Grain Sack Desk

Between working on furniture and digging daylilies I've had a busy week!  It's about to get even busier because the storage pod we bought is being delivered tomorrow and I'm going wedding dress shopping!  On Tuesday we are heading to our cabin for the fourth of July so we have to get the pod emptied before we leave.  Speaking of storage pod's this desk I've finished came out of a unit we bought a while back.  I thought it would be perfect to put in our booth at the antique shop in town.

Before:

 After:

I started off by sanding and staining the wood top in espresso.  Next I painted the rest of the desk a blue/green color and the pulls in cream.  Then I taped off grain sack looking stripes and painted them cream.  Lastly I lightly distressed around the edges and Ta Da!  Now it looks super adorable!  I'm thinking of redoing a bench to go with it but we'll see. 

Here it is in our booth at the store: 

All decorate for the Fourth of July!  I made the pennant banner and strings of stars myself!

Table Redo . . . Again!

It's been so long since I posted!  I haven't fixed up much since winter break but now it's summer again so I have more time to work on furniture!  I had this table that I fixed up in the fall and it got a huge scratch on the top so I decided to just redo the whole thing again.  If you fix something up and it doesn't work out you can always redo it again!  I only have a before and after pictures, no in between.

Before:

That isn't the actual table, I forgot to take a before picture but this table is exactly the same!

After:

 I painted the top a blue/green color, left the bottom white, painted the design on the top, heavily distressed it, add an antiquing glaze, and added poly top coat for protection!

I love it!  So cute.  This is the first time I painted an entire table!

This is my first time posting after getting engaged!  On March 15th it was mine and Daniels 6 year anniversary and we got engaged!!  We already picked a wedding date for June 13th, 2015 and slowly but surely we are planning our wedding, so exciting!