Showing posts with label mistake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mistake. Show all posts

Saturday, September 8, 2007

Lesson learned

Yes, sometimes even I make mistakes(don't look so surprized). My dear sweet husband will be the first to tell you that I'm not exactly the best apologizer. Lucky for me, he's patient. And I'm still learning this skill. Here's a bit of a boo boo on my part:

You can call it whatever you like, but I call it ugly! If you know me or follow this blog at all, you know that I love to turn regular furniture into.....BLACK furniture (& sometimes Red---I'll admit I go through fazes). If you're not a regular, you can verify this here or here.

About 2 or 3 days ago, I took on the kitchen table! It had to be done. I painted it black of course to match the rest of the furniture. Which would have been fine, except that there are 6 chairs that go around it, and I can't very well LEAVE them natural looking. But chairs are very deceiving when it comes to the amount of time they take to paint. Sadly, in my HASTE, I didn't give the chairs a onces-over with the sander. (Like Grandad always taught me). Shame on me! I know better. So, one of the chairs came out looking like this masacure that you see above you. Strangely enough, the rest are totally fine!(I hope).

Lesson learned!

On a side note: Farmboy didn't exactly know that I was "taking on" the kitchen table. He wasn't upset---just a little concerned that my black painting feddish may bleed into our alder cabinetry & front door. I assured him that I was being creative---not CRAZY!

I'll be posting the final look soon, so watch for it's fabulousness.