Child's Pink Vanity Makeover

I've posted about it and talked about it for so long now...

The old wooden child size or doll vanity. An elderly gentleman in our neighborhood gave it to Dear Hubs after the man told him he was going to THROW IT OUT. Can you imagine? He was going to throw it out.

Well Dear Hubs knows I love these kinds of things...PLUS it was pink.
But it needed serious help.

And last summer I gave it a coat of white paint. I was preggers and guess what. I didn't get around to finishing it because well, Dear Bebe arrived four weeks early and well, you probably know the rest.
Then I blogged about it again a couple months ago and said I was going to do it. So, for Pink Saturday we have the reveal!

But first a couple of "behind the scenes" shots. I knew we were in deep doo doo when Dear Hubs needed this bad boy to fix it. The man who gave it to us said it was his mother's and HER father made it for her when she was a girl. I'm guessing it may have been made in the 20's or 30's.

It needed some serious TLC after all these years. Who knows where it was being stored before we received it.

I was hoping to find little pretty knobs but I decided if I waited any longer we'd never get around to working on it!

The mirror also had issues but now it's fine!

Here is the pink paint we used.

Ta da! Kind of sweet and pretty now, don't you think? I then added a pink rose:





I'm also thinking of shabbying it up a bit...what do you think? Yay or nay?

Definitely a great save...it was destined to get the 'ol heave ho. So glad we brought it back to life!

For more pretty pinks...see Beverly's blog at How Sweet the Sound. We're celebrating the one year birthday/anniversary today! Be sure to check out the pink "parties" going on today....

And I was also told to sign up for METAMORPHASIS MONDAY, hosted by Susan at Between Naps on a Porch...so I have done that as well. I'm amazed by all of the neat things posted today by some creative women! WOW! Fun fun fun.

And stay tuned while we work on my next project (who knows when that will be) :

I think this one will be a shabby white. . . but you never know! The doll vanity was supposed to be white and it ended up pink!