12.17.2006

happiness in a can





I love spray paint. Spray paint = automatically cool furniture. Thanks to a little inspiration from a friend, I've picked up a couple of pieces in recent weeks. I started with a nasty coffee table, which we retrieved from a dumpster. Then, for $5 I found myself with a small shelf unit. I've used one and a half cans of $1.98 spray paint to do both projects. Yippeeeee. I may sound high from the spray paint, but, don't worry, this time around I learned to do the spraying outside. Ventilation is a very good thing.

2 comments:

Michael said...

That looks great! When you bought the spraypaint, did you have to show ID? I bought about 20 cans in Indiana for a portrait shoot, and it was like I was buying Sudafed. I promised I wasn't going to go huff on Krylon.

I saw a show on HGTV called Junk Brothers, where these Canadian brothers take furniture put out on trash day, and they fix it up. I know it would be up your alley.

Cara Marie said...

WOW! You have added so much since the last time I visited. Your furniture looks classy! How did I not know you were a godmother?? And as always, your pictures are great! Like I always say, we are so similar in the way that we get intrigued about things most people wouldn't think twice about....but you write about it like those things are magical. I write about them like they are philosophical. Magic is the lighter more positive side of truth. Philosophy can be jaded and dark.
Either way, magicians and philosophers are both extremely brilliant. :)