Today’s What Are They Wearing post is a little different — it’s not what’s on my mannequins, but what’s on my shop floor:
This beauty is the creation of my husband. It’s huge — 4 feet by 5 feet — but its utility is far outweighed by the sheer awesomeness of the chartreuse green paint we picked out.
What started as an old hand-me-down table, missing its leaf, and obviously a mistake of short-lived 1970’s trendy interior design, is now a cutting table and ironing surface. Inside a matching chartreuse metal tin is my too-hot applique iron, my too-convenient portable heat shield pad, and my too-fun pair of electric scissors. The self-healing cutting surface is not quite 4 feet wide, so the remaining tabletop is covered with another mistake — this time mine — a 12″x60″ piece of fabric printed by Spoonflower with my shop logo and website address, which was supposed to be used to make garment tags, but the logos ended up being much, much too large.
In his usual way, he finished it with matching chartreuse molding (see? I’m not the only perfectionist in the house). It looks much better than it ever did as a dining room table, a true achievement for any upcycle project.
Why chartreuse, when I could have chosen from thousands of colors (see my post on color obsession here)? Because in my former life I worked for a huge advertising firm, where I learned quite a bit about branding (between laying off people in waves…1992 in an advertising HR department was one of the worst places to be); so all our marketing/business materials and nearly everything in the shop is natural wood/burlap, shiny metallic black and chartreuse, and what doesn’t already fit into this little box will — as soon as I can afford to convert it. But in the meantime, my chunky chartreuse cutting table will keep me happy for a very, very long time.
Leave No Stone Unglued 