an exception to every rule

I love wood.  Seriously!  I LOVE wood. There's nothing that makes me cringe more than seeing a gorgeous piece of wood furniture painted.  (Disclaimer: I said a "gorgeous" piece of wood furniture...distressed or worn out furniture could often use a good coat of paint instead of stripping & staining). Yet recently through blog hopping I found this artist, and I absolutely loved her furniture portfolio:
http://www.karenhetzer.com/hand-painted-furniture.html
And the crazy thing is, I'm not sure I have a favorite out of all the many she has posted.  I like several of them, enough so that it wouldn't bother me in the least to have a piece like that in my house.

I'm one of those people that usually need to see an idea before my creative juices start flowing. Hetzer's artwork certainly does that for me. Yet as much as I like her work, I don't believe I'll be pulling out my paintbrushes and overhauling what furniture we have. My painting skills are nowhere in her ballpark and anything I attempted would frustrate me, not to mention, look quite bad. But should I ever run out of projects and have a gazillion minutes of spare time on my hands (year, right!), I might just head to the free section of Craigslist and see what I can come up with.

And now that my Sunday afternoon daydream has ended, before the week is out I hope to be sharing with you some very exciting progressions in projects. Life is busy, but good.