Earrings On A Pig Part Deux

Back on May 2nd I shared one of my projects with you - Earrings On A Pig

Jump over to Under The Table and Dreaming for Sunday Showcase Party

Back again for Furniture Feature Friday over at Mustard Seed Creations

and

Saturday Night Special at Funky Junk Interiors

Here's Part 2 of the project.  Part 2 actually should cover the 8 chairs, but I've

chosen to only do 4 of them to start.  It seemed like a more realistic goal and

I won't need the other 4 until Christmas ..... it seems so far away right now, but

I bet I'll be glazing the remaining four chairs right up until Christmas dinner!

I tend to procrastinate ... a LOT.

I've had these 8 pine chairs for 20 years ..... you see them everywhere.  They are mainly used for extra seating for holiday meals and the rest of the year they live in the top of the garage.  My plan was to paint them and make cushions out of my favorite green toile, but once I painted them the woven seats didn't look so bad and they are very comfortable chairs.  Maybe tie on cushions can be a winter project????

A couple of coats of grey paint and a little stamp adornment.

My favorite easy water clean up glaze from Lowe's.  No science to this, just

brush it on. My secret to easy glazing is one of those yellow kitchen sponges with

the green scrubby stuff on the back.  Wrung as dry as possible and used to wipe

down the glaze once it becomes just slightly tacky.  This stuff is very forgiving and

can be worked for a very long time.

Two shades of grey paint from Martha's new line at Home Depot.

I have my eye on a little side table from a thrift store that I've had for years

 ..... could it be the next victim of "greying" ????

More images of the tablescape can be seen at The Happenstance Rose and Shrimp Boats

EDIT:

I'm adding a couple of additional images and the color names of the paint I used.

These are all from Martha's new line of paint carried at Home Depot.

From left to right:

SANDPIPER MSL257, CITYSCAPE MS 209, MOURNING DOVE MSL210, ASH BARK MSL211

Mourning Dove was used as the base coat on the table, bench and the chairs.

All four colors were used on the table details.

Ash Bark was used on the center back of the chairs.

The stamp detail on the chairs was a "wrought iron" craft paint.

The glaze came from Lowe's paint department.

(Ignore the spray paint to the left below, it was used in another project

Three Heads Are Better Than One)