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Sunday, March 2, 2014

Three Ways to Protect Preserve and Store Your Precious Chalk Paint

Im an impulsive person. When I think of something, I must do it.
And then, when I think of something else, I must do that as well.
That leaves me doing a lot of different things and sometimes at the same time.

So, where am I going with this? Well, I find that my impulsivity affects my painting. When I want to start painting a new piece of furniture, I want to start painting.

I gather my brushes and other supplies, open my paint can and begin. And this, lack of planning has led to some problems, particularly with chalk paint.

You see, I like to paint directly out of the can. In my flurry to begin my project, pouring paint into another container would slow me down, it would be messy and I am certain it would interrupt my creative process. So, I paint out of my can, dipping and wiping my brush along the side.
But...this is what I end up with.

The paint that I wipe along the sides ends up drying along the lid. The lid never fits tight after that and eventually, the paint remaining inside thickens. At almost $40 a quart, this is a waste! So, I figured if I wanted to enjoy the spontaneity of painting out of a can,
I had to come up with some ways to preserve my chalk paint.

3 Ways To Protect, Preserve and Store

Your Precious Chalk Paint

1. Create a temporary and reusable lid with an old or new Ziplock twist lid...they fit perfectly!!

Creating a temporary lid gives me a lip to catch the paint on,

without getting any paint on the actual rim of the can.

cutting a lid to make a rim for paint can

Here, I used a hot tool with a blade to cut a circle

leaving about a half inch rim to catch the paint.

You can also use scissors if you carefully drill a hole in the center and cut outwards.

Just eyeball the circle. It does not have to be perfect.

Plop this on your can and as you paint it will catch all your paint. When finished painting, remove it, rinse it and save it to reuse.

This is how my new can of paint looks after using the zip lock lid. Much better.

2. With my rims clean from the storage lid, my paint can be kept safely in their original cans. However, when my quart of paint starts to run really low, I sometimes like to move what is unused into empty mason jars. They store paint air tight and they look pretty. Mason jars can just do anything with style!

3. Finally, another way you can keep your chalk paint fresh is with Annie Sloan storage lids.

These look wonderful. They are only $4.95 each and can be purchased at one of my favorite sites, www.thepurplepaintedlady.com.

Now, no more dried out paint:)

Monday, February 17, 2014

Instant Access to Thousands of Woodworking Patterns and Woodwork Plans for Your Woodworking Store

For general of us, woodwork plans becomes a time-consuming task specially on your busy timetable.

You dont know the right equipment to use, you dont know the right supplies to have and the most necessary ingredient in working with wood is where to get the woodworking patterns necessary to start the task. From the past, getting size and creating patterns takes almost 60% of your woodworking effort! and I ended up with wrong wood cuts and sometimes waste of effort because of measurement mistakes. I really wanted to remove the troubles and finish the task without me getting frustrated, my brother told me once to let the ace woodworker to do it for me but the labor cost is twice the cost of raw materials. Well, I can handle the cost for it, but to think that I have a lot of time on weekends, I dont wanna sit all day watching him creating a doghouse and talking to him tons of questions. I really want to do it myself.

Books and magazines didnt even solve the wonders behind conceptualizing the perfect woodworking plans, they only explained the theory behind woodworks. What I really wanted is a guide that I can follow step by step and having a complete list of what to buy, where to cut the wood etc. Until this product caught my attention.

Teds Woodworking compiled over 15,000 woodworks patterns and woodworking plans.

The site includes thousands of images of easy to follow guide and demonstration videos, the blueprint and items required in the plan, and on top of that the level of your educational background or knowledge about woodworks is not greatly needed. I said to myself that this must be the one I really needed. So I immediately sighed up for the product and found it very handy, it includes everything that I wanted to make.

Teds Woodworking also bundled 4 very useful products to help you with your woodworking.

The Complete Woodworking Guide - Basic To Advanced Craftsmanship
150 Premium Woodworking Shop videos
How To Start a Woodworking Business Shop
DWG/CAD Plan Viewer

I find the last freebie to be useful with the woodworking plans.

Because it can be used for adjusting the measurements of the pattern and instantly show the result of the changes, so making a miscalculation with the measurements is quite negligible. Even youre a polished woodworker; youll find this woodworks kit an advantage to your profession and even improve your product is also covered by a 2 month money back guarantee which makes it really a great.