white ruffle love...

today i get to show you two of my favorite projects...

first up, i'd been searching for a sturdy wooden tray, i could picture exactly how it would look, but do you think I could find it!!

i wanted something simple * sturdy * shapely

well, I guess Janis got tired of hearing me go on about my elusive tray, she dug this out of her basement for me

gotta admit, it was pretty scary, but you could see it had good bones

i can't even show you the back, remember back when you would take a blob of paint and blow through a straw and it would streak all over...

well that's what the back looked like, in bright red paint

sanded it for-evah with my supa-dupa mouse sander

(this is after a ton of sanding) 

those tole painted flowers were super gloopy!

then primed and painted it with pure white gloss

now I'm not usually a gloss girl, but somehow my tray was always going to be white gloss

didn't it turn out great, I just love it

simple * sturdy * shapely

but after a couple days on my kitchen table something was missing, none of my runners seemed just right

I KNOW!!!!! Some ruffle love needed...

so i sewed up this cute white muslin table runner with two ruffles on either side

and i'm loving it even more now

here it is wafting in the breeze

not forgetting my two little birdies - seeing all those birdies in blogland i needed some of my own

this pair were a pretty ugly brown, but for 80c and a little white paint

*ta-da*

so, before

 and after

check out the parties i'm linking up to - so many fab ideas out there!

happy days,

Tracey