I cut my two napkins in half, so I had four strips of fabric measuring 10″ x 20″..

It’s pretty spectacular, actually.. We decided to refinish this outdated wine rack because we really liked the shape and the construction of it, and thought it was kind of a shame that it was that golden oak color that makes it instantly look old and neglected.. We set up on Sarah’s beautiful, gigantic front porch so we could work in the shade and get all those nice cool breezes coming in off the fields.. Here’s what the Black Dog Salvage Furniture Paint packaging looks like..The small, colored jars are some of the sample colors from the sample kit that they sent me.

I love the Black Dog Salvage packaging, but I really really love the funny names of a lot of the colors.It really does make painting more fun.My favorite paint name is “That’s gonna leave a mark” for this nice medium purple color.. One of the great features about this paint is that it’s really easy to mix, and they actually encourage you to get creative and mix your own colors!

So of course, we did just that!.For this project, we used “Black Dog” and “Clean Canvas”, both in the “Pint Plus” size, and we had way more than enough paint to finish the wine rack, inside and out.

Because this paint takes only one coat to cover, you end up using a lot less paint than what you might be used to.. We gathered everything together first, then we got to it!.

We added about equal parts of Black Dog and Clean Canvas, and then mixed in a little bit of a brown color called “Dirt” to warm up our color a bit.. We mixed the color in an old tupperware container so we could cover it up and save this color for future use when we were done..Doesn’t it look cute and fun and hilarious at the same time?

I always find myself getting particularly excited about all the kids movies coming out at this time of year because it means something easy and enjoyable for me to do with Kennedy during these long Summer days!I’m really excited about this one, coming out on August 5, 2015, because it looks like it has a lot of little jokes in it that I’ll really find funny too, and that’s a big bonus!.

If you do decide to take the kids to the movies during the Summer, it’s great to keep the fun and excitement going afterwards by having a craft, or a game, or a special themed snack to enjoy after getting home from the movies, or even the next day.Keep that going as long as possible!