OK, to the pervs who got here via stripper searches, sorry to disappoint, but this is strictly related to DYI furniture stripping.....
We went back to the Kibbutz of the North this weekend (aka the cottage for the new readers) and I continued a project I started last time I was there.... Phase one involved taking my childhood kitchen table, which had seen better days:
strip back the decades of color it had gone through and opt for a slightly see-through stained color instead, giving us this revamped table, to be used as our outdoor eating table:
Phase two is going to be a summer-long endeavor...... you see, I plan on taking these:
and giving much the same treatment, except the plan to is to stain them each a different bright color, to have a nice mismatched set of funky chairs to eat our bbq's on.... I just forgot to take one thing into account: spindles.... little round spindles.... lots and lots of round spindles....
I spent the better part of Sunday and a couple of hours Monday morning in the shed, the 90+Degree shed, taking in the fumes of the stripper and cursing the 7 layers of paint on the spindles.... Chair # 1 looked to be white. Except that under the white it was blue. Under the blue it was bright red, and I'm almost certain it was car paint. Under the weird red paint it was brown. Under the brown paint was a layer of varnish, which covered a very thick layer of stain. Underneath it all, the wood is very nice and will most certainly look fabulous with a funky turquoise or bright orange stain, but to get there....
Let's just say that most of my blog entries are written in my head as things happen in my day to day life. And Sunday, I had an absolutely hilarious double-entendre entry about stripping in the shed. Of course, once I got outside where the temperature was normal and I wasn't breathing in the stripper fumes, it turns out it was probably funny only to me in my fume-induced state, and now, 2 days later, when I finally reach a keyboard, I can't remember any of the funny stripping-related jokes I came up with... Sorry, you should have been in the shed, it was much funnier! If I ever get done with the stripping and the staining, I will show you the final set.
I do have a funny story to tell you, but I'll keep it til tomorrow.
PS: bonus points to eagle-eyed Figlet for spotting the Sradings Tpaces table behind tutu-clad Dumpling in the last entry.
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