French Provincial Dresser

If you ask me what is my favorite color? I would say "White", then is "Black" and "Purple". That's why I am an " Antique French Provincial Furniture" lover, in my dream house, I want all my bath towels are white, and my bedding as well. But unfortunately I have two young babies at home, and two little ones plus Mr.Honey are all sweat a lot, seems like I could never have white bedding in my room. Every time after they wake up, you could find sweat spot on the pillow case! Grr, what can I do ???

Last night I was browsing craiglist on the bed, and one posting caught my eye right away! It was "Antique French Provincial Style Dresser"! I enlarged the picture, and found the condition was pretty good on the photo, also came with a very good deal! ( The seller wanted to get away by the weekend!)  I wanted to change my dresser for a long time, especially after Mr.Honey put up  his photography photos in the white frame weeks ago, I always keep an eye to find the right piece for my room. I immediately responded the seller and hoping I could be the one to have it! I think when you buy things from craiglist, sometimes it is just like "LUCK", if it was meant to be yours, it would be! And yes, I think this is it! Now I am the new owner of this beautiful piece, ( the seller had owned it for 16 years already !)  the next I will try to find two antique look black candle holder to put on the dresser,  finger cross, hope it won't take that long to find it!

Chalk Paint Side Table

I don't know how to call this? Side table? I found this one at the thrift store and grabbed it at $14.00.  I didn't have any specific plan how I was going to do with it, but I like the style although the condition was just ok, and it was only $14.00. As a beginner to learn how to redo furniture transformation, at least it worth to try.
I followed the usual step, sanded it first, then painted the first coat, and sanded the corner again the get some distressed looking, then went for the second coat until dry, I found the stencil from "Martha Stewart" I bought from Michael when it was on sale. I didn't shake well the paint before I paint the stencil on it, I think because I was still lack of experiences and also didn't have enough "patient", so the result was not too happy, the top stencil was shown a little bubble. I was thinking to re-sand it again, and repaint it. When it was dry, I sanded it right away , actually it looked better, the pattern was just shown more faded which was more "antique look", so I decided to leave it like that.

Now this side table is sitting on the front deck, I think it will be nice to have a cup of coffee with  newspaper in the morning some day , especially have my beautiful flower garden at the front! Just like the words I painted on the table " sweet home"!