Me and Mine: The Long Journey to a Thrift Store Transformation.

As some of my friends know, I bought a table from a thrift store with the intentions of fixing up and painting. This table was already cute with antique carving. Also, someone had taken the tan-ish white table and painted it a very cute turquoise, but only about half way.

(The legs on the other side of the table are completely unpainted)

I moved the unfinished table into the apartment I shared with roommates and then two months later I moved it into our first apartment after Reed and I got married, and then seven months after that, I moved it into our current apartment where it has dutifully been serving as a very ugly night stand for the last ten months.

Some of you on-the-ball type people might ask why the heck its been sitting around unpainted for so long, while some of my fellow procrastinators might defend me by nodding their heads with surety that I had a very valid reason for waiting so long. Which I totally did...Kind of.

I love the style of the table and had very high expectations of how it would look once I was through painting, but because of this, it took me a looooong time to decide on a color and what to leave white, or turquoise, or etc. Feeling particularly artsy last week I decided enough was enough and painted it with the only color of paint I had (also my favorite color, purple!). I left the tan/white and some of the turquoise color and added my own purple.

Here is how it turned out!