Clean Laundry makes for a Forgiving Family.

Ive been struggling a little bit....Hey, just keepin it real. Lately, painting and laundry..thats whats getting me off the couch every morning after I get Mad off to school. Painting, because it focus's my brain on other things and I have a really great backlog of custom pieces Im excited to get too.. Laundry because I still feel like a great mom and wife with clean laundry piles littering my house, even if the fridge is empty and the bathroom can talk back.  Life's a little bumpy for me right now with a few different things..My Grandfather, who Ive always been extremely close too, isnt doing very well at all since his second stroke  and its been really hard for me to deal with anything in a clear head right now.... thank goodness for earplugs, ipods, afternoon naps and things to paint...o, and laundry and a forgiving family too. Im better by myself when these moods hit. The Mister came home early the other day and found me painting our much loved black bathroom a color I had invented with a range of mistint paints from my basement....I had no plans whatsoever to paint that bathroom..I dont even know how the hell it happened. I sorta came out of a trance and I was too far in to stop...but he knows not to question any my erratic unplanned outbursts of self inflicted chaos..he laughs (sometimes), shakes his head (everytime) and leaves me alone...smart man...and the new color of the bathroom is slowly growing on me *grin* Im not sure if its growing on him at all, but he wouldnt tell me if it wasnt anyway..he's that kind of awesome.

So,
I hauled home this coffee table eons and forever ago....I loved the curvy details and the defined parts of it..its was bea-u-ti-ful to me..

I had brilliant grand plans to get a mirror cut for the top, but well..sometimes never happens and that mirror idea never happened..instead this did:

I stripped the top and used graphite chalk paint on the legs and skirt...For the frame, I painted it with yellow, then turquoise latex..and finally, soft white chalk paint overtop....distressed and sanded to bring those colors thru and to shab up the whole damn thing. A lil bit of clear wax, slabbed on some dark wax, then a little bit of poly for the big finish.

See.

She turned out to be a beaut....and was sold the same day I finished her, headed to Grand Prairie to live happily ever after...much to the disapointment of the 6 other people that wanted her too.

I have a bit of a backlog with blog posts of finished pieces and ramblings....Ive been productive.

Please, Patience Daniel-son.

*smile*