Reimagined Monday: A Very Special Gift using Chalk Paint™

We received this gem of a Reimagined Monday submission and are happy to share it with you now that Christmas has been celebrated and the surprise is out from under the tree!

Lois wanted to do something special for her son that has very personal meaning and felt that Chalk Paint™ decorative paint by Annie Sloan was the perfect solution.

"Hi. Just finished my Christmas projects for my son.  My mother passed away at 94 years of age in September and left 3 very tired looking stacking stools to my eldest son.  I decided to give them a facelift and surprise him for Christmas. I am sure he is going to be as thrilled as I am.   

I had heard about Annie Sloan's chalk paint on a television program and was eager to give it a try.  I was so excited that there was a store relatively nearby (by prairie standards) and made the journey from Lloydminster to Edmonton to get some advice and my supplies.

Here are the before and afters:   

I started off with two coats of Emperor's Silk and followed up with 1 1/2 coats of graphite.   

I then waxed and sanded back the edges to reveal the red and then followed up with two additional layers of wax. Unfortunately when I purchased the paint you did not have any waxing brushes in stock so I applied the wax with a rag.
 
I think I would have been even more successful had I been able to use the brush but I am happy with the results nonetheless.

Perhaps I will win this context and get the much desired waxing brush!!  I am definitely going to use this paint again and have a long list of projects awaiting. 

Merry Christmas!

Lois Classen-Lorenz"

We think they look fantastic, Lois -- we agree that a wax brush makes projects that much easier and we hope you ended up with one in your Christmas stocking!

Best of luck in this month's Reimagined Monday draw!

Don't forget to enter our monthly contest for your chance to win!

Here's the info:

Reimagined Monday Draw

We would like to highlight more customer projects!  Send us your before/during/after pictures and tell us about your creative process using Chalk Paint™ or Milk Paint and you'll be entered into our monthly Reimagined Monday draw.

Each month we will give away a different item like paint, brushes, books, supplies, gift certificates and more. You don't have to be featured to be eligible... the month you enter is the month you will be included in the draw.

Send your name, pictures and story to:

info@appleboxboutique.com for your chance to win!

♥, 
Apple Box Boutique

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Reimagined Monday Winner + Snap & Share Contest

Thank you to everyone who entered our Reimagined Monday contest.

November was a banner month for entries and it is time to announce our draw winner.  Christmas is nearly here and in the spirit of the season, we're in the mood to GIVE even more. We decided too select two winners!

Don't you love this time of year?

Our November Reimagined Monday Draw winners are:

Kelli Pack

and

Katherine Melrose

You've both won a Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint Starter Kit!

The kit includes:
1 package of MMS Milk Paint (your choice of colour) + 1 Furniture Wax + 1 Antiquing Wax.

That's everything you need to get started on your next Reimagined project!

Plus there are three new colours in the MMS collection that make choosing even more fun:

Congratulations Kelli and Katherine!

Don't forget to enter our monthly contest for your chance to win!

Here's the info:

Reimagined Monday Draw

We would like to highlight more customer projects!  Send us your before/during/after pictures and tell us about your creative process using Chalk Paint™ or Milk Paint and you'll be entered into our monthly Reimagined Monday draw.

Each month we will give away a different item like paint, brushes, books, supplies, gift certificates and more. You don't have to be featured to be eligible... the month you enter is the month you will be included in the draw.

Send your name, pictures and story to:

info@appleboxboutique.com for your chance to win!

 

Today is the last day that you can take your picture at Apple Box Boutique™ or Apple Box Design Studio™ to enter the Snap & Share contest!

 THERE ARE TWO WAYS TO WIN!

You can upload your pictures to the Annie Sloan Unfolded Facebook Page to be entered into the Draw

AND

You can have your friends and Facebook followers vote on your picture -- the most votes wins!

Contest Closing Date: December 8th (see the Annie Sloan Unfolded FB page for details)

Here is the too-fabulous-for-words prize:

That's one of almost everything in the Annie Sloan collection worth $US1500

SO... visit either of our locations by 5:00 PM today, then Snap & Share to win!

♥, 
Apple Box Boutique

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YoSox have arrived -- Just in time for Christmas!

Over 20 too-cute-to-choose styles!

