repurposed and cheap too...

So I was strolling through the Goodwill and I spied this table, for 5.50.  B.I.N.G.O...isn't the plastic place mat the perfect touch?  Festive too...

blurry picture, sorry.

So I decided to work on it, one coat of paint, a few days of procrastinating, and then finally this afternoon I finished it.  My house is pretty much filled with this type of furniture, do I even have a table that isn't distressed?  Yes, one and it is next.  I love the old stuff...and I love to distress it.  I even did my dining table, nothing is safe with me.

2 coats of paint

a break to look up...

sanding...

stained

Now where do I put it?

 Here will do, for now...

I don't use anything special to distress, depends on the size of the piece, most of the time I use old wall paint I have laying around, or Oop's paint from Home Depot.  As for the stain, any stain...I tend to like the dark stain, like walnut.  But I have used the colors too.   Easy peasy, after you sand off as much as you want...you wipe the stain on and wipe off.  I don't do anything further.  You could put a clear coat on I guess, but I like it, as is.

re-purposed...

I found this sweet little candle holder, just this one...the mate was long gone.  And I loved the simplicity of it, and of course the little blue bird... It had to be re-purposed into something!
But what?  I saw a pin cushion in my mind...so this is what it became...

I added some linens to the top and then found this fun, frilly trim...a vintage butterfly pin was the final touch.  The little bird really is a sweet accent, the pair must have been fabulous.