So the other day I was in my local Goodwill (Yes…. The one that sells rocks…) and I came across this.
It clearly had a lid at some point in its life, but the lid was missing and there was a chip on the top of it.
Oh. And it was pink.
Who has ever heard of pink cabbage?! The only time I have seen cabbage that had a pink tinge to it, it was because I had left it to rot in the bottom of the veggie crisper drawer. (Don’t you judge me! Everyone knows that the crisper drawers are where produce goes to be forgotten and die!)
Anyhow, I took it home, sprayed a primer on it…
At this point I am sure there are some of you feeling fairly uncomfortable with my choice, but that’s probably because you think I am planning on using it as a bowl for food. Never fear, I plan to use it as a springtime floral container or as a planter.
After the primer dried, I busted out the acrylic paint… and blooped a big ‘ole dollop of celery green directly onto the bowl.
I used a small amount over the entire bowl, continuing to dry brush the paint in areas where it was a little uneven. I wanted to make sure you could see brush strokes and imperfections.
From here, and even while it was still a little wet, I took it out to my spray paint area. I balanced it upside down on another can of spray paint.
Here is where you need to forget everything you’ve ever learned about proper spray paint application. You’re going to take a can of clear, gloss lacquer or sealant, and you are going to spray heavy coat upon heavy coat of clear gloss on this baby. Yes, it’ll drip. Yes, it’ll run… but since it’s upside down, it’ll be running up. Leave it for a day or two.
When it’s completely dry, it will look like it’s fired ceramic, not like acrylic paint on an orphaned Goodwill bowl.
I think it’ll look really cute with little pansies planted in it, or some tulips… but all I have today are cuttings from my roses. Anyhow, for a $4.99 Goodwill save and materials that i had on hand, I’m pretty happy with the end result.
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Now that looks so much better 🙂
hey girl.. it looks great. I have a pink cabbage platter.. gorgeous but pink.. hmmm.. I would love to paint it but some of my painted ceramic things have turned out a mess. One question, did the rocks sell?
Love it! So much better AFTER:-)
Agreed…pink cabbage is wrong. Love what you did with it, though. I’m seriously jealous of your roses!
WOW! I love it. It really does look beautiful!
I know better than to doubt your prowess as a painter and rescuer of some old lady’s beloved soup tureen…is that how that’s spelled? I bet not. And I don’t know if it was actually a soup…whatever. But you know what I mean.
Great transformation. I too forget about most everything that goes in the crisper drawer. I just can’t see stuff all the way down there by the floor. I am thinking of getting a fridge with the freezer on the bottom, maybe that will help with the abyss known as the crisper.
That is just adorable! I happen to have a half rotting head of cabbage in my crisper. Thanks for reminding me.
also…getting a TON of traffic from you site today because of my subject matter.
🙂
Awww so much prettier!
It looks much better! I like it!
And I love the new look of your blog! 🙂
That is seriously something that I would guess you paid big bucks for!
Holy cow, it looks like a way expensive piece! Great job 😀
It looks so great 🙂 I need to hit up Goodwill 🙂
~Alison
Wow! I never would have dreamed it would turn out so pretty! That’s certainly being filed away for future reference.
The green is definitely more becoming than pink! And it is just sooooooo loverly with those flower in it!
This is fantastique! From Crappy to Happy. Love that paint technique. Sometimes the creative ways with spray are the best. I bet someone was serving some yummy cabbage soup in this thing in its original life……Someone on a diet that is.
That’s really cute…I’m going to have to ransack some local goodwills now….
I’m booking your ticket for your visit here. I’m thinking I can change your flight from Texas and you can come back home with me for a week or so. You know, just long enough for you to help me get some stuff done!
pink cabbage, seriously? I love pink, but that was a little tacky haha. great redo! Thanks for linking up to Your Whims Wednesday 🙂
I want to steal Shawn’s comment and enter it here. She’ll never know.
Come help me. You know how anti-creative I am.
Please?
Ok so I like to think that I can see the potential in things at goodwill, but I would have never looked twice at that pink cabbage bowl! Great job, you really turned it into something lovely!
I live WAY closer then Shawn or IA so come to my house first mmmK! 🙂
No but seriously I am thinking really hard about taking a picture of my gawd awful vanity in my bathroom (you know the one I don’t get to replace) and seeing if you will offer up any tips on how to make it less ugly then it is now.
Beautiful! I love it with the white flowers. Very elegant.
I can’t believe that you took a perfectly good pink cabbage and made it look like that!
:0)
~Becca
So much better! It has a new life;) And it looks awesome.
I love this. I’m bad about seeing things and not thinking I can repaint them. I will have to keep that in mind.
It looks great! thanks for linking this up to our Wicked awesome wed. party.
You are officially my arts/crafts style guru.
I love this!!! I am forever inspired by my BSS (blog stalking symdrome) Thank you for sharing.
HA! I’m not the only one who ‘balances’ stuff on spray paint and other paint cans 🙂 Or spray paints in heavy coats – I’m feeling vindicated. Thank you!
Awesome makeover – excuse the silly question, but was the primer a flat one?
Much better in celery green.
~Kimberlee, http://www.TheSpunkyDiva.com
This is so lovely! I often find things w/out lids at the goodwill and I use then as planters.
xo,
Sena
So pretty! The color is beautful. The perfect planter. 🙂
Well you just fancied that right up now didn’t you! I actually love the roses in it.
ahhh… now that is a girl with vision. I would never have thought to do something like that! Very creative and it turned out awesome!! I lack in creativity so i’ll just have to soak yours up! 🙂
Love what you did with it and how it turned out!! Superb!