Available now at 

Apple Box Boutique in Edmonton at 6507 - 112 Avenue

and

Apple Box Design Studio in St. Albert at 5 Rowland Crescent 

(near the Enjoy Centre)

ALSO

Watch our Facebook Page tomorrow for our 

November Reimagined Monday Winner!

♥, 
Apple Box Boutique

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Reimagined Monday: 'Playing' with Chalk Paint™

Due to a technical issue, this week's Reimagined Monday post could not be published on time, but we love sharing our customers' projects far too much to let it pass us by.  So ...welcome to "Reimagined Monday on Tuesday!"

When we heard from Kelli Pack about her Chalk Paint™ project, it was music to our ears.  We love a custom creation, and painting a piano has it's challenges -- but WOW, the results are fabulous.

Kelli is a new Mom who completed this reimagining last year and submitted the pictures to our Reimagined Monday Draw this past week.  We are so happy she did!

Here is Kelli's piano makeover story:

"My name is Kelli Pack, mother of a 8 month old boy and live in Sherwood Park.  Last year I re-finished a beautiful 1949 Heintzman piano using Annie Sloan Chalk paint.  

I combined OLD WHITE and DUCK EGG BLUE.  

I loved the Duck Egg Blue but wanted to lighten it up a bit.  So I combined 1/4 cup old white to 1 cup duck egg blue and I was so pleased with the color. 

I gave the piano 2 coats of my paint mixture to get maximum coverage because the piano was a blonde maple I didn't want any of the original finish to show through.   

After painting the outside of the piano I realized I needed to take it apart in order to paint certain areas. Once I took it apart I saw that it was very filthy inside and so I took all the piano keys out and cleaned it out.   

 Putting it back together was pretty simple.  

After the two coats I did a coat of clear wax using a large round brush.  Then I did a coat of dark wax.

I went through a lot of clear wax because I didn't want it too look too distressed so I took off a lot of the dark wax using the clear wax.  The dark wax left behind slipped nicely into all the cracks and grooves to give it the perfect amount of distress that I was after.  Then I gave it a good buffer and voila!

 Overall it was probably a good 40 hours of work including gutting the piano and cleaning it out and then painting and waxing.   

Then the fun part of moving it into the living room. Nothing a 4 man team can't handle!

This was my very first project with chalk paint and I absolutely love it.

I just want to thank Leanne at Apple Box boutique for all the tips because without her I definitely would have screwed this up :)

Hope you enjoy the pictures!!"

Thank you to Kelli for sending this to us.  We're excited to share your story in this special edition Reimagined Monday on Tuesday -- we love a happy ending!

Don't forget to enter our monthly contest for your chance to win!

Here's the info:

Reimagined Monday Draw

We would like to highlight more customer projects!  Send us your before/during/after pictures and tell us about your creative process using Chalk Paint™ or Milk Paint and you'll be entered into our monthly Reimagined Monday draw.

Each month we will give away a different item like paint, brushes, books, supplies, gift certificates and more. You don't have to be featured to be eligible... the month you enter is the month you will be included in the draw.

Send your name, pictures and story to:

info@appleboxboutique.com for your chance to win!

♥, 
Apple Box Boutique

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Reimagined Monday: Handmade Bureau Gets An Update!

Today's Reimagined Monday post comes to us from the lovely Laura Aberg.  We were very excited to have the opportunity to reimagine Laura's dining suite to fit with the decor in her brand new home, and while we were hard at work on that, Laura undertook a project of her own.  In Laura's words:

"This old bureau was handmade for my mother when she was a little girl living on a farm near Drumheller. Fast forward 30 years and it was handed down to me and my mother repainted it. I am a mother now to a sweet, lovely, rambunctious 2.5 year old daughter, and we just moved into a new house. So I took the old bureau on a "re-loved adventure".

Here are the before, during and after pictures! One word describes this piece- 'sweet'!"

 

The official Before pic: Mid-century bureau

Work in progress

Chalk Paint™ selfie :) - A mask when sanding anything is a great idea

It's coming together!

All done and in place

It's even sweeter when a loved item can be reimagined to work with current decor and kept in the family. 


This pretty little bureau is one-of-a-kind in every way!

Thank you, Laura for sharing this with us. You've been entered into our Reimagined Monday draw!

Don't forget to enter our monthly contest for your chance to win!

