I've been painting!

Well hello there, it's been a few days, hasn't it?
What have I been busy working on, you might inquire.

Well, I had an unexpected present. 

Mr. Depew listened to me grumble months ago about how my old Ikea drafting table top was too narrow to fit a full 36-inch roll of tracing paper or any decent length of fabric for cutting out patterns.

Unbeknownst to me, he went out and special-ordered a 40-inch by 6-foot long (almost 2 meters) butcher's block countertop for me!

So I've been industriously sanding and applying coats of paint to the beauty to seal it up and make it match the rest of my studio. 

Today, between coats I thought I'd take a short break, say "hi!" and share something pretty. 

These two pages come from a 1925 edition of McCall's Needlework. Painting furniture and fabric was a regular past-time in the 1920s and McCall even sold motifs that you could transfer to fabric or wood and paint yourself! They also made lovely little glue-on decals of a sort that one could affix to kitchen jars, furniture, etc., and then cover with a sealant to make it stay.

I even have a cute set of kitchen labels from McCall that have sugar, tea, and coffee labels included...

If any of you would like a free downloadable copy of the kitchen labels, just let me know in the comments and I'll upload them for you!

Anyways, back to the next coat of paint. I look forward to sharing a look at my much-improved studio soon!

xoxo

Anna