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01-26-2015, 04:06 PM | #1 | |||
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Just wondering if anyone here has ever made their own chalk paint for up cycling old furniture? The paint I want to use by Annie Sloan is far too expensive here.
There are many different recipes but it seems a little like trial and error which can sometimes turn into a little like wasting money. I have a recipe that uses calcium carbonate powder and it looks as if it might give a good result and it's so inexpensive but for the life of me I can't find where I could buy it in a larger quantities than the containers from health food outlets. Other recipes include baking soda , spackle (sp?) or dry wall paste, (or spakfilla as it's called here), and also plaster of paris, and I imagine that would be extremely messy and need a blender and there's a goodbye to the blender although I could just use a cheap stick blender. So, just if anyone has ever done this, can you please let me know what has worked for you. thanks. |
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"Thanks for this!" says: | Darlene (01-28-2015) |
01-27-2015, 03:18 PM | #2 | |||
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update.
I found calcium carbonate fine powder in large quantities at a pet and livestock store. It's apparently fed to horses along with phosphorus when certain dietary requirements are required. |
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