curvy french end table....

i hope everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend.  we did.  we stayed home but went cherry picking on sunday.  i had no idea that the orchard that we did our apple picking at every year also had cherry trees.  we picked 14 pounds of sour cherries and about 4 pounds of queen ann or ranier cherries. 

i've never made a cherry pie before but it is don's favorite so i tried my hand at it.  

unfortunately, we hacked into it before i got a picture of it.......

so worth it.....i have never made a pie that turned out so well.....

it was perfect.

i also made a 4th of july tart using refrigerated sugar cookie dough with cream cheese filling and fresh fruit.....

another winner.....

and just as tasty....

it literally took me about 15 minutes after i had the crust baked....

okay, enough about food (i'm getting hungry!!!)

i got this table at the local goodwill for $9.99.  i loved the lines and the fact that it was a tall end table.  a lot of the end tables that i have done in the past were short. i think this is the best size to be next to a sofa 

and the perfect height for a lamp.

it had a crack across the table top which was glued and clamped.  

i was dying to use the chalk paint in the paris grey on a piece of furniture and i thought that this table would be perfect.  i ended up using it as an accent color because when i opened it it looked way darker than i thought it was supposed to.  i am wondering if i got a mislabeled can and i emailed the stockist but have not heard back yet.  

i used old white for the body of the table because i thought the grey was too dark to be painted completely with it.

  i distressed it and waxed it with annie sloan dark wax.

 it gives the furniture the most beautiful shine and it is so smooth it feels just like butter.

now i just have to find out if i got the right color in the right can.......

but i love how it turned out.