Subway Dresser

The above is " look out " point here in Montreal - since Montreal ( originally Mount Royal ) was built on a mountain you can drive to the top of the mountain and look out over downtown...............
I used to love sitting there with a baguette on my lunch hour,
I may or may not have kissed a boy up there in the 70's.

an homage to my home town ( get it - homage - french word - Montreal ? )

I still call it Park Ave...................like the rest of the English - but Ave du Parc has a nice ring to it............
And it's how it now appears on the street signs...................
I simply stencilled all of the fonts onto the dresser fronts and then filled them in with a silver Sharpie.

I painted it with ASCP - Graphite - no distressing at all ( except for the handles )
This is a redo - of a redo - but was really quick - probably took all of 2 hours to do..................

and the before

Have a good Monday All - had computer problems here last night - that has taken me till now to figure out!
Thanks so much to the following awesome bloggers for featuring this dresser!  It's beyond thrilling!
Knick of Time
Green Willow Pond
The Ironstone Nest

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Yes money DOES grow on trees

I'm not quite sure who I'm becoming - I've never been a crafty person per se, I've got an imagination, I'm pretty good at staging houses, I can redo furniture, but to actually sit and do crafts?  Nah - that was never who I was..................but again, blogging and pinteresting have reinvented me.

When I saw this from CRAFTY JOURNAL I was completely captivated, money being something I love to play with after all - isn't this brilliant?  Origami dollar bills.  We no longer have 1 dollar or 2 dollar bills in Canada - they've been replaced by the " loonie " and the " toonie " our lowest bill is a 5 dollar bill.

so I created these.....................

Now I do have to admit the American dollar shows nicer with it's garland in each corner - and the 1 showing on either side BUT  (and here's where Canadian money comes in  handy - with all it's different  colors )

You can make fun of it all you want.

You can call it monopoly money.

BUT YOU CAN'T MAKE A COLORFUL MONEY TREE LOL

The vase comes from the dollar store - I used nickels as " filler "

then added some branches

and added some fertilizer - please note the higher the grade of fertilizer the greater the yield

here it as after day 1

I stuck it in the window ledge for some winter sunshine

and after a few days it blossomed into this  ( note:  DO NOT WATER THIS PLANT )

don't mind the petals that constantly fall all around it........................
you can add miniature scrolls like this

roll them up and tie them with little bits of ribbon - once you " curl " the ribbon they can hang from the tree to
personalize it

Who wouldn't mind receiving a " money " tree as a gift?
it's so much nicer than sticking money in an envelope, don't you think?

And the great thing for you Americans is that you can make it with dollar and two dollar bills - so you
can give a 20.00 money tree and have tons of petals!!!
Our money is now in the process of being plasticized so I won't be able to make them much longer
but you can always shape them into scrolls - people don't mind what shape the money grows in..............

Now excuse me - I have some planting to do.....................( talk about a " green thumb " )
and I've got some loot-fruit trees to prune..............
Much love,

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