Happy Accident

    I just love it when you have one thing in mind and a happy accident happens to change your plans for the better! That is what happened to me today. I pulled a small dining table out of my downstairs family room that my children have been using as an art table, a nail polishing table, and an all around anything messy table. This is where I made them go when I didn't want the mess on my "good" table. We purchased this table in 1993. It was our very first table when it was just the two of us. It started out life as a butcher block table with white legs. I think we all had one in the 90's. Over the next few years the legs were painted hunter green and then a light country blue. I finally painted the whole thing black about 10 years ago. My plan was to sand the heck out of it, repaint it, wax it, and take it to the booth. The table had other ideas in store. As I sanded the glue, glitter, nail polish, etc. off the top a wonderful thing happened. It began to look like a rustic farm table- probably my favorite style. I quickly wiped it down and got some provincial stain on top. Beautiful! I then moved on to the legs, still planning to sand and repaint. One again, change of plans. The layers of color showing through were awesome. There was a little white, some green, quite a bit of blue, and lots of black. Again, beautiful! After a nice layer of dark wax, voila! FABULOUS!

Love the distressed top!

Look at all those great colors peeking through!

I will take it to the booth tomorrow and pair it with some mismatched chairs I have up there :) Will take a picture of them together to share. See you soon!