Bliss & Miscellaneous

We’ve had this chair in the guest bedroom we converted into Baby E’s 2nd nursery (more on that here).

It obviously had seen much better days. Since the wood was chipped in multiple places the best thing to do was to fill it will wood putty and paint it.

Most of my office furniture is white and I eventually want to paint our office grey. So when I found this fabric in the $5 remnants bin at Handcock I was thrilled (except now I see faces in it…SEE THEM?!?!)

So a few coats of paint, a new piece of foam for the seat and some hot glue later…THIS!

So much better! Plus the fabric just happened to match the design on the chair back.

Since Baby E only takes one nap a day it’s super important that it not be interrupted.
Otherwise he gets cranky…and that makes me cranky…and everyone is sad.

So after having his nap cut short two days in a row by delivery men/solicitors I stuck a post-it on our door with “DO NOT RING BELL”  scratched in Sharpie marker on it.

While it did the job, it wasn’t exactly the friendliest looking thing (and was prone to coming un-stuck). So I decided to make a nicer looking sign, should a neighbor venture over and be frightened off by our seemingly anti-social little note.

So a trip to Micheal’s to pick up a cute frame, some suction cups & some ribbon, and 30 minutes later I had this cute (less imposing) sign.

 Since the suction cups came in a pack of three I stuck one inside to hang the sign on when not in use.

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(Note: I used a 5″x5″ frame but you could print this to fit a 5″x7″ frame as well)

This sewing table used to be my grandmother’s. It’s been in our office, which holds a collection of mismatched furniture, that hopefully I’ll be updating soon. I’m planning on getting white furniture so I thought I’d update this old piece so it would match.

It had ink stains, scratches, peeling varnish and holes from where a hutch had been attached. So it took a lot of sanding to get it a point where I could paint it.

BEFORE (but after the sanding):

 AFTER:
The new drawer pulls were from Hobby Lobby.

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