Old Chair

We found this rocker on Craigslist a while ago for a pretty good deal. The fabric doesn't look so bad in the picture but it was really really old and dirty in real life so we knew we would have to reupholster it. We sat on it and thought it was pretty comfy except for one spot near the back that we thought "just needed more padding". No Problem! We liked how it rocked like a rocking chair but the base is like a glider so it's easier on our floors. Little did we know this is what we would find....

This is what we found when we started to take the chair apart to reupholster it. The springs are supposed to be attached to the sides with string, almost all of the strings were broken so the springs were going crazy! We watched some videos on the web about re tying, ordered some new string and then got to work. It was definitely a learning process and the whole chair ended up taking longer then we ever planned on but it all worked out OK in the end.

It was my job to tie the springs and Dusty was in charge of the staple gun since that thing is powerful! We barely had enough string, actually we probably could have used more but at least every spring is tied at least 4 times. Better then before!

 Here is the chair all finished, hopefully it lasts a while!

A Little Nursery

Kasey came to visit and helped make this flower mobile

A quilt holder to hold all of her handmade blankets

A piece of a quilt that was passed down to me when I was a little girl

The softest zebra quilt, made with love from Grandma

Temple watercolor from Great Grandpa

A hand painted flower from one of my Young Women.

Now we are just waiting for someone to come live in this room :) Our little girl is so lucky to have so many handmade touches from her friends and family.

Dresser Makeover

Lately we have been working on some projects for the nursery. This dresser was given to us by Dusty's family, he used it when he was a kid and it has been in his family for awhile. It was sort of in rough shape but we wanted to keep it to use in the baby's room so we decided to give it a face lift. You can see the leg on the right was about to break off so Dusty sawed off the legs, which was sort of sad to watch because they had such a nice shape to them, and put on some simple new legs. Then Dusty painted the dresser white, he actually spray painted it so there wouldn't be any paint brush lines and it turned out really well and took way less time then real painting. We really like how the dresser pulls contrast with the white and stand out more. Usually I would be all over spray painting! But Dusty confined me to the house and took charge because of all the fumes. Good Job Dusty!