Finally Finished This Chair

Remember this chair that I found at a garage sale 2 YEARS AGO?  Remember how I was going to recover it in that yellow fabric, and stain the wood a dark walnut color?  I got started on it and it never got finished.  I recovered the cushions (and learned a lot from doing it for the first time) and tried to stain the wood, but it turned out looking awful.  It ended up being thrown into the garage and the cushions on the floor of the guest bedroom.  Until last week...

When I finished that baby!  I had some white paint left over from another project and decided that white would look so much better against the yellow and really make it pop. 

 

We bought white blinds while I was on maternatiy leave and I swiched our green curtains out with light blue ones just after we bought our new brown couch to try to brighten up the room a bit.   I think the white, yellow and blue look really pretty together and really bring in some pops of color. 

  

I really like how this area of the living room is looking so I'm hoping to paint some of our dumpster dive/garage sale furniture that I've brought into the house over the past year and really tie the room together.   With Lillie getting bigger and happy hanging out with her toys in her play pen, I'm hoping to getting back to more of these projects!

Rosette T-Shirt-4th of July Style!

I had so much fun and so many compliments (thanks y'all!) on the rosette necklace that I made, I thought I'd do something similar for the 4th of July!  I made rosette pins out of patriotic material (the same material I used to make my wreath) and put them on a red scoop neck t-shirt that I had.  I think it turned out cute!

Fab Find Friday-Garage Sale Chair

I found this chair at a garage sale a few weeks ago.  It was just $10 but the lady let me have it for $7.50.  I knew instantly that this would be a great chair to do my first ever cushion recovering project!  I'll be working on this in the next few days and will be using that yellow fabric to cover the cushions and will be staining the wood a dark walnut.  Oooh!  It's gonna look so good against the green curtain and those....uh, i don't know what to call them...blinds.  We'll just call them Tahiti blinds from now on!  

Oh man. This is the stuff that is keeping me going these days!

Have y'all found any good deals lately?  I'd love to see them!

Sew Simple

I've been wanting some trendier, more modern looking pillows for the living room.  I want a funky, fun, casual feel for that room.  Instead of buying new pillows, I made pillow covers out of some cool fabric for some pillows that we already had.  This is the first thing that I've ever sewn on my own and I think I did an ok job!  Even Justin said he was proud of me! :) 

If you'd like to make your own, I followed this tutorial on youtube.