A COOL TABLE IN THE MAKING.....Round 1

It all started with a DREAM...

 I DREAMED of having a cute little, really UNIQUE table
like no one else in the whole wide world would have...
 and THEN...
DONNA SHOWED ME THE LIGHT !!
*did you hear those angels sing?
 I KNOW you remember this little awesome SIGN TABLE that belongs to DONNA..
The table is supposed to give the illusion of an old, vintage sign, made into a tabletop.
She did such an awesome job that it has been featured in magazines.
Donna made her table her own STORY table by stenciling
THINGS THAT MEANT SOMETHING  to her.
Go over and read her story...it's awesome.

 ANOTHER blogger, RUSTIC DESIGNS,  decided to make her own
OLD SIGN/ STORY table, using Donna's table as a guide.
Didn't she do an awesome job on it.
Just beautiful...
You might like to read HER story, too, pertaining
to the things she painted on HER table
*
These ladies, who've got their groove going, are sure makin' it hard on THIS OLE GIRL !

 THIS the little UGLY DUCKLING table I bought from 

the thrift store...$FIVE BUCKS..
*HIGH FIVE ME
DAY 1

 It was supposed to look like an old sign but it was SMOOTH...all one piece

so MR. SWEET, being the kindest man in the whole wide entire world,

routed it for me...

after KATHY  and a few others, suggested it.

Sorry, I can't remember now just who all suggested using a router
but I want to thank everyone for all their wonderful suggestions.
Every idea was really good...Mr. Sweet decided routing  might be the easiest way
so I said...
GO FOR IT,  SWEET HONEY

 Now, by this point, 

I am PLENTY excited......
nothing like sawdust to excite the heck out of ya...

 Just so you know I DID do some of the work..

I used my little handy dandy palm sander and went to town on that top.

It was as smooth as a baby's butt when I finished....

:)

 Ahhhh.....here she is with her first coat of SATIN BLACK.

I'll add another coat in about an hour.

I'm in luv...

I like it just like this, too.

But....nope..not changing my mind here.
I have my white paint ready, waiting in the wings.
DONNA says to use a "whitewash"  on it so that means, I THINK,
to add a little water to the paint...
I'm skeered......(4/25)
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DAY 2
Mr. Sweet, being the bestest hubby in the state of TEXAS, helped me make made some stencils
to go along with ones I already had.
He made two different sizes of AWESOME stars...because I changed my mind right in the middle.
*sigh

It just got dressed in a creamy Country White whitewash...
(left over from another project)
and should be ready to stencil tomorrow...(4/27)
ooo boy...it's already looking like a sign.
"I'm still scaaaaaared to stencil....:((
 Must remember to BREATH....
DAY 3
*UH OOOO...

 The TEXAS LONE STAR turned out GREAT..
MR. SWEET made this stencil and it worked so good.

Oh but the other stencils...
first of all, we taped them all down with painters tape but...
I used waaaay too much paint and it allllll
RAN !
I was working on the table in the back yard and that paint RAN all the way out to the alley and back...
So, I just put KILZ on the ruined table last night (well, except for the GOOD star)
and just put another coat of WHITEWASH on it.
NOW,
I have been told by 2 bloggers that I need to use
SPRAY ADHESIVE to the backs of the stencils.
I am on my way to Walmart to get that.
I also watched a video on how to STENCIL WOOD
on GOOGLE and
HIGHLY RECOMMEND
you watching something like it if you've never stenciled before.
I saw right off that I used too much paint on my dobber thingy and
that they recommend a stenciling BRUSH...pickin' up one of those, too..*sigh
It all looks so easy.
...but....IT AIN'T  !!!!!

Right now,  it really IS

THE LONE STAR OF TEXAS !

♥♥♥

 Playing with

OUTDOOR WEDNESDAY

WHITE WEDNESDAY

GOOD LIFE WEDNESDAY

REDNESDAY WEDNESDAY (there's just a TINY bit of red..but it's there! :))

WHATA MAKIN' WEDNESDAY 

XOXO

bj