Saturdays are for projects. In my house, they always have been. They're for working in the yard, they're for loading up the trailer and going to the dump, they're for washing and waxing your car, they're for trips to the lumber yard - and they're definitely for creative projects. I've inherited a hard-working creativity from my parents. I suppose knitting is part of that - and finishing and painting furniture definitely is. When my mom was younger, she bought unfinished furniture and finished it herself for the fun, and for the challenge. She caned her own chairs, reupholstered furniture, and sanded and polyurethaned all the floors in their home. So a while back, when she called me and told me that she picked up cute chairs on the side of the road for us to paint - I knew she meant business. For a while, Dennis and I only had the four chairs that matched the dinner table set that someone from the Fire Dept had so generously given us when we got married. It got a little tricky when we had people over. So my mom knew that we were looking for chairs; free was good and fix-up potential was best! A couple weeks ago, we started washing and priming them, and I put the first coat of paint on one today (and you can the see door that is her current project). And I am looking for the right fabric to use to cover up the ratty seat cushions. Just haven't found it yet.
The chairs will match the bookcase that I painted last month. And looking at how packed the bookcase is - I have no idea how we managed without it before!
Happy Saturday! Did you do anything creative?
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A big day at Old Sturbridge Village caused us to be mostly pooped when we were home, but we still managed a little bit of progress on porch renovations (trying to settle on decorative trim to cap the window/door frames) and I'm close enough to finishing a scarf that I could bind it off now, but I'll prob. add a few more pattern repeats for good measure.
Awesome color on your chairs and bookcase!
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