Summer Projects

This summer, instead of my usual eat/tan/work/eat/work schedule, I added a couple projects to the mix. The first, my bike. It was cute but I wanted to spruce it up a bit. The second was repainting a piece of old furniture -- these are my results.

I painted some white and purple details on it, and then for my birthday I got titloads of accessories.

Before:

(boring, right?)

After painting:

With accessories:

See? So cute and accessorized.

I have a pin on the bow that says: Give a hoot! With an owl. (Of course)

Another one of my summer goals was to find and repaint old furniture. I was in luck one day at Saver's and found this old thing.

The disgusting color really caught my eye, and then I began to see the potential in the details. It was some kind of blue laquer that had been painted on top of the white, and it was mostly chipped off (see: the desk surface). This was really quite the ordeal -- it took me like 2 weeks just to strip all of the old paint off and prep it for new paint. However, it was totally worth it, because the results were fantastic.

The insides of the drawers: lined with wrapping paper.

Details on the top of the desk (designs taken from the wrapping paper)

Overall, I've been extremely please with the results of my summer projects. Maybe more to come?