De-Shkeeving our Seats

After 5 years our kitchen chairs were looking worse for the wear...

Nasty, I know... I've been wanting to reupholster them for a while but couldn't find a fabric I liked.  So I'd been on the prowl and stumbled on a nice neutral heavy-duty curtain that I liked at Target.  I picked up 1 long curtain panel, figuring it'd be enough for all 6 of my chairs, and grabbed a heavy duty staple gun as my weapon of choice.

I unscrewed the seat from the base of the chair, cut the curtain panel into 6 squares, then just stapled the curtain pieces right over the existing fabric.  

It's taking a while... it's been a few weeks, and to be honest I'm only done with 5/6 chairs.  Not because it's hard to do, in fact, it's pretty darn easy.  The problem is I need to Scotch Guard them, but its been so stinkin cold and doing it inside is WAY too stinky... So Maggie's chair is still rocking the shkeevy old fabric.  Oh well, she doesn't seem to mind ;)

A little comparison action...

They feel like they're brand new, and it only cost me $25!

The Strokes

I had an extra canvas board sitting in the closet and Mags needed something fun to do...

I grabbed some Crayola fingerpaint and let her go to town.  First she "shhmeared" the colors all over the canvas and it started to turn into a maroon-ish brown with hints of rainbow underneath.  I figured she was done so I went to grab some wipes, and then she took her little fingers and started to swirl them around on the canvas.  It looked pretty neat.  Go Magpies!

I was totally just killing time, but my budding Picasso created something worth hanging onto... It now proudly sits above her kitchen in the playroom :)

Page turner...

Just tore through What Remains by Carole Radziwill.  And wrote up a great looong review which I then accidentally erased!!!! Grrrr... And I just don't have it in me to rewrite.  (Plus Bachelors on, so you know, priorities lol)

This suck-you-right-in extremely well-written memoir is written by Carole Radziwill from the New York Housewives.  

Here is Amazon's book description: Carole Radziwill's vivid and haunting New York Times bestseller begins with loss and returns to loss. A summer that was meant to bring four friends together in the final weeks of her husband Anthony's life brought instead the kind of tragedy that breaks into ordinary days in a heartbeat, when the small plane carrying Anthony's cousin John Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette,

Carole's best friend, plunged into the ocean. This is the story of a life that has so far been nothing short of extraordinary -- an upstate New York girl who became an ABC news producer who married a Polish prince. What Remains will leave an indelible mark on all who glimpse life's greatest joys and deepest pain in its pages.

Loved the book.  Not a light read-- thoroughly engrossing and hard to put down.  I recommend :)