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Impulse Buy

This all begins where so many of my posts do....a yard sale.  I saw this little chair and thought, "I can improve the looks of that."   Yes, that's how all things begin with a DIYer.  Within minutes it was on it's way home with me.  You can see the fabric was stained and soiled and the chair was on the feminine side.  Now, I do have two granddaughters but the youngest is 11 so it will have to be for my grandson. I put it in my studio and thought about it awhile. I even bought fabric to recover it, but, there was no hurry.  You see, my grandson wasn't born yet so I had some time. When my grandson hit his seventh month birthday, I decided it was time to get started.  I started by stripping off the old fabric.  Sounds simple, right?  Not really.  This is when I discovered these little chairs are assembled after the fabric is applied to the pieces.  That means that the fabric is wedged between the parts and the only way to get at all the staples is to

Cheap Date

I consider myself a "cheap date" because I can be entertained for hours for very little money.  That's one of the reasons I take myself out and the same reason I take myself to flea markets and yard sales.  This particular date was a church rummage sale where I spent one dollar on myself.  That $1 kept me busy for hours planning and executing what I wanted to do with this. I rather liked it just the way it was but that seemed too simple.  Besides I'm not in the rustic mode right now. A little clean up was in order followed by a primer coat. The outside recieved a nice shiny silver galvanized look. The inside a couple coats of a teal blue called SHOCK TURQUOISE from Montana Gold Paints.  (actually more shocking than my moniter registers.) Flipped open it seemed to call out for lettering, don't you think? Me too!  I like this font, especially the "g" and I really did think that hydrangeas would look bountiful in this container.  Now, the wait