Shabby Love Stool

Do you love this as much as I do?
 

My recent Flower Power table and three cute stools I saw on Art and Sand inspired me to come up with this.

I started with the dregs of a sample jar of Peace River Blue and made it into my own variety of chalk paint for the base coat.

It turned out like this.

Then I added a coat of this pretty no-name green sample of Valspar I picked up at Lowe’s.

After the green dried overnight I sanded the stool and penciled my design on top.

This is on top of the green coat of paint. Sorry about the poor lighting in my work space, but I wanted the pencil lines to show here. You can see I had a few false starts before I got things the way I wanted them.

Then I gathered up a variety of colors and started filling in the letters. When I finished, it wasn’t what I wanted so the hot pink outline was added and it seemed to do the trick.

I liked the way the base coats sanded with the distressed edges, so I let it dry overnight and hit it with the sandpaper again the next morning.

And this is how it turned out.

I left the legs alone, even though I was tempted to paint the rungs each a different color to match the letters. There are dozens of these stools out there that can use a little update so watch for that in the future.

This is a very handy stool.

• You can sit on it.
• You can use it as a side table for placing drinks or snacks.
  (Oooooh… I need little flower painted coasters for that version!)
• You can put a lamp on it beside your bed.
• You can put a plant on it.
• You decide.

It can be yours. It’s at the flea market at the Cleveland County Fairgrounds in Norman this weekend.

It’s just a bit a useful whimsy. How or where would you use a cute little thing?

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