Monday, August 29, 2011

Just call me Martha!

Lately I've been on a HUGE redecorating kick which Ginny, Kat, and Elise can all testify to. I've been driving them all batty (and myself too) with all the constant ideas and changes I've had/made. I'm really wanting to slowly redecorate the kitchen, living room, bedroom, and bathroom but if you know me well, you know that I never do anything slow...once my mind is set, there's no changing my mind (except for what colors/patterns to use) but I'm too impatient to wait around and pick things up here and there. I will be getting a new love seat and recliner soon and am going to sell my living room furniture that I have now. However, I was afraid there wouldn't be enough seating if I just had a love seat and recliner so I thought I'd get a crazy chair to go with my "matchy matchy" furniture. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE things to match and am a symmetrical person but I'm really trying to get out of my comfort zone and realize that things don't always have to be perfect. Imperfections are sometimes the things that remind us we aren't perfect and that no matter how hard we try, we'll never be as good as Martha Stewart. A friend of mine was over the other day and as I was telling her my idea of buying a crazy chair, she suggested I just reupholster an old chair that I already had...so that's what I set out to do. After a little LOT of hunting, searching, questioning, returning, and thinking, I finally found a fabric that initially I had to be talked into buying but now that it's on the chair, I just LOVE it. It was soooo easy to do and took all of about 10 minutes! If only cooking were this easy...but don't get me started on that. I'll save those stories for another post...however, I will say I'm working on improving in the kitchen as well and am hoping I'll work up enough courage to start trying to cook again but can I just say, after assuming someone would eat six eggs at a time and burning them because I turned the burner on too high in an attempt to cook them faster, I'm still a little hesitant, so Lean Cuisines it is for now, but I digress. Here are the pictures of my project. One chair down and one more to go! Thanks to Elise, Ginny, and Kat for their help, suggestions, and patience with me!
                          The Before...
                           The in between....
                           The finished product! You like?! 

 Next post I will hopefully have a setting the house on fire cooking story!














2 comments:

  1. LOVE IT!!! the chair looks GREAT!!! u will get the cooking down eventually :-) and i hope u like the artwork when im done :-) im excited about doing it!!!

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  2. Love the chair! You did great! And now that you are addicted to pinterest, you will have a never ending supply of projects and inspiration! Glad we got to hang out some this weekend!

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