The Potting Bench Makeover & a Peek at Little B's Birthday Party

I hope everyone enjoyed the mystery challenge last week!

In case you missed it the winner and runner-up were crowned on Friday.

In the midst of coordinating all of the challenge shenanigans, 

we also celebrated Little B's 2nd birthday.

The good news is I only managed to have one breakdown last week....okay, maybe two. 

Or was it three? Jiminy crickets, people, who's counting?

I guess I should say the real good, good news is we had fun and we are blessed that so many people love our little guy as much as we do. You know who else is blessed? Tipsy Tina.

                     

Remember a few weeks ago she made her underwhelming debut?

Well, I'm happy to say after a new pair of legs (two pairs to be exact)..............

a bleach bath, and some paint and stain she is looking as good as new!

Cue the cat calls!

Tina, girl, you are smokin' hot!

I mean like literally.............

 it was like 105 degrees or something here the other day....or at least it felt like that.

But for real, I'm a smitten kitten over this makeover!

The top and base received a coat of Sherwin Williams Anonymous Grey color.

It's like a muddy grey and I'm rapturously in love with it.

This just may be my new go-to color for furniture makeovers 

(at least the ones that I'm not painting blue...ahem)

We actually had Home Depot color-match it into an exterior paint, so that Tipsy Tina can withstand the outside elements better then in her previous life.

The tabletop part of Tina received three coats of Miniwax's Golden Pecan stain.

I debated for a long time on if I should just paint her all one color or if I should make her two tone (at that time I was thinking of painting her mostly grey and then the tabletop white).

I turned for help over on Instagram and a lot of people voted for the two tone white/grey option.

I finished Tina's makeover the day before the party, so I was scrambling for ideas and at the last minute I had a light bulb moment and decided to stain her tabletop instead of painting it.

 I'm so glad I trusted my gut and went with it. 

Despite my lack of gardening skills, I always thought it would be neat to have a potting bench.

I just never placed it at the top of our list for "furniture needs".

One would think kitchen chairs are probably a bit more important to have around.

So in that case, I'm rather excited that we scored her second-hand for only $30 bucks, even if she was on the brink of death. It didn't cost us much more to bring her back to life (especially considering I already had the stain on hand from that one farmhouse table debacle).

She served us well for the party and now I'm dreaming up different ways to decorate her for the rest of summer and into fall (just imagine an array of colored pumpkins displayed on her!)

Just for sharts and giggles, let's take one more look at her "before" pic.

(Insert sad face emoji)

(Insert happy-jumping-up-and-down-out-of-my-mind emoji face)

I'll be sharing more party pics and decor details soon. 

In the mean time, you can check out the Doxie birthday party we threw last year.

I mean a party we threw for the kid, not the dogs....although I'm sure they would like that.

Now I need to get back to gazing lovingly at this babe.

Sigh....................

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