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Category: FRED - the garden | Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 3:17 pm

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Randy and I were making the rounds of garage sales one Sunday afternoon in June about 4 years ago. It was late afternoon, most sellers were ready to call it quits so they had cut prices in half. This cabinet was well used, had a couple of dents and scratches but nothing really bad and it was on sale for $2.50 I needed storage for garden tools, etc and had $3 burning a hole in my pocket. (the last of the splurge money we had allowed ourselves for the day otherwise we would have gone crazy buying other peoples junque)

The design I painted on it was from a quilted wall hanging I had entered in the Dallas Quilt Show competition the previous March. The theme of the contest was Texas Wildflowers. As you can imagine everyone else took it to mean Bluebonnets, Indian Paintbrush, Wine Cups, etc. But my warped mind sometimes doesn't work that way. So my entry was titled "Well you said TEXAS wildflowers"
It didn't win anything, but then the Dallas group does tend to be a tad traditional instead of off the wall in their thinking. :)

The cabinet stayed outside where it is pictured for only one summer and had to be moved inside because the sun and heat was causing the paint to peel. But it is still well used in the backroom, just on the other side of the wall it was on.




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Gardenstew wrote on Tue Apr 25, 2006 2:47 pm:

Not bad for $2.50 eh. I bet it never expected that one day it would look like this :)

Toni I think you should get your own TV show. Call it "Toni's Extreme Furniture Makeover"

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jubabe296 wrote on Tue Apr 25, 2006 5:43 pm:

That is such a good buy!! I never find anything that good at yard sales here!! I really like the Texas wildflowers idea!!

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