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[Music] hey there welcome back to my channel I'm Rachel the owner and Creator here at The Eclectic Cottage in Spokan Washington today is Tuesday and as promised I have a thrift flip for you guys I grabbed a couple more items out of my stash and gave them both a makeover and I did another version of the pumpkin block set so I hope you guys like today's projects and without further Ado let's get to them my first project is another set of pillar holders I really like having all the different colors of pillar holders in my Decor just so that I can creative and yet they make a nice accessory for those before I could get started painting them I needed to remove those little Pokey things on the top not sure what exactly they're called but I like to use my pillar a lot of the time as risers rather than for candles and so those had to go and then I went ahead and grabbed my uh bleum 2x spray in the color espresso to give these a nice dark uh base coat for me to start with now for these I decided once my spray paint was dry to go ahead and go over them with two coats of Bohemian Blue by D DIY now admittedly blue is usually not at the top of my list for colors that I choose I like blue uh but it's definitely always kind of been on the back burner for me for whatever reason but I really really like this color a lot and I find that it Blends so well with spring summer and fall decor and so that's why I chose it for these pillar holders so I gave each of them two Co like I said of the Bohemian blue let that dry completely and then to seal my paint I am using DIYs clear wax first and putting down a good layer of that with my soft brush and then very very gently wiping back the excess with a shop towel and once I'm done with that I'm going to go over both of these pillar holders with DIYs white wax I decided that I didn't want to distress these I couldn't imagine that you'd really be able to see the dark brown underneath this dark blue anyway and I thought the white wax would be a nice way to bring out the detail in these pillar holders especially since there really wasn't a lot and also help brighten up this dark paint just a little [Music] now I know you guys have heard me say a million times that I'm not a fan of brush stroke marks and for the most part that is true however when I do my pillar holders I usually try to paint them all going in One Direction so that all the brushstroke marks go around the pillar holder so that when I go back over it with a colored wax like this white wax it kind of picks that up a little bit and gives the uh pillar holder a touch of texture which I really do like so you can see here I'm just going around the pillar holders in the same direction that I did my paint and then I'm being very careful and wiping back the excess with that shop towel just really gently so that not to accidentally go back down into my spray paint I really love how these came out and I hope you guys do too project two is this ugly orange pumpkin that I picked up a while back and I am starting by giving this a good base coat of that same Rustoleum 2x spray and espresso I really like starting with a base coat on my ceramic pieces not only because I feel like it gives the paint something to really grip to on that super slick surface but also so that if I do go through my paint down to my base coat it's not the ugly orange that's going to show through instead it'll be the Pretty Brown so then I went over it with two coats of Skeleton Key by DIY which is this beautiful blue with Just a Touch of Gray in it and I did stipple that paint on just to add a little bit more texture to the already super textured surface and then I gave the stem two coats of layered chocolate then it was time to seal my paint and I am starting off with a coat of DIYs clear wax and just going over that as always with my soft bristle brush making sure to cover every part of this little pumpkin with that and then once that's done wiping back the excess with a dry shop towel now I decided for this one to bring out all of the texture in it I was going to go over it again with the DIY white wax and so I loaded my brush up pretty well and then began applying that white wax to the entire pumpkin just again making sure to cut cover the entire thing and sometimes I would actually overload my brush just a little bit because I did want some of that white wax to stay in those details then I very very lightly brushed back the excess or wiped back the excess with my dry shop towel again and when I was done with this step I decided I wanted to bring out the little creases in my pumpkin and so I grabbed my DIY dark wax and a pointy Little Brush and very carefully just gave a little bit of shadowing to the creases of the [Music] pumpkin I really love the look of this dark wax in these creases I think it was the perfect way to give this pumpkin just a little bit more our personality and I think it turned out really well it's not an ugly orange pumpkin anymore and since I I had so much fun making the last set of pumpkin blocks I decided I needed another set now honestly I already have some blocks cut out uh but I had really rounded the corners of all of them and I was kind of afraid that the little brackets that I was going to use on the corners wouldn't uh mesh well so I am squaring these off a little bit more and not rounding the corners quite as much with my uh sander so I just cut them out again at 14 11 and 8 in and then I'm just sanding everything smooth so that nobody will get splinters when they go to grab them then I went ahead and made some castings now the last that I made uh I used a lot of actual like Antique Hardware on and to replicate those would be kind of expensive if you were doing it over and over so I decided this would be a much more coste effective way to really add some detail and uh personality to the fronts of these pumpkins without breaking the bank so I am using two-part casting resin you just mix it up in even amounts and then pour it into your molds here's kind of what it looks like as those uh start to cure up and then once they're white you just pop them out of your mold so now I have these beautiful little castings that I can use on my pumpkins now you can see this last one wasn't quite set when I took it out and you can see it's kind of bending there so if you wanted to use these on a curved surface you absolutely could but you would need to get them out of the molds pretty quickly and not let them sit around for too long now you can see here my boards are magically dark brown and that is because I gave them all a coat of a DIYs dark and decrepit liquid patina and let that dry first before I began giving them a coat of DIYs krinolin and I am not trying to cover these completely I wanted them to have kind of a weathered picket fence kind of look to them so I'm doing what I would call a heavy dry brush so it's not technically a dry