The Wreath!

I have been working on this for a long time...really a long time. I kinda stopped because I think in the end I made it too big b/c being dutch I didnt want to waste the spray foam in making the wreath itself..But I like it, and it pops on my newly painted black front door!

Because I wanted a square wreath, I took a square piece of cardboard, cut my wreath size and sprayed spray foam on it for a bit of definition. Looking back now...It was a bit too big..Oh well lesson learned...it still looks good...just more work to cover!

So here is the front..spray foamed

I cut strips of burlap, folded them over a rolled, glued and even sewed them up to look like rosettes. I also rolled to wreath itself in strips of the burlap to cover the ugly spray foam

Almost done!

Here it is..finally finished with a nice bright D on it. Not sure I love the D yet...but needed some colour to punch it up!

My new to me Table

So our neighbours down the road were getting rid of a few items..and mentioned that had this old table. It was nothing pretty ( her words not mine!) but our current table downstairs was getting somewhat annoying to use. It was a pedestal style table and when an kid (or adult) leaned on table even slightly........the coffees were a flying! So I figure I would take it and see how I could transform their table to brighten my room ( and keep coffee in the mug!)

Sorry for including the ladder, small space to work in and had to share with my painting hubby!

So I first put 2 coats of primer on so that the colour would be bright! And then on to 2 coats of colour (P.S. as a side note after the first colour coat, I had a back spasm and I do have to give credit to my hubby who did the 2nd coat and brought it down to the basement!)

We added some nice glass knobs for the pretty effect and Voila!! A new table with a lotta colour to brighten up my grayish basement!