Good Morning Sunshine! Before & After Sunflower Adirondack Chairs..

I could not even start this post without including this adorable photo I snapped on Sunday morning.....Good Morning Sunshine!

Its my little marshmallow, my neighbors little boy I just love to death, woke up early Sunday morning to find that lil marshmallow escaped out of his house and was perched at mine. Just chillin and relaxin, he looked so guilty and so adorable I couldnt help but snag a pic.

Not complete but I had spent the entire day working on these adirondack chairs, damaged by hail, there were these little indentations all over the wood. There is also a tiny little table that came with the set, totally worn and weathered.  A quick look at the before...

Lots of filling in the holes ( you can see that part now), and a bit of sanding, and a whole lot of sunshine and these chairs went from blah to wow, with a few strokes of paint.

Just a simple color change and the chairs already looked amazing...completely different!

Add in a little sunshine....

No two the same, coordinating but never exactly alike..

Add some highlights...

Now for a little change, slanted the second flower a bit, never like a different point of view

Now for a little personalization...

And the result is a recipe for adding a little sunshine to your yard....complete transformation...

whoala, super fun and bright newly refurbished sunflower adirondack set!

Russian Dolls Changing Table: Part 1

It all starts with a simple idea, and this adorable little idea came from a simple swatch of fabric. A customed designed little baby girls nursery set with tiny matroyschkas painted on them. I love when parents think outside of the box when it comes to nursery themes and this is by far one of the most creative. Im not completely finished with it, but it certainly has come along way...

In the beginning there was a dark wooden changing table that simply did not work for a little girls nursery set...

And it all began with my customer finding this lovely handmade blanket:

It is handmade from Sewbrookstone on Etsy and has this adorable littl russian doll pattern, super cute! My customers husband proposed to her with one of the dolls, and now they are having their first daughter, I love it when theirs a story to the theme... and this is a great one...

Now back to the changing table, the room has been painted a bright yellow with white trim, but I wanted to create a custom designed set, and what better way than to create from this great pallette of color!

So I did a nice bright bubblegum pink trim, with bright white as a base...

Then for the details...
I made some lovely daisy appliques and added them to the center of the piece...

Added some lovely scrolls to the sides...

Now not completely finished but my plan is to create (2) large russian dolls and place them on the front drawers. Im going to add a lovely scroll and flower vine around the border of cabinets and paint the hardware white. ( Thats part 2)

But already the piece has completely transformed itself...stay tuned for part 2.

Crazy Hazy Sunday...Too Much to Do...

Sunday fun day, more like crazy hazy Sunday.... I usually hit the dumpsters on the weekends but boy oh boy this weekend was just so jam packed with things going on, I'm surprised I managed to get dressed...First off I received about 20 different calls for custom work this weekend, which is a huge amount, for someone who does absolutely no advertising.  I guess you can never count out "word of mouth".

Luchia's Desk:
I have been working on a bunch of different projects and once I seem to be finished I just want to do just one thing more.  I am just about complete with that custom order for that old antique desk, I'm not sure if anyone remembers but I had refinished it, but then sold it to a woman who wanted it painted. I have not painted a desk in about 6 months and I completely forgot how much work is involved.  For such a small desk you would think it would be a piece of cake, BUT its finished on all sides and I had to paint it in sections, let it dry, flip it, and so on until all sides were done...that's done, now time to antique it a bit and hand paint it.....goal #1 finish that desk by Friday!

Clutter:
Well this is fab news for The Recycled Rose, aka me. One of the many phone calls this weekend was from a lovely gal in Boulder who owns a furniture store. She had seen some of my work from a customer and inquired about carrying some of my pieces in her retail store....so fab fab news...just means I need to finish up some more "in process" pieces.

Karen's Bookcase:
Also working on a short wooden bookcase, for another custom order for a lovely gal named Karen who wanted a fun piece for her home office. You have to love when customers are open to anything and just want something pretty and different and as she stated so eloquently,"anything but a boring brown bookcase"...so today it got stripped. This is what it looked like before...check out finished piece this week.

Finish Painting kitchen :
Yeah that started but soon fell through as I had to prime a bunch of furniture someone so kindly left outside my door this weekend. What fab finds you say, well no hunting this weekend, it seems being known as the "garbage lady" has its benefits. Benefit one being furniture just shows up. Downside #1: I am surrounded by furniture, things stacked on top of each other with maybe a walkway in between....( Reminder, look for studio space).

Fabulous Sunday Finds:
Today I got some great pieces:
Nice nine drawer dresser ( dovetailed drawers)... already primed and standing on it side in my living room due to lack of space....

Tiny Little nightstand and a little narrow bookcase...all tied with ribbon and left on my front porch...

Finished something:
Yes that would be the drawers from Luchia's desk, stripped, primed, painted, and yes they are stacked on my couch....see Sunday was relatively productive...lol!

With all things happening this weekend, sometimes I wish there were just more hours in the day, am I the only one who wishes she could make time stand still?