On a French Roll

Earlier today I made a post about my Puffy Frenchy Royal Frames that I just repainted and repurposed from mirros, and now I'm back to show you the cute little childres French Chair that I just finished too!

This one was kind of a trial and error, with a mix of 3 different colored paints, a rag, sandpaper and my achy breaky back!! LOL  I seriously need to take a day at the pool or the beach again!

Here's the little childrens chair the way I bought it. On the bottom of it was a sticker that said it belonged to a local church.  I can only imagine how many little girls and boys sat on this chair during Sunday School.

I sanded the chair down...

(Heya Emily, did you see what I see in the background?

Noooo, not my truck, silly girl.. hehe! It's "our" dresser!! haha!)

Then "roughly" and "haphazzerdly" (is that a word?!) painted French Blue all over.

Being careful NOT to be too careful and leave some splotches of the wood.

I let the blue paint dry, and finished the puffy frenchy frames I posted about earlier today.

Then, went back out to the garage and again, haphazzerdly, painted on some burnt umber paint.

This time as soon as I put the brown paint on, I wiped it off.

Only doing sections at a time so the brown wouldn't dry too fast.

Then, immediatly after I added the brown paint to the entire chair,

I did the same thing with cream colored paint.

Applying the cream color paint in sections at a time

and wiping off/in as I went.

Took her outside for a good lashing sanding ;)

And here she is!!

From that... to this!

What do ya think?

Now that I've tried it on a small piece, it's a little back breaking,

but, I think I can give myself the "go ahead" on something larger...

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