Goodbye Comfort Zone

I love my network of stay at home moms who have fantastic creative talents. I know that I have talked about my friend over at Topsy Turvy PrintShop on Etsy a lot. But she asked me to hand paint an old rocking chair for her daughter's room. Of course I said yes, but then I realized what she meant by hand paint. She wanted paisleys and polka dots and fun whimsical things. I had always wanted to do something like this, but of course my fear ( that seems to creep up in a lot of my posts too!!) stopped me. But I said yes. So I 'had' to do it and my fear couldn't stop me! And once I got rolling, it was a lot of fun and I now want to do more things like this. Isn't that the way it always goes?? I feel like there should be a mother figure in the background saying "I told you so". Even though no one likes to hear that... sometimes it is true!

So when she gave it to me, it was a cute red, vintage rocker. But it did not match her little girl's room. So she also left a comforter from the bedding with me and let me go!

And then this happened!

I had to eventually just hand it over to her. I know that I could have stared at it forever fixing things and adding things, but then I realized it wouldn't ever be perfect. (the P word!!) She loved it. Thank goodness!! I do have an old rocking horse for the same room that I will paint to coordinate to go with it. But that is another project for another post!