Showing posts with label Breakfast Tray. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Breakfast Tray. Show all posts

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Refinished Wooden Breakfast Tray...

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Its been a couple months since I picked up this tray at VV... I think I got it for something like 3.99... or was it 4.99?.. either way it was a great find...  Here it is completed...


This is the only before picture I could find...


Its buried in behind the two white frames... see the dark brown rectangle!?. that's it!.. it was black on the outside edge, the bottom and the legs...


So... I painted it cream... of course... And with the sheet music I picked up at Fair's Fair a few weekends ago... and some modge podge I covered the bottom and then the top of the tray... luckily I started with the  bottom to get the hang of mod podging again... its been awhile... 


To seal the bottom of the tray I used a couple coats of mod podge... I got a few bubbles/wrinkles on the bottom... so a little research on the web for mod podge techniques and the top turned out perfeclty...


 For the top I just mod podged the tray and pressed my pre cut out and pre fit paper onto it... smoothed out any bubbles and moved onto the next piece...  once it was all stuck down I let it dry... I didn't put a layer of mod podge over top...  I let it sit a couple of days and then used a clear waterbased varnish to protect the sheet music from any spills...  Then a coat of paste wax and a buffing with cheese cloth and I put the tray pieces back together...


I'm very happy with the results... It matches our bedroom perfectly... but I think I might have to part with this one at the Vintage Chicks Sale coming up in June...


I won't have my own booth but I'm going to have a few items in with Laura's and Pam's booths... I'm going to be taking the photos for the Vintage Chicks Sale this Spring!.. So excited!..  It's going to be a fun weekend!..


I wish I had enough items build up that I could have my own booth... only work has been so busy that I haven't had a chance to make enough items to fill a whole booth...


Of course I can't break out the camera without Mr. Man making an appearance!.. I swear he  comes running when he hears the shutter click!..


Now I have a question... if you were at a sale and found this tray what would you be willing to pay!?.  Yeah I have to start pricing a few items and  I need your imput!..

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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Work Life Balance...

Feathering My Nest has moved!... come check all of this out over at www.featheringmynest.ca/blog

...is beyond out of balance!.. working late and then dreaming about work all night is starting to wear me out!.. soo this Saturday I'm going to spend the day working on projects that I've started but haven't finished yet... and I'm getting my hair did!..


This past weekend Furs and I popped into Fair's Fair Bookstore downtown... and I picked up a few books of sheet music... one of which is of sheet music for songs about the ocean... ohhh I miss the ocean... anyway as we were heading back to the car we past Stampede City Stamps... I had to go in... right inside the door there were bags and bags of envelope corners with stamps on them... I guess to be steamed off?.. Anyway they have stamps there for five cents a stamp... from all over the world that have been peeled off of envelopes... So I got a couple bucks worth... Not sure what I'm going to use them for yet...

The sheet music is for this breakfast tray that I've repainted...


...cream of course!.. the bottom and top are going to covered in sheet music... thats is happening this weekend coming... I thought I had a before picture... it was ugly... but I can't find it in my photo library...  the parts that are now cream were black... and the top that reddish brown colour...

This evening on the way home we had to pop into the grocery store... I was feeling tired and sorta homesick... so I picked out a sweet treat...


Om nom nom... 


I love chocolate seashells... if only the egg had been stuffed with them too... 

That's it... nothing much up this week so far... just work and sleep... work and sleep... Hopefully tonight I can stay awake long enough to watch all of Republic of Doyle... if you've not seen it yet try to catch it when its on...