Pink Is Not Really My Thing

I'm not a pink girl.  But when you have a boatload of pink fabric that you've been hoarding for years, there comes a time when you should just girly something up.


The kids and I were in Sal's Boutique the other day (that's the Salvation Army, for all of you less sophisticated folk), when I stumbled upon these beauties:

$4.99 their little tags said.  Two chairs for $10?  Sold.  That's a steal.  So I dragged them (along with an armful of other crap) up to the counter and guess what??  It was my lucky day.  Apparently the day that we were there was pink tag day - all pink tags were 50% off.  Now you know what color tags my little ugly Christmas inspired beauties were sporting, right?  PINK.  $4.99 for TWO chairs.  Who could believe it?!?


Now...  since I had actually spent money on these chairs (albeit, 5 bucks), I decided that the rest of their redo needed to be free.  Hence the pink fabric.  But if you were an 8 or 10 year old girly girl, wouldn't you want these chairs in your bedroom?

I'm going to try to Craigslist them.  For more than $4.99.

From Crate to Great

So I had to find a place for my kids to stash library books.  You know... instead of under the couch or in the lego bin or the car.  The only truly suitable container that I could find was this grey plastic crate. 

 

What can I say?  It had the right dimensions and the right price.  But I can't deal with ugly.  So a few bucks of fabric and a half an hour later and THIS is the new and improved version.

What do you think?  Better, right?

Roadkill

The other day I found this awesome little frame on the curb.  Who throws stuff like this out??  My grouchy husband was forced to pull over to the side of the road and hide his head as his wife went scrapping through other people's trash once again.  With a few replacement boards and a coat of primer and paint, he's good as new!  I was going to paint some sort of design on this little guy, but I haven't worked that out yet.  What do you think?

The birth of a blog.

So.  Why blog?  Well.  I guess it seems to be the thing to do.  I have a lot of ideas.  I have a lot of work done.  And I have a lot of work to do.  My favorite type of project seems to be refurbishing.  There is nothing quite like finding a $2 gaudy red and green chair and using your imagination and handiwork to create something useful and beautiful.  Hence the chrysalis.  Hopefully the ugly little caterpillars that I put in will keep coming out as magnificently beautiful butterflies.  (Actually, I kind of like caterpillars... no offense intended towards you little guys.)  We shall see, I guess.