♥ My Morning Crafting ♥

Hi everyone!
I hope you are all having a great Friday, I'm glad it's the weekend aren't you? I had to be up early this morning...Michele brings Sydney so that I can take her to school on Friday's so I figured I'd paint my pantry boxes before they arrived:) First off thanks to all of you who left a comment with your suggestions loved them♥
Now remember the pantry boxes were barn red, hunter green and navy and my sister gave these to me in the early 90,s for Christmas. Here lately I've been wanting to update them so I thought I'd give it a try:) It took a couple coats to cover them, after they dried I used watered down Burnt Umber to stain them. I found out you have to wipe almost immediately because it drys faster then I thought it would! I love how the blue one turned out only because I've been wanting to incorporate the color blue in my decorating again. It just goes so well with what I have, oh I'll still use the black but my "new" color will be, Williamsburg Blue, that's the shade it is. the middle one is painted with Buttermilk and the bottom one is Ivory...just used paint that I already had:) I have them on my bar in the kitchen. Oh, and I also used a neutral shoe polish wax on them too, it only smells like shoe polish for a few minutes. lol
I also did some other little things...Sydney had suggested I put this label on my little, galvainized bucket and put apples in it but the apples that I have are to big so I'll be on the look out for smaller ones to prim up and put in there:)
The homespun I put around my wisk broom is a sort of flannel and I coffee dyed it with cinnamon and vanilla but it didn't take to well, does Walmart still sell the Walnut Ink? Our craft area in our Walmart isn't very much anymore since they did away with selling fabric so maybe they don't even have it anymore.

Here also is the candle holder that I bought for $1.99 at GW, I wish the pic had turned out better I used the 28 inches or less setting and somehow I never get it right.

Here is a closer shot so that you can see I did distress it and also used the burnt umber all over it. I also grubbed up some plain candles and did what Terry from Big City Prims had posted about using a plain tea light. I only had cinnamon and ginger to work with an thur in some coffee grounds and for my first time of doing anything like it I was happy with the out come...better then plain beige.

This is a candle I grunged also...this is on a bench in my bedroom, everytime I went in there I'd look at that plain candle and think I should grunge it up and I finally did.LOL

Well, that's about all I've been up to this Friday...I have to babysit tonight which I don't usually do because that's Stush and my date night, but Michele won Penguin tickets at work and will sit in the box with her boss so I'll watch them so she and her husband can go and enjoy theirselves:)

I changed the background color didn't like the brown:)