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Groundhog Day fun

January 30, 2013

I love celebrating holidays, and not just the big ones. I love days like Groundhog Day because it’s a great excuse to add some fun to a regular day, and besides, celebrating holidays with kids makes them 10 times more fun. Here are a few fun things we did last year for Groundhog Day. We...

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How to Refinish a Kitchen Table Part 2

January 29, 2013

Ready for part 2 of how to refinish a kitchen table? This part was a lot of fun, and involved a lot of patience! 🙂 My advice to you would be to grab another table to have set up in your kitchen while you are working on your current one so that little hands wont be too curious! These...

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Marianne
Camilla, that looks amazing. I am sure it looks fantastic in your new home. Way to go!!!ReplyCancel
mara
LOVE it. grey is my favorite, and this is gorgeous! great job!!ReplyCancel
Cassia
It turned out gorgeous!! Thanks for sharing!!ReplyCancel
Marie
you may have already covered your chairs but I am about to do a similar project and did not want the plastic either. With 4 kids I needed some stain resistance. I bought oil cloth. It comes in a ton of print options, not too expensive but can wipe clean!!
Good luck!ReplyCancel
- Camille Walker
  I still need to paint them, but I did find fabric that already had a plastic like material sealed to it that works rather well. I want to see your before and after Picts! Thanks for the tips!ReplyCancel
leah
I love it! I’m going to greywash my table in a few weeks and this is exactly how i’d like it to look. I have just a few questions. So you said you painted the table the grey (looks like its a relatively light grey)with a few coats with a roller then the next thing you say is about the trick to drybrushing…was that with the same grey for the first, solid coats? As for the glaze, do you tell them how much black to add or do you just say you want black added and they just do it? Thanks so much! I hope mine turns out half as good as yours did!ReplyCancel
leah
oh! one more question! How has it held up? I have little kids too so I’m curious! 🙂ReplyCancel
- Camille Walker
  Hi Leah!
  
  It has held up really well! I have had a couple instances when the paint was fresher that I didn’t remove a cereal bowl with milk below it that became stuck and pulled little bits of the paint. 🙁 so when the paint is new-ish keep an eye on that.
  
  The glaze was mixed with black paint and was actually left over from a neighbors project. To the eye it looked pretty black though. The white wash was actually using white paint mixed with water once my grey coats had dried. I still love it! I hope I answered all of your questions!
  
  ~good luck!
  
  CamilleReplyCancel
Elisabeth
I recently glazed some of our cabinets with an antiquing glaze that Lowes sells by Valspar that worked great. They ended up looking very similar to what you have here.
How did you decide what finish to go with? What are the qualities of it? I originally tried a lacquer on an area of my cabinets that yellowed the area (painted white) that had to be redone. I’m fairly new to artistic painting with furniture, especially with holding around little hands and accidents :).ReplyCancel
- Camille Walker
  Hi Elisabeth!
  
  I wanted something that looked “beachy” and was hoping that there would be some grain wood underneath when I sanded the table down because it is is a great table. I was shocked to find that it was a composite wood with no grain! That is why I used this hand brush technique to mimic what wood grain stained would look like.
  So far I’ve had no yellowing and until I can get a new table I just keep changing up this old one! 🙂
  I kind of just made this up and applied different bits I had learned from reading other tutorials online. And yes, little hands can get in the way sometimes!ReplyCancel
Elisabeth
Well, I think you did an awesome job, especially love the glazed carvings, and I’d keep that table til it fell apart! I:)ReplyCancel
Gloria Tulip
If for some reason you absolutely can’t live with the appearance after glazing, and if you realize this rather quickly, you can wash the glaze off and let dry and redo.ReplyCancel
Lucy
Please send tips for chairsReplyCancel

Gloveables…

January 28, 2013

Happy Monday! I hope everyone is having a great day, and had a fun weekend! Here in Utah we got a lot more snow and have been setting records like crazy this month. From high snow totals to freezing rain to record cold temps and of course the haze. Yes, we Utahans pay for leaving...

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Nurse Meagan’s Medical Moment

January 25, 2013

This medical moment is brought to you by all the runny nosed, coughing kids who have been around lately. If you’ve been watching the news, you know that this year has been quite the year for influenza (the flu) and RSV. So here is a quick run-down of the two and what you can do...

