Monday Mondayyyyy lalaaaaaaaaaaa lalalalaaaaah!

A new week. This morning I woke up and my mind was creating. I love that in between awake and asleep time, it seems to be my most creative time of the day. Sometimes I think I just refuse to open my eyes just in case a message from God gets whispered to me.
This morning's message was focus and also find out about submitting quilts into the State Fair. So...I will.
I also practiced my drawing some. I'm wanting to create an art quilt (well, ok, it's art to me) out of wedding dress satin. I drew a couple of pictures which in turn made me think that I could make  series of quilts. Kind of exciting! I'll reveal more in time.
This past weekend was fun. I hung out with my dear King and also got to see a sweet couple that I've been friends with forever.  As I'm living the tight unemployed lifestyle, it was kinda neat to see what I had accomplished since September of 2013. At almost the 6 month mark, I'm blessed and Rich  knowing our needs are met.
I've created some things with my hands, one of which was an ugly poopy brown dresser that transformed into a beautiful piece that I didn't realize I had in me. A friend was moving and posted she had a solid dresser (ok, I call it a chest of drawers, but I suppose it could be either) that she needed to sell. She too has a flair for repurposing so I was excited to see something I could use. Hubs and I loaded up and went and bought her poopy brown dresser...but what I had visioned was pretty big for me to do, yet, I definitely had some time to spend on it...so I did!

The wonderful poopy brown Chest of Drawers

 

I started sanding the poopy brown paint off

And there was blonde stained wood. The varnish (I guess that's what it was) was yellowed and ugly, so I decided to invest in a used orbital sander and sanded off the blonde.

 

This chest has good "bones" as my Sister would say. I love the lines and I'm a sucker for Art Deco!

Since our little house doesn't have a basement or garage,

we pulled the chest inside worked on the next phase.

 

I painted the whole thing white

 

Next I grabbed my sketch book I've kept since high school and

sketched a scene I wanted to paint on the piece.

 

 

 

I'm not sure why, but that bird reminds me of when I was in Campfire girls back in the 70's. I was a bluebird...but that's another story...

 

I took the sketch and scanned it and then folded it to make somewhat of a

graph that I could pencil on the chest.

 

I then penciled a grid lightly on the chest and drew the sketch in pencil to get painted over

 

 

on the above photo you can see the copied sketch and how I folded it to help draw it on the chest.

 

 

Next, I took my favorite black paint and got brave ...

I then sanded the edges of the drawers and outside angles and took some

Vaseline and rubbed it in the exposed wood

 

 

This isn't the clearest photo, but I almost forgot to take a picture so I shot it with my Phone. I grabbed some dark stain and then stained over the sanded parts on all the edges. I hunted on EBay and found some really pretty glass knobs I wanted, but funds were tight so I got some that will work.

Our TV lives on top of it and I find the drawers just right to store X Box games and DVD's.

This is just one of the things I've accomplished in the last 5 months. It felt good to repurpose something and it's very useful for us. I'll share other projects in the days to come.

Blessings to all who read this :)

Dot