Side Chair

Wow! Put in one full day's work and have dreams you're in over your head!  Actually,  I woke last night and couldn't go back to sleep for what seemed like hours.  When I finally did go back to sleep I dreamed we had a giant house filled with other people's stuff.  One room was massive with 2 couches, a bunch of shelves, a weird sewing machine/embroiderer (?) and a lot of empty bottles.  I figured I could at least start by taking the bottles back for the deposit!  As I was looking around at the 20 foot ceilings and walls covered with a dark particle board paneling, that's when I thought, "Oh, no there's no way we're going to be able to do all this ourselves!"  And I also had the thought that our cottage now had been so do-able!  So, I guess that's good!  (HH and I were talking last night about how our little cottage has expanded so much and by doing it in stages has made it so much easier on us.  If we'd started out to build something so "big" it would've seemed too much!) Back to my dream, I noticed there were a bunch of Halloween decorations in a sort of hole in the floor.  I thought I could go thru them with the kids and we could put a few out.  But not too many because the house was a bit creepy.  Then I noticed a strange life-sized clown doll come to life and start coming into the room.  At this point I called out and HH woke me up!  AAHH!! Just after I'd fallen to sleep!  But I was able to go back to sleep again, although I did still wake a few more times before the alarm went off at 7:45!

Yesterday, Toast went well.  The new kindergarteners are cute! They're so little!  We had lots of volunteers, but it ran a little late, being the first day and all.  Then the kids had Art till 4:30, hence the full day's work!

So, I really got all dressed and ready to go walking, but it's just too cold and misty again!  I will try to finish up this post and hopefully the weather will be better.  Yes, it's another cold, rainy day! Again!  I'll be so glad to see the sun whenever it comes back.

 (Update: Yes I did my walk. It actually wasn't as cold as I thought, but so windy!)

Ok, onto my "old" project.  It's another old chair I re-upholstered!  I bought it at a garage sale in May 2011.  I'd stopped at it to maybe buy some wicker furniture, but it was too old and I got this chair instead:

Cute, huh?  But a little worn:

 Here's the back:

How shall I re-do it? With an old table cloth we sometimes use outside in the summer?

Sideways, with part of an old couch slipcover that I had to cut up because it had some stains on it?

Nope, still thinking.... But here' the back all torn apart:

And the front.  Good solid construction:

Here are all my notes so I'd know how to put it back together.  As you can kinda see I paid $10 for it! 

Here are the legs getting primed with Bullseye 123:

 And here's the chair today:

 It stays in DS's room.  (Isn't that a cute bear?  When I was first pregnant with DS, my dad sent that Vermont Teddy Bear to me wearing a little maternity top with a belly!  I thought it was sweet.  Since then, DS has had the bear. It used to wear a little LSU shirt, but then it got lost (or maybe put away for safe-keeping! ;-)). So,  that sweater came from a doll of DD's and it fit so it wears that now.) 

 Here's the side.  The fabric came from the roller blind covers I used in the kids' room when they shared. I had red yarn X's on the side to match DS's quilt and also pink rick-rack to match DD's quilt.  (I'll have to see if I can find some pics...)

And here's the back:

Now for the fun side by side:

:-)