Quite Simply...Beautiful Things Link Party

Weekly Link Party

Quite Simply...Beautiful Things

Our Features this week:

Martha Leone Design shares with us how she transformed this $5 yard sale steal and just how easy it is.  The side table turned out great!

Whimsical Perspective shares a great blog series dedicated to Annie's Chalk Paint® colors.

I love this little table in Antibes with clear and dark wax.

Thanks for sharing and what a great blog series!

Did you know?

All Quite Simply...Beautiful Things Link Ups are shared on Pinterest each week. 

It's time to Link Up this week!

Please share in our Link Party, here are the details:

1.  Feel free to share all your beautiful things!

2.  Please post a permalink to your post only, not your entire blog.

3.  Please help spread the word about our weekly Linky Party- Grab our button on the sidebar.

4.  Party closes on Thursday, January 17th at 11:59 pm. We will pick more people to feature.

Start Linking!

Quite Simply...Beautiful Things

It's a big week for us here at Shades Of Amber!

This Friday & Saturday Miss Mustard Seed is coming to Colorado and we can hardly wait!!!

3 out of the 4 seminars are SOLD OUT!!

We only have a few spaces left in the Friday DIY Seminar at 2:30pm...reserve your spot while you still can!

Of course, Marian is also doing an open Book Signing on Friday from 5:00-7:00pm

For more details visit our Facebook page...

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More exciting news, we have Annie Sloan Fabrics in the store!

Stop in to see these gorgeous fabrics in person!

Photo by Christopher Drake

Time for...

Weekly Link Party

Quite Simply...Beautiful Things

Please share in our Link Party, here are the details:

1.  Feel free to share all your beautiful things!

2.  Please post a permalink to your post only, not your entire blog.

3.  Please help spread the word about our weekly Linky Party- Grab our button on the sidebar.

4.  Party closes on Thursday, December 6th at 11:59 pm. We will pick more people to feature.

Annie Sloan Chalk Paint Link Party

If I could just pause everything else in life except myself, I might actually get caught up.  Do you ever feel this way?  I do so apologize for our absence in blogging new pieces lately, I promise we have been painting them.  It just seems sometimes that life moves so darn fast and I am just trying to keep up.  Hope to post some of our recent work here soon, but in the meantime YOU all have been working on some great pieces!  Take a look below...

 Anne from Vintage Goods took a boring brown trunk and turned it into a vintage beauty!  After some repair work and adding missing parts, she used Old White and after sealing it with Clear Wax, she used a liberal amount of the Dark Wax for an authentic vintage look.  It looks wonderful!

 Jenine at A Bit O Whimsy took my breath away with this one!  She captured the beauty of Europe with this gorgeous verdigris finish on a dresser using Provence, Antibes Green, and Old White.  WOW!  I think I have a brass lamp just begging for a patina like this...simply stunning! 

Do you have something you painted with Annie Sloan Chalk Paint™?

Please share in our Link Party, here are the details:

1. Our blog is exclusive to Annie Sloan Chalk Paint™ Please only share pieces using Annie Sloan Chalk Paint™ It can be anything you want, as long as you used Chalk Paint™!

2. Please post a permalink to your post only, not your entire blog.

3. Please help spread the word about our weekly Chalk Paint Linky Party - Grab our button on the sidebar

4. Party closes on Thursday, June 7 at 11:59pm MST. We will pick more people to feature for next week.

Chalk Paint Color Theory - Antibes Green

Antibes Green 

This comes to our palette from two sources - 

1. The neo-classical palaces, such as the Chateau de Fontainebleau in France and in Schloss Charlottenburg in Potsdam.  This style of decorating take the classical themes from ancient Greece and Rome.  

It is simple and symmetrical.

2. From the villages around Provence where countless artists have been inspired by the colours of painted furniture, shutters, and doors.  Favored by so many famous artists in the late 19th and early 20th century such as Picasso, Matisse, Renoir, Bonnard, Derain and many other who lived and worked there.

Named after a town between Nice and Cannes in the French Riviera.

Again, a tricky one for Americans to pronounce.  HERE is how the French pronounce it.

Reduced down with Old White

Krrb

 Lovely Etc

Silver Heart Works

 Pink Postcard

 Etsy

 A Wee Meenit

 Lovestruck Interiors 

Hueology

Chalk Paint Link Party

Welcome back to our Chalk Paint Link Party! So sorry to be absent for a week from blogland, we have been so busy filling orders, holding workshops, and painting! Hope to post some of our projects soon.

Lots of beautiful and really creative projects linked up last week, you are all so talented!

Kim over at My Domestic Bliss did a fabulous job painting with Paris Grey and accenting with Old White. Her accents on this piece really caught my eye. Kim did a great job of accentuating the details and really bringing out the beauty in this piece and updating it.

Love what Trish from Life to the "T" did with her Chalk Paint. She wanted a lime apple green, so she custom mixed her own color! So easy to do with Chalk Paint, be sure to check out her recipe using Antibes Green, Arles, and Chateau Grey.

Do you have something you painted with Annie Sloan Chalk Paint?

Please share in our Link Party, here are the rules:

1. Our blog is exclusive to Annie Sloan Chalk Paint. Please only share pieces using Annie Sloan Chalk Paint. It can be anything you want, as long as you used Chalk Paint!

2. Please post a permalink to your post only, not your entire blog.

3. Please help spread the word about our Chalk Paint Linky Party

4. Party closes on Wednesday, July 27 at 11:59pm MST. We will pick 2 more people to feature for next week.