Pearl and I have bound 150 books together and took a little break to gush over (and buy) some Annie Sloan Chalk Paints. Pearl wanted to take some back and I am doing my pebble frames and installation art stuff for the pebble display.Here are our colours. Mine will all be watered down and mixed, like the one on the bottom right which is Chateau Grey.(The table is incidental).We have colour charts and even tried painting plastic which had been lightly sanded. Big Success!I collected the … [Read more...]
Annie Sloan and me
My family has been raving about Annie Sloan Chalk Paints - all my sister's furniture is done in Annie Sloan, Megan's garden furniture, garden shed and Tessa's "limewashed" bed. Anyway, evangelically, Megan gave me two little jars to try. And yes, I'm hooked. I visualised my pebble watercolours as being mounted onto 15cm square blocks with edges painted in different soft sea-sidey colours. I diluted this paint so that the woodgrain would show and colour-washed the sides. Well, first I sanded … [Read more...]