Spring Dresser Named Laverne
Happy Wednesday. It feels like a true Spring day around here. Light, colorful, slight breeze, and not too hot.
My dresser feels like the perfect dresser for Spring too. Meet Laverne. Laverne the Spring Dresser! 
I picked it up a couple of weeks ago at a Salvage Store, and was waiting for inspiration to hit.
After my interview with Donna Haile from CeCe Caldwell’s, I was inspired to try my hand at mixing colors. I mixed Blue Montana Sky, Seattle Mist and Dover White (which is non pigmented white, perfect for lightening colors, or as a wash). I love the shade of blue/grey I came up with. However, on closer inspection, it pretty much looks like Memphis Blue. Clearly I need to spend some more time with Donna!
I love all the details the dresser has. It was hard to see them before, it was dark! (It was dark in my garage when I took that picture too)
My Hydrangeas are blooming, and because of my complete lack of care for them over the winter, I was rewarded with DOZENS of gorgeous blooms. See, it does pay off to neglect things sometimes, just ask the furniture on the side of my yard!
This girl’s name is Laverne. Yep, and not as in “Laverne and Shirley”. Just Laverne thank you. Laverne has the most gorgeous legs. Easy on the eyes, and easy to paint too! By the way, that color variation? That is the beauty of CeCe Caldwell’s all natural Chalk and Clay based paints. There are two kinds of clay in the paint. The clay gives the color this variation. If you want to enhance this, I recommend burnishing it with either a 320 piece of sandpaper, very lightly until smooth, or even a piece of a brown paper grocery bag! (If you are like me and still use those……)
I didn’t want this piece to languish in my furniture Que. The other pieces were kind of mad at Laverne. “Why Did SHE get special treatment, etc”. Laverne is just special. I knew I wanted her to Pass Go and head straight to Paris Flea Market with having to wait in line. Laverne will collect her “GO” money when she goes to a new home.
Which side do you think is her best? She is a bit vein…. To the left? To the right?
Or straight on.
Laverne asked if her straight on picture made her look fat. I told her no. You know how these girls are, they never believe you.
Laverne is trying to show off at these lovely parties this week:
I love the color combo on the dresser. Oh and once you spend more time with Donna you can impart that knowledge in a class. I finished my end table finally from the workshop. Still need to fine tune aka fix the mistakes. But I like it. I’ll send pics once done.
Karen – that turned out beautiful! Love the colors!
What a great piece!
Laverne is beautiful. Great job with her. All of her sides look great too. haha
oh i love laverne! she is so beautiful! fabulous job and my kind of colors!
This is soooo pretty, I love it! And the hydrangeas are a nice touch 🙂
~Katie
I love her Karen!
Love it! Your sense of humor is fab!!
Turned out great Karen!
She’s a beauty!! Luv the color. I am working on a dresser that has loads of beautiful carving on it but she is missing that decorative piece that runs along the top/back. I will have to make her a new piece but I don’t mind because I got her very cheap( 20 bucks!!!) at a thrift shop. Of course she wouldn’t fit in my vehicle, had to go borrow a truck from a friend, blah,blah, blah, I’m sure you know how that goes!!!
she is beautiful,I love the colors and oh those legs…….:)
Just gorgeous! I’m lovin’ the two tone look oh so much….and I finally picked up some CeCe’s in Kentucky Mint 🙂 Anxious to give it a try.
I love her look from any angle! so beautiful. A store near me started carrying CeCe’s paint and I got some – so far though I like Annie’s better! Maybe just cause that is what i’m used to? The white CeCe’s made me feel like I was using latex paint again. Maybe I need to thin it a bit?
She’s a beaute!
I’d buy her if I was there!
Catherine
Love this piece and I want it…LOL! The color is fantastic and I love the way you aged it and the details. Great work.
Cynthia
Laverne is just gorgeous, Karen! Love the colors you went with. Her details are amazing. You are right, you just don’t see them in the before picture. Now they stand out and are just beautiful.
this looks wonderful and i’m not even a blue person. great job.
Such a pretty girl, that Laverne.
She’s gorgeous but missing her “L” on her chest!! Schlameil, Schlamazel …
Kelly
Oooolalaa! Laverne est tres belle! Are those hydrangeas from your backyard? Wowee, Karen! Je suis un peu jaloux!
Oh Laverne, you are a far better name as a beautiful dresser than you ever would of been for a duck.
Bliss
Pretty !
You did a beautiful job on this dresser–the color choices are perfect. Just love it. I also enjoyed your sense of humor–of course it doesn’t make her look fat 🙂
I have never tried CeCe Caldwell paint but I do use the ASCP. It is fun to see all the different painted furniture combinations out there and gather inspiration to bring life back in to an old beauty such as Laverne. She is beautiful and I think she knows it. ha.
Have a great weekend.
LOVE IT! It’s so much fresher with its new coat of paint, and I love the colors you chose.
This is so pretty! And one of your pics gave me an idea. I like how that chalkboard is hinged to the wall. I don’t know what’s going on with it, but it made me think maybe I can cover my wires from my flat screen AND still use my antique vanity as a console (the wires and plugs are exposed due to the open space below the middle drawer.
From plain Jane to Fab Laverne, beautiful!
Laverne turned out awesome! I have a similar dresser I am working on and now I know how to paint it! BTW I just found your site and Iove it!
Sooooo pretty! Thanks for sharing at Silver Pennies Sundays! x
I love Laverne!!
Oh my, Laverne is simply gorgeous!
I love your dresser and am including it in my group of favorites from last week’s Project Inspire{d} linky party. You always do such beautiful pieces!! Thanks for sharing!
Nancy
Laverne is fabulous! Thanks for sharing 🙂 Patti@OldThingsNew
Great colour combo. Have recently started working with CeCe and so far very pleased. I might have missed something but what colour did you do the drawers and what type of finish did you use ?
Hi Cathy, I have been using CeCe Caldwells for two years now and I love it more every day. I find new ways to use it all the time, so glad you are enjoying it! The colors are in the post, I mixed some of the blues. Thanks for stopping by.