Sharing Shadymont, My Mountain Cottage

I was in Lowe's a few days ago and bought new house numbers. We took ours down when the house was last painted and had never put them back. I almost bought a small white plaque to put the numbers on, but it wasn't what I wanted, so I didn't get it. Since then, about 2 weeks, I've been scoping out the "wood" items in Good Will, and have almost settled for items, that I didn't really like but knew I could paint and work with them. Again, I waited. Then I went for Sr. Day, and found what I wanted. Look at the shape of this frame, and the way it is distressed. Pure perfection, except the burlap is dirty, much worse than it seems in the photo! I didn't think but I could have just painted over the burlap, and had a white background without all the work of taking this apart.  It wasn't really meant to be taken apart, but I figured out a way to do it. I got out some of my scraps of fabric and decided to use this piece. I hung it ri

I'm fighting the urge to go shopping for more "stuff" (that I do NOT need), so I decided to give this tall candle stick a makeover.   I found this some years ago at Kirkland's, and it had a little piece at the bottom that had been broken off, so instead of $49.99, it was $10.00.  It started out gold, then I used Annie Sloan Chalk Paint in Olde White, with dark wax for the first update.  Well, it was looking kinda blah, so I painted it with Green Water by Valspar.  Olde White  Green Water   I brushed the paint on, not trying to get it into every crevice, because I planned to distress it.  While the paint was not quite dry, I gently rubbed a sanding block across the areas where I wanted the white to show through. This made it very easy to get a distressed look.  While I had the paint out, I painted this little angel plaque. It was drying quicker than the candle stick, so I had to rub a little more to get the distressed