These are some DIY projects we completed over the holidays.
Refinishing a Rocking Horse and a Dresser
This dresser is special to me because my mom and I picked it out at a flea market years ago in hopes of redoing it to sell. Then I fell in love with it but didn’t know exactly what to do with it. Then life got busy. So this Christmas I decided we need more toy storage especially with another baby coming. So I found a new home for this jewel and decided to finish it.
The dresser had a door over the shelves. So I took it off and put pallet wood where the old shelves were.
We bought this rocking horse for my son last Christmas at the 127 yard sale in Crossville. I didn’t get around to redoing it before Christmas last year so I finished it this year! It was a hit! It’s the first thing my son goes to every morning screaming, “Neigh, Neigh!”
The rocking horse had googly eyes that I pried off but I didn’t change much about it.
I forgot to take a before picture because I’ve had these 2 pieces for years. I thought I had some hidden away somewhere but I can’t find them. Sorry.
Refinishing process on both:
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Sand
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Crackle paint
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Paint white (repeat 1st 3 steps until you like the results)
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Final Sand
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Wax
Canvases
These were very dear, close to my heart Christmas presents we worked on for the grandparents. My mom and mother in law both say every time they see a cardinal “there’s Mamaw”. Plus it was so much fun watching Witt get into painting this year. I was so proud!
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I put dots of grays whites and blues and let Witt smear them around
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Then I went back and just smoothed them out before it started drying
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Dry
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Painted his hand with red and stamped it on the canvas
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Dry
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Then I painted the branch on and the face details
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Dry
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Then use a fanned out brush dipped in white, cream, and very light gray to dab the snow on the branches
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Dry
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I cut out the saying “cardinals appear when angels are near” in vinyl on my silhouette then stuck it on but you could paint or write it on with a sharpie.
Ta-Da
Signs
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I used plywood that I cut to size with a table saw
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Then I found a sheet of “paneling” at Lowe’s I liked even better. So I also cut it to the same size as the plywood and glued them together
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Next I cut 2x4s in half and cut the rounded edges off with the table saw
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Stained
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Then nailed to the plywood and each other with a pin nailer
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Next I used my silhouette to cut out sayings or dates in vinyl
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Stuck them to the paneling
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Then I put a coat of modge podge over the top
Ta-Da
I just painted the plywood white on a few instead of using the paneling and I painted the red baseball laces on there too.
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