Chalk Paint - Is It a Piece of Cake?

Well, in this instance, maybe it was a bit more like bubble gum.

But, honestly, it's not Annie's fault. Let me explain...

This table is one of the few pieces in my home

that I bought already "done." 

It had been painted black and distressed. 

I loved the size of it, and the finish.

I bought it several years ago, and

have debated whether or not

I REALLY wanted to paint it white, even

in my quest for a light, neutral environment.

But it fit the space much better than a

larger table did, so I decided to paint it.

And just at the perfect time, my aunt

June asked me to send her info

about "that paint I had been telling her about."

LO AND BEHOLD! (Imagine a choir of angels singing here.) 

I went to the Annie Sloan web site

and looked at the list of stockists. Was I EVER

surprised to find a new stockist just a half-hour away!!!

So June and I went to get some yesterday after work.

I had planned to visit a friend in the hospital last night, 

so I didn't begin painting immediately. 

But today after work, I popped open the 

can of Annie Sloan Old White and began painting 

my cute little black table! I just KNEW I'd be distressing

before the evening was over!

Well, I was distressing before long all right!

Because instead of the piece of cake I was expecting,

I was treated to a load of bubble gum.

Apparently my precious little table had one

time been painted in oil, and then in latex.

So when I put a coat of chalk paint on it,

it loosened up. I tried to smooth out a spot, and

the paint came off. Yuck. Have you ever encountered

a situation like this? I have. NOT fun. So, I peeled

the top layer of paint off the table top.

The legs were not doing the same thing...

so I thought maybe someone had just

painted the top in oil. It peeled off in  a straight 

line at the  table edge. 

This is why I never buy manicures. I use my fingernails

as tools. Come on - 'fess up. Do you?

Normally, I'd enjoy peeling something 

like this - don't ask me why.

But TODAY, I wanted to witness a miracle!

I wanted a lovely slice of creamy vanilla cake that 

did everything but paint the table FOR me! 

All blogdom has been singing the praises of this paint!

I had coveted it for months. 

And here I sat peeling about a buck's worth of it off

my cute, formerly black table.

Had I not read that this paint stuck to EVERYTHING?

Or that you didn't need to sand or prime EVER?

Was I just imagining this? Did I dream it?

Apparently, no one had encountered a table that

had been painted in latex over oil. Drats.

OK, I reasoned. If it sticks to OIL, we're still in business!

So on went the second first coat on the tabletop.

And it's drying as we speak. (We ARE speaking, sort of, aren't we?)

And I must say, this paint covered really well.

Well, technically, it has one coat and a partial touch-up coat on it.

And it looks charming in Old White. Even before distressing.

I'll say one thing too - THIS PAINT DRIES REALLY FAST.

I admit, it's been 106 degrees here the past two days,

and it's maybe 103 right now. And my AC is broken...

but still, this chalk paint dries amazingly fast.

So fast, in fact, that it was ready to distress! So I did.

And it was EASY. I did in 10 minutes what it would have

taken an hour and more muscle to do with flat white latex.

And I love my little black table in Old White!

So much that I'm considering doing the sofa...

 and anything else that gets in my path!

OK Annie, you redeemed yourself.

My faith is restored. You ARE all that!

After all...50 zillion bloggers

can't be wrong, can they?

Word for the Day:

Hebrews 11:1

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, 

the conviction of things not seen.

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