Upholstered Chairs, Take 2

Remember those nasty chairs I was working to reupholster?  I decided after the first try (with stretchy greenish fabric) that there was no way in hooch that I would do the second one.  With it's fresh 1000 staples to pull out and icky fabric to remove and toss.  Well, after I re-did the first one in IKEA fabric, I caved and did the other one.  In a different fabric since I couldn't decide...same line from IKEA, though, so they do coordinate.  I have to paint and attach the second set of arms, but couldn't resist sharing what they look like now!

Here's the first chair, with the awesome arms back on.  Swanky, huh?





Second chair, with the different IKEA fabric.  E and I have to paint the arms for this one yet :)



Awesome, huh?  Almost too good to sit on, but the kids love 'em.  Just the right height :)

Alphabet Letters

My sister and her husband just celebrated their one year anniversary (congrats, guys!!!  We love ya!!), and I was searching for a great gift for my only sister and her great hubby.  I saw some awesome things on Etsy, but decided that I should try and make something myself.  Paper is traditional, and I stumbled upon the alphabet letter thing.  I can do that, I thought!

The most difficult part was finding photos that were not copyrighted!  Sheesh...like I had time to find and take pictures with the kids being sick 24/7 :)  I suggest Flickr if you're looking to do a project! 

I'm pretty happy with the end result.  Their last name is long, so I opted for a non-divided mat.  To have 8 openings...well, let's just say I could not find a frame long enough!

I haven't forgotten about you...

Really!  I haven't!  Just been crazy here with little boy sick again and a wedding to go to this weekend.  I've been working on tons of new projects, though, and I'll get the details up early next week.  Check back then, please...a new bag for E, FINISHED chairs, lots of new felt food, and much more!

Jody :)

Two of two...kitchen remodels

Okay, this one is not a "real" kitchen, per say.  But dare I say...it probably gets more use every day than our real one.  By a slight amount ;)

My Albuquerque peeps will recognize the little stove. Somewhere, I have the front to it. Plexiglass window and all. I do not, however, know where it is right now. I'll have to work on that. In the meantime, I finally, after two years, finished the remaining kitchen components. I'm somewhat ashamed that all E had for many years was a stove. That's what getting pregnant and having a baby will do to you, I guess. But it is DONE now! Check it out:

Table and chairs from E and G's great-uncle D:



The whole she-bang:



Detail of the sink interior. Really the only "cabinet" I made, so that's where the dishes go.  The little curtain really irritates G right now.  It might have to take a vacay.  Or be ripped off by G.



Instead of a pot rack...we have coat hooks for our IKEA pots and pans!



Inside of freezer (good place to put that picnic basket and cutting board, ya know) and fridge:






So maybe you noticed the half-finished paint job on the fridge.  Truth be told, I made the fridge out of that old particle board entertainment center of ours.  I kinda forgot regular paint does not stick to that crap.  Oops!  So the doors are already nicked up.  But it's still pretty cute.  About 100 pounds, but still pretty cute.  Going to have to secure that bad boy to the wall once I'm convinced it's done!

One kitchen remodel...of two!

Over the course of the past few weeks, we finally (!) put up a backsplash in the kitchen. Long overdue...I'm a messy cook. With the electric (egad) stove, I can't really help myself!

We hooked ourselves up with some Fastbo backsplash from IKEA. 

And we got down to business cutting the stuff to fit around all of the junk in our kitchen.  We only had two panels that were uncut!

At any rate, we finally ended up with a finished kitchen.  And, despite months of going back and forth about tile options, we ended up with no tile.  And no color!  But I think it looks cool, and really does match the kitchen.  So for those of you who told us to go with black, this one's for you!











I love IKEA!