Refurbished Chair

 

I meant to post about this chair weeks ago, but life got in the way, I took the photos a while ago but just have not had the time to write up this post and share this with you. 

Another post on refurbishing, I can say I am hooked on doing this!

I originally bought this chair from Home Goods/TJMaxx on clearance for $30, talk about a  bargain and I have always had plans to do something with it, but it sat in our bedroom in all its brown glory for over 3 years!  Not until I recovered  the bench in this post did I realise how easy it is to change something from a bit blah to WOW! so after recovering the bench I knew that I would be able to do this chair and not make a complete mess of it.

Here is what she looked like before I sanded, primed, painted and recovered her. She didn’t look to bad really just not to my taste, can you see I still had the plastic protective coating on the chair!!! and stenciling is really not my thing!

And here she is

Bar Stool Makeover

 

Yes I am on a refurbishing kick at the moment, I am loving the more or less instant reward that you get doing this.  These stools were easy peasy to refurbish, again I just covered over the top of the old fabric and stapled away.

As you can see this stool was covered in a brown micro suede fabric, it wasn’t old or stained I just fancied a change and wanted to just update the stools.

 

  This is what the stools looked like after, much better I think.

And here is a side by side so you get the idea.

Bench Makeover

 

Something a little different and certainly a first for me.  I have always wanted to have a go at reupholstering a piece of furniture but for some reason it has always scared me. 

At the weekend I just made the suggestion to my hubby about reupholstering this bench and no sooner had I said it and he started taking it apart!!! I was totally shocked!!! now there was no turning back (OK that’s a little bit dramatic he only took the top of the seat off the legs).

So here is the before.  Pretty boring don’t you think?

And here it is after, I am loving this fabric.

Off we went to Hancock's Fabric Store (yes I said we, I persuaded hubbie to come along, after all he had nothing better to do than to amuse me!!!)  Finding the right fabric was easy as soon as we saw it we new it was what we wanted, actually hubbie saw it first and decided that was the one he wanted, I was surprised at this as I didn’t think that was his style, wow after nearly 20 years of marriage he never ceases to surprise me, so I will let him take the credit for choosing the fabric.  So not to bore you here is the finished bench, please excuse the photos, the sun is shining today and I just cannot seem to get a good photo, I am not complaining though I am loving this sunny weather.

Decorated Eggs For Easter

Something different to share with you today.

I have been playing around with eggs!  Not real eggs, but those yucky plastic eggs that come in a multitude of different colours!
My eggs started off like this.


I painted the eggs white with primer spray paint, that was fun! you should of seen them flying all over the place from the pressure of the spray!  I had to paint them in stages to get a good even coverage, so patience was needed at this point, not my strong point when I am doing a project.  Then it was just a case of adding some scrapbook rub-ons,  Easy peasy, don’t you think.  I am sharing this over at Brambleberry Cottage

Another Sweet Pea Tote

I have wanted to make this Sweet Pea Tote bag for absolutely ages but have had a very hard time trying to find the “O” rings for it.  I checked out Michaels, Hobby Lobby and eventually found them locally at Hancock fabrics.  If you don’t have a Hancock s fabric store near you then I am reliably informed by Veronica of SewVery that you can find them at a number of stores on Etsy. 

I finally made this Sweet Pea Tote today, and I have to tell you, this is one very large bag.  I made this bag using Simplicity Pattern 2396 View C or D. This Sweet Pea Tote pattern, has to be the easiest one I have made so far, and it was extremely easy to cut out and put together. Especially seeing as I didn’t follow the pattern exactly! 

Originally I had cut out the pattern pieces to make it patchwork,  like you can see in the pattern photo, I had some scraps of Joel Dewberry fabric that I had left over from other bags I made, but I just could not decide on what other fabrics I had that would go with it.  I decided to scrap that idea and make the bag out of one piece of fabric instead of doing it patchwork like in the pattern instructions,  This made the bag even easier to make as I did not have to mess about with bias binding and the outside was basically just  two pieces of fabric.

This was my first time using magnetic snaps and I couldn’t believe how easy they are to use, I wish I had known this before as I would have used one in the Amy Butler Birdie Sling Bag that I made.  I can definitely seeing me using more magnetic snaps in the future.

 

 

To see how it looks if I had followed the Pattern, then check out the absolutely gorgeous bag that Veronica of SewVery made, she used some of my favourite fabric by Joel Dewberry.  I love her version.

The weekend I achieved NOTHING!!!

 

Nothing achieved this weekend:

• I couldn’t find a jelly roll that I had bought, to either make another table runner or make a start on a coin quilt. I found it today!
• I lost this book, and then found it today!  I could have made my life so much easier when it came to basting and binding my quilt if only I had this on hand, instead of having to keep looking at my computer I could have had this right next to me.

By the way, this is a fantastic book and I cannot recommend it enough, especially if you are a complete beginner to sewing like I am, and even if your not there is some gorgeous quilt patterns in it, especially if you like modern quilts, which I do.  This book is written by Elizabeth Hartman from the blog  Oh Fransson 

• I started on making a bag and then realised I didn’t have a metal slider for the strap, so that put that one on hold, so it looks like a trip to the store.
• I love Sweet Pea Tote bags and decided to make a start on a bag from from Simplicity pattern number 2396 View C or D.  Just bare in mind you may have a hard time trying to find “O” rings.  This weekend I  hunted high and low for “O” rings which I had no success in finding locally, so I will have to get them online, thanks to   Veronica at  SewVery      I know exactly where I can buy them.PurseSuppliesRUs-section_id=6523655 or at this store tantalizingstitches-section_id=6320069

Hopefully I will have something to share soon!!!

Giveaway Winner

 

Remember my Pincushion Giveaway to win one of these lovelies?

 

Well I can now let you all know that I have a winner!!!  I had 22 comments on this post, 2 of which were my own! so as you can see below the number chosen by random.org  is comment number 8.

Congratulations Kadie from Seven alive.

Thanks to everyone else who entered this giveaway and for all your lovely comments,  I am thinking of maybe doing a pincushion swap so if any of you would like to join in then leave me a comment and maybe we can set one up.

Happy Valentines Day

 

Hi all no photos to share today, but I wanted to wish you all a Happy Valentines Day.  It is my youngest sons 15th Birthday today, yes he was a Valentines baby.

 

Don’t forget the giveaway ends tonight, maybe it will be you!!!!!