Thursday, March 12, 2009

New addition to the nursery

Well, Owen's nursery is officially complete... for now! I've been working on this project for a little while, and it's finally done! For Christmas, my dad gave Owen his "childhood chair"! It's a small wooden chair that he's had since he was a young boy and now he's passing it down to his first grandchild. How sweet! It started out as a plain white chair, and dad offered to strip it down to the wood so we could start fresh and paint it to match Owen's room. Well, dad was in for a little surprise... as he stripped paint from the chair he discovered seven layers of paint!!! But, he was determined and removed every speck of paint, the next revelation was that all the paint was playing a big role in holding the chair together! Nothing a little glue couldn't fix though. So after a lot of work prepping the chair it was turned over to me to paint.


Owen's chair primed and ready to paint

The finished product

Different parts of the chair were painted to match parts of his room...


So we'll always know who this chair belongs to...

We also completed another project I had been wanting to try. I have seen these travel wipe cases a lot and could never find one that I really loved the material on, so we decided to pick our own fabric and give it a shot. The first one took a little while, but the second went pretty quick.


2 comments:

Cindy Watson said...

i love the chair! you did so good. i need one of those wipe covers...you will have to teach me how to make one.

Amber Schmidt said...

oh my goodness that chair is fabulous!!!!!!!!!!! Did you paint it yourself???!!!