My idea of a perfect Sunday is sleeping in a little, making a nice healthy breakfast at home, going to the flea market in West Hollywood for a little shopping, going over to <a href="http://www.joansonthird.com/">Joan's on Third</a> for lunch and then heading home to veg out on the couch knitting and movies for the rest of the day and maybe eating a cupcake or two that I just had to take home from <a href="http://www.joansonthird.com/">Joan's</a>.  Last Sunday came pretty close, Rory and I headed over to the <a href="http://melrosetradingpost.org/">Melrose Trading Post</a>.... but I had something particular in mind that day.  I was on the hunt for a plant stand!  And we found one!!! For $10!!! What a steal!!! How does all that excessive punctuation make you feel?!

Here is what we took home that day:

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Now, as you can imagine I wasn't totally in love with this paint job.... or lack there of.  It looked like someone sloppily smeared on some gesso and called it a day.  So I headed over to the hardware store and picked me up a quart of French Quarter Yellow paint, in the eggshell finish of course and then headed home.  I spent the next few hours painting the plant stand.  The hard part was getting into every nook and cranny of the knobs... and then I had to work a second <em>and </em>third coat of paint.  But it was totally worth it.  Here is what I ended up with:

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Pretty neat, eh?!

I put this in the corner of my kitchen and arranged all my happy little indoor plants along with my sheep collection.  I couldn't be happier with the outcome!

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Now I want to find another stand for the out door potted plants.... I guess I'll just have to make another perfect Sunday sometime soon :)