Makeover

I bought this hutch a few years ago for pretty cheap at a shop downtown. It's a neat place that typically buys estate pieces, but they also have a lot of junk too! I found this piece and fell in love with it. Originally, I'd planned to strip it, paint it black, then antique it, but the wood was so pretty I couldn't do it... that and Mom talked me out of it. The inside was horrible; it had this puke nasty diarrhea yellow brown colored velvet nailed to the shelves - which as it turned out - were rotten boards. I immediately tore the puke nasty diarrhea yellow brown colored velvet out and exposed the sorta rotten wood -- then just left the sorta rotten wood in there! I was lazy... and I didn't know where to start (duh, Lowes).

I filled it up with picture frames and ceramics and a soapstone nativity from Kenya, but (there's usually always a 'but,' right???) since I've been doing more sewing, I have found myself using the dining room table as my assembly area. I had all of my stuff on the table because I have absolutely NO space in the sunroom (office/craft room) for anything else, and I don't really want to spend $40 on a fold-up table when I have a perfectly good, unused table just to the side of that room. So... makeover time!

This makeover mainly consisted of removing picture frames, the soapstone nativity, ceramincs, and a few random trinkets and laying plain canvas over the rotten boards (yeah, I know... Lowes). Then I somewhat organized the fabric, supplies, etc... on two shelves. I still need the bottom shelf for cookbooks and recipes since the kitchen is so small, but it totally works. I love how it looks too. Makes me feel so crafty inside. I really do need to fix this piece up, but it's SO fragile I almost hate to do anything to it at the same time. For now, it works and I guess that's all that matters.

Hope everyone had a great Easter! I'll post Easter pics sometime tomorrow. We have some really cute ones of the puppies. They were SO much fun and they are SO sweet! I can't wait to show off their big feet... their paws are more than double the size of Nola's and they are only 11 weeks old!!!