The Dog Days of Summer

Nope, no pictures of our cute pooch here.  I'm talkin' the Summer weather.  The suck the air right out of your lungs, hot, humid, drippy, days of July that have me draggin around here!  It's just stinkin' hot and no chance of getting out and about to do much of anything unless you enjoy "glistening", as in dripping the whole glistening lake off the end of your nose.  Yuck.  This is my least favorite time of the year.  Now I know I've bragged about my great Mr. before, but you want to know what that Saint of a Man did for me?  He went and added an air conditioner to my workshop.  Ok, it's his workshop too, but I'm in it way more than him, so I'm going to pretend it was all just for me!  I love my Mr.!  Ok, enough PDA for today.

I do have a reveal, and of course, I don't have a before.  Why?  Because I was just itchin' to work on this piece and impatiently dived right in.  This was another rescue piece from a neighbor's garage sale.  It had lived in their garage for quite some time.   It was dirty, the paint/heavy stain was scratched.  It was dinged up and the drawers needed some realignment and shoring up.  Lots of sanding later, and some Aubusson Chalk Paint, Ebony stain, Antique Oil, and handcrafted knobs from Vintage Skye and this is what you get. 

With the original sanding I made sure to leave some of the old stain so that it would show through when distressed.  After painting I pretty heavily distressed this dresser.  The Mahogony top looks great with the ebony stain on it, and I love, love, love the way the Antique Oil just melts into the wood and stain and gives you a nice hard, hand rubbed finish.  The knobs are fabulous and I was so excited to get them on this piece!

This dresser's dove tailed drawer's sides and back were all made out of cedar.  If I were keeping it I would store my completed hand hooked rugs in this dresser to keep away any stray moths or buggies that managed to get in.  

One of these days I'm going to have to show you some of my more neglected hobbies!  This dresser will be for sale at The Prairie Pickers and Peddlers Market (see the tab above for info.) unless someone wants to take it home before then.  So, if you wait until October you might just be too late!

Linking up to:http://primitiveandproper.blogspot.com/2011/07/piece-of-work-wednesday-furniture-link_19.html

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http://restoreinteriors.blogspot.com/2011/07/restored-it-wednesday_19.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FueolG+%28RESTORE+INTERIORS%29

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http://missmustardseed.blogspot.com/2011/07/furniture-feature-friday-link-party.html

Have a Wonderful Week!

Deb