Humble Beginnings

YEARS ago...Probably around 1990...

The year some of you were born...

I was driving down the street in Houston.

Back then, I already had the "eye."

I could spot good junk from a distance.

I saw a pile of stuff in front of a house.

Trash was put out at the curb there.

I urged my husband to pull over so I could

grab a couple of interesting things...

He was VERY embarrassed to do it.

Unabashed, I jumped out of the mini van and

grabbed this little chippy white table.

It is one of those tables that had an enamel metal top. 

The top was there, too, but it was pretty chipped up. 

Back then, chips were not so highly prized as they are now.

I'd had one of those tables in a furnished apartment at college. 

It was in my kitchen between the fridge and the mini gas stove.

I decided to leave the top, but the table went home with me.

I scrubbed the loose stuff off and put a clear finish on it to keep the rest.

I cut planks to fashion a top for it, and called it good.

That was during my first love affair with shabby white things.

Though that marriage eventually ended due to a bad case of

mid-life crisis on someone's part, the affair with shabby white lasted.

Though I flirted with black, red, green and gold, this table

was never touched, and there was always a spot for it.

For now, it is standing as a sentinel at my front window.

The window is still red, but may get a new coat of taupe oil paint

this weekend! The new pane of glass and the outside

will have to wait until a certain dog finds a new residence.

It's just the right size to keep her from jumping up and

trying to attack the post man, and breaking the glass.

Do you think she looks vicious? 

Me neither. But she sure did a number on the front door and window.

She was just doing her job and guarding her home and family.

And that mail man could have been a bad guy. You never know.

And remember the red sofa. It's on its way out to the alley this weekend.

I'm keeping the cushions for her to lounge on. 

So the little kitchen table that was tossed out on the curb,

has made its way into my Industrial Elegant Cottage Living Room.

At least for a while...

Since she had a new assignment,

 I decided on a mini face lift for the old girl.

Her retrofitted wood top got a new coat of

ebony stain so she would have a darker finish.

Who would have guessed she had such a checkered past?

Now she's hostess to a variety of characters: 

an industrial metal file box, a vintage metal flower frog,

a wire basket, a revised crackled glass lamp, and some vintage books.

These are particularly interesting ones. Isn't this a great cover?

Here's the title and the first page:

And this is a page from the back:

The other book has a lovely embossed seal on it's tattered cover:

It's a book of poems:

Don't judge a book by it's cover, or a table by it's top. 

Or maybe you can after all!

Word for the Day:

Job 8:7

Your beginnings will seem humble, 

so prosperous will your future be.

May your future be full with blessings and prosperity from the Lord!

-Revi

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