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A trash to treasure story with Raised Plaster and Dianne's craftiness. |
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When you have that nagging thought: "Golly, I should just throw this old piece of furniture away", that's the first clue that you should dig out your plaster stencils, your paint brush and your imagination and get busy! SAVE THE FURNITURE!!! It's easy! But Diane goes beyond just a bit of plaster and moves to STONES! This woman is fabulous!!!! Dianne Johnson tells the story (and tells it well!... so much so, that she could easily become a writer as well!): "This was once an ugly...(and I do mean ugly), dark brown/black mahogany, plain as plain could be, armoire. It came to me free of charge...thanks to that tornado that came through Trenton, ripping the roofs off stores....stores like ColorTyme. It was declared by the insurance company as damaged goods and thus was slated to be tossed as garbage. It came in my house, worthy of nothing less than hiding in a closet somewhere...however...I had no closet big enough to hide it in.
Okay, so the journey began: A nice bright color of paint ought to do it...(or so I thought. It did improve its appearance, but it was still so plain looking. Well...how about a new change of knobs??? Better it became, but still not quite enough. How do you go from plain to flash? A bold and risky step, glue and aquarium stones! I have to admit, I was skeptical enough to think and remind myself that it was FREE...and thus not hard to take if it turned into nothing more then a piece of trash. I began gluing the stones on ....making up the design as I went along...again proof in the fact that I was a "ye of little faith" in the endeavor. The plan was to just do the two doors. Those done, standing back and looking at it I STILL came up with the same conclusion...better, but it was STILL lacking! Back to the glue pot and stones I went, did the two bottom drawers, thinking this just ought to do it. Almost...but not quite...it was still calling to me for more help! There I was...plum out of ideas... The perfect idea was the Plaster cattails!! I put on the cattails and it cried to me no more.
adventure took me...from ugly to a conversation piece it has become...now ask me if I want to make that journey again! Glue those itty bitty aquarium stones for awhile and you'll know the answer! People have asked me where I found that piece...I reply...in the wreckage of a tornado. Some have asked if I wanted to sell it...how can you put a price on a journey? True...it hardly meets the title of a masterpiece...In retrospect, I could have planned the mosiac design better before I started...but the journey began here and it ends here...if there's travel in its cards, it will have to wait till I am gone. If you look at the armoire...you will see the sunrise behind the cattails. The reflecting from the light...its always there to tell me....its a new day Di...we are STILL on a journey.
Dianne, it's my suggestion that you submit this piece in it's entirety to "Dreams Alive" Magazine. Email me and I'll send you the link! Everyone would just love it!
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Stencils used in this project |
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Aquarium Stones compliments of Dianne's fish!
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From trash to treasure my