pink hutch and a little - er, big OOPS!!!!

 adventures in furniture painting has been so fun thus far, i get to paint and glaze and distress and make people happy with their old worn out furniture again! but this is another story...so i was commissioned to paint this beautiful hutch PINK! i love pink and yet, i have never painted a piece of furniture pink for a client, well that day finally came and i was so excited. so we picked up the piece and a few days later i got to work sanding & priming. then it started to rain here. and it didn't really let up or warm up enough for me to paint outside, and this piece was too big to bring inside. it rained and rained and rained! so finally, it stopped and was able to get the pink paint sprayed on, then it rained some MORE!  so after about a week, i got to work distressing and glazing and hand painting roses on the hutch. finally it was done! i never take this long to do a piece but, the weather was not cooperating! so anyway, it was time to deliver on sat. so we were loading up the piece on fri nite and (insert suspenseful music HERE) , BOOM!!!!!! It fell to the ground like a ton of bricks!   my hubby accidentally dropped it! it was REALLY HEAVY! so, we picked it all up, as it was now in pieces, and the next day he re glued everything and this week i'll be working some painterly magic on it! hubby apologized profusely and i accepted, and told him, these things happen. as long a he can fix it there's no problem. i guess it had to happen eventually, we've move so much furniture in the last 7 months it was bound to happen eventually! thank goodness my hubby is handy w/ the wood and wood glue! it's all fixed and as soon as it's re painted you'll never know the difference. of course, i had to tell my client, but she's a sweet understanding christian lady and took it in stride. thank you all for listening to me ramble on, but i thought i had to share what goes on in the real life of a business! until next time,  keep creating!
~decorating diva aka damaging diva!

put it together!

hi everyone! sorry i've been away for a little bit! it's summer and it's go-go-go with the kiddo's these days! i've still been doing little projects here and there, but today i finished something that i really think turned out better than i anticipated. i'm not methodical, nor am i a big planner when it comes to creating or decorating. i just usually come up w/ an idea and run w/ it. hoping all the while that it'll work out! and if i run into technical difficulties i bring in the big guns, aka hubby ;) ! but today i did it w/o my hubby! i got this hutch top from my sister and bro-in-law. her hubby brought it home from a trash pile, but they didn't end up using it-much to my delight! so i brought it home and everyone that saw it tried to get it out of my hot little paint stained hands! but i held firm, knowing i love it and could do something w/ it. i thought all i needed was a base for it to rest upon. i figured something would come my way eventually, but i didn't have to wait for eventually! i was so eager to put this little honey to use that i started measuring all the dressers and such around and in my home. nothing was big enough until...i was outside one day and measured this cabinet i have outside under the kitchen window, it was serving as a buffet for when we entertain outside and also held outdoor necessities. it was also in my sons room at one time and held his toys and books and whatnot. we got it from the neighbors, they were getting rid of about 5 pieces of furniture (for free, on the sidewalk) and i took them all! anyway.... it fit the bill for the detached hutch top i had! yay! so i spray painted the hutch top w/ heirloom white,sorry i forgot to take a good b4 pic! then i had the task of making a door for the base cab. it had been missing one for years, while it was outside i had a little curtain covering the hole where the door should be. but now with it being reborn into a proper hutch duo, it needed a proper door! so i found a piece of wood, cut it to size, sanded the edges, added some bead board and an old frame i had lying around (i have a frame collecting sickness!) nailed them to the piece of wood and hung them on the cabinet w/ the original hardware! i save all the hardware from anything and everything and it really comes in handy! i did not have the original knob to that door though, it was missing when i got it, so i had to improvise. i had one vintage crystal knob( left over from an old desk i disassembled a while ago) and this old metal thingy that was a candle holder when i bought it, but the glass broke, so i put it on the knob screwy thing first and the attached the crystal knob. i took out this old book case and moved my lovely new hutch in! whew, i am wordy tonite! i guess i'm in detail mode- anyway!!!! i screwed the top to the bottom and wah-lah!!! my first HUTCH!!! i think i really like it! i decorated it w/ some plates,family photos,bird houses and this cool wood cut out thing i got at a yard sale for a buck! i like to sprinkle a few dark things around the house because i tend to go pretty light w/ everything else, it helps it not to get so light that everything floats away :) ! i'll be linking up to many of the parties on my sidebar so please go check out what everyone is up to! and thanks for visiting me! please leave a comment so i know you stopped by! have a fabulous week creating!