This garage sale find has been floating around my studio for years. Every time I have a sale, I consider letting it go, but I never do. So, after many narrow escapes to a better home, this piece is finally getting a make over. First it needed to be glued in a couple places and then sanded a bit. The process was not all that complicated or interesting so I'm skipping to the finished product. I was mesmerized by the golden hues of the autumn leaves and chose an yellowish/orange color called Desert Sunset. (BM-2155-10) It turns out it did not cover well. I called the paint store and was told it's the nature of brilliant reds and yellows to take several coats to cover. I'm somewhat familiar with that problem, but this was extremely thin and watery paint. I was little (OK maybe more than a little) unhappy with this at first, but after applying a couple coats and seeing how it added a glow to the yellow paint underneath, I started to warm up to the look.