Project Love

In honor of the rapidly approaching DeluxeOK Indie Craft Bazaar, I spent a good part of my weekend artsing and crafting at the ark. (By ark I mean our house made of cedar.) It began by overtaking the dining room table. Well, the whole dining room, in actuality.



Some end results include:::

LeRoy--


Leon Bernard--


Thomas, Clive and Crew-- These are actually Anthropologie measuring cups!


Frothingham--


Dapper Dan--


4 cake stands made from vintage plates and candlesticks and numerous moss plus milk glass arrangements--


And this is just the beginning. If you're anywhere NEAR Oklahoma City on December 12th, consider stopping by DeluxeOK. More details viewable at deluxeok.net or by following @DeluxeOK on Twitter. Free admission!!!

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A (re)Finished Chair

You may remember the before photos from a week or so ago. This was a $3 Goodwill find with original wood stain and horribly stained floral fabric. Dingy.

We used a pillowcase ($.50 from same Goodwill) to cover both chairs. Gray and ivory. Painted the chair a light metallic gold at first because it was some leftover paint I had, but decided it wasn't right. $5 at Hobby Lobby got a can of London Gray paint. And finished!

Will post pictures of the How-to process. Look forward to this. It will include the uber-gentle Cheryl (sewvandervort.blogspot.com) karate-chopping the chair backs out! Hahaha.





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Featured! Again!

Woo, wooo, wooooooo!

The Nashville paper featured us as their Wedding of the Week!!!

DIY Before: $3 Chairs Made Over

Yes, they're not so hot right now. Come Monday night, they'll look like totally different pieces.

We can thank our 50th street Goodwill for these. $6 got me both. In good structural condition, but not so aesthetically pleasing at present: Dull wood, dirty dated fabric, broken (or missing) backs, etc.

Monday nights a couple gals are coming over for a crafting extravaganza at the Whiteside ark. Ark and crafts! Get it? Well...I guess you would only if you knew our house is no typical OKC ranch-style home, but rather an 8-level house of cedar.

Anyways, the before pictures::
















Monday night I'll be sharing the how-to for this project. Holler if you'd like to come for this, or just to hang out, or to bring other projects you're working on that you like to show off. ;) I'll email you our addy.

Desserts will be served!
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