The Ruler Table

Good afternoon everyone. It has been a while since I have posted about anything.  It's a beautiful day here in Michigan and it is really warm.  That's Michigan.  One day cold and rainy and the next warm and nice, but I am not complaining about the warmth. We have had a long and hard winter.  It's been a busy 5 months for me since I retired and as the old saying goes I wonder how I was so busy before because these 5 months have flown by and I'm still not getting all my projects done.  I have been enjoying pacing myself these days and not have someone else tell me when to do things.  We had a big garage sale or should I say an Occasional Sale for Shabby Gals.  It was a lot of work but it was fun and we sold a lot of pieces that we couldn't fit into our little booth.  It was fun selling and of course enjoying the grand-kids while they ran around.  Anyways, here is one of my latest projects and it was so fun to do and it really transformed this little table.  Again I forgot to take a before picture of this particular table but I also did another table the same way and they looked the same before.

This is a nice size table but as you can see the top was really bad but not the rest of the table.  It did have a veneer on the top that was cracked and chipped just from use or maybe water damage.

I stripped off the veneer and this is what it looked like.  I didn't want to paint the top because this wood was a little rough so I had a bunch of old yardsticks that I was collecting and I thought why not?  I cut them to fit the top of this table and some I staggered the lengths to give it a little design and glued them down and this is what it looked like.

I think this is really fun and unique.  Definitely a conversation piece.

I really like the color mustard yellow right now and I thought it looked good with all the different yardsticks that I used.

I than distressed all the little grooves the table had and rubbed a little black in some places on the table.

So, here is my little table with my little bird sitting on it looking quite comfortable.

So, what do you think?  Better or worse?

Until next time, Dianne.........

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