I'm still working on things:-) Here is the painted window so far: I also have started working on this window. I nailed the picket planter to the window and hope to find some small shutters. It needs another coat of paint. I think I will just use fake flowers in this planter: I can't finish the metal bed until it's ready to place in the garden, have to wait for winter to end:-) I have been painting the bed spindles with the same color I painted spindles to make garden tools to hang from the side of the bed. Got that idea from a poster here who made the tools hanging from a old rake:-) Thanks for that idea!! Also in the picture are 2 insulators that I'm making into hanging candle holders. I need to find something to put on the wire to jazz them up:-) The other white spindle holds a sign that says 'This Way To Mom's Garden". It needs to be painted with another color.

I love the old chippy windows! I've used Posca markers on a couple of them. These are the markers that used car dealers use to write on windshields. Washes off with rubbing alcohol if you decide you no longer want it there. I wrote on the backside of this one, so I can write (and erase) things on the front. My last name is covered up in this one, there isn't a big empty square there. :-) I've also used transparencies with graphics I copied from the computer in the smaller panes of another window. Looks like painted glass. All these are posted somewhere at the Trash to Treasure forum, you can find lots of other window ideas there too.

If the window is a a single pane glass, a heat gun will be your best option.

Thanks graywings! I'm trying to stay within the blue my house is, that's the harder part. If I go up three more shades, I think I'll get there. I just used leftover one shade lighter and added a lot of white, but I think I'll use that for something else and buy the actual paint chip lighter color. That should get me there. I hope! The exterior is Sherwin Williams Distance. I have Upward inside in the dining room, master bathrooom and laundry, and even it is too dark. I think I'll try a sample of Icicle and see if it is what I think ;) At least I'll know the blues won't clash, since there is a lot of purple in this group of blues.