A New Addiction and a Perfect Saying

I seem to sway from one addiction to another. Well that is not entirely true. The truth is that I like to do it all, just not at the same time. I read in a blog recently something that pretty much sums me up.

Recently in my local blog reads, I came across this (http://theivycottageblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/i-could-make-that-syndrome.html) on The Ivy Cottage. It is so ME !

I so have the “I could make that” syndrome. Every time I see something in blogland or even in stores, I think…I could make that (for so much less too). I have a gift and I sometimes forget that it is a gift. Each time some new craze hits the blogs, I try it and I can pretty much do it with little or no ease at all. It seems so simple to me and failure is not something I fear. If it doesn’t come out the way that I want it, I can always try again. No harm in trying.

So although this is not new, it is new to me. I have started repurposing furniture. It started with what I had and then grew to cheap Good Will finds and now has grown to what I can get for free…curbside even.

Monday night my neighbor that is actually about five houses down put a rocking chair out on the curb. This rocking chair to be exact.

I was not thinking about getting a rocking chair but it was out there…for free and it looked like it was in pretty good shape. I put my thoughts aside and thought, do I really need a rocker? Well at work that same day, I was surfing the net and came across a painted rocking chair. This painted rocker:

This chair didn’t really look anything like the one on the curb but it started to stir thoughts in my head…that is never a good thing…lol.

I passed it again on my way home and noticed that nobody had scooped it up yet. We live on a small street and it’s a one way so it doesn’t get a whole lot of traffic. I decided that I was going to stop thinking about it. Tuesday morning it was still there and at work again (yes I work too while at work) I did a search for painted chairs and I decided that if the chair was still there when I got home then I was going to get it. This is the exact chair painted.

And although I don’t like the color of this chair because it is too bright and I am not fond of the distressed look either, I think it would look great in the one that I originally saw. Besides, if I don’t like it green, I can paint it white and I know it would look great in white.

So guess what? Yup, it was there. So I walked it home in all its glory. It really is a great rocking chair and perfect for a reading corner I hope to make at the new house. It has one spindle that has come loose but nothing that a little wood glue won’t fix.

Can’t wait to work my magic on it!