My $1 shabby shelf

Recently I was at a garage sale, that I just happened upon and I spied this beauty. At the time it was painted solid off white and I could see the paint was peeling. Not wanting a project, I passed it up. Then back to it... then walked away again... then back for another look. At that time the owner said, "it's your for a $1". I looked at her... looked at my car (to see if it'd fit)... and said "sold".

Under that peeling paint I could see a beautiful aqua color and I thought that I could just scrape off a bit and make it look really chippy. Well some scraped off easily and other areas not so much. So I brought out the chemicals, the scrapers and the power washer and got to work. Then It got really hot outside so there it sat, stowed beside the barn, getting buried in pine needles.

I really did not know what I was going to do with it but finally last week, I decided to put it in my creative room. You see that color of blue/green matches my walls perfectly, and I also decided not to scrape any more, and just hang it as is, After all Shabby is not about perfection.


After a quick clean up of the pine needles and dirt I finally got it hung, with some help from the muscles from Mr Roboto. This thing is heavy.
For now I just accessorized it with what I had laying around in my workroom,

Found the Perfect place for the Double Deckers gifted me by Tamara

I added 5 hooks for various bobbles.
I think I'm gonna like my $1 shelf.