Vintage dresser makeover & I'm a vendor at Urban Farmgirl's Main Street Market!

Preparing my pieces  for Urban Farmgirl's Main Street Market (how awesome is that??!!) I KNEW I wanted to include a "statement eye-catching piece"  to pull  people into my booth to take a peek at my vintage furniture & finds...

I decided to try American Paint Company's new color Peacock on one of my pieces for the Market......Peacock is a turquoise shade that has a bit of a vintage softness to it.....

I am usually a grey, vintage white kind of girl-which I actually did start with on this piece, but they just did not do it for me this time...so I went with Peacock.....

The piece --- a vintag dresser---a late night auction find......

Frist up -  TSP Cleaner for a good wipe down and then sanding the top, beginning with a higher grit and working my way down to about a 120 grit  when I noticed the wood grain.......It looked like a vintage cutting board.....

I was ready to stain the top but the colors of the wood once sanded had such a natural look I decided to leave it and go with the natural look. 

 I went to my go to "make the wood look awesome product"  Miss Mustard Seed's Hemp Oil....It really brings the color of your wood back to life and adds such a natural glow...See for yourself...Look at the grain in the picture below -- and then look at the "before" picture above again...The only thing I did was wipe the top down with the MMS Hemp Oil....

Now -- the painting.....like I said I started with a grey, and then a white shade and neither captured the look I was going for so I tried Peacock and smiled immediately after the first stroke...If you look closely you can see there is natural crackle on the piece (think it must have spent a few warm summers in the barn it occupied for the past 40 years) so I decided to use a glaze to accentuate that feature......

Once the glaze was dry I sealed the piece with American Paint Company Top Coat...I felt a wax might distract from the glaze....I really am addicted to transforming vintage dressers...As I work on them I wonder where was their first home, was this a major purchase for their owner, where or who did they buy it from, how was it delivered--like the Wells Fargo Wagon in Music Man? Their dovetail drawers, time worn tops and wooden wheels.....always pull me in.....

My parting shots are below....thanks for looking.........

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