"Distressing" is Stressfull

I have always liked the look of Distressed furniture but never had the guts to try it, until I seen a post on http://showandtell-sausha.blogspot.com/. Instead of doing some large piece of furniture, she did a small jewelry box she had bought Godwill. It turned out so cute, I thought, "I have an old small jewelry box, I can do that." Well let me just tell you it is not as easy as it may look. (Im so glad I didnt try on a big piece of furniture). Anyway, Gary was in Arizona so I thought why not. I dug my jewelry box out of hiding and got started. We had some left over white paint from one of the bedrooms, (this is great no out of pocket expense, YEAH!!) I put on 2 coats of paint letting both dry overnight, then I set out to "distress" away. Maybe it was the paint I used was old I'm not sure but, Wow it seems like I sanded forever. Randee' came home and she even sanded for a while. Some of the stained glass look was chipping off, so I removed that, I tried to think of something I could put in place of the glass but I couldnt come up with anything. I will be on the look out for one without the glass and try again. So here are the results not sure yet if I like it. If you have any tips please let me know. Please to Sausha's blog and check out her jewelry box its soooo cute!