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Sunday, November 24, 2013

Bought this bench at a flea market. I painted it white and put some French Theme fabric on the seat. I sold it almost immediately, but the woman that bought it was going to change the fabric because she thought it wasn't good enough! It made me feel bad for a while but I realize that when someone buys your work they do have the right to do what ever they want with it after they pay for it. Oh well I still have the pictures of it as I originally did it!

Liberty Bench

I went to garage sale one beautiful Friday afternoon and found this bench.

I decided to paint it with a patriotic theme and set out to trace out the Pledge of Allegiance to transfer to the top of the seat.

The finished product came out nicely. It took me a while to paint on the Pledge but I am glad that I did.

Shutter Shelf

Take one old set of shutters and some corner shelf boards and you can make one really cool corner unit.

I was sure to paint the one shutter that had a solid panel with chalk paint. It is the perfect size to set on top of dresser or kitchen counter top.

Chalk it up!

I went to pick up a trunk one day and the former owner gave me a stash of boards. They were the kind that are used for shelving in many of the Sauder type TV stands. They weren't good for much.....or were they? I thought aha! I could make them into chalkboards. So I cut them into shapes and painted them with black chalk paint. Not bad, free boards that probably would have been trashed if I hadn't taken them and re-purposed them!