Captain and Tennille

After I took the seat cushions apart I needed to re-glue the bottom of one of the chairs.

Ok it’s dry, time to revamp the bottom.  I stapled some support on it and used some cardboard strips I cut up for support, to try to distribute the wait over the strip instead of just being pulled from the staples. 

After the paint I put on a coat of jell stain.  They are ready for their new home at the Office where I work.

Here they are at the office, I work at Holmes Collision Repair in Muscatine Iowa

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Elizabeth

She is for sale

$100.00

I have had Elizabeth for a while. She was a simple makeover, just scuff and paint.  

Two coats of paint a little distressing and top coat of gel stain. 

This is her with a just the paint.

OK I started the Jell coat

All done and ready to Rock!

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Emily

This is Emily

She is for sale $65.00

she is 13-1/2 wide by 36-1/2 tall by 8-1/2 deep

I have never seen a piece like this before,  the top is some kind of stone or marble.

This one needs a little TLC but she will be a beauty when done.

Just a little glue here and there and a few tools to hold her together for a couple of days.



Ok I did get all the bad spots filled in and a fresh coat of paint on her.  I also put on a coat of Jell stain. 

I love the way she turned out.  

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Annie

My mom gave me this little table.

She needed some TLC!

I re-glued the legs, and gave her a coat of yellow paint. 

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I was not happy with this color so she received another coat of paint.  When I distressed her the yellow and the wood came through,  I really liked how she turned out.  Annie found a home at my soon to be daughter-in-laws home.

Just hangin' out

Last summer I revamped a entertainment center and did not use the door. I have been moving it around all summer trying to figure out what to do with it. I also needed someplace for my brushes to dry so that old door has new life.

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Dinning chairs

September 1 2013

Ok I am painting these chairs for my dining room.  I didn’t want to spend a lot of money so I found 2 of these at a garage sale; I bought the pair for $25.00.  The other 2 I bought at an auction and I paid $20.00 for the pair.  I thought if I painted them the same color and recovered them the same it would bring them together and not look so mismatched.

I was up and out in the garage at 7am this morning painting these chairs.  I heard this deer snort down in the timer and it made me smile.  I remember the first time I heard a deer snort, it was just a couple of years ago, it was dark outside and I was walking from the house to the barn.  Something scared this deer, probably me walking outside and not only did it snort but it was running in the timber, you could hear the leaves rustle and it was going in the same direction I was and just kept snorting.  The first thing that popped in my mine was SASQUATCH.  Talk about overcoming your fears!  It took everything I had in me to keep walking to the barn and not fall to the ground, curl up in a little ball and scream “I want my Daddy.” It wasn’t until I got back in the house and told Rick of the noise did I learn it was a deer snorting.  So with that said every time I hear a deer snort it makes me smile.

September 7 2013

Today I finished the distressing and put on a coat of glaze.

PS. I scrapbook also, these chairs are on my scrapping table drying.

September 15th 2013

Yesterday I was up at 5am and put the first coat of Polly on the chairs. Then this morning I put a second coat on.  Now I am moving on the seat cushions. When I took them off a few weeks ago I found out they had been recovered many times  When I bought them, they looked like this.

 This was the next cover.

 The did add a little padding to this recovering.

 Then there was this one.

 Then this blue, it took a beating!

This was the orginal cover.

Can you say "lots of work"

Now I am off to recovering the seat.  I first bought 1" high density foam.

Then I covered them with a batting.  Now they are ready for years of use in my dinning area.

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