Omaha Subway

How's that for a working title that may not get changed because I feel a bit "brain fried" at the moment?!  I've been AWOL again but my Dad was in ICU with a head injury (scary!) for several days and I wanted to lend some support and help to my Mom.  Thank you to all who knew and sent prayers our way.  I know it helped, and he is now home resting up and healing.

So I want to talk subway, not the sandwiches, but the art form.  I have been smitten with subway dressers since I first saw one many months ago.  I can't tell you where I saw it and I know there have been any number of versions done for all different areas and themes, but I do remember the one Twice Lovely presented on her blog a while back.  I've been wanting to do one for my area ever since and I finally have the perfect dresser to make it happen.  That, and a little incentive to "git er done". 
Here is Omaha.

I had already started the prep work when I had to leave town to be with my family, so when I came home it went together very quickly and I put the last coat of wax on it this morning. 

I decided to use Historical Landmarks around the Omaha area to feature on the dresser front.  It was based in Old White.

I used my Silhouette and various fonts to create the graphics for the drawers. The top coat is ASCP Graphite.

If you live around here you might be familiar with a few of these!  There was not enough dresser to include everything I came up with!  Maybe Omaha will need a brother or sister one of these days.

This was definitely a "fun one".  I needed that feeling after a stressful few days.  This dresser may or may not have an interesting temporary home soon.  We'll see, and I'll keep you posted on where you can find it for sale! 

Be good to one another!
Deb
Linking to:
http://primitiveandproper.blogspot.com/2012/08/poww-100-furniture-link-party.html
http://elizabethandco.blogspot.com/2012/08/be-inspired-features-and-link-party-31.html
http://missmustardseed.com/2012/08/furniture-feature-friday-a-link-party-4/

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

AND

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

AND

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

Have a Wonderful Week!

Deb