It wouldn't be fair to Martha to blame her for my recent spray painting spree, but I do just love this cover and since it has turquoise in it it seemed a fitting photo to kick off this post!
My husband recently bought me two cans of turquoise spray paint. So far I have painted two lamps, two dinner plates, a glass bottle and lid, a few clothespins, a disposable diaper box with the flaps cut out (they make great storage bins, they even have handles!) and the lid to a kitchen canister. :)
I had forgotten how relaxing it is to watch something
transform with paint.
How refreshing it is to create something that will
stay that way... unlike the good dinner or carefully made bed or folded laundry or clean dishes, all stacked in place.
Those things all have their own unique sense of satisfaction and accomplishment, but there is an added satisfaction, for me, in knowing that unlike many of my tasks which are done over and over and over, this will stay and look good (hopefully) and not revert to it's previous state.
Although sometimes an undo button might not be such a bad thing, like when I accidentally did not cover
quite enough of the sidewalk while painting the second lamp. A friend suggested I spray paint it grey over the turquoise, but my husband objected that it might look as if I had covered up graffiti on our sidewalk. I refrained from saying that technically he would be within reason to consider my spraying the sidewalk turquoise
as graffiti, but I think he has enough reason to roll his eyes at my liberal use of spray paint without that,
thankyouverymuch.
Anyway. Without further ado, here is one of my projects that I'm particularly pleased with. I purchased a set of two of these lamps at a garage sale for $3 quite a while ago, and we've been using one as our office lamp. I didn't like it, though, and I had originally planned on spray painting it all white... but then I had the turquoise... and I thought it would be really cheery and fun with it.
I have a quick tip for you if you're spray painting a lamp... if you have a dead light bulb (the one in our office lamp was dead -
thank you procrastination!), then put it in/leave it in before painting. It will save you the trouble of masking the round hole there to keep from gunking up the light bulb socket! I saved the turquoise bulb from the first lamp and used it on the second.
I love it. :) It makes me smile to see it, especially since I switched out the (rather staid) shade that had been on it with this funky one. It seems to fit with the turquoise better.
Have you revamped anything lately? :) Do you think one can ever have
too much turquoise? And do you know of anything that needs sprayed turquoise?
'Cause I'm looking around my house persuading myself that everything I see does
not need to be turquoise... or does it...
Also, if you haven't seen
House of Turquoise... :)
(although from the pictures it looks like they might just clash catastrophically), my dishes are actually white... so I was leaning towards replacing my white butter dish with another white one. You know, when I actually dare to replace it and risk repeating the whole scenario. As it is, the bottom, dish part technically is fine, it was the lid part that broke into the neighborhood of five pieces, so we can just keep using it for a while.
