My Little Blue French Desk

Where did we leave off?  Oh yes... Here...

And while this is already a huge improvement, I told you I have a problem with making myself stop when it comes to this stuff.  She is beautiful, but not extraordinary. 

I wanted to put something on the top, like, the WHOLE top.  I thought about just painting it another color (yawn).  Then I considered chalkboard paint (a little better but it's been done A LOT).  Then I remembered that last time I went to the Lobby (which I now live less than a mile from!) I grabbed this

Transfer paper!  It's a little pricey at $6.99, but it's 20 sheets and can be used over and over so I figured it was worth the investment :)

Next I went to the only place I know that I will never be disappointed when looking for a graphic.  Graphics Fairy has a million and one graphics that I wanted to use!  I finally decided on this one

I'm not real sure what it says, but doesn't it look cool!

I blew it up in excel and printed it (fast draft, grayscale) onto 12 sheets of paper. Then got to tracing.  This is what it looked like once I lifted the graphite paper.  It made the next part easy.

 Hubby the Great and I rearranged the living room so we could still be together while he played video games and I painted... isn't he Great!?

 I roughed her up with a sander and glazed her over with some black glaze. Then slapped a few coats of MinWax Rub-On Poly and

 I added a little graphic to the front drawer.

Let's just take one more look:

BEFORE

DURING

AFTER

My original intent when I bought this was to refinish it and sell it.  I think I'll just put a price tag of $2000 and see what happens.  If I have to keep it, I have to keep it ;o)

What do you think?

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