How about a CSN Giveaway???

How does a $45 CSN GC sound? They have everything from dinnerware sets to toys and school/office supplies, so finding something to use it on should be easy…making up your mind which thing might take a while! :-)

Can you believe this is a file cabinet???

The even have good old fashioned pencils!!

and then there are the dinnerware sets:

There are so many choices just for their dinnerware sets…you can spend all afternoon just browsing!

So are you interested??? Here’s what you can do to get in on the giveaway.

1. For your first entry, check out csnstores.com and come back and share  here in a comment what you might like to use your GC on.

2.For a second entry, post about this on your blog, FB, whatever! lol

3.If you are a follower or choose to become a follower tell me so for a third entry!

Separate comments please! I’ll be using random.org to select the winner. The giveaway will end on Monday, August 9th at 9pm est.

I’ve wanted a set of white dinnerware since last Christmas. I had just started to read some creative blogs and many people were doing amazing things with their tablescapes by starting with white dinnerware! Then in the spring, I found these on Pottery Barn:

And I fell in love! Problem was, the price! On sale at PB $149 for a 16 pc set (service for 4) it would cost me $450 just to get the dishes…no completer peices! Oh Well…I can dream! I saw this  too, for $35:

And after reading someone’s post about spray painting glass(I’m sorry, but I can’t remember who to give the credit too…it was back in the spring! ) I got inspired and decided to try it! Now this was back when I had just started to blog and would forget to take my before pics.

I started out with a clear glass vase from the thrift store and gave it a very light, almost a mist of white primer. I let it dry and gave it another mist. I followed with about three mist coats of white gloss spray paint. I found that the key to spraying the glass is going with several light, light coats since the paint really can’t grab onto anything on the surface of the glass. it turned out pretty good…and I wanted to add the raised “dots” that the Emma Pitcher had. I tried to figure out what would work…it had to be flat on one side…so it hit me! Wiggly Eyes!

I glued some of them on with Gorilla Glue and gave it a couple more coats of white paint. I finished it off with Krylon’s triple thick crystal clear glaze and here it is: 

It’s been sitting…waiting to have some other white pieces to go with it…. Since I don’t see myself gluing wiggly eyes to a whole set of dinnerware, so maybe I can win someone else’s CSN giveaway and find some dinnerware sets there!

Meanwhile, go choose something you like and let me now what it is here!

 

I’m going spread the word of the giveaway at a few fine places!