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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Ornament Wreath

I have wanted one of these for a while now but either could not find the right colors like this one or did not want to shell out the big bucks for one at The Home Depot for $69.00! So I did a little “googling” and found many tutorials I found this one and then I came across this cute blog and another one but I cannot find it now. FOUND IT!

The instructions said to use felt but I didn’t have any so I used an old t-shirt and cut it into strips wrapped it around the wreath and secured it with large safety pins. All of these items I all ready had on hand-Yup! Yup!

I bought at least 10-12 containers of different sized red and silver ornaments from the dollar tree…You can really get in trouble in that place. You think oh, it’s only a buck, I’ll take one of those and one those and at check out you’ve managed to put $50 worth of “one of those” in your cart! YIKES!!

I glued and glued, it took two late nights but I got it done and I am sooooo happy with the results. It perfectly matches my Christmas décor which BTW is red, white, & silver. I collect snowmen too (more on that later).
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O’ Christmas Tree

This year putting up and decorating the tree was a BREEZE! Wanna know why? Well cause I only hung the extra red lights and the girls did the rest. You should have seen them…singing Christmas songs, breaking glass ornaments, laughing and giggling, almost knocking over the tree. It was fun to watch them.  Though I wanted too, I Ieft the tree just as they designed it gaps, overcrowding and all!

Our tree is a faux prelit tree we’ve had now for 3 years….for the firs 9 we had a GIGANTIC faux tree that was my families, being a military family living in tiny quarters most of the I could only put 1/ 2 the tree or the whole thing and leave off the back bottom branch’s. SMH.

I got this tree from JCP for a steal…yawl know I’m cheap  frugal! LOL It’s a 7.5 foot pre-lit tree and I love it…it goes together in 3 pieces!!

My husband got this train about 6-7 years ago,it’s really cool the little smock stack puffs out little clouds of real smoke and it toot’s and everything. (Please ignore the ugly tree skirt…it matched my theme of red, white & silver. I keep wanting to replace it and hopefully this year after Christmas I’ll find a good deal.

I adore all of the handmade ornaments the girls have contributed to our lil tree. The one with Ryene’s name on it is from Gramma ( I know that’s not how you spell it but that’s how they pronounce it, you don’t hear an “n”) We gotta get Erynn one too!
  
I LOVE this frame ornament and the people in it.

I'm linking this post to the party over at Thriftydecorchick.com go check out a few dozen other awesome Christmas Tree's.

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$75 Curtain Rod for less than $15!!!!!! TUTORIAL

You read right! I've lived in this house for a year and I've been waiting for these curtains rods to go on sale and use a coupon to get them even cheaper but I keep missing it. "see them here" at JCP. I googled around the web and got the idea to make them from PVC PIPE! I was like why didn't I think of that?

What you'll need:

PVC Pipe (my window measured 120" or 10' so I went with the 10' pvc)

Spray Paint for Plastics
2 PVC end caps
Wall Mount Brackets (I got them on CLEARANCE @ Home Depot-SWEET!)
Finials (on clearance too!)

The pole is easy...I sprayed on 3-4 coats. Let it try til it's no longer tacky to the touch.

 

I didn't have to spray the finials in this case they matched. I sprayed the end caps

Rather than hot glue finials to the pipe, I opted for a less permanent fix.  I drilled a hole in the top of pvc pipe end cap.

Then simply screwed the finial onto the cap.

Attach the finial/cap to the end to the pipe,

hang your curtain rod using the curtain rod brackets and....

BAM! You got yourself a beautiful, cheap, nobody can tell the difference curtain rod!

This took maybe 2 hours only because of drying time.

Now I gotta buy some shears OR make some! :0)

TFL!~Happy Crafting!

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