Bench Revamp

Hey girls!  Today I went Christmas shopping with Healthy Chick.   She really has a baby-bump, now.  We also fit in a side trip to IKEA. You know how that store is--everything is so reasonable--you pick up a thing here and a thing there and pretty soon you have quite a bag full of things treasures!  I'll have a couple of goodies to show you from the shopping trip soon (I hope).  But, I digress, I'm really here to show you what else I got done today.

Do you remember this little bench, first seen below?

I'm referring to it as a "bench," but it's not really to sit on.  If you look closely, you will see there is a kitty food and water dish to the side of it.  So, it's really a kitty-napping bench.  I used my friend Traci's thorough instructions for painting metal and painted satin silver over the brassy gold.

The top was kind of crushed flat, so I used some batting scraps (you know how I love me some scraps!) to fluff it up.  I left the beige fabric on because the staples weren't.  going.  anywhere.

You all know this part--yadda yadda--staple.  I turned the raw edges under to keep things neater.  See the dots that have the coral color in them, too?

Here's where it's going "after!"  Hmm, I think the greens go together better than what you would think from this photo.  If you scroll back up, you can see that I chose the satin silver paint because of the picture frames.  I haven't used the satin silver in a long time and it's really pretty!  Edited to add:  Click to see - Drapery Reveal

Another one of those devilish little details, done!