My Love Affair With Rustoleum

Happy Monday!
Or un- happy Monday....
My Monday?
Yeah.
Not so great.
Our youngest was up all night coughing.
I backed into my hubs car at a good speed.
Causing at least a grand of damage.
And I could barely run a mile this morning without my lungs burning.
Oh and my map my run app stop working when I got home.
And I have ten mosquito bites.
Thats all.

Hope yours is starting better than mine.
Oh and I still haven't broken out the fall decorations yet.
I am getting close though.
Was gonna wait til the 22nd when it was the first official day of fall.
But I am thinkin' a rainy cold day this week might just tip the fall decorating scale for me a little.
Will keep you posted, because I am sure you are just on the edge of your seat!

Sorry.
That was a little snarky.
That was uncalled for.
Won't happen again.
On to the real reason we gather here.....




As the title implies, I have a love affair goin' on with Rustoleum
Or Krylon.
Or the cheap one at Home Depot.
I have a secret love affair goin' on.
My hubs knows about it and is totally OK with it.



Yes.
I am in love with spray paint.
It has been going on for years now.
Three years to be exact.
Somewhere around the time I discovered bloggers and that spray paint could transform a room, a piece of furniture or an inanimate object with just the touch of a finger.
At one time, a friend had suggested she was afraid she would be spray painted should she darken my doorstep.
That is a totally legitimate fear.

Lately I have been in an spray painting happy mood if you will.
That usually happens this time of year when the weather starts getting cooler and the temps in my garage (where the spray painting happens) becomes more humane.


So I have this awe.some menu board that I crafted out of an old Lang calendar frame. Here is the original post:


http://agracefull-life.blogspot.com/2011/07/workin-with-what-ya-got-lang-calendar.html



I loved this little project.
And the thing I love most?
I use this menu board every single week.
Notice exhibit #1:

 

That is one hard ridden menu board.

I mean really hard.

I use it every single week but it was starting to show wear and tear.

 

 

 

See the grooves?

And it was getting almost impossible to write on it anymore.

Sniff sniff.

But did I throw it away?

Nope.

Just revived it.

With a little spray paint CPR.

 

Notice exhibit #2:

 

Here it is in the garage.

I decided to paint the frame a little more oomph of a color.

Yellow!

 

 

 

 

And now with three coats of new chalkboard paint:

 

 

 

 

Have I ever shown you where the magic happens?

Not that magic......geez, this is a family blog peeps.

Here it is.

Prepared to be amazed.

 

 

 

Yep.

My little corner of the garage.

My little spray painting universe.

It takes your breath away, doesn't it?

I know it does mine.

 

Before I show you the reveal on the menu board, lookie what else I did:

 

OK so this next victim has a back story.

It used to be tan.

Puke tan.

Then I painted it white.

Ick.

Then I painted it turquoise.

Then I painted it black.

I really do have spray paint ADD.

But I never really loved it.

It was always just ehhhh to me in the color dept.

I blame the puke color.

It just never gave this tray a chance.

 

Here it is through the years.

A little walk down memory lane if you will.

 

 

 

In its original state.

 

 

 

 

Painted white.

I swear it looked better than this.

I swear.

 

 

Turquoise blue.
Really bright, no?
I did like it.
For like two months.
Then it got hit again.






Back to basic black.
Basic safe blah black.







So I was nosing around my little corner of the garage one glorious day aka spray painting optimal painting season and found this gem:

 

I think it came down from the Heavens.

OK, it came from bestie Melissa when she moved.

But it was indeed a gift because I most likely would not have purchased this on my own.

So I thought, huh....this might look pretty cool.

 

So a sprayin' I went.

Then I took a sanding block and did this:

 

 

 

Distressed it.

Oh yeahhhhh.

 

Are you seeing what I am seeing??

Look at all those cool colors coming out???

Its like all those dead colors are rejoicing in the new color choice!

No, that's not it.

That's the paint fumes overcoming me.

 

 

I will show you the final reveal when I start decorating for fall.

In a week and a half.

When it IS fall.

That was supposed to be a little sarcastic jab at the other bloggers.

Yes, I am talkin' to you.

Fall doesn't start in August.

                                                                           Pass it on.

;)

 

 

 

OK so here is the reveal for the menu board!

 

Before:

 

 

 

 

 

After:

 

 

 

 

 

Doesn't it look so much cleaner?

 

 

 

 

OK so last little project I worked on with spray paint was my youngest daughter's bed.

 

 

 

This is such a bad picture.

Can I tell you how hard it is to take a picture of her room because of the blinding pink paint?

When I picked the color, I was creating a life in my womb.

                                  Aka- under the influence of bad decision making hormones.

It is a soft rose color and it was lovely for a baby girl but any kind of lamp in this room gives off the worst glare known to man.

And we read in this room.

A lot.

So this color will be changing.

To a color that doesn't require you to wear corrective lenses just to read Goodnight Gorilla.

 

So the bed.

Ahh the bed.

The headboard was my gramma's when she was later on in life.

It was her last bed before she went to live in the nursing home.

This is a treasured bed for many reasons but mainly because it was my grammas bed and my youngest has my gramma's name.

Ella.

So when it was time to get Ella a big girl bed, my mom wanted her to have this bed.

I mean it was only fitting, right?

 

 

The only thing I didn't really care for were the brass parts.

So I just brought the bed to the yard and painted it:

 

 

Just be warned, if you are a lawn purist, the mark will remain on your yard for atleast 1-2 mowings.

Be advised.

 

 

I used Heirloom White by Rustoleum.

I didn't want it to be glaring white but a soft white.

 

And here is the after:

 

 

The animal arrangement above was all Ella.

I love that she likes to tuck in her animals.

                                                                 After I make the bed.

:)

 

 

 

 

 

 

I love it so much more now.

Not that I could really love it any more than I already did.

Amazing what a little paint can do.