Tales of this shopkeeper - Chalk Paint Workshop in July

Last Thursday around 6:30 pm six creative ladies joined us for another Chalk Paint workshop at Winsome Cottage.  Once again Debra Campbell of Wallartistry Studio was our instructor...

The week before I had a call from a lady in New Jersey who was coming to Columbus, Ohio on business for two weeks.  She had heard about chalk paint and wanted to learn more so she found us online and registered!  We loved having you Maria!....

As Debra filled their heads with all things Chalk Paint, the ladies transformed a simple mirror frame and decorative hook with techniques like dry brushing, two color distressing, etc......

Everyone was very intent and seemed to enjoy themselves.....

Our next workshop will be an advanced covering aging dust and gilding.  It will be August 16th from 6:30 - 8:30.  Fee:  $75.00
Then, September 6th will be another basic workshop from 6:30 - 9:30 pm Fee: $95.00
Please call to register soon!

Tales of this Shopkeeper - Busy Bees....

This past week all kinds of ideas have been forming in my head.  Do you do that?  While sitting in your shop do you envision how to change this or that or how about just re doing the whole shop??  Well, I have one corner all set in my head and so this week we will be pulling things apart and and totally revamping, adding things here and there and changing the whole look....so stay tuned.  Pictures to follow!

We've been very busy at the cottage lately doing special things for our customers like this....

There are six of these chairs all in great shape and the customer picked out the fabric.  Really love the way they turned out!  She'll be coming in tomorrow to pick them up..........oh and the paint?? Old White, of course, from our line of Chalk Paint(TM) Decorative Finishes.

Tonight we finished a small vanity/desk in Emile.  We decided to "dirty" it up a bit with dark wax and give it some character with some rubbing back.....

Then I worked on this chair in my favorite color, Emperor's Silk.  I love these little chairs but what do you think?  Should the lettering be facing you when you come to sit down?  Wonder if it's a "do over".  Still cute!

White shabby furniture is always in demand at the shop so we worked on these three .....

This week I will have pictures of our new area as it gets finished....thanks for stopping by!!