Turning Someone's Trash into My Treasure.

Hello, friends.

Have you ever seen "free" items set out beside the road.

Yes, it is tempting sometimes, isn't it?

Well last Sunday on the way home from church,

I saw this:

 My husband had stayed home to bale hay,

so it was up to me in my Sunday dress to get this thing into the truck.

My daughter supervised.

(She's great at that.)

I had been looking for a small table for the middle of my living room;

my kids have finally reached the point that somebody doesn't dent themselves on a piece of furniture everday.

This seemed perfect.

I wanted something sturdy,

something that could store things and hide them

(like games or dirty children...

okay, that was a joke, although I have to admit,

they seemed to think it was a great place to hide and scare me

when I worked on it this week.)

I also wanted something that could be used for sitting,

in a pinch

as we'd needed more seats at the last Christmas get-together we had.

I was kind of hoping for something a bit more,

well,

 pretty,

but I figured some paint might help.

 How I love Annie Sloan's Chalk Paint!

I only needed one coat of each color to get the job done.

The table had a funny shaped pattern cut into the middle,

so I painted it and used an image from the Graphics Fairy

to bring in the "bird" theme,

like the bird stencil I'd done on the far wall looking into the kitchen.

I used a charcoal pencil transfer,

calligraphy permanent ink,

and then painted it with some acrylic paints.

I am loving the living room now:

the curtains, the pillow, the refurbished lamp shade,

the red and green...

 and now my fun table!

So, if you are the one who set this out for "free",

thank you very much!!!

(For those here from Kelly's Korner's home tour,
if you'd to see the other side of the living room,
you can click >HERE<
and >HERE<

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