Painted Nightstand

Here's a cheap little crappy bookshelf/nightstand, spray-painted flat gray, then coated with some reds, gold and a little black paint and sharpie...rubbed with brown/black... I rather like it!  Sorry for the fuzzy images.

Painted 'Brick' Cabinet

Here's some more additions to the little cabinet--the front and the right side. Or left, depending on your lack of direction if you're like me!

'Dollhouse' Apartment Building

Step one of the "DD Dollhouse"! White paint on an 'about to be thrown away' cabinet, (use slave labor--kids that need something to do!), then a rubbery rectangle in mango/red/sepia to add some bricks... Next stage--make some 'limestone' trim, darken edges everywhere for more realism, and add a variety of cool things in the windows and on the outside of the building!

Oriental Cabinet

Experimenting with a figure from Google--no background design yet...this one is more or less practice and I can see some things I need to change already!
Don't know if this will be the back or front of the little cabinet I started in the post below...it crackled nicely when painted, but the store was out of the color I wanted, so I will probably rub something darker over it--too pumpkiny.
Not sure, but will probably keep adding some colorful figures, and designs, antique it and clear-coat. Here is another pic--with some side pieces; trying to decide if they should be color or black with gold designs on them later. The people still need lots of detail...sorta fun!

Furniture Re-do.

I got these two crappy little furniture pieces down the block last night for $15.00 apiece.

The 'chest on legs' is real wood and it will become an oriental-inspired chest someday, but I must change those hideous legs.
The golden one is real wood, fake crapwood (What kind of tree produces that?!), slick formica on the top and plastic 'fancy' front legs-yikes. The seller actually said, "ya know, ya might sand off that paint and they could look like real ivory!"--NOT.
I might faux silver the legs and top, paint it antiqued cream and robin's egg w/crystal knobs...then again, I might get crazy and paint it like a Klimt!

Now I just have to get inspired....good thing I can 'pre-plan' through PhotoShop!

Old Clothes Jack Sparrow Costume

This was made from lots of old clothes cut up and recycled, plus 40+ odd shank buttons on the coat/vest, spray painted etc. Wig is fun to wear; sleeves on dirty stained shirt are super-wide, just like the real one... even have crazy tacky rings and a 'compass that doesn't work'.

Glass Beach on Kauai

We had been near glass beach a couple weeks ago, but went the opposite direction and found a 'river' delta beach with a couple tired tires--tried to find it on Google by typing in trash beach and instead found glass beach, so we went back! Amazing! Beads of glass polished for decades mixed with black sand and regular sand, depending on where you wander; areas over a foot deep in glass--feels so weird as it washes up around your calves and ankles. We sat baby Emery down and you could dig so deeply in the sparkling glass it was amazing.
Although a large amount of it is mostly clear and brown pieces, we read that you'd be lucky to find any pieces over a 1/2 inch of other colors....I'd say we did pretty well! We still have not found any purple or red-- Bailey found what appears to be very thick art glass (multicolored) and some pale pink/white with a lemon 'rim' (whatever could that of been, and how did we manage to find 3 pieces of it??) and there are numrous little metal bits and polished aluminum--all safe to walk on! These are a few examples laid out to photograph--one day there were huge chunks--wish we had our masks!