Office Chair Pink-over

Hello again blog land, Today I’m showing a quick and easy project. I got the inspiration from a pin on Pinterest. You can see it here. I have 4 UGLY office chairs I need to recover in my house. I started with E’s first cause it looked like the easiest one to do and I want to be done with her room pink-over.

I started out by taking the back and seat off. I laid each piece on the floor on top of the fabric and eyeballed about two inches out. Fro the seat I just cut a square and started stapling away.

For the back I tried to cut the fabric more to it’s shape. I then pinned the two pieces together and sewed a all the edges except for the bottom. On the bottom I did a zig zag stitch to hem it.

Next I added bow’s using some polka-dotted ribbon to cover up the over hang on the sides and to “cute” it up a bit.

I had to add a little bling! I wanted to use rhinestones but my i-rock tool is broken. To make the E I used my Expression and some vinyl to make a stencil. Then I used modge podge to fill in the E and sprinkled very fine glitter over it, removed the vinyl stencil.

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Kitchen Table *Refinish*

Hello Friends...I know my blogging has been mostly non-existent for the past couple of months BUT summer is here and so much is going on. I have a laundry list of DIY's and To Do's I wanted to get done before it get's too cold outside. I think I'm back on track. Meet our kitchen table-ugly thing! We got it and four chairs from a friend of a friend way back when….I hated it then but kept it because I ran a home daycare business and didn’t mind the kids destroying it because I had plans to buy a new set.

After much thinking and browsing I decided to keep our old table and give her a facelift. I was inspired by several blogs that have similar tables and have repainted theirs.

I took the top and bottom apart. I sanded the bottom down to it’s bare wood and tried to do the same to the top but it was too much work. I used a stain stripper, I sprayed it on and in 15 minutes it was stripping the rest of the stain right off!

 

It was an ooey gooey mess! NASTY!

As I stripped and cleaned the top, I’d begun priming and spray painting the pedestal. I wanted to go with a deep plum color but The Hubbs couldn’t see my vision and wanted black like I’d showed him from the blogs. I used Hi-Gloss.

Look at it shine! I used a pecan stain and poly in 1 for the top. Now all that’s left to do is find new chairs our old ones are busted!

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One last holiday craft post!

Hello friends…I am soooooo excited for this Christmas my Mom will be here as well as Favorite Son Jamel and the best part is, the girls have no clue.I love surprises! So before the business of having company ensues here’s one more holiday craft post. I saw this Pottery Barn inspired Noel sign on a couple of different blog in the blogosphere. I loved it and it’s super easy to make your own! But I don’t really go for the rustic look, I LOVE sparkle and shine. So here’s my version of the sameproject.

 I got the letters from Joann’s on sale for $1 OFF each letter so I think they were $1-2 each. Should’ve gone bigger but I wasn’t sure what I was gonna do with them at the time.

 In the inspiration post she used brown paint, I used black-didn’t have brown but it worked out really nice.   

I LOVE this stuff! Did you know there is a blog all about Mod Podge, I like the glossy shinny look and this does the trick!Just slop it on and it dries clear

I Really wanted frames that were 8 x 8 but I didn’t have time to make them or go out to get them so I settled for these from Target for now. They were about $2 each!

 So that I can reuse the frame for something else once I get the frames I’d really like-I used Velcro so that it’s not so permanent.

It looks so small in that space-I might make a bigger one and give this one a new home, I am definitely going to make a similar one (someday but with the letters SNOW).

Happy Holidays’ Everyone!  CHRISTMAS IS 3 DAYS AWAY!!!

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