Changeable Serving Tray

This wood tray has been in my stash of items to repaint for some time.

Years ago I painted a floral spray

of spring flowers on it.

Pretty for many years, but styles and tastes change

so it didn't bother me to paint it again.

 

 

Like most artist, we repaint treasures several times right over past works.

 

 

When I painted over this tray I kept it simply

with Chalk Paint in Old White

and Black with distressing for the raised sides and bottom.

 

 I also added an acrylic cut sheet of Plexiglas to protect the surface making it changeable for the seasons

by adding old graphics, cards, pictures and more under the sheet.

 

For the Plexiglas, I took the tray with measurements

to Home Depot and they cut the sheet right there for me.

Easy and inexpensive.

You could use glass, but that would make the tray very heavy to carry

for serving.

 

So getting to the changeable part, this season I used

a graphic for the Witch's Ball

copied on card stock and placed under the sheet

with a few silk leaves.

 

For another look, I enlarged and over sized

postcard graphics.

As you can see by the coffee table underneath,

this tray is large with plenty of room

for many looks.

I love how I can use this

tray in many ways.

 

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And before I go today,

Here's one more thing.

 

My son's neighbor is a wood worker

and he designed this gorgeous bowl

from a tree and gave it to me as a gift.

 

I just love it and the natural

with real look of the tree

showing through.

 

Bottom is raised like a pedestal.

The surface is smooth and perfectly glazed.

 

Handy to hold a few coasters I created

from left over tiles

when we redesigned our kitchen.

Now I just have to share another

one more thing I noticed while writing this post.

 

While looking back at the tray pic below.

I noticed in the upper left hand corner,

it looked like the shadow of a spider!

 

What is this? 

 

Well, it is the shadow of my chandy over head.

 

Created from wood, iron and glass crystals,

it reflects like a long leg spider.

 

Perfect for the Witch's Ball Tray, right?

 

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Thank you for visiting today and thank you for the

comments and emails on my last post

sharing a bit of the fabric and gift wrap.

Still learning!

 

Joining

 Etsy Cottage Style

for

Fall Entertaining.

 

Graphics used for tray

courtesy of

The Graphics Fairy.

 

Have the perfect Fall Day!

 

Celestina Marie