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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nWaverly brand (sold at Walmart) is the only chalk paint I’ve ever used and, for this project, I chose the color “mineral” because I already had it here at home. Since it’s pretty thick, I usually pour some in a cup and add a little bit of water. This makes the paint go further too! <\/p>\n\n\n\n I put on two coats of paint and then sanded the edges a little bit for a distressed look before applying two coats of Minwax polycrylic (with a third coat on the seat and “stirrups”). <\/p>\n\n\n\n I did a little research on ideas for the eyes and tail before finally deciding on 1-inch decorative tacks and jumbo yarn – both available at Hobby Lobby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I love how the tail turned out! <\/p>\n\n\n\n Ready to ride the trail with the next lil cowboy or cowgirl that comes around these parts! <\/p>\n\n\n\n ~ Rachel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From small projects to two complete room makeovers, the last few months have found Anna and I doing a good bit of painting. ( A BIG thanks right here to Bethany for taking over most of the other indoor and outdoor duties!) For this week’s project, I went solo as I gave this little horse a much-needed makeover. I spotted this treasure at a thrift store several years ago and grabbed it – the GRANDbabies sure have enjoyed him! Somewhere along the trail, his tail broke off and his eyes disappeared so a new look was definitely in order. Waverly brand (sold at Walmart) is the only chalk paint I’ve ever used and, for this project, I chose the color “mineral” because I already had it here at home. Since it’s pretty thick, I usually pour some in a cup and add a little bit of water. This makes the paint go further too! I put on two coats of paint and then sanded the edges a little bit for a distressed look before applying two coats of Minwax polycrylic (with a third coat on the seat and “stirrups”). I did a little research on ideas for the eyes and tail before finally deciding on 1-inch decorative tacks and jumbo yarn – both available at Hobby Lobby. I love how the tail turned out! Ready to ride the trail with the next lil cowboy or cowgirl that comes around these parts! ~ Rachel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,80,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-happenings","category-homemaking-recipes","category-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o6C2-2CP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10095"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10105,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10095\/revisions\/10105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/chalkpaint-rotated.jpg?fit=768%2C1024\")
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