I’ve written before about how terrified I am of horses, and yet I have now been on horseback, and enjoyed it!

A few months ago I found this horrific excuse of a ceramic animal in a thrift store.

WHAT IS IT?

It’s a unicorn. With a broken horn (see the forlorn hole in its forehead?). AND you can’t tell in this photo, but it’s not only white, it’s covered in glitter. Subtle glitter. You know, to make it extra classy.

Something about it thrilled me though (maybe its bubblegum pink and sparkly mane and tale?) and I bought it for the whole princely sum of $8.

I took it home, and placed it on a brick in the back garden, for…

plastic spray paint primer

Now I KNOW this is the wrong kind of primer, BUT you have to hear me out. The entire THING was covered in a plasticky like substance (I think to make it shimmer a bit more) and I didn’t feel like sanding it down. So, plastic primer it was.

I gave it a nice even coat and let it dry overnight, and voila, the finish became roughed up like it had been sanded. YAY!

Then out came the bling. Why the bling? Well I’ve had a recent obsession with brass/gold things. From jewellery, to belts, to homewares, and even lamps. YES, entire gold lamps. Behold just one of the items of magnificence I made my long suffering man cart home from Egypt.

oh yeah baby!

 Umm, yeah. S doesn’t entirely approve of my obsession with gold animals, but I’M ON A ROLL HERE and beware anyone who steps into the path of the ROLL.

ANYWAYS.

To cut a long story short, I spray painted the damn unicorn horse morph GOLD.

And here it is. Ain’t she purdy?

And, she looks magnificent on our dining room sideboard, with our newly framed Egyptian papyrus art!

(Excuse the crappy reflection of the light in the glass. I err, didn’t plan on that.)

So, I’m officially addicted to spray painting, and I may or may not have run around the house looking for more things I could spray paint gold (cue diabolical laughter) but yes, how good is that $8 investment in my home decor?!