Faith. Passion. Hard Work.

Sharing My Journey, One Blog at a Time.

Feb

2020

Behind The Scenes - Creating My Golden Blush Finish

Often times my finishes start from inspiration... this time I saw this incredible new color from Wise Owl and this new ReDesign Transfer and I knew they both needed to share a finish together. But the color is a bit outside my normal, and ...

Nov

2019

How To Remove A Leather Inlay - Desk Top

This Blog post will be a quick walk through of how I took this desk from going to the dump, to what you see in the first collage of photos. The first step making this happen was removing that old and very dried out leather inlay. there ...

Sep

2019

Behind The Scenes - Creating My Weathered Blue Slate Finish

Sometimes pieces I get from the Ministry aren't in the best of shape, but have great bones... This piece was one of those times. And incredible antique from Wolverine MFG. Co. Detroit. But unfortunately time hadn't been nice to the ...

Sep

2019

Behind The Scenes - Creating My Shimmering French Lagoon Finish

After a few weeks of work here and there, peeks here and there on this BIG OLE dresser, it's all done. And let me tell ya it's monster. Shout out to my brother for help take this to the Ministry for another great week of sales. I need some young ...

Mar

2019

Behind The Scenes - Making A Doggie Den

Y'all remember this!!! This $6 find my brother brought to me to paint. And I have to be honest, when he brought it to me, I wasn't sure it's something anyone would want to buy. It's that older odd shaped end table with doors (the before pic is in ...

Feb

2019

Behind The Scenes - Creating My Aged Stormy Mist Finish - Night Stands

WOW WOW WOW!!! What a transformation these have taken on y'all!!! Just another reason I LOVE MY JOB!!! From the blah drab brown wood to this layered, raised stenciled, crackled, distressed and waxed beauty ;) It's certainly a labor of love with ...

Nov

2018

Creating With Sample Boards - Wise Owl & Salt Wash

Creating With Sample Boards - Wise Owl & Salt Wash Creating has to start somewhere, and a lot of times you don't want to test a creation on an actual piece, as you never know if it'll be good OR bad. Well that's exactly what I tell fellow ...

Oct

2018

Behind The Scenes - Creating My Stone Castle Finish

Here they are y'all!!! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE these!!! Definitely by far my favorite Grey layered finish I've done so far!!! After lots of sneak peeks, I got final pictures (and lots) done AND... both pieces are already up ...

Oct

2018

How To Create A Business Name & Logo & How I Designed Mine

I get asked this question a lot, "who designed your logo"? Well, the simple answer is me :) My background, going back as far as high school is graphic design. After middle school I realized drawing cartoon characters and comic book super ...

Oct

2018

Behind The Scenes - Creating My Gentleman Black Finish

Sometimes when you finish a piece you just feel like it's so you... this is one that has completely transformed from what it was when it was brought to me, into this stately, upscale and very Refurbished Gentleman look. I just couldn't ...

Oct

2018

Behind The Scenes - Creating My Aged Stormy Mist Finish

This incredible solid-wood credenza has been updated in my new finish I’m calling “Aged Stormy Mist”. I started first by stripping, sanding and re-staing the top to this beautiful deep brown color using General Finishes Java Gel ...

Sep

2018

Built A Desk For My Wife

This desk was made with a lot of love for my wife, but maybe not all that much knowledge or woodworking skill, but I'm very pleased with the results and thought I'd share here too.She needed a desk to do school work and I thought... why not try to ...

Sep

2018

Serving Others With God's Gifts

“Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God’s grace in its various forms” - 1 Peter 4:10 Sunday seems like the perfect day to finally talk about the other incredible ...