Wood Headboard {discarded}

I found this wood headboard on a free pile a week after the local fire company auction several years ago. I knew what I wanted to do with it 'sometime', because I saw some nifty trash-to-treasure changed headboards. When I knew I was moving, I painted it but didn't know what I wanted the finish to look like so it hung at Apartment 12 unadorned.

Several weeks ago I found a print in my files that was printed off The Fairy Graphics, an amazing blog to get any kind of free copies for whatever one imagines to transform. I love most anything French and chose this to finish the headboard. And no, I don't know what the words mean - perhaps an address to a Chateau.

It was the usual seventies brown stained/varnished finish. The first thing I did was cut the legs off, then sanded, primed and painted it once because I wanted to give it a very shabby look. Then sanded it again.

It hung like this since I moved in September where I hang my purse and jacket when it's not being posed for the public.

After centering it, I taped the pattern over a sheet of carbon paper and traced it very firmly with a pencil.

Traced over that with a fine-tipped Sharpie.

And gave it a light sanding with very fine sandpaper.

Doesn't this look summer-y? Keep the faith, people...it will come!

But the grand finale is my new over-the-shoulder personalized Thirty-One bag that carries a TON of stuff if you're traveling and is hands-free with the second strap as a cross-over. And no, I am not paid to advertise for Thirty-One; however, daughter J is a consultant.

This was one of many projects I kept for the winter months. For the first time since July there wasn't one.single.thing that needed to be done this week or an appointment I had to go to. Having said that, I felt very unmotivated and this is the extent of my many-projects-for-the-winter. Maybe it was the COLD week. Perhaps next week I can start sewing new chair covers or painting the dinning room legs.

~ Esther