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Face Lift

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About three years ago, I found a chair with beautiful bones on Craigslist.  I was looking for a chair to go in my new sewing room in the house we were building, and this one really caught my eye.  She was in bad shape but had gorgeous lines.  With a little TLC and a recovered cushion, she was ready to serve her purpose in the new house.

Well, times (and my taste) have changed, and I decided to repuropse her to be used in another location.  So, I gave her a face lift…literally.

Since the chair was already painted a bright white, I simply popped off the seat and recovered it with a scrap of linen I had left over from the nursery project.  I thought the chair needed a little whimsy, so I cut out a silhouette with my Silhouette (heh) and applied the vinyl to the back of the chair.  The update took 30 minutes at the most, but I think it really gives her a whole new look.

Now, she thinks she’s all fancy and hot stuff.  I have to agree.

TIP JAR: Recovering the seat of a chair is a cheap way to change the look of a room.  Staple the fabric on the underside on all four sides of the cushion, pulling tight, before you put in the additional staples on each side.  This technique will keep your fabric from sliding and will make it easier to keep patterns from getting wavy.

Central Texas Snowflakes

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It’s going to be about 80 degrees today, so the only snowflakes we’re going to see on Christmas will be the ones hanging from my dining room chandelier.  Don’t feel sorry for me – this weather is why I live here!


I used my fabulous Silhouette SD to cut the snowflakes from white cardstock.  The snowflake design comes preloaded on the machine, and all I had to do was resize the design so I could cut a few different sizes.  On half of the snowflakes, I sprayed adhesive and dipped them into my favorite Martha Stewart fine glitter.  I used red ribbon of varying lengths to hang them from my light fixture.

They are so shimmery and delicious (and would probably drop glitter in our food, so it’s a good thing we don’t ever eat in the dining room)!

I showed you how to make my snow drift candle holders last week.  I added the leftover “snow” to two glass vases, added three tealights in each, and wrapped a red ribbon around the vase.  I embellished the ribbon with more snowflakes and Scotch tape – for when you are truly too lazy to reach for the glue gun!

I added some pine cones and placed it all on a silver and white table runner…that is too short for my table.  I decided to just be Zen about that and let it go.

This was so easy to put together, and I won’t feel like it will have to come down as soon as Christmas has come and gone.

Look, ‘Ma!  There’s snow in Texas!