This was a GREAT dresser.....My all time favorite ever.. this one was so fun and turned out so good..and the knobs were so pretty.. I have only 1 left to remember it by....:( I hope it's happy in it's new home.. eww.. I'm so dumb sometimes..
Unfortunately .. No I didn't take a photo of the before.. you can probably imagine the mundane being that lies beneath this coating of Gothic Flat Black drama.?? yes , it was shiny, dark cherry , with big "leaf" pulls and chipped veneer..a horrible dreary beast.. tired and forgotten... Besides that, Goodwill in it's infinite quest to make yet another buck on Thursday, had carted it's mirror off to a Goodwill at the other end of town..and it's nitestand disguised as a Shabby white number, had been left for dead in the corner of the smelly store.....
BOOOO no fun.. Shame on you Goodwill... !!!!!
Well "Here I am to save the day"!!!!!!!!!!
With Halloween on the way .. Crazy Garage Lady was in the mood for something dark and gloomy... yet sophisticated...and elegant.. ????? hummm poor old cherry dresser was the perfect subject for her madness...
Imagine a dark and gloomy day..,the Arizona sky alive with lightning.. the air filled with the rumble of thunder, and pounding rain.. and there in the garage alone with her victim, Crazy Garage Lady..!!!! she plugged in her sander and went to work on the poor unsuspecting dresser. The buzz of the sander seemed to go on forever .. the drawer pulls were extracted one by one.. the holes filled .. the chipped veneer glued and sanded and finally when it seemed like noone could take another minute of it........ she stopped.
Silence filled the garage as Crazy Garage Lady painted on the soothing coat of white primer and left the poor quivering dresser alone in the dark.
It's body parts were strewn all around the garage.. it's 8 drawers over there and it's pulls, lying helplessly in the bottom of the recycle bin. ..the nitestand and mirror cowered in the dark knowing they would be next.
Morning came and Crazy Garage Lady returned.. this time with bright sunlight and oven like temperatures..but that didn't stop her for a moment.. .. she went right to work..sweating and mumbling and within hours the white primer had been covered with a eerie coat of flat black paint. Then it was over..the shiny cherry beast was but a memory.
The mirror was painted to match and so was the nitestand..Shiny glass knobs were screwed tightly to the drawers and then ..for the first time... they were reunited... instantly they recognized each other despite the black paint..and they said
"You look marvelous..."
They now reside happily together...where they wait for the full moon.. and Halloween...
ahahahhahahahahahhahahahahahh
I will never forget you.. !!!
