Not working today so .........

A Friday not working.  This is a strange phenomenon for me and usually when I look at the Estate sales the best ones are on Friday or Saturday and I can't go.  Not an estate sale of interest to be found today or tomorrow.
Time to get to work on the "studio", in my glory trying to get as much done as I can.  The table that I worked on the other day is now dry and the lamp is ready to finish so I set that up, take some pictures and turn to the other side of the room and YUCK!!  Sure don't like the look of that so take everything down and out of that corner, this leads to more work.  Quite some time ago I laid floor tile on the cement floor but stopped at my work bench because of the feet (2x4's) thinking I would have my husband help me move it to finish.  Flash forward to present and it still had not been done.  Today is the day.
I cleaned the floor in the storage corner and laid the tile.  Now the walls look awful, I find a gallon of paint, stir it up and paint away.  I move the work bench myself and finish the tile.  What a mess I have created on my beautiful table and new rug.  I decide to throw away the covering that has been on my work bench for ten plus years as it has seen better days.  Raw plywood is not really a good look or a good work surface so I paint that too.  Now I have to paint behind the dryer on the other end of the room.  I have pushed the work bench closer to the corner making more room on the other end of the room so now what do I do with the stuff that was in that corner?  Think about it tomorrow since it is another day off from work.
I sure hope I get this room done one day soon so I can actually do the crafts that the room is meant to be used for.  It will be organized come hell or high water.

I love how the table came out, now to do something with the chairs. 

I love the big old plaster lamp.  Purchased at an auction for $2 several years ago, it was painted green and was used on my patio for evening light for the last few years.  The lamp shade still has the covering that matches the patio furniture, I will change it out eventually.

The YUCK corner before and the work bench .

I started this fun project the other day.  I bring a few of my projects home from my job from time to time.  My assistant threw away these maraschino cherry jars and I fished them out of the trash, I can never have too many jars.  We needed a container for the dogs treats.

I taped off an area on each jar for a chalkboard space, the first one I sprayed with chalkboard paint but quickly determined this was not working.  I then sprayed the space with primer. My husband is getting used to the smell of spray paint in the house.  I then did three coats of chalkboard paint, and used a glitter glue to mark a design on the jars, I let the whole thing dry overnight.

I hammered down the edges of the tops so they will just fit onto the jars without being screwed on.  I lined each lid with a piece of scrap book paper glued in place.  I then used e6000 to attach a wood finial to the top of the lids.

The lids got several coats of primer spray paint and a couple of coats of silver metallic.

A few coats of lavender spray paint and we have a treat jar, much prettier than the greenie bag!

My chalk board paint did not survive the lavender paint but I remembered that some one had given me some chalk board sticky paper so I cut a piece and put it over the paint, looks pretty good to me.