Has anyone ever handed you something that was a mess and said here, do something with this? Come on you know they have. Work, church or maybe at home it’s happened to us all. You stand back and look at it thinking what in the world am I gonna do with this mess. Realizing the only way to fix it is to just dive in head first.
You know where this blog is going. Yep this just happened to me. I was handed a set of nesting tables that needed a little TLC, okay maybe more than a little. The person that gave them to me had made a great start with a great idea but didn’t finish them. Then one of the legs got broken off so she handed them to me. I handed them to my fixer up man (Greg) and he made them whole again. The tops of each table had old leather so Greg striped that off and now they are ready for me.
I wanted to tiar them down in color so on the largest I started with Chalk Country paint Pure Pewter. On to the middle table with Steel Gray and finishing off the smallest table with Crisp Collar. Now that the leather is gone and the once upon a time glass something needed to be in place of that. “Oh Greg dear” please cut me 3 perfectly measured tops to fill these tables. He did and then I sanded, stained and clear coated them. Once the tables were painted, dried, sanded back and 2 coats of defender I added the wood insert. Wow what a difference!
Life is kinda like these tables. They were broken and to that person unrepairable. Sometimes it’s not worth the effort or the broken heart to repair it. Handing it off to someone else that is willing to fix the relationship is sometimes best to do. Relationships can’t always be fixed. Sometimes it’s best to walk away or pass it off to someone else who is willing to be the glue.
