After seeing and reading so much about Jeanne D'Arc Living magazine in the blogosphere, I finally bought an issue off of eBay. Boy, oh boy, am I hooked! Yup, I've already bought three issues. The magazine costs $13.95 a pop (I look for sellers on both eBay and Etsy offering free or cheap shipping). Ordinarily a bit pricey for me but my theory is they provide tons of inspiration and I will likely hold on to them...
I picked up a four-pack of these mini wood easels last week at Michael's. I broke out some chalk paint and gave each a few coats. When that was dry, I flipped through my stash of vintage French book paper. I cut the pages into little slivers - just big enough to fit on the ledge of each easel, and distressed them a bit. The perfect size for displaying trinkets and little works of...
(Image courtesy of the36thavenue.com) Wishing all of my bloggy friends a safe and happy Independence Day! Jeanine ...
Remember my nest frame a few days ago? Here is the sister frame, done up in all its Jeanne D'Arc-inspired best. As with the first frame, I gave this one a few coats of Annie Sloan chalk paint. I, again, added some vintage sheet music as my backdrop. All of the images are from The Graphics Fairy. I added some faux flowers tied with twine to the bottom and a French enamel number tag to...
I still have a few of these large, Walmart peat pots lurking about. I wanted to paint them a color other than white, so I did these using a pretty gray chalk paint from Annie Sloan. I used the tissue paper/Modge Podge method for the image. Normally, when you paint the peat pots white, the tissue paper kind of just blends in. With the gray, it definitely stands out more. At first I...
