Mini Table & Chairs

One of the things I was able to retrieve from Mom’s was this li’l table & chairs for Elizabeth. It had a really ugly painting of bunnies on it before the actual “before picture”. I’m sure Mom just didn’t have the time to paint over it, she probably bought it at Goodwill, but I can’t be certain.

Anyway, I wanted it to serve as an overflow table where the kids (I often have a house full of children + my own 14 month old Princess) could eat when the big table filled up, and also as a table where they could create and work at.

So I gave taped off the edges and sprayed on a good coat (two I think) of chalkboard paint.

After it dried good, I taped a trash bag over the new center and gave the rest of the table & the chairs two good coats of Rustoleum’s heirloom white.

After the chairs were good and dry (I hate the waiting period between coats) I took a piece of scrapbook paper that I had cut to size and applied Modge Podge to the back of it & to the top of the chair. I smoothed out any bubbles with an old credit card (or store savings card, actually) and then applied a good coat on top for protection.

I hand wrote the words pray, eat, laugh, & create to either the fronts or backs of the chairs, and then painted over it with a green that matched the paper.

And voila, I had a refashioned Mini Table & Chairs, perfect for my Mini.

Who immediately pushed the whole thing to a different spot in the dining room and climbed right up in the chair (her new thing is climbing – up every thing!)