Yard Sale Emergency!

Last weekend, I woke up and found a message from my Assistant Principal stating, "COURTNEY!!! They are having a yard sale in my neighborhood today and I see TABLES!"  I text Krysten, "GET DRESSED! Coming to get you in 5 minutes!"  Bed head disguised by a baseball hat, mismatched socks (that's normal), sweat pants, and t-shirt were thrown on and out the door I ran.  Krysten told Rob, "I have to go.  There's a yard sale emergency!"

We drove around window shopping the yard sales until...we reached the pot of gold - two large tables, six chairs, a cabinet, a foyer table, two couches, camping equipment, and antique cookie cutters (Krysten HAD to have)!  Krysten and I scanned the tables and did the wobble test.  Check and check - we decided on one large table, the foyer table, and the beautiful cabinet (we also scored a heavy-as-lead mirror from another yard sale). The owners loaded and secured our treasures for us!  As they were loading everything, we entertained them with a story about our lovely neighbors, Jay, Cathy, and their little dog Ollie too!  That poor dog has chewed them out of the house at home - 3 couches...Three couches that dog has chewed through.  One little peak down the road at their curbside and we know that Ollie has done it again!  We jokingly told the yard sale people that we were going to snatch our neighbors and bring them back to purchase their fluffy couches.  Haha!

As we drove cautiously home, as if we were parading our finds around the neighborhood, guess who was outside- Jay and Cathy!  We told them about their prospective couches, and they were on-board (literally, after we unloaded our treasures into our workshop "aka garage").  We couldn't send them on their own, because we weren't quite sure where to tell them where to go - that neighborhood was too confusing!  Krysten + Courtney + Jay + Cathy = TROUBLE.  We picked up the floral couch - Ollie's favorite - then got distracted by a sign reading "Estate Sale" when driving home.  An hour later, and with empty pockets - no great finds at the estate sale, we were unloading Ollie's present.  Just kidding - Jay swore that he would start crating Ollie....we'll see how long his precious Ollie has to spend her days in the crate. I mean, we will be able to tell when he gives in - just look on the curb for evidence :)

Fast forward a week or two and Krysten and I were finally ready to show our cabinet a little love.  At first, Krysten wanted to keep the cabinet and paint it herself, but then she decided that I could take over the duties of painting it - so nice!  So, last night, I painted it and gave it a rustic finish...

First Coat - Duck Egg

Second Coat - Graphite

Third step - sanding and waxing

I finally finished it (the picture doesn't do it justice - much nicer in person).  Long story short - Krysten and I agreed that this piece would need a special person to love it, because with this finish, we thought it looked more like a piece from the Addams' family than the look I was going for.  Krysten said that it wanted to be happy and needed fresher colors.  She visited Sisters Unique today and decided on "Louise" for the exterior with a punch of English Yellow on the inside.

It's not quite finished - Dancing With The Stars was on - so it will have to wait for another night, but I would agree that this piece is looking happier.  What do y'all think?

Stay tuned - this beauty will be finished shortly!
Until then - Happy Crafting!