I ruined it!

My attempt at finishing my chair pretty much destroyed it. My husband is very supportive and tells me it doesn't suck to bad, but still I see it as ruined and wouldn't mind starting from scratch!

  It's very crude! but anyway I picked a ribbon that went with my colours (would have preferred plaid!) and the smart thing to do would have been mod podge the ribbon on, but I glue gunned it (one of my many faults in this project, along with paint drying time and sand paper)

Remind me to plan ahead better next time!






LO

No Craft Today

just letting the world know that as a Canadian I am celebrating turkey weekend up here. I am not trudging through snow yet and that's a good start to the holiday season. We have thanksgiving, halloween, christmas, Olivia's birthday and new years all packed in this small amount of time. But we'll make it work. I don't have any ideas for my next craft yet either but my hubby wants a bench made of skateboards, that's free, doesn't require paint and I know the perfect person to help me put it all together, now I just need to go through the stacks of decks to find some that are all the same size lol.

Too-da-loo

Left Ovaries!

Ribbon and Staples.

Thank you Goopie! I am going to recap all the non-finished (that are finished) crafts. The pants, the chair, the coffin...yup.... but got to get batteries for the camera first. The pants are chees-a-rific for my halloween costume, and the coffin needs some "doodlings" as well. We are in the midst of colder weather and that means more inside time, so here's hoping that craft bug sticks with me.

LO

Garbage Treasure~ Chair

A discarded piece of once loved furniture.... gold to those in craft need. So I found this chair, and being off work thought I could make a project of it. Homeward bound (by foot) I pushed the chair the few blocks and into my crafty basement.




It was plain, sad, even had a cracked seat and no backing....hmm...where to start.








After a quick stop over at our local paint supplier to buy my chosen colours (sample size for only $4.00 ea.) I sat with the beast of a chair ready to paint. Here's what it looks like with 2 coats of paint....

After letting it dry for days upon days (nothing dries fast enough when creative juices are flowing), I did some mod podging and added some bird details. I was thinking of adding vines to the legs but have to wait until I have enough vines to stick to it...

I then painted a back piece for the chair. I took the old back from a retro chair that needed thrown away and painted it yellow. (I have yet to take the knife to it to trim it to size, then staple gun it into place, and add a bright yellow ribbon to hide the seam)

Some detail work and finishing touches heres what she looks like. ( I know I need to add the back piece but I never put these things up finished....)















LO

Howdy

So I don't have a craft for you today, or anything really but wanted to make sure everyone is checking out my "sister sites"

On Facebook theres some groups I am administrator in...

Conspire To Conceal
Left Ovaries Photography
Fischer Art


Also check out my stuff on my u tube channel.....
http://www.youtube.com/user/LeftOvaries?feature=mhum

thanks.,

LO