Christy

Hello lovelies! Today I’m taking ya’ll on a trip to my booth. For those of you that may be new here, welcome! I have a booth space at the Virginia Beach Antique Mall here in Virginia Beach where I sell most of the pieces I blog about

I am a picnic basket hoarder. There, I said it

I don’t usually pick up many single end tables these days, but again, the price was right, and it has beautiful details that I just couldn’t resist! For everything but the top, I used my favorite brush specially designed for sealers by Wooster… I’ve learned the hard way that if the sealer pools in those details, it will yellow, so applying it with a brush sparingly in those areas helped to avoid that. (If it does yellow in those areas, just paint right over it and be more carfeul sealing the nex time.) I could have used my brush for the top as well, but I’ve been loving this sponge I got from Country Chic paint for those flat surfaces lately:

I used my small circular saw to cut it to fit the bottom of the tray: I just attached a scrap piece of wood to my saw table using clamps to use as a straight edge/guide for my saw. Then I used my circular saw once again for the center cut: I was able to use my sliding miter saw for the rest of the cuts: I centered the blade on each line. To cut on the angles, I used one of the triangles I had already cut to hold the wood flush to the back of the saw while I cut: I ended up with 16 triangles in all: Once everything was cut, I sanded all the pieces smooth with 220 grit sandpaper, and then spray painted them brown. I painted half in Behr’s Bit of Sugar, made into DIY chalk paint (Recipe HERE), as well as the tray itself.