A Package by Royal Mail

Okay this is upside down but bear with me! :)

I received a package with the Royal Mail tag

If you start from the bottom and come up you can see the envelope and the little pieces tied together.

I LOVE little pieces of cloth and especially when they were someone elses as I've never seen them before.

Look at those little cars and the flower!

Are these pretty or what?I love them all!!This one could be more than one!

Look at these buses!  Where would I find them here!!

Look at the wellies and the animals all dressed up!

Cute!!

Hippos and Lady Bugs!

The package!

The Royal Sticker!!

This came from my friend Jo http://www.bellsjo.blogspot.com/   and please check out her blog.  It's amazing all of the things she makes and her Flicker photos are wonderful!!  I thank you soooo much and this is such a sweet thing to do!

Saturday's Garage Sale and Farmers Market

This I found out at the thrift store and it's in wonderful shape and the embrodiery is on both ends.

I found two of these at the thrift store and I'm painting them for my granddaughters and we can hang them on the wall,  Will show this when I have them painted.  Sorry about this mess but someday I'll clean up this area.

This I found on clearance at Hobby Lobby and I love black and white polka dots!!  I love polka dots.

This I found at the farmers market!  this is a cup, saucer and spoon glues together and then attached to a plumbing pipe.  I don't usually go in for this kind of stuff but I'm starting to so I wonder if I'm getting old?

This is a shoe that I never wore but I picked them up at a garage sale and thought I'd make a little planter. 

Well this is all I have for today.  I purchased other items this week-end but haven't taken photos yet.  It's either so humid you can't go out or storming!  We have some kind of storm or rain every day.  But it is so green and lush that it's worth it.

Have a great day or evening!

Give Away at Ravenhill

http://ravenhill.typepad.com/weblog/2010/06/twine-and-heart-give-away.html#comments

Chair Seat Makeover

My daughter and son-in-law were given these white chairs with the ugliest blue velour like fabric on the seats. They have two girls, two cats and an indoor white bunny. Do you know what happens to these seats? Ugh! They are covered in hair and I received a call this morning saying that something had to be done as they keep trying to clean them and it's not working. I had purchased some decorator fabric a couple of years ago at a garage sale of course that is a beach theme and their house is a beach theme as they are always talking about moving to Hawaii or the beach.

I did not want the fabric ruined as it was very nice so I stopped at Joann's and purchased some plastic. I know this sounds bad but I did the chair bottoms so that they can eventually take the plastic off when the girls are older. Sometimes you have to do what you have to do with kids.
Here is one of the original chairs.

This shows that the bottom has been removed.  It's usually very easy to remove the bottom but on this one it had been screwed on with long screws so I had to use a drill to remove them.  Easy Easy!!

I cut the plastic :( and the fabric so that they would cover the bottom and give me a couple of inches on the back side to staple.  I made sure there were no wrinkles in the plastic or the fabric and I started by stapling one side.  Then I went to the opposite side and pulled the fabric tight and stapled.  On the other two sides I wrapped them like a gift and stapled.  Always making sure that the fabric is taut.

Here is one side stapled and I don't trim as no one is going to see it unless they turn your chair upside down.  If they do then they do.

Here is the finished chair.  I did 4 of these in less that 30 minutes.  The family went swimming so I did the chairs and left.  I did not screw them back in as my son-in-law can do that.  There was enough fabric left to do a wide table runner so I hope that my daughter will sew that.  A new dining area and the cost was:

Chairs - Free

Fabric -$5.00

Plastic - 3.50

Staples - Free as they had them

So for $8.50 they have 4 beautiful dining room chairs that won't get stained! 

This was a fun thing to do!!

Have a great day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'll try to hook up to these two!!

http://www.bystephanielynn.com/2010/06/sunday-showcase-party-wuprinting.html
http://www.reinventedkb.com/2010/06/trash-to-treasure-tuesday.html

Giveawy

I've been reading this blog for a long time and she is doing a give away!

http://www.mommycoddle.com/2010/06/good-finds-a-giveaway.html#comment-6a00d8345215ec69e2013483b679c8970c

I hope everyone is having a great day or evening and I am home this morning.  I've been spray painting, doing dishes and have laundry about ready to go on the line.  I love my sheets and quilts to smell like sunshine!! 
I cleaning this morning so wish me luck!  I keep coming over and checking out blogs and that does not get things done!  Ever have that problem??  :)

Shelf Redo

I wanted to let you know that I have linked up to

http://www.reinventedkb.com/2010/06/perfectly-proportioned-polka-dots-on.html#links



Go over and take a look at all the great finds, make overs, etc. I must say that I just love all of these!

See this below?  It's a pillow cover that is old old old and this nice little old man was selling it for 50 cents!  It's now mine and I may frame it as it is in good shape but the wear and tear of the girls may be too much for it.  I have a few other items that I need to take photos of. 

I found this at a garage sale on Friday and I could really use some extra shelf's in the bathroom.  It was this white and had a couple of rust areas but not rusted bad.  I took it home and sprayed some rust stopper stuff on the areas and then I started to spray painting it black.  It has taken two days because of all the areas but now it looks great!  Sorry about the messy car port but this is the area that I redo a lot of things and right now I have five other items in different stages. 

This is the knobs and they were gold.  So by spraying both black and red I have kind of a marble effect.  I like them a lot!

This is the shelf and I haven't put a lot on it.  I had to finish painting the wall above the brown and I had previously painted the tile a lighter tan.  I'm making my bathroom my Paris area so this is the start.  I wish I could show you more but the room is small and it's not finished!! :)  More updates later!! 

I'm adding this to