Addison is TWO!!!

I've been a bloggy slacker lately.  I can't keep up.  But today is a sweet little girls 2nd birthday!   We celebrated on Saturday with a pool party at my moms house.  We kept it small this year just immediate family & some of her little friends.

We got her her very own four wheeler that she can actually ride on her own.  (she can't get enough of riding on ours)  She loved it and the smile never left her face from the moment she got on until we hit the pool.  Oh and the other hit, the dreamlights that grandma got for her.  (that damned commercial) But she LOVES it!

pool party themed cupcakes by my cousin Kim

she had all kinds of help opening her presents this year.  All the kids got right in there which started my child's spoiled cries of "it Mine!" :)

go baby go!

Happy Birthday Sweet Girl!

Today we went to the water park with my best friend and her kids.  Addison had a blast especially because they had a under 5 year old bounce house that she couldn't get enough of!

Dining Table Finally Revealed!

I've been dreaming do doing this project since I found this image online over a year ago:

Credit

I just had to find the time, the table and the motivation to get it all done.  Oh and have a kid old enough to entertain herself a little while I worked on it on the days when she was here with me alone...that was a big one. So flash forward just over a year, I found a table that I liked the curves on the legs.  It was listed on craigslist for get this, $20!  Now IMO 20 bucks for a dining table is awesome even if it needs work (seeing how that was my plan anyway), I e-mailed them as fast as I could to see if it was still available, oh and I offered $15.  She said yes and I arranged to pick it up that next night.  The top was in rough shape but it was mostly just where the poly had been worn, no major damage, the bottom & the legs...omg, they were BAD, someone had tried to repaint them with a textured spray paint, without priming them at all.  It was pealing, it was ugly.

I got right to work with my palm sander!  With a little help from Addison

Next was primer time for the table base & legs, then 3 coats of paint.

Used the same color as I used on my dresser I recently redid

While I gave the paint a few days to cure I started on the staining and Polyurethane to the top of the table.  I added a little bit of distressing that I caused by a screwdriver but nothing too drastic.

 After the legs had a few days for the paint to harden I started sanding on them again to do some distressing...eeek so scary after all the painting work!

then on went the stain:

Then once the stain dried I put 2 coats of poly on all the painted pieces.  Then I put it all back together and fell in love!!!

And I kind of wish I would have got out my good camera instead of relying solely on the iPhone for all these pictures but you get the idea.  I love it!  Now I'm just waiting on finding chairs to refinish before make the swap out in my house for my current table and get rid of that!

Linking up with Get Out Of My Head,