Crafty Birdhouse and The Up Do on the Table- Twice

 Trying to keep myself

moving and doing. 

I had this crafty 

bird house that I wanted

to do something with.

I painted the roof and 

the base, Covered the sides

with scrapbook paper.

Painted a wooden candle holder

and then I mounted them

together. 

I just need to work on 

where I folded

the paper in the 

openings to make that

cleaner. Thinking at

this point to just taking

a blade and cutting that 

away.

I am totally the worst

crafter at sharing what I 

do, well, more like sharing

pics of before pieces.

I had to go searching through

my blog to find a pic

of this library table.

BELOW

 This pic is of it next to 

my front door at my

old home. 

This is what I did to it

when I moved to my

childhood home.

I covered it with tongue and 

groom wood, stained it and 

applied it to the actual

table. 

I was using it as a bar

in my kitchen here at the 

new place. But it was not 

being used in there either so 

when I moved the living 

room around I placed

it behind the couch.

It works fine there but

I felt it was too wide.

I got a wild hair and took

the tongue and groove 

wood off and decided to 

paint the piece. 

I painted it an antique white and

applied a stenciled look.

I like it a lot. Course

I do realize that not

everyone has the same

taste as me, but....

All I have to do now, is on 

a warmer day, take the piece

out and spray paint the 

metal legs and the metal

piece under the painted part.

This piece is going to be 

a for sale piece. 

I don't have anywhere for it

so it needs to go. 

I could have just took it

off to Goodwill but I 

am tired of doing that 

when they get free stuff and 

resale it for the PRICES

they are asking these days. 

One reason for that is 

cause the HIGHER UPS

of Goodwill make

a good amount of money.

And, when you go in they

ask do you want to 

round up to the 

next dollar.

NOPE....

what does that round up go too,

training staff. 

Well, I might be wrong but

my thoughts are, if you hire them,

you should be able to pay

to train them.

Okay, off my soap box. 

Also, another reason not

to donate is it was a good

piece for me to craft with.

HAHA

There is always that!

Do you donate unused items

to Goodwill, or another

place? Do you ever give

an older piece a new look?

Pam