I was doing some housecleaning on the blog recently and found some ‘treasures’ that I thought could be brought out of the archives and back into the spotlight.
Granted, the photo quality and editing are still reflective of my early days as a blogger, but the content is good – so I hope you’ll join me for “Flashback Week”!
Remember when I said there are certain projects that I’m really proud of?
This is one of them.
1. because I was able to get the dresser for $10 at a garage sale
2. because the finished dresser makeover is gorgeous and
3. because it was something I hadn’t tried before. (I get a kick out of experiments that work.)
Meet “Clock Dresser” before:
Scuffed, scratched, scruffy… but wood – and that meant it had potential!
Like any dresser makeover you need;
A little sanding,
A little priming
A little painting (BM Revere Pewter)
and A SHARPIE!
Yup, I drew on the clock face with a SHARPIE!
It was a bit of work to set out the clock face and line up the numbers – but there are stencils available that can help cut that time down. I used an old-fashioned overhead projector and projected an image onto the dresser face and then traced it out with pencil.
Then all I had to do was colour in the pencil lines with my black Sharpie.
Here’s my uber-cool clock face dresser makeover:
I did have to put a couple of coats of poly on to seal the image and the paint, but I think you’ll agree it was worth the extra work.
A $10 dresser! Would you believe it?!
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omg Shelly did you do this all yourself!?! omg
This is amazing!!!
so so cool! and i love that you used a sharpie! Sharing on FB wednesday and will be featuring you on Thursday. Thanks so much for linking up to support Habitat4Humanity!
Your furniture refinishing talent continues to amaze me. Girl, you are good!!!!!
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Thanks so much for the feature!!
Oh my….this is absolutely breathtaking I love it!!
Thank you so much!