Aging terra cotta pots

Today, I am going to share aging terra cotta pots with Annie Sloan paint, craft paint and some stencils.

 Do you ever feel like that  about something you love?
I always feel like

I will look back and say to myself what was I thinking?
because I have so many times before.

(bought my first MUM of the season)

 I sure hope with all these latest projects I have been doing,  that  will NOT be the case.  I have been very happy with their out come!
So……today, I was thinking more about our backyard retreat and all the color I want to add.
I have a can of Annie Sloan Provence  chalk paint that I have been dying to dig into.

Remember I mentioned I want a Spanish flair out on our new area.  I want to totally bring the inside out.

It really was so simple to paint the terra cotta.
The Annie sloan chalk paint went on like butter.
Dried fast as usual.  I have so many pretty stencils on hand I thought I would stencil a design on the pot as well.

I was achieving a weathered old look…
so I sanded the heck out of it.
Gosh,
the sanding is the toughest part of these jobs!
I sweat like a dickens!

The process was simple.  I painted two coats of Annie Sloan chalk paint. I used duck egg blue color.

Let that completely dry for a  few hours and then did my stencil work.

and again, as I mentioned sanded the heck out of it.  You can use some polyurethane to protect your masterpiece. I did not. I wanted it to get weathered and chippy over time.

In fact from what I am told about Annie’s paint, that  using it for outdoor projects is just as wonderful.  It will take on a more weathered effect over time.

This is the stencil and paint I used..

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