I have been eating in front of my TV for as long as I can remember - in this house 9 years and 5 months; that's when I moved here and it's just a regular occurrence because I live along - and it's not a sad thing - it's just life!
Currently I am using an 8" X 8" square outdoor collapsable table and occasionally when I have a plate in one hand and am moving the table in the other the table actually collapses or I put the plate on the table and go to move it with one hand (forgetting that it does collapse) and the food goes all over the floor - oh JOY!
It's time for a new table. So I purchased one from Pier One and brought it home - really excited - it's one of those that slides under the couch and it's quite a bit bigger - I could even put my laptop and a coffee on this one ... but I sit down to have my first meal and it's two inches higher than the one I have been using and I feel like I may as well be sitting on the floor - it was actually pretty funny.
So back to Pier One I go and pick out another one that I was actually looking at in the beginning but would have had to "embellish" it a bit to bring it up to my standards; and because it's exactly the height I need I do a quick exchange. I can't WAIT to get in the door with this little table and have (in the meantime) purchased a package of gold leaf, the adhesive and sealer.
DO NOT DO WHAT I DID . . . I sprayed it right in the kitchen (knowing I'd get spray adhesive all over the floor but I didn't care) - I was in WAY too much of a hurry - sprayed it, and immediately tried to put a piece of gold leaf on it - oh oh that didn't stick - place my fingers on it and now I have gold leav all over my hands and I can't get it off - try another piece - you nana you still have glue on your hands and the glue is still drippy so I DO IT AGAIN!
Now I have to read the instructions . . . long story short - I read the instructions, get back to work and realize I don't have enough gold leaf . . . back to the art supply store and they don't have any more of the colour I picked . . . buy something that is reasonably close and finish off the job. It's a bit too shiney for me . . . so I sand it down a bit and I now actually like it . . . BUT WAIT I have some other gold leaf that is in strips and put some more spray adhesive on the table - press in the other gold leaf and pull it off and it pulls all of the gold leaf off from the original application and now you can see bard spots where that has happened - no worries - I have gold spray paint - I'll try that . . . and I spray too much so I try and sand it off . . . are you getting my drift now!
So it sits for another day . . . I'm going to go back to square one and post the finals soon. For now here is what it looks like in stages!
This is adding the gold leaf before sanding:
This is after sanding and after pulling the sanded parts off down to the bare wood!
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