Okay so I'm not really sure what you even call this thing. Wooden-plate-that-looks-hauntingly-like-an-aged- wine-barrel-lid? I picked it up for a song (around $1.99) at Goodwill a few months ago, not knowing exactly what I was going to do with it. I just knew that I had seen similar stuff (Frenchified, of course) being sold by Pottery Barn, Frontgate, Williams Sonoma, Plow and Hearth to name a few and thought it had potential. Then I saw Sherry at No Minimalist Here take the plunge and create a beautiful French-inspired lazy susan and knew I had to try it. Many months later......
Here it is, plain and simple. I debated over it for a while. What type of image to put on it, as well as HOW to put the image on it. I've been researching graphic transfer methods lately and I will be sharing my thoughts on that with you all soon. For now I decided to go with the freezer paper method I read about here over at Musings From a French Cottage. (Make sure you visit the link because I don't feel qualified to give you any instructions on this. For me it was trial and error.)
I wanted a French look, so I used this graphic from our beloved Graphics Fairy. I printed it out on the freezer paper just like the instructions said, and I burnished the image just like the instructions said, with this result.
Here's a close up of the top part.
And here's the bottom.
I was really disappointed that the image was so faint. (But hello, the tutorial said that that was part of the charm, especially for pillows, so I should have realized I might need another transfer method for wood.) Perhaps I'll try to darken it with a Sharpie paint pen. (I'm always afraid that I'm just going to make it worse if I mess with it, you know?) Despite this, compared to the $149 version from Frontgate, I'm pretty pleased!
For now it holds a place of honor above the armoire in our family room.
For now it holds a place of honor above the armoire in our family room.
Since it's not a lazy susan per se, I have plans to use it in tandem with an actual large wooden lazy susan I found around the same time at another Goodwill (I know, the luck!). But of course, there may be some painting involved first......I'll keep you posted.
Hope you all have a great week!
xoxo
