Make an old table leaf SHINE! Luv Gorilla Glue!

My ordinary run of the mill set of coat hooks by my front door decided to fall down for my poor mother while I was away on vaca :(

I quickly reassured her that they were halfway falling out anyway, they were in the house when we moved in and had not been hung in the studs.

Needless to say, I'm sick, sick, sick of coats ending up on the floor!

I am also sick of the extra table leaf that boy #2 decided to set on the steps going into the garage, I trip on it every time I go out there!~ I suppose I could just move it :)

No, on second thought, I tripped over it one too many times, so now it's being sentenced to a lifetime of holding coats.

(Maybe I should be making boy #2 hold the coats since he's the one that left it there:)

Anywaay,

The table leaf started out black and belonged to a table that I had painted a large flower on. The flower would have looked silly spread in half with the leaf in the table so the leaf has just been hanging around.

So I started by brushing 3 light coats of aqua on the leaf, leaving just a little black showing through.

Then, I printed some words on the computer and traced them onto freezer paper and cut them out.

The freezer paper can be VERY lightly ironed on to the board to be used as a stencil. (I say very lightly because too much heat could ruin the paint.)

I also taped a piece of twine about 6 inches down the board on each side as a straight edge to make sure the words were lined up straight.

I lightly brushed a creamy tan over the letters and let it dry.

Next you move the stencil up and over a little and then brush some black on the stencil.

This will create a shadow effect.

I also did the same shadow effect in a line all the way around about 1 1/2 inches in from the edge.

  No coat hooks to be found around here today, but guess what I did find?

Yep! some extra shower curtain rings.

Enter: the fabulous and wonderful Gorilla Glue that sticks to anything and WILL. NOT. come. off!

I suppose you could get a drill bit that goes through metal to screw on my backwards shower curtain rings but I'm lazy!

 I'm just gonna put a spot of gorilla glue on each cuz I KNOW it will hold.

I am then gonna add some buttons, that I covered in burlap, to the round section of the hooks. ( A little hot glue works for the buttons)

And I am done. Couldn't be happier with how it turned out!

Just one small problem here,

How do I convince the hubby to hang it?

I know I'm gonna hear, can't tonite, forgot my tools at the shop.

So, I'll just dream that it is up on the wall until one day I get so bugged that I start hanging it myself.  

I'll make sure hubs will come along so he can say his usual, give it here. I'll do it, you aren't getting it in the studs! (cuz that's the way we work:)

~And of course I will act like I was doing fine and pretend that I was gonna do it by myself all along ;)

~Shhh! We are NOT going to tell hubs that I used Gorilla Glue for the hooks, he would go through the roof!

Even though I could probably hang all my weight on them and they still would not fall off- he's a do it right or don't do it at all kinda guy :)

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PB knockoff chippy flower pot tutorial

Now correct me if I am wrong, but I believe the wonderful chippy, rusted flower pot, in this image below, was not even for sale at PB? If I remember right, it was just a prop in the catalog.

(this is a picture I took of one of the older PB catalogs)

Regardless, it is the subject of this fun post. My heart just sang (for real!) when I saw this baby!

I knew that it was a must, so, I set about obtaining it in the cheapest way possible.

This is what I did:

Went to the local discount store and found an ornate flower pot for cheapo,

Sprayed on some kilz primer and a several coats of my favorite cream spray paint,

Rubbed on random swipes of rusty orange craft paint,

(you can rub it off as you work if you get too much on, or if a mistake won't rub off, just spray a little spray of cream spray paint on the mistake area and redo it- easy-peasy! LOL, Let the cream spray paint dry before you try rubbing on more rust colored paint!)

The craft paint is usually 50 cents- a dollar at most craft stores.

As you can see, I went heavy on the orange paint, I like my pots rusty!! :)

Next, you dab on black craft paint in random spots. DAB it on because rubbing it will let the cream paint show through and then it won't look like the paint chipped off of your metal pot!

(A quick note: it looks a lot more authentic if you are able to do the orange and black on the raised edges of the pot. I also recommend a couple coats of spray poly if the pot will be outside.) 

Does it look like the catalog image at all?

I know, mine is a lot rustier, but my flower pot sat out in the rain all spring, ok!!! :)

New PB catalog in the mail yesterday, lots of loveliness!

Check out these fantastic architectural candle holders! Wonder if I can get a hold of this without going broke?

This shelf has been on my wish list for a loong time and I have a feeling that it's just gonna stay there forever but a girls gotta dream!

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