Hard Rubbish Find – Fusion Mineral Paint

A few weeks back I was on my way home from an appointment in the city some two hours drive from home when I noted the suburb I was passing was having hard rubbish collection. Whilst that may be ho-hum to some, my eyes lit up as we don’t get hard rubbish collection where I live. I drove around for 30 minutes and filled my car with old chairs and this collection of pieces which I hoped would become a little table once again. One of the legs was a little broken but I was sure I could fix it….which of course I did.:) This was how it looked on the HR pile…..okay so I had already sanded the legs to remove the flaking shellac and mended the leg (which turned out to be an easy fix)when I took this photo but this is honestly how I found it piled, ready for the crusher. I had these sample pots of the new Fusion Mineral Paint that I will be stocked with in a few short weeks…and this project was the perfect size to try out a few of the colours. The sample pots come in singles as well as little packaged sets of four…which I LOVE as not only was I able to try four colours but I was able to see how well they went together in planning for a larger project. My sample pack had a beautiful soft vintage blue – ‘Champness’, a pretty cool blue/green – ‘Inglenook’, a neutral white – ‘Lamp White’ and a silver Gilding Paste (WOOT we have gilding paste in Australia finally!) I didn’t actually use the gilding paste on this particular project but tried it on a sample piece and I LOVE it. I can already see SO many uses for it! It comes in SIX fabulous colours, Silver, Gold, White, Copper, Bronze and Van Dyke Brown. Exciting hey! I was really impressed with how smoothly the paint went on….really rich and creamy and it levelled really well leaving very few brush marks.Although you are supposed to wait two hours before re-coating, it was touch dry in less than 30 minutes so I was able to switch colours & keep painting. The top of this little table had a circular leather insert which I also painted over. I was dying to try out one of my new stencils from Barleycorn Vintage Stencils too and the circular area was just crying out for something extra. I have just become a stockist for these great stencils too. Take a look HERE. When I heard that  Denise and her hubs Tony were starting out with a new business to bring beautiful, affordable Aussie Made stencils to us I couldn’t get on board and support them fast enough.:) We’ve been stencil deprived for far too long here in Aussie! Anyway, less talk and more photos! What do you think?It was actually a pretty small side table, just above knee height, so just an itty bitty thing but I loved the chance to try the new paint. It was a little hard to photograph well and in hindsight perhaps I should have used a more neutral background but it’s all about learning isn’t it! I really can’t wait to get a bigger pot of this fabulous paint and get stuck into a bigger piece. But then, I need time to decide which colour I want to try first! 🙂 I just have to have one more rave about how excited I am to be stocking Fusion Mineral Paint & Products and I can’t wait until my stock arrives in a few short weeks. SO many wonderful products that have been hard to get in Australia, Gilding Paste, Embossing Paste (for raised stencils), Texturising Paste, Transfer Gel Medium, Crackle that makes fine cracks, Metallic Tints and the list goes on! And yes I’ll be making tutorials to show you how to use it all to make the most wonderful furniture creations!Stay tuned!