Ok, you need to come prowl through my house and see if I have any pink cabbage that you could remodel! It’s terrific what you did with that cabbage.
Yum! Pink Cabbage! Ha Ha. I think you made a wise choice with the green. It will look so cute as a planter-I love it!
Kim
Wow…love how that turned out!
Wow! So I did NOT know where you were going with this but it was well worth the read! Great technique and instructions and fantastic finished product!
Love how this turned out! The green paint technique really does look like fired glaze, good job! xo Debra
What a Transformation, I wouldn’t have thought of painting something like that ~ turned out looking like an Old Glazed Treasure.
Pink cabbage is definitely wrong! But you made this so right! 🙂
Vanessa
Hi Vivianne. It turned out gorgeous and that is the best tip. I never knew that. Thanks for sharing. I’ll be looking at ceramic thrift shop items with a different view now.
Hugs…Tracy 🙂
P.S. I have a giveaway ending tomorrow. I would love to have you stop by and enter.
Wow! What a transformation – that is beautiful! I never would have thought to pick that up in the store.
How cute!!
I just love your personality! You crack me up.
I especially loved the letter to Goodwill. I don’t know what I would of thought if I walked around a Goodwill and found a rock for sale. Too funny!!!
Love it! You were right about the paint job–much prettier now. Have a great weekend. Patty
Very nice! I love shopping at the resale stores. You really saved that poor broken pot. It’s so pretty now.
You silly girl…..that is gorgeous! But this link party is for etsy shops.
Great Job! I like it a lot better now!
CLEVER find!!! I love the new cabbage color! It is a great flower bowl 🙂
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yes that cabbage bowl NEEDED you!! so stinkin cute.
ps: i gotta find your rock story on here now, ha! goodwill is crazy!
Way pretty, I love it!
Nothing like paint to redo and remake and revamp something into something beeeeeautiful! great job. Love it.
Blessings,
Debbie
Beautiful! Love pink but completely agree, not for cabbage. Thanks for sharing the acrylic to pottery technique!
-caroline @ c.w.frosting
Oh yeah, much better! I think you chose a pretty color for it.
Beautiful! I’ve never tried that particular technique with a clear coat. 🙂 I’ll have to give it a try!
I like everything you make! It’s always hard for me to choose which one of your posts for my top ten! we’ll just have to see.. Thank you for sharing them on Masterpiece Monday. Have a great week! Mary :O)
I’ve painted pottery before, but never have been able to make it shiny like yours. Love the color, but then green is my favorite color anyway. Enjoy your “new” pot.
love the update looks great
So beautiful! I love the new color so much better!
Lovely
Thanks for sharing the vanishing tip.
Hey, that sure looks like fired glaze! Wow!…great job, love that soft green and as a flower base.
Hugs
FABBY
Looks much, much better! I agree…pink cabbage??? You made it beautiful!
What a difference! So lovely!
Love it! and it should never surprise me when I click on a beautiful pic from a link party and I end up at the V-Spot….you are amazing lady! Today, I stopped by from Homemaker on a Dime 🙂
Very pretty! Nice transformation!
This is a really cool technique! Thanks for sharing!
So much prettier now. I always wonder hwo they come up with this stuff – pink cabbage…go figure!
Beautiful and clever. Nice job. I love Goodwill.
Hugs, Jeanne
Love this Vivienne!! I swear – every week you make something fabulous. 😉
Thanks for linking up – I’m sharing on my FB page!! 🙂
Wow, what a great technique! Thanks for sharing. It is so much better now. I might not look the same way again at pink ceramics at the thrift store…..
Looks great! Love the thrifty, easy technique you used 🙂
Love this! Thanks for sharing your technique! Found you at the Creative Bloggers Party & Hop!
First time on your blog. Wonderful! But, the best part was making allowing me to laugh OUT LOUD about the pink cabbage in the fridge…so like me! Thank you for a funny start to an eighth grade teacher’s day!
You should be “over-the-moon” proud of yourself, this is GORGE-OUS!!!!!! I love it and can’t wait to try it out myself…
So glad I found your blog, I’ll be following from now on!
Hurray for green cabbage!
Linking this up with us made the Creative Bloggers’ Party & Hop better and more special. Thank you!
Gorgeous transformation! You’re definitely blessed with an artists’ eye and hand to go with it!
Jenn
That looks much better than the pink. Thanks for joining my party again.
It turned out so pretty and what a great technique. I’ll have to try it out sometime.
Just lovely! I can’t wait to check out my good will to copy your techniques.
Joyfully,
Pamela
So adorable! What a great idea! Thanks for sharing!
Awesome makeover!!! I don’t think I would have thought of that in a million years!!! I will be looking at things differently now:)
I adore that! I am going to be featuring it on Check Me Out Saturday this morning 🙂
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It looks beautiful!! I love the color and your idea to coat it heavily with sealer so it looks like pottery. Genius!!
I came over from Tatertots and Jello.
Ruth
Oh, I like it much better green. You did a beautiful job. Thanks for sharing. Karie
ohhhh, i love it! and thanks for the heads up about the drippy spray paint.
nice tips) i suppose they can be quite helpful!
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Wow – very pretty! Very nice blog with TONS of information. Thanks!
Looks great! Can you let me know what primer and sealer you used please