After: Cedar Chest (and a few others...)

Happy St. Patty's Day!!!  Before getting started, let me first ask that no one judge my dirty, cluttered house, once all of my projects are done I will focus on housekeeping, so never will I focus on housekeeping, right?!  Second, I revised my last post twice because I was sure I had misused the word "ado" after reading someone else's blog who used "adieu" when saying "without further ado," well, after changing my post at midnight to say "adieu" I realized I was right the first time.  So, what I'm saying is, I so stress out about punctuation, grammar, etc. and it is pathetic!  "Is 'patheti-sad' a word?"  So, also, please don't judge me for screwing up in that department either, it's been a long time since I've written for an audience and proofreading is extremely difficult with a 13 month old who is currently running a toy car along my freshly painted walls as I type this, he is doing it quite vigorously I might add.

Let's get to it then, shall we?  This was one of my first real refinishing attempts, it hardly seems worthy of an individual post so I'm going to lump it together with a few others that don't need to have their own posts.  The chest had a veneer on it that was chipping off, I was not very careful about scraping it off so there were a few chunks that I took out of it, oops!  I also couldn't really be bothered to sand it all that well after I got the veneer off so the chunks are still quite visible.  This is not my best work but I'll chalk it up to inexperience and call it a day.  I had an entire gallon of semigloss leftover after I painted the kitchen (really wish I had used eggshell, I hate my shiny kitchen walls, live and learn) so I used some of that to paint it.  I used blue painter's tape for the lines and voila, that's it, that's all.

Remember that one dining chair?  Well, all I did for that was sand it down and spray paint it, boring, but perfect, and finished in about 20 minutes...

One more project picture for the day, I have no before photos, but trust me, it was in need of a little paint.  I bought this chest of drawers at Salvation Army for $30 (!) and it was salmon pink with broken pulls, it's not that sturdy of a piece but it's for Sam's nursery, and at that price if it doesn't make it to his big boy room in a year or two I'm okay with it.

That's all for today, saving my big reveals for their own posts, those chairs took far too long to just give up the goods that quickly!  Slainte all you Irish folks!!!