Alpine Cutie

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I hope you all had a wonderful Valentine's Day! 

Ours was low key.

  Dinner at home with the kids and just relaxing.  

Of course, LOTS of Chocolate...

Here is the cute little dresser that I gave you a sneak peak of yesterday. 

 I think it's an Alpine Cutie! 

 It reminds me of something you would see in the Swiss Alps.  I think I am going to take it up to the Mountains where we have a home in Colorado. 

 It will be perfect in one of the guest rooms.  

Here is what it looked like before:

I bought it probably 9 years ago at a discount store.  The red doesn't really match my decor anymore, but I hated to part with it.  

It's been down in the guest room all this time...  

Sooooooo, Since I needed the practice with the Annie Sloan Chalk Paint that I bought, I thought that I would experiment with the dresser.  I taped up the sides and the top where I wanted to keep the design.

I found some paint left over from my daughters room, Benjamin Moore Waterfall, and I mixed it with Paris Gray to tone down the color and mute it a bit.

I painted the Old White around the border and went over the flowers with a mixture of the blue and the white.  

I also painted the indent in the legs with Old White.  I waxed the dresser with clear wax and then a mixture of Dark wax and Clear wax.  I distressed it in a few places until the red showed thru and then waxed it again.  

So what do you think of my Alpine Cutie?  Can't you just picture her up in a Swiss Chalet?  

Beaux R'eves!

XO Cindy

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