Yesterday, I was a crafting machine!  I painted the arms and legs of a $3 Goodwill chair (more on that in a later post), painted a night stand, and used a decoupage technique to transform an old wall-hanging into something much more modern.  Our bedroom received the first in a series of much-needed updates.

For the night stand, I began with a spray primer from Rust-oleum that promised to be sandable.  I had some problems with the initial application.  The primer came out somewhat chunky and ended up sort of turning to dust and just, well, falling off the back side of the small table.  After using it for a while, the texture became more consistent, but when I attempted to sand what I'd applied, it turned dusty again.  Maybe next time I will sand the surface of a project before priming.  Once I got the silver sprayed on (Rust-oleum Specialty Metallic), the surface seemed smooth.  I'm quite impressed with the intensity of the metallic shine!

Can you believe the wall art above was created from the thrift store find below?!  To start, I taped off that pretty gold frame and spray painted the canvas with a flat black.  When that dried, I used Mod Podge to apply one of Chris's favorite Van Gogh prints.  I brushed the white glue both underneath and on top of the print using broad strokes with a 1 1/2" brush in order to secure its adhesion and give the finished product a rich texture.  In the process of the decoupage, I noticed that my tape had slipped while spray painting the background, and the canvas part of the frame showed some black.  To fix the problem, I simply re-taped the gold parts of the frame and applied acrylic black paint with a foam brush.  

 Our bedroom is on its way to looking rather stylish!