Metamorphosis Monday.....a table for a shelf!

Time for the ever fun Metamorphosis Monday!

I hope I get more time this week to see other's posts and what they have transformed.

Thank you to Susan at http://www.betweennapsontheporch.blogspot.com/

for being our hostess.

Be sure and stop in her blog for all the posters this week!

Before.......I had a small drop leaf sides wooden table that needed a paint job and some help, leaves were off etc. I got it at a garage sale for $10 but had not done a thing with it.

So last year at a garage sale I had, I sold the table, minus it's leaves for $20.

And I had the leaves left over, in this icky green color but with a cute shape.
Here it is before I started to paint it.

( Click on any photo to enlarge)

Then my mother went by my old grade school that they were tearing down to build a new one, which made me a bit sad. I asked her to get me a brick or something for old times sake.

Well she got me a couple things, one is this piece of shelving.

It was the same length as the table leaf.

I painted it antique white as well as the table leaf piece.

I found this pattern to use as a stencil on the Internet, along with all the

alphabet but wanted the Q for our last name.




After painting the leaf piece I drew on the Q in the center.

Then I outlined it with a black marking pen.
Then I painted it in with black flat furniture paint.

After..........

I spray painted these metal brackets flat black for the contrast.

I found the

pair at the thrift store for about $5.

I attached the brackets to the leaf and the piece of shelving to

make my own cute shelf.

I put on hanging hardware on the back top.

So this will be a cute addition to my craft room when we get it done.

It is going to have a black and cream motif.

I think it will be cute with some of my photos and cute things

on it above my work station in my craft room to be!

What do you think?