Malenka Originals

There is a jaw-droppingly beautiful armoire in Annie Sloan’s book Creating the French Look that I’ve been fixated on for a long time. It’s the most flipped-to page in my display copy.  Anyone who mentions ‘Country Grey’ is promptly met with me grabbing the book and introducing them to said armoire. It’s hard to really [...]

The last few months have been a wild ride. The Malenka Originals shop opened 2-1/2 months ago, and in that time hundreds of new faces have come through my door. Most stay for a chat, come back again, send pictures of projects, and many have joined in at my workshops. And such fantastic people they’ve [...]

I’m opening a shop. (Yay!) And it’s also a workshop. (Bigger yay!) So do I call it a shop or a workshop, or a work/shop? I don’t know, and it doesn’t really matter, I’m just so excited to have a space. And where is this place, exactly? Well, it’s right here in Ottawa, tucked into [...]

It seems there’s a whole lot of you who can’t wait to get your hands on the most talked about paint out there! After being listed as a stockist for only a few days, I’ve already received a bunch of emails from those of you who spied my big news on the Annie Sloan Unfolded [...]

I took a couple car fulls of furniture over to Flock today, to get ready for the vintage tea cup & refreshed furniture sale on Saturday. As I was dropping off my stuff, the boxes of tea cups had arrived too. Ohhhh, I would have loved to peel open some of that paper to have [...]

*Sold* I’ve seen so many furniture painters doing amazing things with these types of buffets, so I was so happy to finally get my hands on one. Well, happy, but I admit, slightly skeptical when I saw it in its original form. Eeek. A bit of a beast, eh? I’m obviously a big believer in [...]