Labor of Luh...uhh...Labor Powder Room

Ok, so I am pretty happy with the results, but I put a pantsload of work into this seemingly teeny tiny powder bath....and I only spread it out over like 9 months. Yay me.
Month 1: Fret over how and what and when and how much to spend and how and what and when....( You'll notice a turquoise and brown glazed piece of pottery in some of the pictures.  This was my "inspiration", but I also wanted it to resemble both tiger's eye and copper without being too coppery and glammy)
Month 2: Purchase supplies, fret over purchase because sample boards looked like chalky poo...not exactly my vision.
Month 3: Sand down existing texture, begin smoothing and prepping...stand and stare and fret.
Month 4 and 5 and maybe 6: Ignore uneasiness in the pit of my tum tum and ignore the bathroom itself...close the door and work on Halloween projects.
Month 7:  Bite the bullet and just go at it.  Sanding, texturing, taping, priming, base-ing, blending....panicking.
Month 8:  Begin venetian plaster...troweling and burnishing and hating.
Month 9:  At some point I got my "Aha!" moment and realized what I needed to do to transform chalky poo into rad gorgeousness. *Ahem*  So I put on like 3 more layers of Venetian and Highlights, hand burnished and then stained over it, waxed and buffed and buffed to a high polish with my friend the electric buffer...and then troweled on a wax mixture of real mica flakes at the midline and drizzled down into plaster and polished again.
Baby revealed.

(Big D bought and hung the super neato edison squirrel cage bulb pendant from this company out of Seattle called Rejuvenation http://www.rejuvenation.com/ ...they still use people to put together all the parts and make your order to spec...lots of cool reproduction and vintage inspired lighting and hardware.)

Morning To Evening

I know I know...I can't believe it either, I finally "finished" a painting.  I have a supply hoarding problem, but I'm making myself get over it and push more texture and quit letting my ideas get all crusty and gather dust.  I used glass and metal beads and a good bit of resin and slickies.  You can hang it in all four directions and allow it to mean all kinds of things.  For me, its the morning, the day and the evening of your life.  Its your connections to family, to nature, to the earth and sky...the sun and moon. Embrace it all and celebrate before and until the sun finally sets for good.

You want it, don't you?? Well, too bad...it's already sold:).

Custom Aged Lockers

These lockers were originally pristine white lockers from The Bombay company...I dutifully banged, hammered, scuffed, repainted and rusted them to go into a sports fanatic boys room. I also replastered and painted the walls and ceiling...custom painted and rusted a fan and a trunk, trash can and magazine holders...and...crackle aged and repainted all the trimwork and doors. I will pull more pictures in another post.