from trash to treasure

Here is a little project I have been working on that has come up rather well

-well in my opinion anyway and that's all that really matters right?

Remember these that I picked up for $1 each at a garage sale.

 Now they look like this:

I saw something similar that someone did on a blog- my apologies, I have searched through all the places where I thought I might have seen it and I can't find the blog, but if you are that person or know where I saw it can you please send the the link so I can properly acknowledge them.

The L represents our surname

and the 8 is the number of people in our family.

To make them I simply sanded the tables first and then applied several layers of flat white paint - I used ceiling paint because that's what I had.

Then I started to sand around the edges and top to get a distressed look.

I printed a large L and 8 from my computer onto thin card and then cut it out with a knife on a self healing mat.

I glued it to the top with bostik glue because I ran out of spray adhesive and need to buy some more.

Then I painted the stencil with a flat black paint.

When dry I sanded the letters as well to give that worn look and then sprayed clear varnish over a few times to seal it and give a slight shine.

 I have placed them at the side of my daybed on the veranda at the moment, but I know they will move frequently to any spot to hold drinks, books and the like.

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