I finished all the Bushel Basket Flower Pockets for the fence that our neighbors put up. As promised, here are the before and after pictures of them hanging on the fence.
Before…
After! Now I love looking out my kitchen window and seeing my lanterns, flowers and rock wall!
The $5 table I posted about last week hit a couple snags. I don’t mind a little distress and a couple of dings here and there. They can give a piece more character (kind of a look at me, I have been through a lot, and am still here attitude)! But, in this case the issues took away from the beauty. If you look at the picture below, you will see a crack running down the middle of the table and some deep holes. I was hoping the stain would make them less noticeable, but it didn’t do the job. I had to fill the crack and holes with wood putty and then I painted the top with a wash mixture of Annie Sloan Graphite Chalk Paint and water. The rest of the table remained the natural wood.
Staining it did not hide the cracks and holes like I thought it would so painting was the next step.
The wonders of chalk paint, just beautiful!
The other issue was the legs or actually the feet. Some of the wood on two of the feet had broken off at some point and all four were not the same shape. You can see in the picture below that while the table was stable, the feet were noticeably different.
This was one for the books! I really had to fight hard to save this table. In the end, it was well worth the effort!To make sure you get my posts every week, be sure to follow me!
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