Barbara Pagani's Tresor Cache 101

Jade  6"x 24" card made from scraps 20" x 24" to be mounted and resined 

People ask why I use these as a hashtags on Instagram and it is mostly about the painting process. I don't get too involved in any painting, as it is more about the process then the result. One may say that this may be destructive but I find it feeds my desire to paint and keeps the desire alive. If a painting doesn't take the direction that I thought it would, I will put it aside and come back to it at a later date when magically I see something in it. And the same thing goes for the random things that I collect, I will collect things and then suddenly I sell them all and start with something else.

This poor table got a real banged up.So I decided that I would paint it....as if I needed an excuse. I wanted to do some of the work like done on Graphic Fairy site but I decided to make it more personalized                  For the cake area I added some modeling past with white paint to make it look real. I used "White icing" white Martha Stewart chalkpaint to coat the whole table first. I did 3 light coats to get into some of the groves in the table because I didn't not sand it down. After I drew out some of the designs that I wanted and painted them in with Liquitex paint markers. The grey "yesterday" is also chalk paint by Americana Decor.  . I will be going back up to the cottage shortly to finish it because it is a side table that we need to use in the kitchen and I have been dragging this project out for a bit. I will probably do a little antiquing on it to tone down some of the intense colours and then seal it i...

These are the precious comments that keep me inspire me.  My grandfather made this cutting board and I just could not throw it away even though it could no longer be used. 

an old wooden tool box an old coal bucket a rusted candle holder. This is really cool when lite up with all the holes. I was going to leave it rusted but it would be outside all year and thought a little enamel paint would help to preserve it. And of course it gave me a good excuse to use my favourite colour blue  finished and hung up on our deck at the cottage an old wooden basket memo board one huge piece of scrap wood and 3 different animals. A cow, a pig and a rabbit an armoire in the city. Painted with chalk board paint then drew on the design with chalk and then painted over with white acrylic paint mirror frame to match the design in the front entrance years ago. the back of the coal bucket. an old rusted spade an old piece of wood a piece of wood cut from a project and added a hole and put in a dowel to put in the flower pots....as if I didn't know what they were.  This i...