I love the various shades of maroon and grayish green. And the roses. The Golden Girls style is making a comeback. I mean, everything about the 80's was so beautiful.
KIDDING!
This lady is fugly. But she was only $12 so I couldn't pass her up.
Originally I just planned to spray her white and call it a day.
But after all the fun talk of DIY'ing some gold polka dots last week, I couldn't resist.
I already had some leftover stencil sponges and gold paint (of course) so all I needed was a stencil from Michaels. (This was such a spur of the moment decision that I didn't even think to take this pic until after the fact. Bad blogger!)
I was a bit worried that the paper stencil wouldn't really hug the rounded stool well enough, but it worked like a charm. And a great perk was that any mistakes I made wiped up easily.
I didn't really have a plan (surprise surprise) and just randomly 'polka-dotted' as I saw fit. The whole project was 15 minutes.
No styled image available yet as this sucker will be in the living room, but I'm loving it so far. Somebody better take my gold away before I painted my children.
Have you tried to style a garden stool? Impossible. Any good stencils you recommend? Anyone else ready to kick Ramona off the island? (I love my RHNY)
Happy Tuesday!
I love the polka dots- makes it so peppy! And yes Ramona needs serious meds.
ReplyDeletehaha I wasn't quite sure what to say when you were raving about that garden stool. Too funny! I love what you did to it, the polka dots look great!
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Thanks Elizabeth! I'll be there in about 4 hours to pick up my new stool!!
ReplyDeleteVery Nice! Polka dotted tennis shoes for the kids would be a good one too!
ReplyDeleteI actually didn't mind the floral stool. :)
Hey, I was better looking in the 80's. This is so fun....does it remind you of the book "put me in the zoo"?
ReplyDeleteGold polks dots! Very glam!
ReplyDeleteok -- my head was spinning when you were loving the Golden Girls come-back stuff of the 80's. Shut the front door. But Elizabeth you have done it again..........creation of beauty with your own two hands!!!!!! You are one busy lady and I APPLAUD YOU!
ReplyDeleteOoooh, so pretty! Love the gold polka dots! They are so fun!
ReplyDeleteSuper cute! I'm loving the polka dots!!
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You have such a talent to be able to come across something like that and see the potential. It looks fantastic!
ReplyDeleteOH I LOVE IT.....IT'S GORGEOUS!
ReplyDeleteI'm just like you...Things just happen. I ordered a book about Design and how to be successful, etc. I'm afraid to read it! NUMBER ONE..SET OUT A PLAN!
Oh honey I feel ya!! 80's ARE making a comeback, even though in my eyes it NEVER left! I keep trying to convince my clients that MORE is more and less is just plain boring ;D I don't think they've quite caught on yet but with posts like these, they might just get on board! Love your graphic tool to stencil, just a darling idea with the dots! And in my FAVE color- gold! A gal after my own heart!
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Hahaha!!!! So funny - agree that not all about the 80's was gorgeous. Love what you did with the gold dots - so Kate Spade again - hmmm... maybe you can do it on a plain white china - dinner plates, glasses, the works, then you can have a huge golden gal polka party!! LOL! Love the stool dear :-)
ReplyDeleteI love this!!! I agree it is very Kate Spade. So fresh and cute and way better than the Golden Girl version!
ReplyDeleteWhat an improvement AND, I think you can never go wrong with polka dots and gold. Such a great combo. Keep away from the kids.
ReplyDeleteCamille
Oh yeah, I can imagine how hard it would be to style a garden stool. Books and magazines don't really fit, do they? A vase of flowers would have to be pretty squat, and a nice throw would completely cover the entire thing...hmmm.
It's so cute and you should definitely paint your kids to match. I'm sure they have child safe gold paint somewhere. ;)
ReplyDeleteI was watching RHONY on my parent's cable but they got rid of it so I have to figure out how to catch up. They put RHONJ on Hulu but not NY. Ramona is insane, always has been.
I love it!!! Oh my gosh, for a quick sec I wasn't sure if you were kidding when you were going on about the beauty of its original look...I was like what's happened to you while I've been gone Elizabeth?!? Haha j/k! ;) anyways I loooove the big gold dots! You have me dying to try this!! Btw garden stools do seem really hard to style so I'm excited to see what you do with yours!
ReplyDeleteSo ever since you posted those polka dots a couple weeks ago I've had plans for a pair of Goodwill lamps. I LOVE how your garden stool turned out! Hoping to find a weekend here soon to get my polka dot on!
ReplyDeleteFor a second, I thought you really like the flowery design of the garden stool. You got me fooled! Love what you did with white spary paint and the gold polka dots, very stylish. Can't wait to see where you put it!
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You know I've never styled a garden stool or even bought one yet. I've had my eye on a few but I'm going to wait until we move to a bigger house. This would be really cute in a guest room or kids room.
ReplyDeleteThat is amazing! LOVE the gold polka dots! So great!
ReplyDeletethat is seriously adorable! i love the gold polka dots!
ReplyDeleteoh dear lord... you had me falling out of my seat before i saw your big fat JK! great job, and you got some big ole fat gold polka dots you've been craving!!
ReplyDeletewow! a-maz-ing. must try this!
ReplyDeleteWell, I was going to comment on the ADORABLE polka dots, and yes, gold paint makes me want to keep painting forever too. But then you threw in that zinger about Ramona, and all I want to do is rant about her psychotic kookiness. For my money, she out-awfuls Vicki Gunvalson and that is no easy task.
ReplyDeletes clever! and super cute. Show us how it looks in the living room! Must be fab and happy in there.
ReplyDeleteLove the gold dots - I am thinking of painting them in my kitchen back splash!
ReplyDeleteomg you are SO adorable! i love this. and can we please discuss this? why is there not more talk and eye rolling at how pyschotic Ramona is? She is out of control and behaves almost like she's got a mental problem. the eyeball twitching the random outbursts and tantrums...
ReplyDeleteYou had me going there for a minute--until you said everything about the 80s was beautiful! OK, great job--love the transformation!
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