My Awesome Work

While browsing at a thrift store a couple months ago (The Saving Way for people here locally), I found this little table/cabinet for $10 that I thought, with some TLC, could be restored into something cute and useful in my home.

Libby needed a bedside table, so my plan was to sand a little, paint it white (with trim paint I already have) and then trim it out with leftover lime green paint from her bedroom walls. I figured it would take me about a day to get it done. I don't know who painted it before me (and please forgive me if YOU donated this table to The Saving Way....ha ha) but they were either blind, in a hurry or ran out of paint before they finished. The paint job was not good. I actually think they may have painted it with primer and called it good. (It wasn't). I moved it to the back porch for sanding, which took alot longer than I anticipated, but the paint just kept peeling off... either that or I just enjoyed using that electric-powered sander! :-) To prove how much work I did on the sanding, my shoulders hurt for two days afterward!

So far, so good. Then I went to carry it into the house to paint (because it was cold outside) and I DROPPED it before getting it in the house. The door on the cabinet was ajar and it landed on the door, snapping it off!!! :-( I was so mad at myself! I attempted to fix it, but realized soon it was out of my area of expertise, so I had to call in the big guns.... Tim. Unfortunately, it takes the Big Guns a while to get around to my projects.... so it waited, partially painted, in the dining room for a few weeks. I finally glued some of the pieces back together with Mod Podge. Here is a picture of it with a coat of primer and the door is not attached, it is just jammed in there and being held up by a bottle of Mod Podge.

Today..... Tim finally put on the new brackets and I got to work painting. It took the coat of primer plus 3 coats of paint to cover it. And I had very little of the lime green paint left, so I used it sparingly. Then I bought some wall clings to decorate it and Libby and Sarah went crazy with them. (I would have used fewer myself- but that's just me!) I still think it looks super cute. And Libby really likes it. It will be easily re-done if she ever changes her room. It will be moved beside her bed probably tomorrow. Here she is placing the remaining clings onto her walls.
And finally, as a bonus for your viewing pleasure, whilst shopping at yet another thrift store a couple days ago, I found this picture for my bedroom that looks so cute! It really goes well with the new quilt (which I am including again below). The frame will have to be replaced... but I LOVE the picture.

Maybe this will be the last house decorating post for a while! :-)