{"id":4147,"date":"2018-09-09T12:08:22","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T18:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/?p=4147"},"modified":"2018-09-09T12:08:22","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T18:08:22","slug":"i-admit-i-cheated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/?p=4147","title":{"rendered":"i admit i cheated&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i had a self imposed rule that once something goes in the giveaway box,there are no second thoughts, and no pulling them out.  but this time the rule just had to be broken&#8230;<br \/>\ni painted up the top part of my caravan.  the &#8220;chipped&#8221; wood look was poorly done, and just had to go.  so i covered it with a shiny coat of silver metallic paint.  then i carefully added a bit of &#8220;rust&#8221; at the edges with plain brown and copper metallic, to match the painted rust that was already on the roof (the only thing from the original that i am actually keeping.)  it looked ok, but was too plain for the look i&#8217;m going for, so i left it to percolate.  just as i was about to go to bed, i remembered the damask stencil i had in my paint supplies, and the mini shiva paint sticks that were already in the giveaway box, and loaded in the car ready to go.  i ran out and rescued them.  rules are made to be broken right?  at least as far as crafts are concerned, and i think the result was worth it. i intentionally painted lighter and darker, because my gypsies will be a little run down at the heels.<br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/onebluestocking\/29621668877\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"top color\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1850\/29621668877_7a0ec4a508.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"436\" alt=\"top color\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nof course the other rule that just has to be broken on this one, is not mixing too many patterns together.  in this case the more the merrier.<br \/>\nyou can get a glimpse of one of the fabrics i&#8217;m planning to use for the couch\/bed in the background too, if you are interested.<br \/>\nnow i just have to remember not to touch it for 24 hours, till the paint dries, so back to cleaning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i had a self imposed rule that once something goes in the giveaway box,there are no second thoughts, and no pulling them out. but this time the rule just had to be broken&#8230; i painted up the top part of my caravan. the &#8220;chipped&#8221; wood look was poorly done, and just had to go. so i covered it with a shiny coat of silver metallic paint. then i carefully added a bit of &#8220;rust&#8221; at the edges with plain brown and copper metallic, to match the painted rust that was already on the roof (the only thing from the original&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4147"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4156,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147\/revisions\/4156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}