Furniture Refinishing 501 [graduate-level] and Parenting 101 [remedial]
If, by chance, you have neglected to purchase a high-quality paint stripper for your long-delayed furniture refinishing project, you may have the necessary product in your bathroom closet.
Or sitting directly on top of your grandmother’s 70-year-old Lane cedar chest, as it were.
[remedial parenting: do not leave opened/unlidded products that spray sitting in reach of a preschooler. Ever.]
The product, in case you were wondering, is Target-brand continuous spray Sport Sunscreen.
When sprayed copiously across the surface of said furniture, and then spread diligently to reach all unsprayed parts [3-year-old hands are particularly effective for this step], the aged varnish begins to bubble and lift off (esp. when rubbed with a wet cloth intended for clean-up) as if one had used a very expensive and very messy paint stripper from a local hardware store.
According to the container, the product has a clear, rub-free formula (check), has fast and easy coverage (check), and is water resistant (check.) And, not that it is necessary or helpful in any way, my Mimi’s hope chest is now protected from both UVA AND UVB rays.
Good to know.
Guess what project we’ll be doing this weekend?
Filed under: General, Catbird, Tidbits, Elizabeth on May 27th, 2008
I just checked my google reader and who did I see? Yay, Cathy! Good to hear from you, although not good to hear the news you wrote about. So sorry about your Mimi’s hope chest.
I hope you guys are doing well. I miss hearing from you on here. So, when you get a chance, I’d love an update.
Take care!
Big, fat bummer!!! Is that the one in the office, or in the kitchen?
Too funny
You are still SUCH a great writer
The kitchen one. (my favorite) Thanks, Shelley. It didn’t seem funny at the time, but is getting more so as the day has worn on.
Ha! This is a funny and sad at the same time. I love when you blog! Miss you!
And, I bet the sunscreen is much cheaper and better smelling than anything you’d find at the hardware store!
Good to hear from you!
of course you needed another project to do
how are you, girl?
It was great to see you have made it back to your blog. I havemissed it and you!!