A little red table ~ Happy PPF!

Hello!
I hope your week has gone well.
For my entry in this week's Paint Party Friday, I'm showing the story behind the little red table that we use daily for our coffee on the verandah (weather permitting at this time of year :D))

It came about after my dear hubby did some badly needed heavy pruning on the Calistemon (Bottle Brush) tree which is opposite our verandah:

He used some straight pieces of branches to make the legs for a coffee table,  and I decided to paint a design,  that I had found in a magazine, on the table top (*source details at the end of this post)

Here are some progress pics:

Undercoat, then topcoat

Tracing the pattern on to the table top

and then it was a matter of colouring in

Nearly finished.
I added gold acrylic edging at the completion, but it's hard to see in the photos.

Here is the source of the pattern.  A 1997 edition of Handmade Magazine that Mum had found for me in an Op (Charity) shop.  Not sure whether I'm infringeing any copyright here, but I include it to show where the original idea for the pattern came from:

Linking up with Paint Party Friday, where you'll always be made welcome whether you paint, craft or just like to have a look.