From This Old Chair

Warm weather is here but is it here to stay?! Time to get in a quick project that I have wanted to get to for years.  It goes with my love of old chairs. Hey who am I kidding chairs period.  I was going to repair/refinish a chair I found tossed aside but it was beyond repair so I saved some pieces with a project in mind.

It went together exactly how I envisioned it would. With the laundry/mud room re-done it would look perfect painted black but to lose the old paint was almost a crime. I decided to do almost  a dry brush of black paint which turned out perfect for it let the older paint show through. Now I have a key problem, that being that my keys are never ever where they are supposed to be when I go to get them.  Solution was simple I thought ~add something to hang keys from.  I wanted uniqueish (ahhh a new urban dictionary word!).  Tried bending some old silver plate teaspoons...they broke.  Next forks....after trying to bend the tynes into hearts it looked more like the forks had been through some horrid dishwasher war and lost. So the shelf sat waiting to be finished for weeks until a broken faucet came into play.  My mother's faucet needed to be replaced so hubby and I went over to change it out for her.  As usual one thing led to another and a pipe leak sent me down to my fathers workshop in search of a washer.  As I rummaged around I found them. Not sure why he had them or even how old they are but they were perfect! I never thought I would be using tuning pegs from a guitar as the key holder part. I think my mother thinks I have lost my mind but I love it! Thanks Dad! Love you and miss you!

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One Thing Leads to Another

I found it! A blog name that reflects everything around me and my life!!!!!

Makeup Brushes ...One thing just leads to another

With the makeup vanity table done, or so I thought, one thing just lead to another which seems to be the way in our home. No complaints because it leads to new ideas.  Gotta keep the brain cells active as my mother tells me! Our daughter wanted something to store her makep brushes in.  The weekend found me at home depot (quel surpris!) Lucky for me the dollarstore is just a few stores down the way.  A glass vase, vase filler and some pink crystals.....she was thrilled!

Paint Chips Birthday Banner

Its re-useable, one of a kind & personalized and lastly free! So I was tired of hanging the same Happy Birthday banner every year so this year everyone in the family will get their own personal birthday banner in their fav colours! Since paint chips are so versitile in creating banners why not a happy birthday one. I absolutely love using fishing to string everything together.  Not only do I have an entire spool that will never be used for fishing it gives the banner a floating effect. (I left out the name of my daughter...well it is the internet)

Apologies to my man for not thinking of this for his birthday, the first one in the calender year but I promise he will not be left out!

Makeup Vanity Make Over

Our 13 (now 14) year old daughter wanted her own makeup vanity table.  Knowing the chances of her spilling something and our adversion to painting an antique we came across this....

It wasn't in too bad of condition.  The entire piece was sanded and painted and came out looking like this

The stool, which I did not get a before picture of unfortunitly, I wanted to be as unique as she is.  Lucky for me I had fabric left over from her room make over 2 years ago. After almost 5 hours of cutting strips of fabric and sewing it turned out exactly how I envisioned it would~ she said it looked like a cupcake!

I got the inpiration for the top from how to shag pillows from vanessa christenson   Our daugher has a unique piece of furniture in her room that she adores and we are thrilled with the end result.

A Quiet hour for a book wreath

No kids & husband not feeling his best, house cleaning started but some me time was in order.  I saved the pages out of the book I am making into my recipe collection but what to do with them?  I saw this idea posted numerous times on various places on the internet so this is not an original idea.  With the torn out pages I made cones (in between dusting and texting a friend) Note to self that cones come out more uniform without interruption lol.  I had a piece of leftover styrofoam insulation which I marked two circles on.  The outer circle is approx 8" and the inner circle 4".  After most of the cones were made held together with some regular scotch tape I stapled each cone 1" from the bottom making sure the tip was centered. With glue gun in hand I glued the outer edge first using the staples as a guide to glue them to the line.  Next the inner circle was glued in place.  Finally an inner circle was glued in place lining up the staples with the tips of the cones of the 4" circle.  Now to put something in the middle. I tried a pom pom to make it look more like a flower but that didn't work well as I didn't have wool and curly ribbon was too stiff.  Next was a Coke can. I cut off the top and made 1/4 slits to the bottom.  I curled each strip around a pencil.  Cool look but it wasn't big enough.  Lastly I went with dried hydrangeas from the garden.  Cut and glued them in place and happily it was more the monochromatic look I was looking for.

Recipe organization continues but this was a nice break

In the Spirit of St Patrick's Day

In the spirit of St Patrick's Day and the ever paint chip .... I noticed people making banners out of paint chips mostly for Easter so I began to think.  Although I am not Irish at little decoration doesn't hurt especially here when we are in between seasons and everything is just kinda blah out.  So on my last trip to Homie D I picked up a variety of paint chips in multiple shades of green.  I drew out a shamrock on one to use as my template and began cutting out shamrocks.  Using fishing line to string them up the result was...

I didn't take a pic of the whole string because due to the damp weather a lot of the shamrocks began to curl so note to self that any future paint chip garlands will fair better inside.

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