ANNIE SLOANS CHALK PAINT-A "How To" performed on my "Goodwill Table"-$12.00

 So I bought this table at Goodwill a few weeks ago for $12.00! It was an adorable shape and I loved the doors but the 1960's oak and the brass handles had to go!

 I painted it with Annie Sloan's Old White paint. No sanding, stripping, etc. It was awesome!

I did lightly sand by hand, the areas I wanted to stand out.

Today was the day to WAX my furniture-I LOVE this stuff! I used Annie Sloan's Clear and Dark Furniture Wax. I put a coat of clear on a 2*2 space then dab the dark on my brush and dab it again on a paper plate-you can also use cheesecloth-as you will be using that anyway to wipe spots that may be too heavy.

 Here you can clearly see I had waaayyy too much dark wax! I just wiped it with clear wax and cheesecloth and VOILA!

 Top of the table when it was done.

 If you look closely (my lighting is not great) you can see here one door is waxed-the other is not. I think the waxing just gives it that finished look. It softens it a bit. You can do wax on any color. If you look through my blog you can see my pantry door and kitchen table that I did in Duck Egg Blue with the wax as well. The clear gives it a nice finish coat and the dark with the clear allows you to go as light or dark as you desire.

 I always try to get the wax in the moldings on my furniture because that is always an area I like to have stand out.

 More molding...

It is helpful to see someone hold the brush and actually put the wax on!

It does require a lot of dabbing, wiping and pushing to get the right finish.

The finished product! If you compare to the top, you will be able to see the softness the wax gives the furniture piece. 

This took all of 40 minutes from start to finish-to wax!

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Christmas 2012 "from my front porch looking in!"

A handful of Abbie's

When Cal and I got married and decided it was time to begin our family, one of the things we strongly agreed on was that we wanted each of our children to have a family name. We felt like that would help them create a connection and always have someone to look  up to. 

Abigayle's Attic- let me share with you a little family history.  Five generations back in Nauvoo Illinois, I had a great, great...grandmother who created, with her husband, a home and a family. She was the great-great-grandmother of my grandmother- her name was Abigail Abbott. 

On another line was my great-grandmother- Alveda Luella Anderson Fryer-but her husband, my great-grandfather called her Abbie. She passed away when my grandma was only 7 years old. I only found this out when my then-88 year old Grandma Afton (who we named our third daughter after) shared this with me. I have thought so much about these two women, both with whom I feel a great connection. When my great grandma passed away her sister took some of her things to give to her daughters when they were older. Unfortunately they remained in the aunts attic and never made it from sweet "abbie" to my grandma to my mother to me!  It was then I decided to call our Abigayle (named after Abigail Abbott) Abbie. All these thoughts morphed together along with my love for taking old things and making them beautiful to create a cozy home have created for me, and hopefully you-something to enjoy. This blog will host ideas on how to create a home with easy and inexpensive ways to do so. My background is in interior design but in recent years it has been in raising 5 children (4 daughters, 1 son) 

and keeping my husband and son sane with 5 females in the house!