Furniture painting ???

Furniture up-cycling or to the purists  among you furniture painting, ( so many bloody agurments about this, trust me ! ) I’m good at keeping quiet as sometimes it’s not worth the argument but unfortunately I have one of those faces … you know the one that actually says … oh do shut the fuck up, life is actually too short for this shit!!!  Technically to up -cycle is to change the use of something …. well I still say up-cycling because if I didn’t paint it … it would have been skipped or firewood so in my mind I was changing its use 😂

Anyway I did run my own up-cycling business for a couple of years quite successfully , don’t get me wrong it didn’t make me rich but it gave me a few extra pennies for more paint 🙂 Let me tell you now, you will never get rich painting furniture no matter how good you are so don’t bother your arse starting if you think that’s gonna be the case ! You will however get covered in paint, get stressed, get messages in the middle of the night( that’s for another day ) get blisters and strong arms …. the last one will mostly apply if you live in a house like mine where none of your teenage children will ever help you, mainly because they think you’re a tank and can lift anything all by yourself …. I can but really didn’t  want to ! But it will also give you a sense of peace once you get started and a sense of achievement once your piece is completed and you are happy with it :). ….. that is until it’s time for the customer to get it back and you are scrambling about on your hands and knees checking and checking again , checking its scratch proof , checking no one set a cup on it when you weren’t looking , checking you toddler didn’t stick something hideous to it , checked you didn’t miss a single piece of the bloody furniture !!! Then you will turn the damn thing upside down and check again …. then the doorbell goes and you really just want them to pick it up , hand you money , tell you how amazing you are and then leave , not because you are ungrateful you really just don’t want them to see you crack up after all your checking stress !!!

But then for a least a day or until they tag you in a Facebook post saying it looks affie bonnie and they are well chuffed …. then and only then will you relax …. I mean Fuck Me I have 4 sons and none of them have ever stressed me as much as my early days as a furniture painter oops up-cycler ….

But you will put yourself through it again and again and again and your confidence will grow along with it … I mean your checking time might even diminish completely , haha  doubtful that would just mean you were a tad cocky and deserve an epic fail !!! Stress is there for a reason right !!!!

Much love ❤️ Jo