Cute Bird End Table

I love all the decorative hand painted furniture I see on blogland lately.  These people have some serious TALENT!    I thought to myself.... "I  can do this!"  I didn't want to dive in a huge piece and screw it up chance having to repaint it due to my not so steady hand. I searched for some images online, and settled on a small pair of birds. I mixed up some homemade chalk paint in a light blue and painted the piece is two coats. Then I got to work with the image.  That looked easy enough......

Here is the  BEFORE:

She was quite scuffed up and I had nothing to lose right? Okay so here she is....

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Okay so she isn't the grandest in blogland but I thing she turned out pretty cute for my first try!   I definitely think that I will try again with some decorative painting!
What do you think? Go easy on me! ;) lol

What Was I Thinking?!!!

My vision for this vintage sewing machine table seemed to be quite clear in my head..... crisp apple green, with classy black vinyl appliques. So I went to work.
I removed the sewing machine, sanded and primed with my fav Kilz primer.

                                                     excuse my poor iphone pic quality! :/


I painted the table a pretty shade of satin apple green. It was great!.....and PLAIN BORRRRRING..
I needed something. So I busted out the vinyl appliques I had stashed from a previous trip to IKEA.
Stuck those bad boys on!

I loved the color contrast of the green and black. I thought I was all done! Closed the workshop up for the night ready to put a coat of poly on in the morning.
I arrived the next day to find the vinyl peeling up around the edges...grrrrr
All I had to do was peel the vinyl off and add apoxy to keep them in place right?.....
WRONG!!!!
I peeled off a piece of the vinyl and the entire applique took the paint off with it!! I was HORRIFIED!
My heart sank and I wanted to light a match throw the thing away.  Then my husband walked in, and said "wow that's pretty cool"
...WHAT THA?? Bless his heart!! 
Then I looked at the wood grain showing thru and I realized that it was cool....my husband WAS right! (for once) :)
I ran with it and decided to distress the heck out of it and put on an antique glaze and see what happens! I added a cute knob from Hobby Lobby and with my eyes wide shut I poly-ed it and called it done! What do you think???

I am pretty smitten... :)