Plant Stand Chair

Hi!

It's Friday already! Are you ready for the weekend?  We don't have any plans- there may or may not be a storm on Saturday night, so we're kinda planning on a weekend in.

Remember when I wrote about our new kitchen lights?  And that I found them when cleaning out the storage room?  Well, here's another item I found- a rocking chair.

It's a cute little chair. 

Under the seat it says "To: Lainey 1-1-73".  I would've been 15 months old.

"From: Janice + L.D. Reynosa, Mexico"

This is my Aunt Jan (my mom's sister) and her husband, L.D.  I guess he was my uncle, but I never remember calling him "Uncle L.D."... 

 Anyway, I've used this as a plant stand before, but because of the rockers, it sticks out a lot.

So, I decided to remove them.  

I had to cut the legs and of course they didn't turn out even!  So, I hot glued some little wooden pegs to the front legs so it doesn't lean!

Then, I replaced the old broken blue chair that I'd tried to re-purpose into a stool, and then, obvi, a plant stand. 

It was in pretty bad shape, so I'm going to have to throw it away! 

Here's the new stand.

So, not much difference, but my new motto is "Use it or lose it".  I'm trying to figure out how to use things that I've been holding onto.  And if I can't figure out a way, then I'll have to get rid of them.  This chair has sentimental value and I'm glad I was able to find a way to get it back into the house and in use!

Have a great weekend!  :-)