From Shipping Crate to Crate Table to Crate Art

 

OK… are you sitting down?

Don’t pass out…ok?

Remember this?

It’s my Shipping Crate Table… Click Here to see it’s transformation.

Well…

now it’s this…

I know… I know… R.I.P. Crate Table!

Yep… I decided to dismantle it.

I just simply didn’t have a need for it anymore and I have always loved the big chunky wood framed panels it had… so I decided to dismantle and use the panels for other things.

For instant… the checkerboard lid… I used it here… for my Winter Mantel that actually got an HGTV.com feature!

(my only claim to fame…lol!)

And the side panels… well… I may use some for mantel displays or wall hangings???  I don’t know… but I do know that I wanted to use a couple of them for my ART!

The great thing about art is that it doesn’t always have to be painted on  canvas… right?  RIGHT!

OK… so I totally got inspired the other day…

mom bought this Country Home Magazine…

and when I turned to page 48… this is what I saw! 

isn’t it beautiful???

I was Sooooooo INSPIRED by this art!!

Great, Great Issue by the way… this one’s a keeper!

Anyway… it inspired me to create my own version using a side panel from my dismantled crate table…

So…

I grabbed one of the crate panels and painted over the center with black.

Next, I drew out my design and started painting…

Here is my Flowers In Urn Crate Panel art piece…

I’m not a very realistic painter… more impressionistic and folk like all at the same time… lol.

My crate painting is way smaller than the one in the magazine…

The flowers are hydrangeas with some creeping Jenny and what I call my wildflowers…

I like the way it turned out…

Hope you like!

And…

*hopefully next week??*

Remember my Southern Porch in the making post?  Updates coming soon!  :)