Memorial Day Progress

 So this weekend I spent almost every non raining moment on this beast:

 Scraped, sanded, primed...twice....and then.....

Mwaaa...what am I about to do?!?   It was really hard to put on that first swipe!


And then I just went for it!   There were quite a few strange looks as people drove by...

I still need to paint the inside...thinking probably white...maybe...


Jim is cutting some wood  for me to put in where the glass should be.   I found some paintable wallpaper that looks like tin tiles on clearance at Home Depot for $6...soooo, I think that I'll paint that a metalic copper and then do some sort of aged patina.....


Next up is glazing, but I am really not sure what to do...go for a dark glaze....light....paint on a bit of coppery glazish stuff (or would that be too much copper with the whole wallpaper thing?)

I need some advice!   I don't want to mess up this poor angel's face!!!!!

The mirror that I got from the flea market the other weekend also went under the brush.   Still working it out...the paint that I got from Martha didn't look anything like the little tester bottle said it would..kind of bummed, but i'll make it work!  Sand and rough it up, slap on some glaze and we'll call it done!