so i went to the thrift store and i picked up some good stuff
not mr moosie i'm saving him for next time mostly because i don't know what
to do with him yet i just had to get him though and i couldn't wait to show him off
he looks so cursed already i love it enough about mr moosie see you later moosey poops
so yeah today i'm doing another thrift store makeover i just don't have it in hand right
now because i'm actually done painting it i'm just filming this intro after you'll
just have to envision it for now and then in a couple seconds you'll actually see it
can you picture it
there's some hair on my hand
i was originally going for modern spooky with today's makeover but i don't really think it fits
into that category it ended up being somewhere in between modern spooky and cartoony somewhere
in here i'll surprise you surprise so i picked up this thing it has some windows painted on
even a fancy looking door it looks like something you'd see in i don't know in the streets of london
that's fancy it's giving me a very english vibe for some reason maybe it's the colors
they look very cold and dreary i'm about to make this a whole lot more american in a second
we can all move on it's actually not a house at all it's a wine holder or
milk container oh wait never mind guys apparently it hold everything
i tried acetoning the stickers off it was a bit of a struggle
these were really stuck on there in fact they're gonna require some more acetone though perhaps
not that much i got a little carried away there it's like they were never even there
so this storage crate cost me only 3.99 that's not bad for something that can
hold everything okay we're done with that the surface is pretty smooth if you look closely
you'll see that there's not a whole lot of texture so i'm going to start off by sanding it down
time to break out the gesso i layered on a few layers of gesso but the windows are still kind
of peeking through i think they're slightly raised maybe stenciled on there or something
also this crate is falling apart at the seams i felt like there wasn't too much i could do to
fix that so i just left it as is let's just not focus on that i tried my best to avoid getting
paint on the handle i didn't tape it up i'm just trying to work around it there is some rust on the
handle it's probably pretty old like most things in england there is some damage but overall i'd
say it's still in pretty good condition i'm just sewing the insides it's hard to reach into here
especially since the dividers aren't removable i had to angle things just right took quite a bit of
tactical maneuvering painting the very bottom is probably my least favorite part of this whole
thing the insides ended up looking something like this it's gonna be covered in black anyway so i'm
really hoping that once i paint over this these raised windows will be less noticeable i tried
to camouflage this crack with white paint though it's still pretty prominent i even went over the
underbelly left no stone ungessoed there's quite a few holes throughout i think they might be like
from a nail gun i tried filling them in with gesso and i think that did the trick it worked
out pretty well in fact it was perfect definitely makes them a lot less noticeable i already
think turning this whole thing white is a huge improvement looks very farmhouse-esque just don't
look inside that's a work in progress but yeah it looks pretty bony to me so here it is all primed
and everything finally ready to start painting i'm not leaving it white instead this whole
thing's gonna be purple well mostly purple there's actually two different shades of purple i used and
tried blending them together i don't know if you can really tell i don't think it even mattered
at the end i just wanted to add some color and not have this one just be black and white black on the
inside was definitely a good call though the paint just layered on a lot quicker the windows are
still there that's so annoying they're not going anywhere i'm just hoping my idea is busy enough
that they just kind of get lost in this whole mess now that it's painted it's kind of reminding me of
someone previously for my thrift store makeovers i've worked with a lot of stripes a lot of lines
and today i'm working with swirls though arguably my last thrift store makeover also involved swirls
my inspiration for this piece is sniffledorf he's just very inspiring what can i say
sniffledorf no sniffledore sniffledorff's a very high energy kitty he requires a lot of
attention he likes running round and round and round and round and round all day long
and all night long too chasing buffalo mice and rainbow snakes and everything in between
what are you doing sometimes he runs around and he's not even chasing anything he'll be
huffing and puffing and sit down but five minutes later he just bounces right back
so much energy i just really admire that about him the cat's tail kind of curls into a swirl
i'm going for like a spooky slash hypnotic sort of feel with this piece it does look a bit streaky
i'll definitely be layering up the color later on i realize the swirls look funky i didn't make them
perfect i didn't want them to be perfect they're meant to be like misty ghostly perfectly imperfect
swirls at first i added a lot of hills and troughs but i went back in with some purple to tone the
speed bumps down i'm not going to paint outlines in it's a ghost i don't really know if it really
needs a harsh black outline but the more i look at it the more unfinished it looks so i decided
to add an outline the background was just looking a little too plain so i added in some stars
it's really just dots everywhere with bigger dots sprinkled in that's how i draw stars but anyways
you didn't come here for a tutorial on how to draw stars unless you did in which case you must be
truly desperate i'm basically just redrawing the ghost kitty all over this whole crate situation
just in different poses and expressions i thought it would be cool to have him hanging upside down a
loose interpretation of cool i had to reposition the arms a couple times to get him just right
first he has him fist pumping the air yay that's too excited i'm gonna bring that down ten notches
gotta be chill about it never mind i don't like that i'm reversing it back to happy dead kitty
mode he's just hanging upside down winking for the ladies here's a close-up of how streaky everything
is looking thought you should get a good look at this i'm done with the swirls no more swirls
for today but i couldn't leave things like this it's looking too empty so more stars to go around
this time however i added two saturns and a meteor to the mix i just wanted to keep
things interesting alright now time for the sides i'll have to fix that later i must warn you guys
ghost kitty gained a little weight on this side he's been eating everything edible
or inedible doesn't matter he'll just eat it all step along honestly looking more like an owl than
a cat even the expression on his face looks like he's hooting which was unintentional i was just
trying to add a variety to the facial expressions there's just one last side left this one's the
one with the damage so i saved this eyesore for last i was having a little moment with this side
i drew the basic outline of the cat the fat head the two ears basic stuff i did it on every side
and then i decided you know what it's time to take a break and admire my work so i started twirling
i legit don't know what was going on here alright back to my masterpiece i really like doing thrift
store makeovers because sometimes you can pick up things that you can actually use like mr moosie
i'm gonna use this to store some of sniffledorf's toys and wands he gets bored really fast he only
likes things for like a week sometimes a day but it's fun to see him get excited about a new toy
yay i did some finishing touches and things the handle was kind of a pain in the butt when i tried
acetoning the paint off it the black color also kept coming off and then it just looked rusty and
bad so i'm actually going over the handle with some black multi-surface paint and hopefully
that'll stick on there there's also like a crevice running through the front of my work
which is not okay so i'm trying to shove paint in there to make the crevice less noticeable i'd
give myself an a for effort if you stand six feet away you won't even notice the crevice
i feel like mod podge leaves like a sticky film on things even when it's dry it's still kind of
sticky so sometimes i like to use mr super clear to seal things especially smaller things i looked
it up and it says mr super clear is only toxic in its fluid state it's completely harmless when it's
dry which is important since like i said i'm using it to store some of sniffledorf's toys
we've got some little crinklies some pom-poms he loves pom-poms some bell
balls which he's whatever about i also have a ton of these stuffed animal things
i think they might have catnip in him i don't know sniffledorf doesn't really have
a reaction to catnip at least not yet maybe he's just too young for that i don't know
you never play with these and now you like them i'm not putting his wands in just because they
don't really fit i wish they did but they would just kind of flop around i can't fit all of his
toys into here but it's good for some of these smaller ones so yeah the ghost kitty storage
crate milk thing straight from england click here if you don't want to be run over by a buffalo