James is home holding down the fort so I could go to PA to celebrate a late Christmas with my Mom, sisters and nieces, for which I'm very grateful. It's been a really great visit and my mom and I have gotten a lot accomplished, i.e., stripping wallpaper and painting her bathroom.
One of my sisters suggested I make a side table for Mom to keep near her recliner to store her remote controls. Since I had no other ideas for a gift I thought, why not? It took me a while to come up with a plan so it wasn't until a week and a half before I was to head north I decided to get started and see what I ended up with. It was a lot of fun but I wish I would have begun a little earlier. I'm pleased with the end result though and my mom says she likes it. The birds are images I got from the internet and decoupaged onto the painted table. I painted the branches with some acrylic paints I had a limited supply of. I wish I had more colors to choose from. The drawer pull is a large bead a friend gave me and I thought looked like an egg. The top is some beech tongue and groove flooring some friends gave us. The whole table was made from wood we already had in our garage, hence a painted table. You can probably guess my mom loves birds.
Just a note on Keri, in case you're wondering how she's doing. She responded well to the antibiotics and seems to have made a complete recovery, thank goodness. If your farm dog eats a lot of poop and loses control of her back end I can recommend a good vet and antibiotic. Yup, it seems the reason she was so weak was because of her love of a manure diet and parasites. Yes, I feed her real food.
One of my sisters suggested I make a side table for Mom to keep near her recliner to store her remote controls. Since I had no other ideas for a gift I thought, why not? It took me a while to come up with a plan so it wasn't until a week and a half before I was to head north I decided to get started and see what I ended up with. It was a lot of fun but I wish I would have begun a little earlier. I'm pleased with the end result though and my mom says she likes it. The birds are images I got from the internet and decoupaged onto the painted table. I painted the branches with some acrylic paints I had a limited supply of. I wish I had more colors to choose from. The drawer pull is a large bead a friend gave me and I thought looked like an egg. The top is some beech tongue and groove flooring some friends gave us. The whole table was made from wood we already had in our garage, hence a painted table. You can probably guess my mom loves birds.
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