My little blog has been SO neglected recently. But our family has been quite busy. My oldest son got a new job, a new car and is set to start in a week, and my youngest son graduated from high school. So both of my boys have kept me busy.

There hasn’t been any time for sewing recently, so I packed up my sewing machine and put it in my bedroom. I didn’t want the reminder that I had no time to sit down and work on patterns or sew.

However, I did find a little time to finish up my wine cart.

Here is the cart – I painted the whole cart in Midnight reloved Vintage Paint. And then did some dry brushing on the edges to make it look distressed. For the dry brushing I used Storm paint by reloved.

This shows the dry brushing a little better. I wasn’t trying to be super neat about it. Often distress on a piece of furniture isn’t uniform or ‘neat’ – so unlike sewing!

Here’s the tray – all black, with a bit of ‘distressing’ along the sides. The only part of my cart I’m still undecided about is how I’ll finish the bottom of the tray. I have a couple of ideas, but did decide against the decoupage.

Here’s one idea I have for the bottom of the tray. I have a few pieces of cotton paper. It’s lovely paper and I was thinking I’ll put some Mod Podge over it to make it more water-resistant.

And here’s another paper I have. It’s the same material, just a different pattern. I haven’t yet decided between these two, but did have a couple of other thoughts too like using lace or a doily. I’ll just wait until I find that perfect ‘ah ha!’ and go with that.

But until I do, it is ‘finished’ enough to use.

Here’s my not-sure-if-it’s-finished wine cart. I do have to say I really enjoyed working with the reloved Vintage Paint. No priming at all – that’s my kind of painting. I do have 3 other furniture makeovers planned for the summer. Two antique end tables and a bookcase, but those are all big priming-involved-projects – stripping, sanding, staining and sealing. Whew. But I’m sure they’ll be lovely when they’re done and worth the effort.

Happy creating!