Okay, when I opened the box of paint, my first thought was that everyone at Rustoleum had gone bananas. Gold and cherry red? Someone call Iron Man - I think he may be interested in these colors!

But then my wife had a look, and as is usually the case, where I saw hopelessness, she was all, "Oh, these are great, my babes! I know exactly what we'll do with them!"

The mind of a woman - as unfathomable as the deepest ocean and far more terrifying.

But yay for my wife! - or I'd be sharing a picture of a toy fire engine with you or perhaps a white canvas titled Snowy Day.

Though we haven't tried ~~Fire Engine and Snowy Day~~ Cherry Red and Lily White yet (check back with us around Christmas), we did make excellent use of the Metallic Gold.

And lemme tell you something else. Up until the projects we just completed with Metallic Gold, I was a pretty big hater of anything gold color. Except, you know, actual gold. I'm good with gold coins and bars, so if you have any lying around there at Castle Rustoleum, you can ship them my way, and I'll put them to good use.

The moment I sprayed Metallic Gold though, I was hooked! I don't know how the wizards and alchemists toiling away in Castle Rustoleum's ~~Ivory~~ Lily White towers did it, but they managed to create a gold color that looks like real gold!

Pro Tip: don't spray it on lead and try to pass it off as gold. The Treasury Department takes a dim view of such activity.

Anyway, back to our projects. As part of our Halloween tablescape, we (and by we, I of course mean "my wife") wanted to make some quick and easy wreaths to hang from the back of the dining chairs. We used embroidery hoops sprayed black (with Rustoleum, naturally), lacy black cloth and plastic spiders sprayed Metallic Gold. We also made a bigger wreath to hang over the fireplace.

For the placesettings, we sprayed some cheap Dollar Store vampire teeth (Note: they're useless for actually sucking blood from necks, so don't bother wasting your time trying to create an Undead Army) with the Metallic Gold and used them as napkin holders.

A word about the Imagine line of paints. Though we only used the one color, the coverage was noticably better than Painter's Touch and even better than Universal. We use a lot of Rustoleum spray paint around here, and the Imagine was a joy to work with. I'm excited to try the white and the red for some Christmas projects! I'm thinking maybe a white canvas with a red circle titled Snowy Day with Rudolph. Good, right??

Elegant Spiders and Gold Fangs at the Dinner Table