sniffledorf is throwing a tea party
i don't own teacups but this'll do i figured he needs some furniture his
own size to host this party it's not a huge party
i only found two chairs at the thrift store so
it's just gonna be him and one other guest i managed to dig up
say hi to sprinkles hey everybody it's been a long long time since i've done a thrift store
makeover i think i did one like over half a year ago but i figured with spooky season
upon us now's a great time to try again mama didn't raise no quitter that's my boy
i ran into this trio at the goodwill it's really nice furniture it's made of wood sturdy stuff
it's a cute size very tiny maybe even running a bit small for sniffledorf if i'm being honest
but he loves it tell them you love it i've had it sitting in the hallway
and i've caught him lounging on it and peeking over from his chair a couple times
it looks like doll furniture it's even adorned with some hearts gouged out of the wood
cute cute that's a bit of a roadblock but i'm not going to even try to fill those in
i don't want to ruin the whole thing it has this plain rustic woodsy kind of look which is nice
very nice it's just not my aesthetic so i'll be painting it to make it look more evil
it is doll furniture but not like teeny tiny barbie doll or something more like a life-size
baby doll i'm not too familiar with dolls but yeah
basically what i'm trying to say is the furniture is a little too big to fit into frame so i'm going
to have to adjust some things i zoomed out as much as i could got rid of my gorgeous
orange poster board background orange and replaced it with an ugly orange tablecloth orange
personally i hate it but sniffledorf really seems to love it he wouldn't stop attacking it so at
least someone likes it it's still not fitting into frame perfectly but it's a little better
i think i can make it work i'm going to start off by peeling off all the little price stickers
they actually peeled off pretty easily i just used some acetone to help scrub them off
this one doesn't have a sticker i guess that's nice normally this would be the point to pull
out the gesso except for i don't have gesso so i just tried making do with white paint
it's multi-surface paint from folk art i just thought it would work best on any surface so i
got it i'm pretty sure any acrylic paint would work on wood though i did later on go grab some
gesso i don't always gesso everything the paint can soak down into the wood so it's just best to
layer a bit of gesso on to prime and seal the wood before painting i wanted sniffledorf's
furniture to last a long time so i made sure to seal it with gesso in case that makes a difference
they weren't completely white yet took a few layers of paint after gessoing it i did switch
back to white paint and layered that on a couple more times i wanted the whole thing to be a bright
bright bright bright white it took a little longer than expected took literally a whole day just to
paint these three white with gesso and white paint and everything it's kind of like three thrift
store makeovers in one but they're a set they go together so i wanted to do them all in one video
i did have to maneuver a bit to get into all the little crevices the hearts were annoying but the
most difficult part was reaching the little cutout things under the table they were nearly impossible
nearly but you know rar babe wasn't gonna give up that easily there were also little screw
holes that i tried making incognito with white paint i didn't want to fill them in with epoxy
or anything i just wanted to make them blend in with the rest of the table there were also little
not entirely sure what they are maybe like nail holes from a nail gun i tried my best to cover
those up as well i did gesso the bottom of the chairs but i didn't completely paint them white
i figured i'm painting them black anyways so i'll save myself some work and some time i've spent
a lot of time on these already it was honestly looking really nice with the white paint already
looks a bit more modern they even look nice on my lovely patio oh yeah fits well with my manicured
lawn and um parking lot i was just spraying them down with some mr super clear to seal in all of
that nice white paint i let that sit out there for a bit to dry and then brought him in wasn't really
having much of it though wow i tried bribing him with my and tweety birds to give it a chance
but he wasn't too interested in it at this point wasn't fitting his vibe not spooky enough for his
taste quite yet one of the chairs had a little gap on its side it's tiny not super annoying but
i did try smacking it into place it didn't work but whatever i'm not going to lose sleep over it
here's where things got a little more intense
i'm pulled out of measuring tape so you know things are getting serious
oh the harbor i never pull out the measuring tape i wanted things to be as precise as possible only
the best for sniffledorf i'm taping the chair down every other inch creating a striped pattern
i wanted the stripes to be as clean as possible hence all the measuring involved that's what we're
doing today on the dark side stripes i usually do cartoony characters and such but i wanted to mix
things up a little today shake things up on the dark side but obviously still go for that creepy
cute vibe this furniture is going to be more like modern spooky i don't know if that's a thing
i might have just made it up but bear with me if you're new here and you live in the modern age