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Brad Pitt

January 24, 2013

There is nothing like visiting the gynecologist…nothing. Without getting into too much graphic detail, I just have to say the the instruments they use are nothing less than something from a horror film. The first time I went for an exam was when I was pregnant with my first baby. I followed the doctors...

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Valentine’s day fun

January 23, 2013

Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, so I thought I would share a few easy and fun activities to do with your kids on that day. Last year we started our Valentine’s Day with breakfast. We had red waffles, and fruit cut with heart cookie cutters. Oh, and strawberry milk, of course. They thought it was...

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How to Refinish a Kitchen Table Re-Do part 1

January 22, 2013

You will love this kitchen table redo! It was almost 5 years ago from today that Paul surprised me to go on a quick weekend vacation to visit New York City. I was due to have Jackson in April and it was Paul’s “busy season” with public accounting. We were running around the city, eating...

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Lisa
Wow Camille! Way to do it yourself! It’s going to be beautiful and I can’t wait to see the finished product!ReplyCancel
Jennifer
This is absolutely stunning! And I couldn’t have found it at a better time…..I have just stripped down my kitchen table and am going to do this finish on it.

I did have some questions though…did you paint it all gray first, then whitewash, then glaze?

Also…..was the whitewash white paint and water or gray paint and water.

Again, thanks so much. I had no idea what to do with this table as once stripped I realized it wouldn’t be able to be stained due to permanent markings in the wood. Now you made the fact it would have to be painted exciting!ReplyCancel
- Camille Walker
  Yeah! I am glad you like it! To answer your questions 1. Yes, I did paint the whole table grey first, white washed second, glazed last and then put on the protective coat.
  
  The white wash was made of watered down white paint. Hope this helps! I’d love to see a before and after shot of your project! Follow mymommystyle on Instagram/Pinterest/Facebook (not sure what you prefer) and tag us!
  
  Have fun~ CamilleReplyCancel
Jennifer
Thanks so much. I will try to get the before and after pictures up somewhere. I am not very 21st century but I do have facebook….just haven’t been on it in months and certainly not enough to know how to put pics up!!! I will try and figure it out!

I did have one other question and then I’ll try not to fill up the whole cmments section with my nervous nellie questions!……Was the grey light, medium, or dark in shade? I am also thinking of doing this in a taupe type of color but am still undecided……what is your opinion of that color option for this style of finish?

Thanks so very much again!ReplyCancel
- Camille Walker
  I was lucky enough to find a gray that I liked we’ll enough in the “oops” section of already made paint which cut on the cost. It was a medium gray. If you want to make it lighter you can always make your white wash thicker with another coat.
  
  Taupe would be really pretty too! I already had a lot of cream in my kitchen so I wanted something a little different. I am painting my chairs white but haven’t gotten to it yet. (Pregnancy has slowed down my painting lately.)
  
  Good luck!ReplyCancel
debbie tomlin
camille I love your table and we are redoing our kitchen and my husband ask me what was I going to do with our ugly table so I’m coping you my only question is did you use high gloss or flat paint I really did love the look thanksReplyCancel
- Camille Walker
  I want to say it was somewhere in between. Honestly, it doesn’t matter much because one you do the top coat and the protective coat you can choose the finish you would like. I would suggest leaning more towards gloss because it is easier to clean!ReplyCancel

Not Your Ordinary Oreo Cookie…

January 21, 2013

Happy Monday! Do I have a fabulous dessert recipe for you! I’ve been working on a recipe my sister-in-law gave me this weekend that I think you and your family will love. Not your ordinary Oreo cookies: Here’s what you will need: – large bowl and mixer – 1 box of Devils Cake Mix –...

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The latest and greatest healthy kid treat

January 18, 2013

My kids have found their new favorite dessert…and its healthy. I will be the first to admit that my kids are not health food lovers. I mean, they do love grilled chicken, and rice, and a variety of fruits and veggies, but they aren’t perfect eaters. They spit out their carrots. They gag down potatoes...

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Birthdays by kids, for kids

January 17, 2013

Oh what to do in the wintertime? I don’t mind winter. I actually love it. But The temperatures in these parts have been hovering in the single digits. That goes beyond snow, or ice, or shoveling, or even coats. That enters the world of pure torture. With lots of small children, we have had to...

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