chair make over

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I picked up this chair at the DI a few weeks ago in pretty bad shape. But, I knew with a little elbow grease, spray paint and fabric she would have a whole new life. 

The fabric I had left over from another chair I am re-upholstering which I will reveal later as I am not quite done with her. 

Firday Confessional #2

Starting things off with a little Disclaimer: I love my sweet husband and could not imagine my life without him and have absolutely no regrets of marrying him.

With that said...
I HATE living in the SNOW!

Playing it...love it

But, I hate living in it.
the roads suck
people don't know how to drive (I don't either so I DONT)
it's too freaking cold
and I get super grouchy if I am indoors for a long period of time. 

You must realize I grew up in Gilbert, Arizona My blood is thinner than water and I LOVE being outside A LOT.
I could spend a few months dealing with the snow. But, come on, its April and we still can't go outside and play! Can we say Prozac, people!

The most time I ever spent in the snow was a day or two skiing in the Mountains. Then it was back home where it was nice and warm, ok even hot!

I miss having my AZ tan! The sun just doesn't do it for me in Idaho.
 (which is where my hubby is from)

Everything is so ugly right now...the trees still don't have buds on them, no flowers, no green grass...nothing

but brown dormant yuckiness!

Oh, yes, and I haven't mentioned yet that Tuesday morning we woke up to 6 inches of new snow on the ground. They had to cancel school because they took all the snow tires off of the school buses.. AARRRR!

Sigh,...deep breath... I'm ok

I feel a little better now. That was a much need Friday Confessional.

There are countless beautiful places to visit in Idaho. There really is some beautiful land up here. But, for me, more like the visit it, enjoy it and then go back to my big city, warm weather.

Happy weekend everyone!

fabric flower headband

I have seen these all over the place I love them. My little sister made me a cluster to wear with my Easter dress! They are so versatile and darling! I wasn't able to find any tutorials, I must be blind, so decided to google them. Maize in Montana was were I landed, she has a super easy tutorial to follow (which she did in August of 2007) Wow am I behind!
For step by step instructions on how to make these go over to her tutorial. She did a great job with pic's and commentary. But, here are how mine turned out. I used fabric I already had on hand. The black and white flower is left over from my living room curtains, the red and white from a dress I am making my daughter and the burlap I picked up at the Walmart scrap counter for $0.75 for a yard and a half.
This four pack of head bands (2 black &2 brown) I picked up yesterday at the Dollar Tree.
I used my trusty hot glue gun to attach the flowers to each other and then to the headband. I next took a 1"x3" grosgrain ribbon and hot glued that to the underside of the headband and the bottom of the flowers for some stability.

I am excited to wear it this afternoon to our family Easter party.

NFF