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really love this tape i'm not sponsored and i forgot what brand it is oh it's just scotch tape
i've used masking tape and painters tape before it always just peels off i never see the point in
using them this tape however did a pretty good job i read online that if you want clean lines
while using painters tape you should paint over the painters tape with whatever color you already
have on there first apparently going over the tape seals the edges down with paint so that when you
go over it with the other color it doesn't seep under the tape basically i just want nice crisp
clean lines that's the goal at least it usually never ends up that way but we'll see
i have high hopes for this so here's another coat of white paint just to seal the tape in
lots of white paint used today so half the stripes are going to be white and the other
half are going to be black i feel like there's not a whole lot of spooky or creepy patterns out there
but one that is prevalent is stripes i don't know at what point stripes became so spooky
maybe it started with beetlejuice but i can't say for sure this furniture is going to be
beetlejuice themed in fact i will even add a pop of green later on things are looking
like a hot mess right now sniffledorf hates it in fact he's hiding from it in his tunnel
the chair can't catch him in there though sprinkles on the other hand
really seems like he's enjoying it hey everybody
i bet he'd even sit there all night if i let him and now the moment of truth
wow it worked it actually worked i want this to be satisfying so
the stripes came out pretty clean they're not perfect but they're pretty close to being perfect
close enough for me at least i'll be doing touch-ups later at the end the furniture is going
to have like black accents and a black trim just to break up the stripes a bit the bottom of the
table is going to be all black again the crevices were being difficult but i just shoved it in there
black does cover a lot easier than white so it wasn't too bad i taped up the edges of the chair
and then worked on the hearts a bit i knew those hearts would be annoying it took some time taping
them up you can tell i was really focusing because my head keeps popping into frame and blocking the
camera's view so you can't see anything not that there's much to see i'm just taping up those
infuriating hearts also the chair has funky wiggly arms they look really cool but they're a pain to
tape up a lot of this video is just me struggling with tape but to get the look i'm going for it's
worth it i went in with black over all the edges and trim now you can really see it starting to
come together i'm not sure what i'm doing here i think i was dancing with joy i'm just really happy
about how it's looking this honestly might just be one of my favorite things i've ever made i could
have left the hearts white but i thought maybe if i painted them black they would be a little less
noticeable maybe blend in with the chair if i'm lucky jokes aside they don't really bother me too
much i think it's kind of funny to have them on there plus it is for sniffledorf and he's my baby
so it works when i took the tape off you can see things weren't as perfect this time around
it's gonna take some touch-ups i'll fix that whole mess up later the bottoms of the chair are
just going to be all black so i taped those up and started painting them turns out i forgot to tape
this side got a little paint outside the lines luckily i noticed in time to stop and
tape it up and then continue painting it black i went around doing some touch-ups just trying
to clean up a bit of that mess the green paint i had on hand seemed a little too dark i wanted like
a light lime green so i mixed a couple colors together until i was happy with it i originally
intended on painting green drips going down the back of the chair after seeing the stripes and
how good they looked i didn't want to ruin them so instead i settled for painting the butt of the
chair green i thought it would add a nice pop of color to it and make it look a little more spooky
and a little less like sephora i couldn't get a perfectly straight line with the seat corner so
i had to go in with a smaller brush and just kind of push some more green paint into the edges the
white and black paint i used were a bit shiny they have a bit of gloss to them the green however is
pretty matte i felt it didn't mesh well i wanted it all to tie together and look cohesive i used
glossy mr super clear on the whole furniture set to seal everything in and give everything a nice
glossy finish so here's the whole set together finally ready for sniffledorf's tea party
except wait where's the tea i picked this little tea set up at the dollar store
i thought about spray painting it black but i think it's a nice contrast to the spooky vibes
plus it matches sprinkles tutu i picked up the tutu out of goodwill i ran into an elephant
wearing a tutu and i just had to have it the tutu not the elephant that thing was hideous
the cashier was nice enough to let me just have the tutu he didn't even charge me a free tutu it
was a good day on the dark side but that didn't last turns out sniffledorff's not a fan of tea
sprinkles also didn't want to partake he didn't even want to look at his teeth
tough crowd
this is definitely my favorite thrift store makeover i've done
so far and i think i'd like to make even more modern spooky stuff in the future
i like tea maybe i'll throw my own tea party
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