Blue & Silver Table

I found this baby at a thrift shop, dated, dirty and sad, but she had a big storing place inside.

It also had a hole in the back. It looks small in the picture but it was about 2 inches in width.

 I bought it anyway because I loved the design on the front.

I brought this home (it's my husband did the carrying )

sanded with my electrical sander (well, it was my husband's but he gave it to me, cool to have a handy hubby with all the tools!!) and hand-sanded all the details.

Then filled that hole with my trusted wood filler.

Also, one of the corner was kinda missing, looked like something gnawed on it, mice? Ewwwwwww!

Again, I used the wood filler to create a corner.

It smelled funny a little so I gave it a good cleaning too.

Rough up the surface so the primer can adhere well.

....and put the primer on.

you can't really see there used to be a hole now, can you?

Now the question is which colour should I go for?
White? Black? Yellow? Grey? Hmmmmmm.
I decided on icy blue  because.....I've already had the color right here with me :)
But it needed more bling, something that can make it a little more special.
So I grabbed an artist's brush and painted metalic silver on the front and dry-brushed the same silver all over the table.
I always try to make old, dated furniture a little more special, to give it a soul kinda thing if you know what I mean....

Now this is my kinda furniture!

                                                Now she's looking pretty :)

Lovely Yellow Dresser

This old but pretty dresser was given to me by a friend.....like 3years ago!
At that time, I was just busy taking care of my 3 little kids and had no time or energy...
But finally, I mean, FINALLY ,the youngest started kindergarten and I've got free time to work on it during the day :)

First, I sanded it down and primed.
It had a little too beat-up-look to my taste, so I filld some holes with a wood filler.
( I love wood filler, I can fix anything!! well...almost, that is.)

I painted it warm yellow.

For a finishing touch, I added a furniture applique on one of the drawer and a piece of molding on top,spray painted the original handles and added crystal knobs on the top drawer.

I really like how it turned out.
It makes me smile everytime I pass in front ot it :)