Four Dollar Folk Art

My favorite yard sale-ing friend and I went for a marathon find on Saturday! I found three great Sandi Wickersham Resnick prints for four dollars each. The frames didn't go with my personal taste, but they had been professionally framed, so I decided to paint them.

This is a picture of the picture at the yard sale. The harbor scene reminds me of home in Massachusetts!

I used plastic grocery bags and Frog Tape to prep so there wouldn't be any paint on the glass. I wasn't too careful because I knew I could scrape the paint off in the end. I used primer first then regular black spray paint. I only used one coat of primer and 2-3 coats of black.

It turned out looking more modern and fit the personality of our house. Off to do the next two!

 Happy Finding!

-C

Honeydew Two-Tier Metal Rack

New project!! I got so excited to paint it that I forgot to take a before picture. 

It was an oil rubbed bronze freebie from a friend who did not want it anymore.

I used two coats of Rust-Oleum's 2X Ultra Cover Spray Primer. Then I sprayed 2 coats of Krylon's Fusion Gloss Spray Paint in Honeydew. 

 It looked perfect! No drips at all. Above is my proud Instagram picture with a nice filter. 

Then I realized that the bottom was not done. I used bricks to hold it upside down. 

BAD IDEA!!! I have been laying a nice towel or napkin over the bricks, but as I said above, I was excited and not thinking. It scratched my beautiful work on the top, so I had to go back and redo a few parts. I reprimed and repainted the general areas where I scratched it and it worked nicely. 

Here is the final product. It will be a perfect piece to sell at the 

local community yard sale to benefit the Lyons Club!

Happy finding!

-C