Never enough storage...

Hi Everyone!  I thought I'd show you the new storage piece in my studio (you've seen it in some of my open house pictures) is an eight drawer dresser that belonged to my friend Lynett.  I had asked her to keep a look out for something for me and she found a few options, but none of them were right for me, but one of them was right for her.

So I received her dresser.  Just look at all of that storage!  And the drawers slide like a dream.  But the color, or lack of color, just wasn't me.  So I painted it!

 Don't you just love that bold color?!  I certainly do.

The color is called New Life by Americana Decor, from their chalk paint line.  I painted it and waxed it but I decided not to distress it, yet.  It works wonderful in my Studio and holds a bunch of supplies.  I certainly do love it!  Would you have painted it such a bold color.?  Thanks for stopping by.

Serpentine dresser reveal and an announcement....

Hi Everyone!  I hope your weekend was great.  I've had a very productive weekend working on my studio.  I'm getting closer to being done with it.  Thank goodness because I have a lot of work to do to get ready for the fall craft season which will be here before I know it.

If you recall, I showed you almost two weeks ago a dresser that I picked up for $20, you can see that here.

 There really wasn't anything terrible about the finish on this dresser.  It had a small water ring on the top but I didn't really like the orange wood look.  I have several other things that are this color that I would NOT paint because they are very special pieces to me.  I know that there are some of you out there that believe you shouldn't paint a piece of furniture like this, so if that's you, then please stop reading at this point!  Otherwise, please feel free to continue reading.  And know that I bought this dresser for the express purpose of painting it. 

 And here it is.  I stripped the top and stained it with dark walnut.  I used a product I hadn't used before, it's a foam stain.  And it worked wonderfully.

 I painted it with Annie Sloan Chalk Paint.  I painted the body in Graphite and the drawer fronts in Old White.  For the pulls I used the same barn red paint that I mixed for the the shutters I did. 

 I really like how it turned out.  And it looks great in the studio with the blue and gray wall colors.

 I staged the dresser with some things I've made, but it won't stay this way.  I needed this to house my tv so that it can swivel back and forth between the two spaces.  I like to work in the studio with the tv on and this way I didn't need two sets.

With this dresser finished, I'm another step closer to being "finished" with my studio.  I say finished, but we all know that we're never completely finished.

There's only a few big things that I have left to do and some things that need painted like the table legs that I built, a storage cart and the chairs at the tables but I will probably hold off on painting them until after fair season is over.  But I won't hold off the reveal for those things to be completed.

And now onto my little announcement.  You might have noticed that my header changed.  I did that to update the pics of things I've made and because I wanted consistency across sites like this one, FB and my new site.  I created a website for my business.  I feel like my little business is growing up.  I couldn't buy the domain name that I wanted of fullcirclecreations so I had to settle for www.fullcirclecreationsia.com.  Parts of the site are still under construction and probably will be for  a little while as I start working on building up inventory for fair season, but I'll try to get it done as soon as I can.  Please take a look at it and let me know what you think.  And any suggestions would be appreciated.  There are already a few things I want to change.  Now I need to finish working on a few orders that have come in this week.  Thanks for stopping by.

Linking to:
http://madeinaday.com/2012/08/02/made-u-look-linky-35/ 
http://www.myrepurposedlife.net/2012/08/catch-as-catch-can-83.html 
http://www.lizmarieblog.com/2012/08/link-up-with-me-liz-marie-12/ 
http://www.504main.com/2012/08/tickled-pink-no-109.html 
http://shadesofamberinc.blogspot.com/2012/08/chalk-paint-link-party_28.html