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I’ve had fun with some crafty home projects lately. One of my recent ventures was making over a beat-up little plant stand I’d picked up around Christmastime to put our mini-tree on. Here’s a before shot:

I mainly wanted to paint over the truly crummy parts. The top was warped from leaking water, and there were a few half-peeled-off sticker remnants that gave it a really classy feel in our living room. Also, I’m not done ripping off this cool lady’s reverse-stenciling trick (see our new computer table for my first venture).

Since I can’t seem to kick the Under the Sea theme that’s consuming our living room, I decided to incorporate some fancy goldfish paper I’d bought for Bryan’s post-PhD scrapbook. (I now own a jar of Mod Podge. Be afraid.) I also returned to the same can of aqua paint currently featured on our picture frames, dining chairs, the aforementioned computer table, and (faintly) our bedroom carpet, where Bryan accidentally dumped it as we were moving in. Because when you hand over $20 for a quart of non-toxic, fume-free, hippie-endorsed paint that would probably improve the water quality if you dumped it in the Bay, by golly you’re going to use the whole thing. The result is a sort of UFO fishbowl:

I kind of love it.

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