Two Tier Table

Now that drop leaf baby is finished, it's time to move on to this two tiered end table I've been glancing at for a while now. I'm not sure what to do, just yet, but I have a lot of ideas floating around. I'm thinking something along the lines of cobalt blue... I might stripe it with the wood, I might two tone it, I might do a fabric inlay, a pattern stencil.....I really can't decide. Do you have any ideas?

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Paper Scrap Light

I love this light! Really simple in construction, I saw it on design sponge and fell in love. The original post is here on Design Sponge, one of my favorite blogs. I can't wait to start making these. I love paper and I love lights, I've always toyed around with both - this is perfect! Here's a few more shots:

Keep an eye out for these, I can't wait to start!

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Cute Cake Stands

Beth over at Green Cricket recently posted a really awesome tutorial on how to make some cute and fun cake stands, I love the bright colors! Check them out:

See the full tutorial here, and while you're there check out all Beth's great creations! Have a good one!

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Brick & Turquoise Drop Leaf - Part 2

Ok, so I finished the table! Here's the original post if you missed it.  So I finished up with a good distressing session to let the red really come out, then I did a glaze of deep black over the entire thing afterwards. I'm pretty happy with how it came out! Fun little beachy table, with just the right amount of red coming through. Let's just get to the pictures, huh?!

Originally I wanted a lot more red to come through, but I just went with the flow, and ultimately I think it's just the right amount.  Don't forget, this was the before:

This table is available in the shop.

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Brick & Turquoise Drop Leaf

Brick & Turquoise, Teal & Red, how can you say no to this combo? You can't. They are naturals. I started work last week (beFORE the rains...) on an older drop leaf table I had around. Let's start with my inspiration picture first:

HELLO! How cute is that thing? I was searching for ideas, and I knew I wanted to use turquoise, and I saw this. The red layer underneath poking out here and there is what sold me, and away I went. So here we have a table with one too many layers of lacquer going on.  I know it was a style, but the key word there is "was". But it was solid wood and had plenty of interesting carvings, this table was ready for it's world to be rocked:

Hello Darling....

After it was stripped, we realized it some pretty neat woodwork going on, and goal #1 was to do a stain. Well that fell out the window and I decided, forget it, let's just be bold and see what happens. So here's the progress. First I put a coat of this beautiful brick red from my sister Denise, which managed to paint not only her living room, but mine as well:

Bring it!

I love this red. It's great because it's a nice flat red, and will really work well the bright turquoise. So that was layer one, bear with me. Layer 2, the turquoise:

Alright! Now we're getting somewhere.  This is about as far as I've gotten, since it's cold and wet outside and the paint just never seems to dry. Rather than rush it, I just came inside to post this :)

The goal here is to either whitewash the outside or do a dark glaze over the whole thing. I can't decide. Either way, I'll distress the project in all the right places and let that brick red shine out where it counts. Wish me luck, i'd love to hear your feedback, input and ideas on this baby. Also, I got new hardware (not pictured) it's a white ceramic drawer pull.

Have a good one!

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