Crafty Mommy!

  I have been feeling the need to be crafty lately.  My niece’s 12th birthday is coming up and I thought it would be nice to find and old chair and hand-paint it just for her new room.  I wanted to paint it with lots of colors and details and I wanted to make it special just for her.  I found an awesome old chair at a thrift store for $12!!  I got to work sanding it and then painted it with 4 coats of white paint.  I spent the last 2 weeks hand-painting and decorating it!  I ended up using strips of beautifully colorful scrapbooking paper for the edge of the seat (see picture).  I think it turned out just great!  I can’t wait to get started on my next project.

 

Chair before and after!

 

The process…

 

I also made her a picture board for her room.  I found and old picture board on one of my "trash" days and completely stripped it down and recovered it in some new fabric and ribbon.  Here is the before and after:

 

Here is a picture of Emily opening up her birthday gift yesterday:

 

I also made her some cupcakes for her birthday party yesterday.  She loves pink so I made some pink and green flowers!  YUMMY!