Too Young to Care!

Was my nieces birthday a few weeks back and I was told to come dressed as a pink butterfly.

Well I did do that but I cheated and bought butterfly wings. The part that I did decide to create was a birthday card, something I thought my niece would appreciate....

Making the card was quite a lot of fun, deciding upon the colours was tough!
Here's what it looked like.

Upon giving it to my niece, she glanced at it for 10 seconds and was then consumed by the butterfly wings, gettting me to put them on for her and then heading off to galavant around the house and show off.

Sigh next time I must remember...don't make cards for young kids!

Stool gone Vintage

After procrastination to finish this stool revamp, it has finally been completed!

The most complicated part of this project was the thought behind the construction and the sourcing of the padding used for the chair. Other than that it was actually quite easy to do, although I think some of us would cringe at the amount of hand sewing I did. My initial staple gun idea didnt work so I had to revert to the sturdier sewing.

And now that I have a sander (thanks to a lovely xmas present) I am set to reduce the pain I went through to sand the chair!

Stool Before Image (Note: the stool had been sanded and varnished already as I forgot to take a before photo!)

 Stool After: Fabric chosen to match current vintage obsession of mine