A Little French Inspired Addition

Remember these?

My mom had a pair exactly like these. Actually, I believe she still has them. She always liked them she said because she had a boy and a girl. They are supposedly, or so I have been told, the bust of Marie Antoinette's children. Marie Antoinette, however, was not a wildly popular French queen. Go figure.

I saw this pair at the thrift store. . . and thought. . . hmmm. . . my bedroom re-do has a touch of a French flair. These may go perfectly in there. But, I really didn't care for them in the state they were in when I found them. They were dated, yellowed and needed updating. They were 1/2 off though!! So ~ that got me thinking :) . I think I paid $6 for the pair. I sprayed them with Kilz primer (photo above is after I sprayed with primer), then painted the pair the same color as our bedroom walls and put a wash (paint and water) over them of the paint I used in our master bathroom.


Now, I like them!! I think they will work just fine in here ~ in front of the $3 French candelabra I found at a garage sale this summer.

Blessings. . . until next time,