Don’t do that step!.
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Merry Christmas, Friends!I hope you have the best one ever!My Christmas gift from my (well, one of my sets of) parents this year was a new kitchen table.. Let me just tell you: It is all kinds of awesome.. Oh and we’re talking about the table today, not the kitchen, so just ignore the mess!.This is exactly the big heavy table with black windsor chairs that I’ve been dreaming of for the last few years.. It’s pre-distressed so it will just get better over time!.
I love the dark warm honey color.I love sitting at it.
I love crafting at it.
I love cooking at it..At first I felt like I was doing something terribly wrong, but in the aftermath, I see if really did help the look overall..
So at this point it just looked like a scratched up, slightly lighter-colored 1993 brass door knob..I read somewhere that heating the brass up with a flame would help it tarnish quickly..
I grabbed my candle lighter and got to firing that brass knob.. At a certain point it occurred to me that what I was actually doing was holding a flame up to a part of my beloved house and heating that part up more and more.. Um, no.. As usual, I didn’t want to wait to see the results of the natural tarnishing so I grabbed my trusty dollar store craft paints and did a little faux magic, instead of you know, setting my house aflame.. -Wipe on a dab of black everywhere, including in the nooks and crannies.Wipe off.. -Wipe on a dab of burnt umber everywhere.