brush completely but I'm offloading quite a bit of my paint before I go over the boards with it just so that I have quite a bit of that dark brown uh showing through the krinolin paint once I had all three of my boards painted and looking the way I wanted them to I moved on to painting my castings and I'm just giving these two good coats of the DIY kralin as well [Music] once I was finished painting my castings I set them aside to dry and I moved on to sealing the paint on my boards and for that I'm using a coat of DIYs clear wax so again just going over this with a nice thin even coat of that wax on all sides and then wiping back the excess with my dry shop towel and then it was back to the castings and giving them a coat of the clear wax as well once I finally had all of my pieces painted and sealed and ready to go it was finally time to start putting my pumpkins together so I grabbed my tight tight Bond quick and thick and put a thin coat on the back of my castings and then began placing the ones I wanted on each of the boards I did measure to make sure I had them centered as best as I possibly could and you can see I'm using the longest casting on the longest board and then I put the two on the smaller I let those sit and dry for a little while so that that glue could cure up before I began uh my next step which was adding some DIY black wax now the reason I did not go with dark wax on this was because I really wanted to kind of gray out the white just a little bit like you'd see on an aged fence so I'm going over the castings first with a nice coat of the black wax and then wiping back the excess and then around in their Shadow adding a little bit more black wax and then also To The Ends I'm adding a little bit uh heavier coat of the wax to make the ends look kind of aged and patined and then I go over the rest of the paint with just a little bit of thinned out uh black wax and for that I used mineral spirits to thin my wax I really love the way the black wax kind of made these look a bit more Moody and definitely gave them patina and a lot of depth of color so I just worked my way through all of my boards being paying special attention to the castings in particular making sure that I really worked a good layer of that wax down into all the details and then taking my time to wipe back as much of it as I could so that you really saw the highlights and the low lights in all of my castings you can see to my right I also have my clear wax brush because as I'm putting down my black wax if it got to be a little too heavy or looked a little too dark or dingy I would take my clear wax brush and go over that area to lighten things back up a little bit I find it really is helpful to keep that clear wax brush handy whenever you're doing the colored waxes then it was on to adding some Hardware to these and so I bought these off of Amazon these are a little bit smaller than the other corner protectors that I had bought so they worked perfectly on the edges I'm only using these particular ones on the largest of the boards they were a little bit expensive probably 95 cents a piece I think then I used the other little corner protectors on the other two boards at all four corners just using my needl noose pliers to hold those little bitty uh nails while I hammered them in then I decided my middle siiz block needed a more Pizzazz so I went ahead and added the larger corner protectors above and below the casting once I was finished with that I wanted to kind of fill the holes in them that are made for knobs so I grabbed out my stash of beads and I found found these cute little uh kind of antique bronze they really went well with the hardware already on it and so I filled those holes with a little bit of tight Bond and stuck those down lastly it was time to put knobs in the top so I'm just drilling the holes for those adding some of that tight Bond quick and thick and then sinking those knobs down into the holes and gluing them tight for the knobs for the two smaller blocks I kind of had to improvise a little their screws have heads on them so they wouldn't fit down into the hole I drilled so I'm using a two-sided screw that the threads kind of sort of fit into the knob but it gave it so much more stability than if I had just glued the knob to the top of the block anyway I absolutely love how this second set of pumpkin blocks came out I hope you guys do too let me know what you think in the comments below well I think that's it for from here for today you guys I hope you liked my projects and I hope you enjoyed the video I have to say I've really enjoyed creating those pumpkin block sets and it's funny because as I'm making one I'm already starting to plan uh what I would do differently the next time and the next time so there are just so many variations you could do with them they're a lot of fun anyway if you did like my video please remember to give it a thumbs up I so appreciate that and if you haven't already I would love it if you would subscribe to my channel and then just hit the little notification Bell so you don't miss anything and then don't forget to drop a comment below and let me know what your favorite project in today's video was uh also a quick reminder any of the paint and products you saw me use can be purchased through me at my website and that's www.th eclectic cottag spokane.com I worked yesterday trying to make my website just a little bit more userfriendly as far as being able to find my shop and the different products that I carry so hopefully you'll find it a little bit easier to navigate uh I do carry DIY paint products as well as sweet Pickin milk paint some Roy cycled decopage papers as well as my redesign with Prima so please check those out there I so appreciate it and let's see for Friday for Friday's video I'm hoping to have another Thrift flip for you guys but I also uh did go out on Sunday Sunday for a really quick junk run just on my own I grabbed some cute things that I want to show you so I might incorporate that as well we'll see so I hope you'll join me on Friday for that and then stay tuned keep watching at every day for the next I think 10 more days I will be giving you little hints as to the redesign with Prima new release that's coming I can hardly wait to show it to you guys uh according to the tracking my package should be here today so fingers crossed I would love to be able to get a couple projects done for you guys uh for the reveal anyway I hope you guys have a fantastic rest of your week thank you so much for being here I appreciate it and I will see you back here on Friday bye [Music]

Channel: The Eclectic Cottage

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Keywords: #InShot, thrift flip, upcycle, upcycled decor, upcycled, salvaged, diy decor, fall decor, diy, fall diy

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Length: 18min 54sec (1134 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 17 2024