Monday, October 11, 2010

Were-DRESSERS.????

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.. !!!

The Murder

Well I've seen enought scary movies in my day to know that when a flock of black crows comes and lands in your pot of dead sticks in the kitchen...  you better LOOK OUT.....  and , well Don't cha know?,   thats just what happened to me. ??  
Darn it..    what could this mean??   
  Could it be an OMEN....!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Halloween is coming.

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

This pumpkin went out and got all "tatted" up for Halloween...!!!!  


 Frumpy, 
is shocked..!!!!!

I'm linking to the party at It's so Very Cheri
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Sunday, September 19, 2010

Baby Armoire goes Coastal

Since I had acquired a pretty Aqua colored gallon of OOPS Paint... I have been dying to try it out on something.  First I painted this bird house.
I like this color especially with the distressing and the dark wood showing thru.    Purely by accident when I distressed the bird house the yellow color that it had been painted before showed thru in a few spots...  The yellow looked so cute peeking out .. 

I started looking around for something else to paint Aqua/ yellow ... and there it was hiding in the garage..it's been in the garage waiting it's turn for a long time..  a looooonnggg time.. ahahha 

Baby Armoire.
Now I don't know if this is intended to be a babies's armoire.. but it is small... it's  barely 5 feet tall and a little over 2 feet wide. It could hold a small TV or I could put a pole inside and it could indeed hold a babies tiny clothes..and shoes..it very cute and petite.


This was a really easy project... all it needed was a very light sanding and a coat of primer and then on to the fun part .... the yellow topped with the aqua..

The distressing was hard to stop from getting carried away.. distressing is such a good time.
..   and with that Baby Armoire goes Coastal..
isn't this just the perfect Cottage/ Coastal/ Shabby Aqua color?