When Boredom Strikes

  It has been a busy few days with the yard looking like a rain forest from the overgrowth of vines and bushes and the house beginning to resemble a flea market with boxes of stuff being packed to move to Darling Daughter's new home.  Even with all this busyness, I was beginning to feel a bit bored.  Little time has been allotted for crafts much less any sort of relaxation.  I knew this boredom was going to lead somewhere but I had no idea which direction.

  As my daughter is unpacking her belongings, she is also discarding things that do not match her decor.  Well, that is fine and dandy except that they get "discarded" to my house and I cannot leave well enough alone.  I wish I would have taken a "before" picture of the most awful looking hat rack that she so sweetly discarded my way.  It was one of those things that was popular back a few years when everything was coming up roses.  For some reason for a while, rose decor was all the rage.  I like roses...just not painted on everything from teapots to chairs...and surely not on hat racks. The hat rack was supposed to resemble a window frame that was repurposed into a useful item.  It had three "panes" (pains!) that were painted with some odd looking roses. That thing was, well for lack of a better word, ugly! That is when inspiration struck!  Halloween!

  Halloween is the time when you can take ugly, unwanted items and turn them into the most adorable decorations.  A little black paint does wonders on most anything!  It did on the hat rack.  What was once a weird creamy white "chippy" paint was smeared (literally smeared!) with a coat of flat black. I did not want this to look like some factory painted doodad.  The "panes" were then painted off white and Halloween inspired silhouettes were painted in each. I found the inspiration for these by doing a computer search for just that....Halloween silhouettes.  Since there is not a lot of detail in this type thing, I did not even draw the pictures...just painted.

Repurposing an old hat rack.  It once had pink roses painted on it but now..Halloween!!!

  I do think the hat rack is much improved.  So much so that I can now hardly wait until mid-September gets here!  Yep, I do decorate early for Halloween but it is just because of things like this hat rack...and boredom!  Moral of this tale...never throw away a good hat rack!  Turn it into a Halloween decoration!  You just cannot go wrong like that!  Ooooh!  Halloween!