Time is a living room table

Still got my winter decoration on...

My latest posts are starting with "time is..."

I thought I'm gonna keep this going for a while because I recognized that time is relative. Not only time itself but also what it means and how it is filled.

That is what I want to put across; how time can be filled or what it can be.

So these days, for me, time is a living room table!

If you are a creative person you know how hard it is to ignore the "call of duty". I've been spending so much time on my business at the end of 2012 that I completely missed out on improving our home. I have to admit I actually didn't really care about it for a while because I was so exhausted and burned out.

But on Saturday I've heard the call of creative duty. I just did not know where it came from. Ok, I located it in our apartment but where the heck...!?

It was the living room I've been shifting furniture around in for months now and I never felt happy with it.

I was looking at the couch table and thought: THERE you go!

I mean, come on, look at it! ;)

I decided to paint it all in ASCP old white except the tabletop.
All I needed where the following things:
Paint (ASCP), plastic, tape and a brush.
This is the basic material. If you use other paint you might need sanding paper and/or a primer but that is why I love Annie Sloan's paint.

Of course I needed my cup of coffee to support me.

First I taped the tabletop.

I decided to paint the bottom of it too because it helps to lighten up a little and it also seemed easier than tape and paint around all of these shelfs.

This table needed two layers of paint.

Normally I like to distress my furniture with sanding paper but I thought that this table will distress naturally on it's own.

Normally I wax my furniture but I wanted exactly this dry chalk look the paint was giving it and since I did not paint the table top I just left it unwaxed.

BUT I decided to add a little extra.

I printed two graphics. I wrote "Family" and used parts of a graphic of Karen (The Graphics Fairy) to complete the look of the word and I used a bird engraving, also from Karen's Blog.

I traced both and hand-painted it onto the tabletop.

Now, look at it! ;)