Friday Find - Shelf

I was happy when I found these old drawers for a quarter a piece.  I wasn't sure how I was going to use them but I brought them home anyway.  (PS, the radio cart is another find and comes in so handy, we just haven't gotten around to repainting it yet.)  I did envision them being lively colors, so a good cleaning, sanding and repainting was in order.



I decided I would sit those little boxes on this old oak shelf I picked up earlier in the day for $5.  All I did to this was clean it, a lot - it was  nearly black - just filthy.  After it dried from it's thorough cleaning, which included light sanding, I put a coat of Restore on it then some beeswax.



By evening everything was dry and I put it on my sewing room's book shelf to hold threads, and scissors, etc.