Tree Stump Table

Thirteen years ago, my ex and I built a log home.  When it was finished, we had little bits of stumps left over from the construction phase and when I moved into my new home, I brought one of them with me.  I had used it on my front porch as a table for a decade and it was very weatherbeaten.  Naturally I didn't take any before photos of it, but here is a photo of the log house I used to live in and you can see where it used to sit on the front porch right beside the front door.

In my new home, I decided it would be nice to have it indoors so I painted it creamy white to clean it up a bit.  It looked better but was too plain for my liking.  I'm just not an "all white" kind of girl.  Ever since I redecorated my master bedroom, I'm right into a French cottage mode of decorating so guess what I used to embellish my new table?  Yup, that old fleur-de-lis pattern that I am now totally in love with.

This time I created a stencil of the printout that I have simply by cutting out the picture with a box cutter.  This made the job soooo much easier than trying to trace or free-hand draw the pattern on the bumpy surface.  With all the interest in script these days, I opted to write out fleur-de-lis all around the edge as well.

In addition to all of this, I had a nice surprise this week when a package arrived unexpectedly from Hadley Pottery.  But I need to backtrack a little here...  In January, Hadley offered a free bowl to Nesting Place blog subscribers and all you had to do was pay the shipping costs.  I've always wanted a piece of their pottery and when I saw the fleur-de-lis pattern, I had to have it.  Unfortunately for me, shipping to Canada wasn't among the options on the website so I emailed Hadley's customer service department to ask if the offer had been limited to US residents.  Hadley emailed back with a Kentucky telephone number to call to arrange for my bowl to be shipped but after a game of telephone tag, I gave up the ghost before my long-distance phone charges exceeded the cost of the bowl!!   Lo & behold, Hadley generously sent me the bowl of my choice without me having to pay anything at all.  What amazing customer service!

Here is my little bowl:

And so my love affair with the fleur-de-lis continues :)

Have a fabulous and creative week!

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