Transformation

On Friday I was headed to the library when I saw a big YARD SALE sign. The car swerved (of its own accord, I'm sure) and turned down the street indicated by the arrow on the sign. The first thing I saw when I got out of the car was this:

A beat-up old piece of wood. They're wanting 50¢ for this? I thought, and then I turned it over:
I could not dig two quarters out of my pocket fast enough! Would you look at that perfect, chippy, scuffed aqua-green paint? Yum. Oh, I have plans for you, my pretty.

I got it home and the first thing I did was take off the casters. Then I used a screwdriver and a hammer and pulled apart the three other small pieces of wood attached to the painted board, and pulled out the old nails. I gave it a good scrub down with Murphy's Oil Soap and it was ready to go.

I bought a wood appliqué from Home Despot and painted it with cream-colored acrylic paint. I rubbed umber paint into the recesses and wiped off the rest to make it look aged. Glued the appliqué on with my trusty Gorilla Glue, screwed in the cool Anthropologie letter hooks I got from my brother last Christmas and I had this:

Ta-da!! The perfect place to hang all the thrift-store necklaces I've been accumulating. My brother gave me the hooks because I'd asked for something to hold my necklaces and said that he thought I could find an old piece of wood to attach them to. I've been meaning to go to the architectural salvage store and look for some old molding for oh, about 9 months now, but this board ended up being exactly what I wanted in the first place, and for a whole lot cheaper than it would have cost at the salvage place.

I love how it turned out, and I'm pretty darn pleased with myself for actually starting and finishing a project in just three days! As my long-suffering DH will attest, I have a garage full of 'projects' that I've been ignoring, some for as long as three years now. I can't promise to finish any of those in just a weekend but at least I didn't add this one to the pile!