I think I'm obsessed...with spray paint

Filling up the bookcase in our family room is a lot more difficult than I thought.

I had boxes of knickknacks and frames sitting in the basement just screaming for a chance to come out. But once I started arranging things, I decided I wanted to stick with a color scheme to keep it from getting too busy.

I started collecting a few things that I thought could be painted to match and the spray painting began.

The more I sprayed, the more colors I wanted to buy.

The more I sprayed, the more I wanted to go out and find more stuff to spray.

And now at every store we go in to, I am constantly looking for cheap things to spray paint and transform.

Here's my spray-painting corner of the garage. Not very pretty, but it works.

And here's my first few transformations:

This fleur de lis bookend was 70 cents from TJmaxx. It looked like some of the paint has been scratched off, but I really like it, so I thought I'd try to fit it.

I did a very light spray with black paint and then used my nail to scratch off the edges and match the rest of the piece.
Super easy and now displayed on the bookcase!

This next piece was a ceramic cat I had from a sample sale a few years ago. I had a black cat (Princess) growing up, so I wanted to make this cat black to remind me of her.
After 4 coats of paint, she's done! She's going to look great holding some books up.
This bookend was $1 from TJMaxx, but the paint was chipping and one edge was broken.
I liked the weathered look, so I first spray painted with a dark red. Then I used a sponge sander to scratch off the top coat and let the black show through.
Once I put it up on the bookcase, it still looked a little dark, so I repeated the process with a fire engine red paint. This was the look I was going for.Many more spray painting projects already in the works!


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