Story of Blah 2 Bling

Well since I've been finding, refurbishing and selling items locally, I thought I should have a facebook page where I could keep a sort of catalog of my work. I thought of all kinds of names looking for something catchy like my daughter-in-law's F A B Finds. I thought of 'Dodo's Attic', 'Painted Planks'(a close one), 'Sweet n Chic', 'Reborn Boo boo's' and 'Doriedoo's redoos' to name but a few of the more than 25 names I came up with. Last night I finally decided to name it or forget it. So something clicked with me when I started thinking of 'Lost n Found'. Don't ask me how but it eventually led to from Blah to Bling. I liked it. It was catchy. So I made the decision and made a page for it on Facebook. I shortened the name to Blah2Bling and that's where you can now see what's up with my furniture revamping. Speaking of which, I want to show you the progress I've made on a couple of items. I'll let the picture below tell the story. 3 pieces cost me $16. Paint about $20. Time...not really that long. See if you can see the Bling in these Blahs:

I'll finish them tomorrow. And I'll show you the other ones as well...

Story of a Waterfall

Okay. In my old middle age, I'm really getting into hardware stores. My husband Mr. Bill is ecstatic! I recently went down and spent about 30 minutes (I know. That's only a second in 'man time') at a local discount hardware supply place. I came home and told him about it and we had quite the conversation about 100 grit sandpaper vs the sanding block and other things that will bore you like it USED to bore me. I think I have found a new way to look attractive to him. ;) But on to the waterfall...

I picked up this desk a couple weeks ago at the GoodWill. It was painted a pale greenish yellow and had silver knobs. But on closer inspection, I could see the rounded front of what I have learned is a 'waterfall' desk. Because it rolls over on the front edge like a waterfall. Inside I found red and white checked contact paper in drawers that had very nice dovetail joints. The price was $14.99. I could see it was solid and had some interesting rounded details. There was another lady browsing so I sorta pretended I wasn't interested in that piece of treasure junk and went to another area and LOW & BEHOLD there was a little brown crusty padded seat that had similar rounded detail. My fiendish brain could barely contain itself at the prospect of a potential 'set' right before my eyes! No price on it so I went to the fella in the receiving area and asked what they wanted for that junky ugly seat. He looked at it and said $6. I said no, too much but I'll take that desk there and give you $3 for the seat.

So he packed it all over to the receiving area to fill out a slip. While there, I noticed a really cute magazine caddy all carved and recently donated. I asked a price on it. $9.99 Nope. Again too much but I said I'd give him $3. He said nope $5.99. I said nope and went to pay for the other pieces. But just before he finished filling out the slip he said, 'Okay. $3 for the magazine caddy.' Of course I said 'SOLD'! (No pictures of it ... yet!) Anyway, brought home the desk and started thinking about the colors. I thought of pink. Matt suggested Turquoise and black and white. Hmmmm.... So off I went in search of the perfect combinations of turquoise, black and white. Now, after making chalk paint with baking soda, painting, sanding, glazing, waxing and distressing, I'm ready to present my lovely little waterfall project. From here on out there are no more words except I love it!

She's going up for sale on Monday. Ahhh. It all came together just beautifully!

Furniture Stories

Well I'm happy to report that my Beach Bum chair and my little Teal Table have new homes. In return, I have $80 or I had it until I paid a bill with it! Ha haha. That's life, eh? So my next project is a secret right now but I will be showing a few pictures before the final reveal. I call it Pier 52 (as in Area 51) Top secret so shsshhhhshsshh. But it's been fun...so far!

Cute little reclaimed handles

Maybe I'll have the final pictures up by the end of the day. What a story that will be! Later that day... Okay. I changed my mind about the black knobs. They would have to be cut down in order to fit so they are saved for another project. So... having said that, *ddrum roll please* HERE IT IS! My latest greatest redo.

Used Dove gray & white paint, moderately distressed. Walnut stain for top.

I like to use numbers for some reason. So it's got a local zip code for the Coos Bay area.+

Cape Arago is a wonderful beachy foresty point quite popular here in Coastal Oregon. I thought it would give this piece a local feel.

PS. Pier 52 is just cuz I liked the way it looked/sounded :)

In it's former life it was a record player/entertainment center.

But it could be used as a kitchen piece to hold veggies as it has plenty of ventilation in the back.

Or it would make a nice entry piece with storage for things like whatever you want to store in an entry way!

I like her and she was fun to do. The dimensions on this are 42 x 18 x 28. So what do you think? UPDATE 8/24/12 *SOLD*

Story of the Little Teal Table That Could

I found this little guy a couple years ago.

It was an end table without the top part

It was cheap and sturdy so it came home with me

Enter Nathalie and all her creative wood projects and inspirations

So I almost forgot about his one. So busy trying to find 'deals' at thrift stores.

I didn't even take a before picture. But you've seen these 1000 times. Medium tan wood. blah blah blah

Found the turquoise/teal paint in the mismatched isle at Fred Meyers.

Made white chalk paint for the top. (after first doing a taupe crackle finish that was only so-so)

Such sweet colors!!

Finished the projects today. Took it out for it's 'head shots' and now I'm selling it for $30. Would this fit somewhere at your house?. Sweet little teal table that could!