Paint Party #28 Blue Table

My Brave Blue Table

It's paint Party Friday #28 make sure to check out all the other artists and join yourself if you wish!!   I'm sharing my new blue table.
You can see the before photo without a table cloth at the bottom.  
I could only find one  ugly photo  taken during our floor renos. 

Before revamp

Much like I love purple, my  mom loved turquoise.  Except for her wedding ring, the only two pieces of Jewelry dad ever bought mom was a turquoise ring, years later a bracelet to match. Her first  kitchen  had red arborite counters, and her second one had turquoise walls. Painted  every few years to mask  the embedded cigarette smoke stains. She had wall to wall turquoise rugs, a turquoise floral couch which she amalgamated with  royal blue. Needless to say there was blue everywhere.  I must confess, unlike most people I never liked blue. Not  only do I look terrible in the color, I just never decorate with it. I think my mom overdosed me... Just as I have done with purple for my daughter!

Lo and behold, my blue eyed daughter came along, much like my mother, loves blue. So when she was a teen, we converted her all pink bedroom, to  azure  blue, paired with purple. I liked it very much! She kept it that way through the teen years. It’s now painted  charcoal which she enjoys  with her hubby.

I’ve  always avoided blue like the plague. Then a couple of years ago my daughter wanted us to paint our  main powder room turquoise. I loved it orange, and was reluctant, but agreed as long as I didn’t have to paint it.  I figured  I  could probably  live with it  thirty five years after leaving moms kitchen.  Once I added a  few of my paintings  with purple and green  to off set the turquoise I began to like it.

So it was a real surprise a few months back when I bought two azure lamps to flank my family room couch. I liked their shape. Surprisingly after all my chairs were painted I decided to paint my kitchen table Blue….. I really like it. I have no idea what possessed me to bring blue into my life! I must have finally made peace with it!!! Blue, oh blue, lately I’m lovin you! Only certain shades though….

 A little side note about the table, when my daughter was fourteen instead of buying secret Santa gifts for her friends, she suggested they help some needy kids.  I drove her around we gathered the money, she bought the kids toys and a little tikes plastic picnic table. We gathered food from different sources and I took it to the single mom with two little girls. The kids were so happy and lit right up, the mom was so  thrilled and grateful. It made what  was to be a dismal Christmas eve for us, really wonderful! I mentioned that I loved her table. She told me she hated it and had a line on another one. She said  I was welcome to have it in the new year. I was also on a very tight budget, the top of the table was severely scratched and there were pen marks everywhere, the legs had chipped white paint. So  I sanded the top, stained the oak and varnished, then I painted the legs purple.  It was beautiful for a good ten years. Plus it was free. Couple of years ago I painted the legs black to match the kitchen. I still love the shape but found it a bit large for the space. I think I'm in love with it again, plus  you can't beat free!!!