The Painting of the ROUND Table

It's been awhile since I completed a furniture painting project. Notice I said completed. I have a few started but it seems harder to get to with the end of the school year coming to an end. I am hoping to ramp it up over the summer and really get this business going strong. I am an impatient little person so God is always teaching me about His timing. I need to see things through eternal glasses and not mine, which read "immediately if not sooner" on the rims. More on that later.

I am not a person that sits on an a decorating idea once it has gotten in my head. I don't do a list of pros and cons. I don't call five people to see what they think. I just do it.

And I might yell something like" It's go time people!" Just makes it feel more like a mission.

Friday night felt like an "It's go time people!" moment except it was "It's go time Kim". No one else around so it was all on me. I found this little round table at the Goodwill for $10 about 5 months ago. I have gone back and forth on whether to keep it or sell it. I have nothing round in my house, except my muffin top, (and I can't even give that away) so I decided this one was a keeper.

But all the little details of this table were getting lost in the brownness of it all.

So i painted it orange. 

Gotcha! 

No, even I can refrain from painting things orange once in a blue moon. Oh cripes, I'm doin' it again. 

And Yes, I did not paint the whole thing blue as I thought the blue would  highlight those cool details . I think they get lost when everything is the same. I had to take the table outside because all of my inside shots made the federal blue look more blueberry and that is not the  look I was going for, for sure.

See how the curves look so much more curvy when they are highlighted with the blue.

The blue is by Behr and is called Bermudan Blue.

The boys in the house don't like the blue and brown combo. However, the girls love it and we outnumber them 3-2!

Gold Rub n' Buff went on the original pulls

See how the door details are now front and center

Left some of the leg detail unpainted so they would pop as well.

The wood got refreshed with Wood Restorer in Dark Walnut. Can you see the difference?

Here are the interior shots just to show you how lighting effects your photos. I am not a photography expert but sometimes it is worth it to just wait until the next day to take pics in as much natural light as possible.

Evening shot-auto setting, couldn't even get enough light using manual without a flash.

 Daylight- auto setting

Blueberry, right?

Daylight- manual settings

Before:

After: She just has more punch!

Do you see how lighting effects your photos. It is the same with your life. Having a vision is important. Making sure that that vision is correct is His job.

See here's me with my favorite glasses on. The ones that say immediately if not sooner.

Every once in a while I try His on. Guess what? It's not so scary and it makes me get MY priorities under HIS control, which really amounts to HIS priorities becoming MY priorities. 

See when I do that I just have more punch!

Always being renewed,

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