An up-cycled trunk the crafty scrappy happy way!

Well guys---

for those of you who went over to vote for the One Month To Win It competitions----

did you guess this project was mine? 

Since this round of the competition was spray paint---

I had some fun

Up-cycling this trunk.

Once again I am finding these competitions are great motivation to do projects that I have been putting off for a long LONG time!

I have had this trunk since this summer----
I paid $5 for it.
And made an attempt to paint it by hand....
that didn't work well so this treasure sat out in my garage for months.

I spray painted the entire trunk and then hand painted the white detailing.

To add the quote---which I ADORE {just in case you were wondering} 

I just cut it out with my cutting machine {the silhouette}

And painted the words in using the cut vinyl as a stencil. 

Just for an FYI here is the Krylon spray paint that I used---it was a metallic satin---so it wasn't too shiny.
It fit in perfectly with all of the lights, whites and grays that I have in my bedroom!

So this ended up being kind of a nice addition to my bedroom which many of you know was just made over.  And I also wanted to point out that the frame {on clearance from TJ Maxx}

was also spray painted to match.

And quite possibly my favorite part of all of this is that I framed some amazing hand written notes that I found in a vintage dental book---they are SUCH a treasure to me!

I know that script is popular right now----

I think EVERYONE should dig up old hand written notes and frame them----so SO cool.

So I think this is officially a crafty scrappy happy project because it means a lot to me.

I had so many set backs while I worked to become a dentist.... so this trunk, the quote and the scrip notes remind me to be persistent with all that I do! 

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