Quite Simply...Beautiful Things Weekly Link Party

Weekly Link Party

Quite Simply...Beautiful Things

This weeks features:

Mad Tea Parties shares with us a lovely combination of Old Ochre on the base of this little table and applies Olive to the table top. How amazing are the leaves detailed in just the right places? A new drawer pull, it's truly a work of art!  

Mad Tea Parties

Check out this Luckett's Green Milk Paint piece and all its chippy goodness!  
It is fabulous when it chips in all the right places, just beautiful Heirloom Market!

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! If you are linking painted pieces, they MUST be painted with Chalk Paint® by Annie Sloan or Miss Mustard Seed Milk Paint ONLY

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, March 28th at 11:59 pm. We will pick more people to feature.

Start Linking!

Quite Simply...Beautiful Things Feature and a Happy New Year!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!

Our Christmas turned out to be a little different than we had planned.  Christmas Eve day landed us at the urgent care for our youngest, then Christmas morning around 1:00am took us to the ER followed by being admitted to the peds unit.  Influenza B, Strep throat and an ear infection, followed by LOTS of meds, I think we are now ready to ring in the New Year!  Thankfully, she is doing much better now.

What a crazy week we had and it's already 2013, how did that happen?!  

Last week we did not host our weekly Quite Simply...Beautiful Things Linky Party so we would like to share all of the posts from the last Link Party.  

Quinnspirations

Sledding in style with a vintage snow sled painted in Primer Red and the stencils in Olive and Old White.  Great Christmas decoration!

Wydeven Designs

An antique market chair and ottoman get a makeover with Old Ochre and Dark Wax worked into the crevices with a toothbrush.  The detailing looks great with the neutral striped linen fabric!

SmartGirlStyle

DIY Ombre Rushed Duvet Cover perfect for a girl's bedroom.  Get the steps to make your own professional looking duvet. 

Restoration Redoux

This huge undertaking turned out amazing!  Persistance pays off with multiple layers of Annie Sloan Chalk Paint™ and not giving up, impressive! 

Stiltskin Studios

If you love a girly, feminine look...you'll love this Can Can Chest.  Soft pink and Paris Grey shake things up with golden gilding.  This dresser certainly Can Can!

Secret Garden

A lovely pink metamorphosis, so haute couture dont you think?!

"Vintage Goods"

Snowmen made out of old quilts and buttons, so cute.  Unique and no two are alike.

Reloved Rubbish

Pair of Union Jack Chairs with Chalk Paint® painted right on the vinyl with a watered down Old Ochre wash for a faded look.  It's genius!

Imperfect Patina

Lovely $15 two tiered table painted in Graphite and the Union Jack painted in Pure White & Paris Grey. Very nice color combination!

Snob Interior Design

Duck Egg painted on a tray, jar lid, back of glass plates and watered down in bottles, very pretty.  Pure White with Dark Wax on the chalkboard windows look old, like it!

By The Way Jenn Gray

Added texture to a quatrefoil frame with Chalk Paint® in Primer Red, French Linen and Old White layered in just a way to give an old weathered look.

Renovating and Building

Finch pottery made to look ravaged by time and use. 

They are beautiful.

Love seeing all the Quite Simply...Beautiful Things!

image via Pinterest

We hope 2013 brings you all of your New Years Resolutions and More!  Can't wait to see all the projects created this year! We will resume our regular Link Party next Tuesday.  Enjoy the first day of the New Year!

Chalk Paint Color Theory - Olive

Olive Green - a true, deep olive green.  Did you know that green is the easiest color on the human eye? Think about it, it is all around us in nature.  Greens calm and center us.  While most people are a little scared, and the term olive green can bring flashbacks of avocado green 1970's appliances, I can assure you that Annie's Olive Green is a much more sophisticated green.  

Olive reduced with Old White

Olive Green in general has become the preferred color for most interior designers this year.  

Just take a look at this inspiration below using Olive Chalk Paint™:

Miss Mustard Seed

 Never Enough Thyme Creations

 detail

 In De-Stress Mode

 Goin with the Flo

 Hartwood Roses

 The Empty Nest

 Turnstyle Vogue

Annie Sloan Chalk Paint Link Party

As always, we are just amazed at the talent and creativity of all of you out there! You inspire us so much! There were so many wonderful projects to pick from last week's linky party.

Lora, from Leisure Living, caught my eye with the blue, Napoleonic Blue to be exact. I love the look of the layered paint that resulted because she changed her mind from the Old White she originally painted it. What an unexpected little surprise!

Danielle at Silver Pennies created a gorgeous look on this originally brown, boring table. She first painted it in Provence, then made an Olive tinted wax and finished with touches of gilding cream. The result is just divine!

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, April 12 at 11:59pm MST. We will pick more people to feature for next week.

Annie Sloan Chalk Paint Link Party

WOW! Can I just say that the last two weeks have been an absolute blast! A whirlwind of travel, lots of talking, laughing, sharing, creating, and late nights....but oh so worth it! We can't wait to share little tidbits from Annie and all of our adventures.

~ Stay tuned later this week ~

For now, let's start the party!

Kristen over at Sohpia's Decor was on the hunt for a farm table and scored with this one (oh how I wish to find the twin!) She and her husband put some serious muscle into it and look at her result ~ WOW! Doesn't it look like it has been sitting in an old farmhouse aging and gaining a patina over time? That's the magic of Duck Egg and Pure White - Beautiful!

Connie from Hartwood Roses took a 1970's china cabinet and turned it into a stylish home for a TV using Duck Egg and Olive. I just love the two toned finished look, very updated glass shelves and would fit right in to any home.

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, March 29 at 11:59pm MST. We will pick more people to feature for next week.

Annie Sloan Chalk Paint Linky Party

Exciting details coming soon about a new giveaway...

But for now, let's get to this week's linky party.

We are featuring Karen from Never Enough Thyme Creations. She did an amazing job transforming this hutch into a gorgeous custom painted piece! She used Emperor's Silk, Old Ochre and Olive to create this beauty. Excellent work Karen!

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, January 19 at 11:59pm MST. We will pick more people to feature for next week.

Chalk Paint - Just Plain Fun!

We have hit the ground running since our return from North Carolina. We took a trip out there for advanced training with Annie Sloan Chalk Paint. What a wonderful experience, and we had the opportunity to meet so many wonderful and talented people! We didn't get much sleep, but we learned a lot and had a blast, we will be sharing more about our trip soon.

Since our return, we have been painting like mad getting ready for our store opening next week. Check out this little beauty we just finished.

Just love the transformation that can be accomplished in just a couple of hours.

We painted the table edge and legs with Country Grey, making sure to accent the beautiful carved details with Dark Wax. Wanted to add a little interest to the table, so we did a clouded stipple using Provence, Olive, and Country Grey.

We absolutely agree with Annie, her paint is just plain fun!