Chalk Painted Garage Sale Find

I am so sad to say that this is my last Newby Party post....but happy that I now have 100 followers.  Debbie, you are so awesome for hosting such a great party every week and all of us newby's really appreciate it.

So, on to my last Newby Post!

Last year I found this ceramic bowl at a garage sale, brought it home and stuck it in the closet with a lot of other things that I come home with.  I really liked it but wasn't that into the gold color.  Well, a lightbulb finally went off....sometimes it takes awhile for that to happen! I decided to paint it with some Chalk Paint that I had left over from some other projects.  Painting it with the chalk paint was easy but waxing it, not so much.  It was hard trying to buff the wax off with so much detail.

Not bad, but not really my style.

I used two colors, Old White and Old Ochre.  I painted the old white first and than added some old ochre to give it an antique look.  I then sanded some of the paint off to bring out bits of the original gold color.  

I changed up my dining room table...again.  I filled this bowl up with the pears that I had in the cloche.  

I think that I'm done with the dining room for awhile....maybe I'll move onto the guest room!

Thanks so much for stopping by!