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My Ugly $2 Yard Sale Fish Challenge
by
Courtney @ All Things New Again
(IC: blogger)
I like to challenge myself by finding the U-G-L-I-E-S-T item at a yard sale, taking it home and making it look beautiful again. When I spotted this $2 broken umbrella stand shaped like a fish, I knew just what to do ...
I'm taking him home and spitting all over him! You're probably thinking: What? Spit on that ugly fish? Eeew? Really?
Here's what my little fishy looked like after I applied the color. I just painted it on with a brush and kept layering until I liked how he looked.
Here's a close-up...
When Unicorn Spit dries, it has a pastel look like an easter egg. It needs to be sealed with an oil-based sealer. I used Minwax Polyurethane. The poly seals the stain and changes the color into rich, gorgeous jewel tones. You can see on his tail here the difference between the side with the poly (on the left) and the unsealed side (on the right).
Here's my fish now! I tucked him outside next to my little herb garden for a splash of color.
I spit on a bunch of other stuff too. Check out my blog for more project photos and a video showing how easy it is to transform ordinary yard sale objects with Unicorn Spit.
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Published July 6th, 2015 4:23 PM
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Sharon on Jun 03, 2016Where do you get the Unicornspit in that particular container and not the squeeze bottles? Do they hold more than the squeeze bottles and are they the same price? Are there only 12 colors? That is all I saw on the website that I saw. I am so excited. I want them ALL. Can you tell?
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