La Chic Shelf

How can I be excited about a mere shelf you ask? Well, this particular shelf is a victim of my latest craft. And small, strange things seem to excite me. I'm a stay at home mom-give me a break. A new tub of Bath-and-Body Mint Salt Scrub excites me. What can I say. Anywhoo, this is the brown, as I like to call it, poop shelf. I rescued it from Goodwill. It was 6 bucks, had a really bad streaky paint job, and was in desperate need of a clean rag drenched with Mr. Clean. And even though, it had ugly little wooden pegs, I saw it's potential. Well, at least I think I did. Sometimes I just wing it. Either way, I bought it and off we went. This shelf seemed special because it had "tri" use properties. It is a shelf, four little curio box holes, and pegs. It has three jobs. And poop shelf looked like this. (sorry it is so small-it came off of an email and that's all I had of the "before" shelf.) She wasn't a pretty site. But like they say, she had good bones. Someone had been mean to her. She had no bling. She didn't feel very womanly. I had to fix that. And I think I did.


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And Viola!

And now I like to call her La Chic Shelf! Seriously, can you believe that is the same shelf??? Me neither. Like, it's super cute!!! I love it. I sprayed paint it black several times. Then I decoupaged some cute paper-including some really cute Valentine vintage paper. I love vintage paper and fabric. And the knobs. I can't tell you enough how much I love the knobs. I waited many weeks for those little suckers to go on sale half-off at Hobby Lobby.

Here's the sweet paper. The little skunk says, "Be Mine". (Heather, please don't try to scratch and sniff the skunk on your screen.) Heather likes skunk smell. That's how she rolls.

And my cute little decorative knobs. The knobs to this shelf are like Nestle semi-sweet chocolate morsels to my mom's chocolate chip cookies. Just wouldn't be the same without them.

My dad helped me put the knobs on, cut them off with some kind of saw in his shop so they would be flush with the back of the shelf. And then he Gorilla Glued them. He really loves Gorilla Glue. Now I do too. It's hereditary.

I did this shelf for about 15 bucks. I think I could sell it for a ton more. It just turned out so swell. I love it. I'm Queen of the Shelf. And might hold my little crown a few days more, while I bask in all of my shelf saving glory.