My new (to me) Coffee Sign coffee table!

My post yesterday gave you a teaser for what I've been up to....they are done now :)
I found these tables by someone's trash and scored me some "Road Kill."
They looked like this at first:

After some light sanding and a coat of oil based primer (Which has the most awful smell ever-definitely do this in a well-ventilated area!) and 3 coats of white paint they looked like this:

I chose this sign to paint on the top of it:

I needed an large oval on it to start the sign, I have a mirror that worked perfectly.

Then I traced around it, then made the lines from the sign with some wood stain.  After that I painted the Oval in with red paint.

I had to make the angle on the Community Coffee right, so I taped some yarn as guidelines for keeping it straight. 

Waiting while each coat dries was torturous!!  So, I distressed the legs and side.

Then I put the final coat of white over the words.  A few sprays of clear coat later and they look like this:

I love it!  I think I am going to put some glaze over the top of it eventually, but as for now this was a free project!  Had the charcoal paint from a project in Morgan's room, the red was from the front door, the white from countless other projects, the stain and clear coat from re-staining some chairs I sanded down.

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Make your life beautiful!
-Kari