Here's the info:

Reimagined Monday Draw

We would like to highlight more customer projects!  Send us your before/during/after pictures and tell us about your creative process using Chalk Paint™ or Milk Paint and you'll be entered into our monthly Reimagined Monday draw.

Each month we will give away a different item like paint, brushes, books, supplies, gift certificates and more. You don't have to be featured to be eligible... the month you enter is the month you will be included in the draw.

Send your name, pictures and story to:

info@appleboxboutique.com for your chance to win!

♥, 
Apple Box Boutique

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Reimagined Monday and Our July Draw Winner!

Today is a great day!  Why, you ask?  Well, we have the fun of announcing our July Reimagined Monday Draw winner, and as an added bonus we get to feature her projects on our blog!

Hilary Hamilton used Chalk Paint™ decorative paint by Annie Sloan for one project which led to another, and to another, and another! Then she shared them with us a few weeks ago.  We didn't have the opportunity to do them justice at the time, so here they are for our collective viewing pleasure!

Hilary wrote in to the Reimagined Monday contest with this:

"Here is a few before and afters........ what a fun idea this is!!!"

"I started painting with a variety of different paints, including other brands of chalk paints, and I thought to myself...gee whiz...you must be an awful painter cause this looks terrible no matter what I do....and then I discovered Annie Sloan chalk paint.......WOWSER."

"Everything about Annie Sloan paint (not to mention the waxes) is fabulous....it covers over everything, it distresses with amazingly little effort ...you don't have  to be a body builder to sand....when I use AS chalk paint....it just makes me smile....because she makes me look good!"

"You know when you get into a bath and the temperature is exactly perfect, or when your first coffee in the morning has the exact perfect ingredients and taste...Annie Sloan paint is one of those perfect simple pleasures!"

French Provincial Table: Before

After

Telephone Table: Before

After

Vintage Wicker Rocking Chair: Before

After

Storage Table: Before #1

Storage Table: Before #2

After #1

After #2

Lovely, lovely, lovely!  Thank you for sharing your reimagined pieces, Hilary.  Congratulations on winning this month's draw prize, a $50 Gift Card to Apple Box Boutique!

Don't forget to enter our monthly contest for your chance to win!

Here's the info:

Reimagined Monday Draw

We would like to highlight more customer projects!  Send us your before/during/after pictures and tell us about your creative process using Chalk Paint™ or Milk Paint and you'll be entered into our monthly Reimagined Monday draw.

Each month we will give away a different item like paint, brushes, books, supplies, gift certificates and more. You don't have to be featured to be eligible... the month you enter is the month you will be included in the draw.

Send your name, pictures and story to:

info@appleboxboutique.com for your chance to win!

♥, 
Apple Box Boutique

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Reimagined Monday: Country Grey Console Table

Who doesn't love a console table?  They fit well in most spaces and complement any room.  We've used them as sofa tables, foyer tables, hall tables and vanities. And when they are painted with Chalk Paint™ decorative paint by Annie Sloan... well, they are just that much better!

Today's Reimagined Monday feature comes from Nancy Allen, friend and part-time buyer for Apple Box Design Studio. In Nancy's travels, she found this adorable console table and decided to give it a makeover:

This is what Nancy wrote us about her project:

"LOVE LOVE LOVE CHALK PAINT!"

"I was so anxious to get started I forgot to take a "before" picture...oops!  This picture is from auction photos as this little gem was bought at an antique and estates auction for $50....guessing it fell under the "estates" part of the auction as it was not an antique.   I was looking for a small console table for my mom's garden room and this was perfect....well, almost perfect...it still needed Annie Sloan Chalk Paint."

And this is the transformed table:

It was finished in Country Grey and lightly distressed, then buffed with clear Soft Wax.

Nancy, we all agree... you did a fabulous job!

Don't forget to enter our monthly contest for your chance to win!

Here's the info:

Reimagined Monday Draw

We would like to highlight more customer projects!  Send us your before/during/after pictures and tell us about your creative process using Chalk Paint™ or Milk Paint and you'll be entered into our monthly Reimagined Monday draw.

Each month we will give away a different item like paint, brushes, books, supplies, gift certificates and more. You don't have to be featured to be eligible... the month you enter is the month you will be included in the draw.

Send your name, pictures and story to:

info@appleboxboutique.com for your chance to win!

♥, 
Apple Box Boutique

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