my four season dresser

How long should it take to refinish a piece of furniture?  A few days?  Maybe a week?

What if said piece of furniture you were refinishing was a $50 Craig's list find that needed some work first?  Some work as in repairs? Would two weeks be pushing the boundaries of procrastination?




If that’s true … if two weeks is pushing it … then what does it say that it took me 365 days to refinish my in-need-of-some-repairs-$50-Craig’s-List-find piece of furniture?





To which I have no reasonable response.


The dresser was parked in the family room last June and there is sat … collecting dust and and clutter … through a summer filled with camp and a weird foggy day at Lake Michigan and a family trip to Florida …




And there is sat … collecting dust and clutter … through a fall filled with a harrowing very first day of high school … complete with a very first solo “L” trip for my teen son … and batty door décor for Halloween and the launch of this blog …




And there is sat … collecting dust and clutter … through a winter filled with very little snow and unseasonably mild temperatures and my first link party and our first Christmas with the kids without the pretense of Santa being real …




And there is sat … collecting dust and clutter … through much of a spring filled with a teen boy’s first date and finals and end of the school year instrumental concerts and shows …




And there it sat … collecting dust and clutter … right up until last week when this blogger joined a weekly procrastinator’s support group, Make it Happen Monday, launched by this blogger …


I attended that very first support group meeting and threw my hat in the ring …




… a hat in the form of my in-need-of-some-repairs-$50-Craig’s-List-find that spent the past 365 days living in my family room …




… or, as I’ve affectionately renamed it, my four season dresser …




And I’ll share a tutorial on how I refinished my four season dresser soon.


Really.


I swear.


I promise I won’t wait for another four seasons to pass …



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