Tuckahoe Home & Garden Tour

One of the houses on this year's Home & Garden Tour was a beautiful craftsman home that had been recently built and placed on the market: 3020 N. Underwood Street. I was fortunate enough to stage several pieces, including a secretary & chair, 3 occasional tables, a green farmhouse bench, and rocking chairs on the front porch. All pieces were painted with Annie Sloan Chalk Paint. I offered one of my occasional tables as a raffle prize (winner's choice), and the French Linen table was claimed. The winner also purchased the table in Provence. :)

Chair painted Country Gray and finished with clear & dark waxes.
Seat reupholstered in natural linen.

Secretary exterior was painted in Country Grey and finished with

Clear and Dark waxes. Interior painted in Duck Egg Blue and

lattice hand-stenciled in Old White, protected with Clear Wax.

Farmhouse Bench repainted with Antibes Green.
Finished with clear & dark waxes.

Close-up of bench aged with dark wax and sanding.

Rocking Chairs in French Linen (no wax)

Side table in French Linen, clear & dark waxes

Side tables in Paris Grey (left) and Provence (right)

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Owl Silhouette Project

The animal of the moment for Au is the owl. This summer she has devoured Kathryn Lasky's fiction series The Guardians of Ga'hoole . Au selected the species for the project based on their characteristic sizes and profiles. I created silhouettes in Adobe Illustrator based on the photographs Au found at owlpages.com . Next we will print and frame them for her room.

Silhouettes

I've played around with creating custom silhouettes digitally using Adobe Illustrator. I start with a digital photo, creating an outline using the pen tool. I love the way they look! Of course they pale in comparison to the artwork that silhouette artists create with paper and scissors, which is what I have on my mantle, but this is a fun project that I have enjoyed exploring and doing for friends.

Navy Bed

Painting in blue is something that I haven't done much of, so when a client was interested in painting her son's vintage white bed in navy blue, it was really a great opportunity. Annie Sloan's Napoleonic Blue wasn't quite dark enough for the room decor, so we chose to finish the piece with a generous helping of Annie Sloan's Dark Wax. I preceded this step with a layer of Clear Wax (and let it dry overnight) because I always want to have max manipulation when it comes to the dark wax application. This pictures shows the difference between clear and dark waxes. The paint, followed by the dark wax to achieve navy blue, also created depth and movement in the painted surface. A single navy blue paint color wouldn't bring that style!

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