Sorry I'm So Tardy . . .

I totally missed a really great party I was invited to by five days! It was an online party over at Joys Of Home, one of my very favorite blogs to peruse. The party was a "Paint Outside the (black) Box" theme to help Joy overcome her addiction to black spray paint. I love me some spray paint and it doesn't have to be black! It's like a little happiness in a can that transforms the blah, neglected and truly hideous into something FABULOUS! What's not to love? Now that the rain has finally stopped here and we're back to completely hot, humid and miserable, I tackled my project and thought I'd share the results with you.

This is the only before picture I took. It doesn't look so bad. If you live in the Alps. And are a little girl named Heidi. Fortunately, this hardware did not survive the transformation.

I have a certain little girl, whose name starts with an H, but isn't Heidi, who loves to draw. She needed a writing surface in her room so she could shut herself away from her brothers and create works of art beyond her imagination. So, when I saw this neglected wood piece at a garage sale for $5, I thought I could make something out of it. With a little "Sea Glass" from my local hardware store, a nifty spray nozzle to add the can, some glass hardware from the Target and a little elbow grease, I think I've helped this desk realize it's true potential. The only thing it needs now is a piece of glass cut to size to cover up the laminate top so my artist can slide her favorite drawings and pictures underneath for display.