Happy Pink Saturday, friends! Please visit Beverly at How Sweet the Sound to enjoy all the other pink participants.
A while back I blogged about a heavy metal desk I got for free. I love free.
It needed a makeover and I sort of overdid it with the make-up, and it was left looking a little clownish. So, above is the BEFORE picture, but I couldn't bring myself to show the AFTER picture. The desk has set in its garish glory being ignored.
Below: that's the makeup
Yes, I do believe I used every color except the red. I was like a fifth grader turned loose with blue eye shadow! I couldn't stop myself from shaking and spraying. Shaking and spraying. Shaking and spraying......
I wasn't about to re-paint the OVERpainted desk-of-many-colors, so I've decided to tone it down. I began the twelve step program with an artist canvas.
Then, I selected some of my favorite fabric. This is by Michael Miller, who is just about my favorite fabric designer of all time.
***By the way, you can click on any of these pictures to make them bigger and see the dust on my floor.***
Do you hear the ladies below chatting?
"Yes, Mary Fran, I simply adore the way my new hair pomade holds my bob in place."
It was hard to cut into the fabric. Always a problem for me. I began to ponder:
I could make a cute skirt out of this fabric...if I were forty pounds thinner, I could actually wear the cute skirt after I made it.
I could make a tablecloth out of this fabric...if nobody would spill on it. Forget that.
Then, I asked myself these two questions.
1. Melony, are you the boss of this fabric? 2. Or is the fabric the boss of you?
I got out my scissors.
I cut out a rectangle of the newly submissive fabric a bit bigger than the canvas and began to staple it to the frame. As luck would have it, I ran out of staples immediately after I took this picture.
I love my glue gun. It is faithful and true. Sometimes love hurts. But, it eventually dries and I just pull it off along with some skin, which, so far, has always grown back.

This is just Step One in the Ugly Duckling Free Desk Makeover-Gone-Bad-Tone-Down Process. It's going to take some time to turn this puppy around. I'd be grateful if you'd ignore I cut all the poor ladies' heads off the top. Let's pretend none of us see that. Yes, I know I should have centered the fabric...thought it out more carefully...perhaps, yes, even measured. sigh.
Do you know about those nifty thingies you use to attach artist canvas to metal desks?
Neither did I.
Did I mention how much I love my glue gun? Squirt and press, press, press. We'll see if the ladies' are still standing in the morning.
So, overall, not bad if we ignore the decapitation. If I can't live with the headless heroines, I'll cut again and redo it...but, knowing me...I can probably live with it. sigh...being the perfectionist I am.
Happy Pink Saturday! Stay tuned for Step Two.
Oh, and if you please...do be so kind to check out my post below. It's pink too, and I would love you to meet my youngest daughter and a cause close to my heart.