Recycling old recycled stuff, In Other Words... Re-recycling

This is a story about 

Really, Really, Really

recycling.....

When my bidness partner Kris and I first started our

TREMENDOUSLY SUCCESSFUL

ENDEAVOR 

(One of these days we'll break even!!!!!)

(I know we will....)

(I'm pretty sure.....)

(OY, OY, OY)

We were in a warehouse type of space in a group antique store.

I wanted to create a display wall to help separate our area.

WELLLLLL.......

Kris was away for a little while......

I was very excited about our new bidness!!!!!

I found a behemoth of a cabinet that I was sure once it was fixed and painted would just do the trick!!!!!

There was a weird wood spindle railing galley type of detail around the top of the crown molding.

We took that off before this shot.

It's too bad we didn't have a picture to show you.

IT WAS HORRIBLE!!!!!

It was an East Lake style and had some nice detailing.....

I accented the carvings with a white detailing....

WELLLLLL.......

We painted it.

This was in 2006.

BEFORE I KNEW ABOUT CHALK PAINT!!!!!

So we sanded, and we sanded, and we primed and we patched......

then we tried a few different colors for the inside....

We finally settled on something I feel was pretty......

Then we were kicked out of the antique store!!!!!!!

The proprietor didn't like that I called a customer and asked for my money.

She had walked out with a little lustre ware pitcher promising to mail the check the next day.

WELLLLLLL.......

When a week went by and I hadn't received my money.....

I simply called and left a reminder message on her answering machine.

WELLLLL.......

The customer was outraged that I felt it necessary to call with a reminder.

She felt insulted, as if I was accusing her of not planning on paying.....

Look, folks.....

Don't say you're going to mail the check, not mail it, and then act all outraged.....

So, I got the boot!!!!!

This was just when my buddy Josh was opening his showroom in the Boston Design Center!!!!!

Next thing I know!!!!!

Kris and I are in the bigtime!!!!

Now we sell out antiques in the Boston Design Center at Studio 534.

And our display cabinet looked great there, for a time.....

After a couple of years, Josh wanted to change things up in his showroom, so this cabinet went to summer camp in my parents garage.....

Then Amy Chalmers got a store in Boston!!!!!

The cabinet could have a new purpose!!!!!

It could have a new life!!!!!

It could feel popular again!!!!!

She took the doors off and now it holds all her Annie Sloan Chalk Paint, that I didn't know about when I painted this monster.

Here it is in the center of a class.....

Amy's given it a new purpose, I look like I'm really generous, and Kris is just glad to get it out of the garage!!!!!

So that's my story 

Latah, Gatah