grey, distressed, and read all over

I've been searching for a while now for a tray to put on our ottomon but just haven't found one that I really like or want to spend money on. Then one night in bed I remembered I had an old cabinet/menu board/calendar (not sure exactly what it used to be) in one of the closets that I picked up at a Goodwill over a year ago. I had always planned on making a chalkboard out of it for our kitchen but never got around to it and eventually forgot about it. I took it out of storage and checked to make sure it would be the perfect size and it was. Here's the before (kindof, I already had started painting and distressing by the time I realized I forgot to take a before picture...


And here it is after on our ottomon, it's painted the same yummy, creamy grey I painted the leather top table and then distressed. It's distressed a little more than I wanted but the paint wasn't sticking at all when I would go to sand a little of the edge, even though there was primer on it as well...

On the inside I decopauged pages from a french dictionary and an italian dictionary and then poly'd over it a few times to seal it good since I know drinks will be placed on it at some point...



I love it! And it's not the only thing I created with pages ripped out of a book this weekend. I'll be back with another project with book pages in the week...





Now I have to go and take pictures of my products for an upcoming craft fair, but clean up a huge mess first in order to even step foot into the room...If you don't hear from me for a while, it's probably because I got lost in the mess!





~Megan

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