had a fab facelift in a couple of hours.

  

Thanks for the visit Sherry - You Go Girl!

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To BAKE or not To Bake - That is the Question. I know the Answer.

Ok - before I show you the pictures.  Here's the story.  I thought I would bring some awesome blueberry muffins to the shop today.  I didn't have time to make them from scratch (I wouldn't know how to begin).

 So - I used a mix.  I only had enough for six muffins in my one baking tin, so I thought I would use cupcake cups.  Little did I know that I should double or triple them.

 Now - take a look.

Ooooppssyy!

If you ate them with your eyes closed - you would know, they were YUMMY.