Recycling a pine wood dresser

Another piece of furniture for my daughter´s bedroom...
We bought this simple dresser made of pine wood.
After sanding and painting it, changing the handles and polishing it, the new dresser is ready for her to fill it.
Here it is:

Our bedside tables

Our room is in process of change. Finally is its turn! 

We often change things. Sometimes consists of changing the location of a furniture, sometimes on giving a coat of paint. Change is good!

We have bought the bedside tables we are using now in a hurry. We paid almost nothing (they were really useful at that time to replace the boxes we had when we married) and I must admit, they are not really nice... but we don't want to be ungrateful, they were very functional. Now that we have gave thanks, we can let them go!

Today I got into restoring the bedside tables that I inherited from my grandmother .... nothing better than a furniture that keeps lots of stories.

I am in the process of restoring. One of them is already finished:

In this following picture I took while I was restoring it, you can see how they were originally (the one on the right).

My home

This is how life is here around the....

kitchen...

patio...

 

 

living room...

the garden...

the bathroom of the studio...

the studio (not my art studio)...

And those are my collections of little pencils (from my kids, I love to keep the small pencils they have been using since the kindergarten).

"Mirá" (look) is now finished

 

I felt the "Mirá" canvas was still unfinished. That it wasn't expressing all wanted it to express. So, early this morning (around 7am), when the family was still sleeping, I went to the studio and finished it. It is now complete!

 It says (more or less) "to see or to look?", "let yourself look" and "let what you see be part of you".

 

Look

This new painting is called "Look", because sometimes, we see more often than we look.
And looking is good. It makes us connect to the other people and to what we have around.

Beauty in the little details

I love to be surrounded by nature. For some people music is a source of inspiration, for others a perfume.. for me: little details, images.

The door of my studio, recovered by us

I'm sure your eyes also see little details...

Sunlight in the studio

More images of the studio

More photos of my studio here

Don't look at me with those eyes

Well, here's what might be considered my first painting. There were others, but this is the one that has everything to be considered the first. It is made with acrylics on canvas.

It's called "don't look at me with those eyes ...". But the sentence does not end there. Is the observer the one that ends it. For me a perfect ending would be: "they make me get lost."

©  Lorena Briceño

What's next

I'm working on this painting now...