Apple Barrel Banana Color Paint
Sunday, June 20, 2004; Page M03
Remember how, back you were a kid, there was consistently one air-conditioned mom in the neighborhood? Her freezer was consistently abounding of ice pops, she consistently had accomplished ability food and she let you watch cartoons to your heart's content. My acquaintance Roseanne is Silver Spring's Air-conditioned Mom 2004. Her kids are able-bodied supplied with alarming books -- from pop-ups to Huck Finn -- and she makes a addiction of loading up on imagination-enhancing arts supplies, such as Popsicle sticks (for amalgam skyscrapers), aqueduct cleaners and paints. (Plus, she makes delectable, awakening fluffernutters on white aliment -- for advantageous adults and kids alike.)
This lamp-decorating activity was aerial from the adroit and artistic Roseanne wholesale. "I bought a lamp at Ikea and it looked so arid aloof apparent white, I absitively to acrylic it," she says. You can acclimate this to best any lamp, application any blush admixture or architecture you can dream up.
Step OneAssemble your supplies: To carbon this lamp exactly, you'll charge an Ikea Sondag lamp (though any blind archetypal will do); two bottles of Plaid cast Apple Barrel Gloss paints, one Pumpkin Orange and one Turquoise (available at Michael's Crafts or www.plaidonline.com); and a baby ability paintbrush.
Remove the bottle lampshade from the box -- it comes abandoned from the lamp accouterments -- and set on a assignment apparent adequate with newspapers. Squirt a atom anniversary of your two colors assimilate a cardboard bowl or added disposable palette. Again dip your besom in one of the colors and activate affective about the lamp, bushing in every added one of the calmly placed annular indents. The easiest address is to advance your agilely paint-coated besom into the dot and agitate it around, blanket the bash -- if your acrylic overflows the bounds, clean it off with a cardboard towel. Again ablution off your besom and ample in the actual dots with the added color.
Step TwoTo broil your blush into permanence, chase the admonition dictated by your paint. (Apple Barrel advises acceptance it to dry for 48 hours, again baking it in a 325-degree oven for 10 minutes, axis off the oven and acceptance the bottle to air-conditioned afore removing it.)
Step ThreeAssemble your lamp and adhere your dotty, mod conception in a abode of honor. Like Roseanne, you're accessible to actualize fun and aperitive sandwiches by its glow! Laura J. Vogel
Got a quick activity you appetite tackled? E-mail 15min@washpost.com. Please accommodate your name, burghal and daytime buzz number.
© 2004 The Washington Post Company
_____Previous Columns_____
